Greece will transfer oil to the US from the Russian tanker Lana (Pegas), which was detained in mid-April this year, as TASS reported on May 26 with reference to the press service of the Ministry of the Navy and Island Policy of Greece. Earlier, on April 19, it became known about the detention of the
Lukoil has closed a deal to acquire Shell gas stations and a lubricants plant in Russia. “The final documents were signed in Moscow as part of a deal to sell Shell’s assets in Russia – a network of gas stations located mainly in the Central and North-Western Federal Districts, as well as a plant for
The governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, expressed his opinion on Finland’s accession to NATO to Daily Storm. He believes that Finland will suffer greatly from joining NATO, because the Finnish economy is too closely connected with the Russian one. “The decisions [on joining NATO] that they have made today — they may not
Former US President, George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation with renowned Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus), confessed that the US administration together with his father, George Bush, had really promised the Soviet Union’s former president, Mikhail Gorbachev, that NATO would not expand. He also confirmed, the promise is not relevant
At the plenary session on Tuesday, May 24, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on a mirror response to the actions of countries discriminating against Russian media. The bill has been developed by the State Duma Commission on Investigation of the Facts of Foreign Interference in Russia’s
The OFAC license, which allowed transactions necessary to receive payments on debt obligations of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Bank of Russia for a period up to May 25, will not be extended. The license, which allowed servicing the sovereign dollar debt attracted until March 1, 2022, was issued almost
The US and the EU failed to get any noticeable results of their anti-Russian sanctions except for hitting themselves in the foot, so currently, they have been working on their sixth package. Important is that those sanctions that have been already imposed on Russia, caused price hikes and food shortages, severely harming regular people all
The US and the EU are not going to really help Ukraine, that is why out of the $40 billion that Washington intends to allocate to the country, only 15 per cent remains for Ukrainians, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said in his Telegram channel. Volodin recalled that a few days
Russia will be obliged to respond to the threat from NATO in the event of an expansion of the alliance’s infrastructure in Finland and Sweden, Russian Security Council Secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, said. “In the event of the expansion of the alliance’s military infrastructure on the territory of Finland and Sweden, Russia will perceive this as
Moscow expects increased economic cooperation with China as the West takes a more dictatorial stance, as was said by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Monday, May 23. Thus, Russia intends to build relations with independent countries and will decide how to deal with the West “if and when it comes to its senses.”
Bulgaria’s decision to refuse to pay for Russian gas in rubles was hasty, as stated on Sunday, May 22, by the country’s Energy Minister Alexander Nikolov. In an interview for BTV, he said that this issue will be put up for discussion with the European Commission (EC). According to Nikolov, the EC made it clear
Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday, May 22, banned the symbols “Z” and “V”, used by Russia’s military, but agreed to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s call to allow their use for educational or historic purposes. The Ukrainian authorities decided to ban the use of the letters Z and V. The relevant bill was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada.
Some EU countries are pushing forward the idea of refusing Russian hydrocarbon supplies due to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Now the EU countries are facing troubles finding replacements for Russian hydrocarbons, especially gas, French newspaper Le Monde diplomatique states. The article explains that in their effort to stop purchases of Russian hydrocarbons, the
