

Brandon Lewis
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Rt Hon Sir Brandon Lewis CBE: Director, former Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State | IG: https://t.co/VRcP3iCTYO





🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced a new defence agreement with Ukraine ahead of President Zelenskyy’s visit to No 10 later The UK will fund a £500k AI centre in Ukraine’s MoD to deliver a "battlefield advantage" through smarter use of AI and drones

Today we announced a series of upcoming senior executive appointments aimed at strengthening organizational capabilities and positioning VEON for further growth. 📣 Evgeniy Nastradin will be appointed as CEO of Beeline Uzbekistan, bringing more than a decade of leadership experience within VEON and a strong track record of operational growth, and digital business expansion. 📣 Jabbor Kayumov will be appointed CEO of Beeline Kazakhstan, with nearly two decades of international leadership experience spanning strategic transformation, commercial growth, organizational development, and digital innovation. 📣 Andrey Pyatakhin, who successfully led Beeline Uzbekistan from the fourth quarter of 2024, will continue to serve Beeline Uzbekistan as the COO. 📣 Ahmet Kayhan will join VEON HQ as Chief Payments & Digital Assets Officer, assuming a key leadership position and bringing extensive expertise in scaling digital ecosystems, strategic development and M&A, as we accelerate our ambition in financial services. The appointments, which are effective from April 1, 2026 and subject to the completion of relevant corporate and regulatory approvals, underscore our strategic focus on digital innovation, and positioning the company for further growth. We warmly wish Ahmet, Yevgeniy, Jabbor and Andrey success in their new roles! veon.com/newsroom/press… @beeline_uz @_Beeline_kz






“Nostalgia is not a strategy.” As @Jamie Angus , Henry Jackson Society Trustee and former Director of the BBC World Service, warns, the BBC must urgently shift to digital, censorship resistant platforms to defend free speech and reach audiences silenced by authoritarian regimes.



















🚨British students mourn ‘beloved’ Ayatollah telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/0…

UAE President and Hamdan bin Mohammed 📍 Dubai Mall 🕘 9:00 PM | 2 March 2026 The leadership remains close to the people.

