Category: economy

Fossil fuels have been purchased in Russia for 63 billion euros since the beginning of the war in Ukraine

But sanctions are working, and Russia's energy exports are gradually declining even in the absence of an import embargo. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine by sea and The pipelines exported fossil fuels worth € 63 billion, 44 billion (71%) of which came from the EU. This conclusion was reached by…

FT: EU energy companies are preparing to pay Russia for gas in rubles

The German company Uniper and the Austrian OMV are going to use accounts in Russian currency, and the Italian company Eni is studying the available options. Some of Europe's largest energy companies are preparing to use the new payment system for payment for Russian gas in accordance with the requirements of the Kremlin. Critics say…

Transport sanctions against Russia have been reduced exclusively to “maritime” restrictions

The proposals do not mention pipelines, which are also transport infrastructure. Ways to achieve transport sanctions in proposals to strengthen sanctions The United States, Europe, and the world against Russia and Belarus, authored by the International Working Group, have narrowed it exclusively to “maritime” restrictions. Yulia Samaeva, editor of the ZN.UA economic department, writes about…

Vice President of Gazprombank, who left Russia for Kyiv: “I want to wash up”

Volobuev suggests that the suicides of top managers in Russian state-owned banks were staged. That-manager of “Gazprombank” Igor Volobuev, who previously left Russia for Ukraine and joined the ranks of territorial defense in Kyiv, gave an interview to The Insider and Liga.net. He said that he lives with friends. Volobuev worked for Gazprombank as a…

A Swedish company fired a Russian woman for insulting a passerby she considered Ukrainian

The Embassy of Ukraine in Sweden, in turn, appealed to the Swedish law enforcement agencies. Swedish recruitment company Lernia broke off cooperation with a Russian woman after a video was posted on social media in which a woman tore up Ukrainian symbols and then attacked the passer-by, who remarked on her and whom the brawler…

Recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism, unfortunately, has no consequences

However, the ultimate goal of the FATF is not so much the fight against terrorism as the fight against money laundering. In proposals to strengthen sanctions against the United States, Europe and The world against Russia and Belarus, sponsored by the Ermak-McFaul International Working Group, has called for Russia to sponsor terrorism and its armed…

Russia “squeezed” Google's property in Moscow for half a billion rubles for Gazprom's closed YouTube channel

Have a YouTube channel in Russia already estimated at 500 million rubles? Russian court has seized Google's property, located in the company's office in Moscow, worth half a billion rubles, for the fact that YouTube video hosting (owned by Google) closed one of the channels of the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom. This was reported by…