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Washington may temporarily lift sanctions on potash fertilizers from Belarus if it allows Ukrainian grain to be exported to Latvia, WSJ sources say. The paper previously reported The US authorities are considering the possibility of lifting the restrictive measures imposed against potash fertilizers produced in Belarus if the official Minsk agrees to the transit of Ukrainian grain through the terr...

Against the backdrop of the food crisis, Russia remains a responsible supplier of energy resources and grain crops, this year a record wheat harvest is predicted in the country, and therefore Moscow can export 25 million tons of grain in the second half of the year. This was stated by Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the topic of conflic...

Russian McDonald's restaurants will change their sign and will be managed by Kuzbass businessman Alexander Govor.RBC collected five facts about the new owner of the most famous catering chain Alexander Govor (third from left) On Thursday, May 19, the American corporation McDonald's named the buyer of its Russian business - Alexander Govor, one of three local partners whose company GiD opened McDon...

Secretary of Stateurged to take into account the "simple facts": in his opinion, Ukraine may cease to exist if hostilities stop. A similar decision by Russia, Blinken continued, The UN Security Council should avoid calling "all sides" for a ceasefire in Ukraine, because if Ukrainian forces stopped fighting, it would threaten the existence of the country, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said ...

London expanded sanctions against three Russian air carriers, banning them from selling their unused takeoff and landing slots at British airports. Britain believes that Russiacan get up to £50 million from this The UK has tightened sanctions against three Russian air carriers with state participation: Aeroflot, Ural Airlines and Rossiya Airlines. This is stated in a joint statement by the heads o...

In Russia, 60% of small and medium-sized companies do not see the current crisis as a time of opportunity for their business, according to the survey. But the proportion of those who do not allow business closures this year, The majority of SMEs (60%) do not see opportunities for their companies in the current crisis. This is evidenced by the results of the April survey conducted as part of the RS...

Anti-Russian sanctionscan cause a food crisis, as they interfere with the normal trade in products, so they should be removed, the head of the WFP responded at the Foreign Ministry,who demanded an end to the blockade of Ukrainian ports Russia can open access to the seaports of Ukraine if the US and the EU lift sanctions from it, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said, TASS reports. So he resp...

IDS Borjomi International said it was experiencing disruptions due to sanctions and stopped bottling from April 29. She proposes to transfer Alfa Group's stake in the company, The producer of Borjomi mineral water, IDS Borjomi International, is ready to transfer a share of its shares owned by Alfa Group to the Georgian government free of charge, the Georgian First Channel reports with reference to...

Friday, May 20 At 11:00 at the Bylkov Puppet Theatre, a children's performance "Damn-well done" will begin. 0+ At 18:00 , the Rostov Musical Theater will give the opera "Turandot" by Giacomo Puccini. 16+ At 18:30 on the stage of the Gorky Drama Theater, the play "Sheep and Wolves" based on the work of Alexander Ostrovsky will begin. 12+ At 19:......

Moscow Mayor Sobyanin announced plans to resume production of Moskvich at the former Renault plant.The group's assets in Russia became the property of the state KamAZ localizes the production of Chinese cars at the vacated capacities of the Renault Russia plant in Moscow. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper, citing two sources close to the company. According to the newspaper, KamAZ is neg...

According to Medvedev, if the United States blocks the possibility of paying Russia's public debt, the American holders of debt securities themselves, as well as Russia , will not receive Russian moneymay “not pay at all” Dmitry Medvedev For Russia, a possible ban on the part of the United States from paying debt obligations in dollars will be “not the worst decision,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head...

US President Joe Biden should reconsider his policy towards Iran, otherwise there is a possibility of a new conflict with Tehran, former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said in the latter's article for the Washington Post. In their opinion, Biden and European leaders need to act "quickly and decisively", as they did in the situation with Ukraine, i...

NATO does not want war with Russia, the French Foreign Ministry is sure. They believe that Moscow is expelling diplomats for "false reasons." Earlier Lavrov said, Despite the help of Paris to Kyiv, France is not at war with Russia, neither NATO nor the European Union would like this, Anne-Clair Legendre, spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, said on BFMTV. “We are not at war with Russia, th...

Guterres called for food from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to be allowed on world markets, saying it was the best way to solve the food crisis.Putin has previously blamed the threat of famine on "sanctions obsession" Russian-made food and fertilizers must be allowed on the world markets to solve the food crisis, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the ministerial meeting "Roadmap for Glob...

In Russia, wrestling has always been the kind of sport in which our athletes have taken leading positions in competitions at all levels. How to start mastering wrestling and win - champions Sergey Semenov and Abasgadzhi Magomedov told RBC Sport about this. Wrestling is one of the most ancient sports, its traditions were known even in ancient Sparta. No wonder that Greco-Roman wrestling became one ...

Anton Siluanov The first shock from Western sanctions for the Russian economy has passed, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the New Horizons marathon. The broadcast was conducted by the Knowledge Society on VKontakte. “We believe that the first shock has passed, although all these packages of sanctions are still being prepared, and to hell with them,” the minister said. Siluanov ...

Favorable climatic conditions and a surplus of electricity in some parts of the country make it possible to profitably mine cryptocurrency in Russia.However, despite this, the country accounts for less than 5% of the global BTC hashrate. Inexpensive electricity and a cold climate encourage the development of industrial mining centers in Russia, especially in the Siberian regions where winters are ...

MTS increased capital expenditures by almost 30% in the first quarter due to the acceleration of purchases of telecommunications equipment In the first quarter of this year, MTS capital expenditures increased by 27.2% compared to the same period in 2021 and amounted to 37.3 billion rubles, the company said in a message to RBC. It explains that the growth was "driven by accelerating procurement of ...

According to the Ministry of Defense, in a day the Russian military shot down a Su-25 attack aircraft,MiG-29 fighter and two Su-24 MiG-29 tactical bombers of the Ukrainian Air Force Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft over the village of Trypillya in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Telegram. The military destroyed the MiG-29 a...

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called on G7 countries to help prevent future food shortages as the Ukraine crisis cuts food supplies, raises prices to record highs and threatens already vulnerable countries in Africa and Asia. “We need to actively seek and find ways to fill potential future gaps in global markets by working together to promote sustain...

Several Russian journalists and civil servants fell under the restrictions of Australia,as well as PMC Wagner The Australian authorities imposed sanctions on eight Russian journalists, as well as a number of government officials and organizations. This was reported in the press service of the Australian Foreign Ministry. In particular, the sanctions list included Dmitry Kiselev, CEO of the Rossiya...

According to newspaper sources, the largest US oilfield services companies, including Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and Halliburton,terminate contracts with Russian companies and plan to sell the business to local management The largest US oilfield service companies operating in Russia are terminating existing contracts and are looking for ways to exit the Russian market. This was reported by Kommers...

Moscow is more economically isolated than ever, but it still has partners, including Chinaand India,explained Estonian President Alar Karis The West will not be able to completely isolate Russia, even if it takes decades. This was stated by Estonian President Alar Karis in an interview with Newsweek magazine. Moscow is more economically isolated than ever, he said, although it still has key tradin...

According to the official representative of the US State Department, the condition for negotiations between the heads of the two departments may be a “reduction in the level of violence” and an improvement in the humanitarian situation in Ukraine During the meeting of Anthony Blinken (left) and Sergey Lavrov,held in December 2......

Bloomberg learned about Turkey's demands for the admission of Sweden and Finland to NATOIn order to approve the inclusion of Sweden and Finland in NATO, Turkey demands, among other things, the return to the F-35 pilot training program and the lifting of sanctions for the purchase of Russian C-400s. Bloomberg reports this with reference to several Turkish high-ranking sources. Another condition is ...

Ukrainian servicemen continue to use civilian facilities to deploy heavy weapons. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of Russia. “The militants of the nationalist battalions and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, hiding behind civilians as a “human shield”, continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip strongholds and deploy heavy weapons,” the report says. At the request of Roskomn...

May 17, Moscow. The board of the Eurasian Economic Commission has approved a program to develop interstate standards for the technical regulation on the safety of combustible natural gas prepared for transportation and use, BelTA learned from the EEC press service. “The program provides for the preparation of 18 interstate standards until 2......

Stephane Buffet Europe pursued an "incomprehensibly clumsy" policy towards Russia after the collapse of the USSR, said Stéphane Buffetou, former president of the EU-Russia Liaison Committee, vice-president of the French party National Center for Independents and Peasants. He wrote about it in an article for the Boulevard Voltaire. According to him, Europe after 7......

Nobody spoke to the Russian side about plans to seize its assets in favor of Ukraine, but in the event of such a development of events, Moscow will take retaliatory measures, Peskov said. “It will be in fact outright theft,” If foreign countries take steps to use the frozen Russian assets to restore funding for Ukraine, "it will be, in fact, outright theft." This was stated to journalists by the p...

The United Russia party has completed registration for the primaries. In the Krasnodar Territory, 489 candidates will participate in the preliminary voting, the press service of the party reports. This is twice as much as in the similar party elections of 2017, when 219 people registered. The competition has grown from 3 people per seat to 7 candidates per seat. The primaries of United Russia in t...