http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:12:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/sunday-times-2/worlds-custodian-of-peace-remains-glaringly-irrelevant-474314.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:41 pm UNITED NATIONS (IPS) ndash; As a new political twist to an old saying goes: the dogs bark but the military caravan moves on. Despite ominous warnings from an overwhelming majority of member states both in the General Assembly and the Security Council mdash;against a military attack on Ukraine mdash;Russian President Vladimir Putin stood defiant when he ordered a full-scale invasion of a sovere... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/sunday-times-2/did-us-provoke-putins-war-474309.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:39 pm When Russia rsquo;s Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the US archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We rsquo;re not changing that. In the Bucharest declaration of 2008, NATO had put Ukraine and Georgia, ever farther east in the Caucasus, on a path to memb... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/sunday-times-2/buying-dollars-with-rupees-474306.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:38 pm February in Colombo is usually a pleasant month. The temperature is comfortable, probably preparing us for the mad heat of March. Being an old man who (unlike most of my fellow citizens) can survive this shortage of power, food and dollars without too much discomfort, I can be content today with my lot in life. lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474307 quot; title= quot;Musing-Logo q... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/sunday-times-2/people-and-events-474322.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:38 pm lt;div gt; During a recent meeting with religious leaders in Weligama, nbsp; Ven Derangala Managala thera presented the book nbsp; ldquo;Divya Lokayata Yana Maga rdquo; to Bishop of Galle Raymond Wickramasinghe. The meeting was organised by officers of the lt;/div gt; Inter-religious Committee of the Divisional Secretariat. lt;img class= quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-474323 quo... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/sunday-times-2/russias-war-and-the-global-economy-474274.html 26 February 2022 @ 5:46 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;NEW YORK ndash; Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we must consider the economic and financial consequences of this massive historic development. The Ukraine war is not just another minor, globally inconsequential conflict of the kind seen in recent decades. This is a major ...