Russia sees Ukraine’s abandonment of its goal of NATO membership as the “cornerstone” for further talks to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accommodated the Russians on Sunday by abandoning that goal. He does, however, want security guarantees from the West. “This matter is one of the cornerstones and requires special talks,” Kremlin spokesman […]
Russia will issue government bonds priced in the Chinese currency, the yuan, for the first time in December. The Russian Ministry of Finance announced this on Wednesday. The move reflects the increasing economic entanglement between Russia and China as Russia grapples with Western sanctions stemming from the war in Ukraine. The government bonds, with maturities […]
London police have arrested three men on suspicion of spying for Russia. The agency announced this in a press release. The locations in west and central London where the three men in their forties were arrested are being searched. A search is also being conducted at another address in west London. According to Dominic Murphy, […]
In Russia, free access to the internet is becoming increasingly restricted. Telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor recently blocked some 56,000 websites for refusing to remove content Moscow considers extremist, Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadayev reported this week. At the same time, the minister defended a new controversial law that criminalises searching for such content. The law provides […]
In Russia, former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit was found dead in his car. According to the pro-government Russian press, he committed suicide. A few hours earlier, Starovoit was fired by President Vladimir Putin. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the main federal investigative authority in the country, confirmed reports in the Russian press that […]
The BRICS countries, including China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and India, do not want a confrontation with US President Donald Trump on trade. This was stated by a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Trump’s threat to impose an additional import duty of 10 percent on countries that join the BRICS’ “anti-American […]
