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The sanctions targeted 54 individuals, including heads of energy companies and military officials of the DPRK, more than 30 companies and 52 tankers transportingOil and grain. Russia considers restrictions illegalThe European Union has adopted the 15th package of sanctions against Russia, according to the EU Council website . The list includes 54 individuals and 32 organizations, including from Ch...

Types of GeorgiaEU foreign ministers will consider restrictions on the visa-free regime with Georgia, said EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas. She accused the Georgian authorities of "repressing the opposition." "We are discussing what we can do. One option is sanctions , another is restrictions on the visa-free regime," Kallas noted in a conversation with r...

Hungary blocked the inclusion of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Permanent Representative to the UN, and the Olympic Committee in the EU sanctions package , Szijjártó stated, adding that such actions "would deprive even the last hope for peace." Moscow considers the sanctions illegitimate. Patriarch Kirill Hungary succeeded in securing the exclusion of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and A...

The oil and gas company NIS is 50% owned by Gazprom Neft, with Gazprom holding another 6%. Serbia holds about 30% of the shares. Vucic admits that Belgrade may buy out part of the company's Russian share Aleksandar VucicThe United States may soon impose sanctions against the energy company Naftne industrije Srbije (NIS), which is more than half owned by Gazprom, the country's president, Aleksandar...

Премьер-министр Великобритании Кир Стармер призвал лидеров стран «Большой семерки» усилить экономическое давление на Россию и увеличить военную поддержку Украины. Об этом сообщила пресс-служба британского правительства по итогам видеоконференции участников G7. В заявлении говорится, что Стармер предложил лидерам объединения «продолжать причинять максимальную боль» российскому президенту Владимиру ...

Nguyen Xuan PhucThe Politburo of Vietnam will take disciplinary measures against the country's former Prime Minister and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc for bribery, the official website of the Vietnamese government newspaper reported. The former president is accused of violating party and state principles in the performance of his duties as prime minister, as well as of corruption-related violations, ...

The US has imposed visa restrictions on 20 people who are "responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia," the State Department said. The list includes ministers, members of parliament and security officials.The United States is imposing visa restrictions on those "responsible for or complicit in undermining democracy in Georgia," the State Department said. The measure will affect about 2.........

The EU has increased its imports of Russian LNG, while five countries remain dependent on Russia for nuclear fuel, Dan Jorgensen said. He promised to develop a plan to "solve the rest of the problem" Dan JorgensenThe new European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jorgensen, called his “top priority” the final severing of the EU’s ties with Russia in the fuel sector, he said in an interview with the Eur...

В ходе предвыборной кампании Трамп обещал быть «дружелюбным» с Ираном, однако после атаки Тегерана на Израиль ужесточил риторику. Своим спецпосланником в Иране, по данным Reuters, он может выбрать экс-главу разведки Ричард Гренелл Избранный президент США Дональд Трамп (вступит в должность 20 января) рассматривает кандидатуру экс-главы Нацразведки США Ричарда Гренелла на должность специального посл...

Иностранцы стали чаще бронировать новогодние туры в Россию. За год спрос вырос в два-три раза; туристы едут из арабских стран, а также из Китая. Их интересуют поездки в Москву, частные экскурсии и катание на военной технике Туристы из Азии в селе Ловозеро, Мурманская область В этом году иностранные туристы стали чаще покупать туры на новогодние каникулы в России, чем год назад. Об этом рассказали ...

Постпреды стран ЕС 11 декабря согласовали новый пакет антироссийских санкций, в котором планируется расширить список подпадающих под ограничения лиц и организаций. В их числе компании и гражданин Китая, а также чиновники из КНДР Европейский союз планирует включить компании и граждан из Китая и чиновников Северной Кореи в санкционный список в рамках 15-го пакета антироссийских санкций, сообщает Blo...

After the special operation began, Western countries froze Russia's assets worth approximately $300 billion. The G7 countries have already approved a loan to Ukraine using the proceeds from the assets, but Kallas doubted that "anything" would remain. Kaja KallasRussia , although it has legal rights to the assets "seized" by the West, will not receive them until the funds are used to rebuild Ukrain...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law amending the qualification examination procedure for candidates for positions in appellate courts and the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). This is stated in the bill's proclamation on the Verkhovna Rada website. In 2023, Ukraine introduced mandatory cognitive ability (IQ) testing for judicial candidates. They must also pass examinations in the...

The US is not yet ready to lift sanctions on Syria and adheres to a policy of non-interference in the situation in the country, excluding the fight against ISIS, WP writes. At the same time, Washington is assessing Syrian groups in order to choose possible partnersThe Biden administration is not prepared to reconsider its policy of non-intervention in Syria in the short term, a senior administrati...

Budapest will veto EU sanctions against Georgian officials if necessary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at a meeting with his Georgian counterpart Maka Bochorishvili. His words were reported by the Hungarian television channel M1. According to Szijjártó, Brussels has made a "completely absurd" proposal to impose sanctions against the Georgian interior minister and two police chief...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law changing the procedure for qualification exams for candidates for positions in appellate courts and the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). This is stated in the law card on the Verkhovna Rada website. As TASS reported , in 2023, Ukraine introduced mandatory testing of cognitive abilities (IQ) for judge candidates. The law notes that for all judge...

Due to sanctions, Europe has lost supplies of relatively cheap oil and gas, and this is already having an impact on the state of its economy, since industrial production there has decreased by 5% in two years, the head of Rosneft said.Europe has suffered the most from Western sanctions that affected Russian hydrocarbons, said Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, speaking at the Doha Forum. His words were quot...

Ограничения коснулись деталей, важных для производства дронов, и затронули фирмы из США и Европы. Источники Bloomberg допустили ужесточение мер в 2025 году. Китай усилил санкции после угрозы Трампа ввести пошлины на импорт Китайские производители начали ограничивать экспорт в США и Европу важных деталей для создания беспилотников, передает Bloomberg со ссылкой на осведомленные источники. По данным...

The Ministry of Health announced the registration of a new Russian vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus infection, called Gam-VLP-Multivac, the ministry told RBK. The drug was obtained through biotechnology, and the process does not use the SARS-CoV-2 virus , which is pathogenic to humans , they added. The vaccination with this vaccine will be administered intramuscularly. The vaccine was dev...

Дональд Трамп Избранный президент США Дональд Трамп намерен обнародовать детальный отчет о состоянии своего здоровья. Об этом политик заявил в интервью телеканалу NBC News. «Безусловно, нет проблем», — сказал он. По мнению Трампа, аналогичные документы должен публиковать каждый президент США. Республиканцу 78 лет, он является старейшим избранным американским президентом в истории страны. К концу в...

Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ) опубликовала на своем сайте заявление о вспышке неизвестной «болезни Х» в Демократической Республике Конго. Для дальнейшего изучения вируса организация отправила группу специалистов в провинцию Кванго, где произошла вспышка. Согласно ВОЗ, симптомы заболевания напоминают простуду: насморк, кашель, головная боль и ломота в теле. В публикации уточняется, чт...

Вячеслав Володин Президент Франции Эмманюэль Макрон довел страну до политического и экономического кризиса, заявил председатель Госдумы России Вячеслав Володин. «Действующий президент Франции довел некогда процветающую страну до состояния глубокого политического и экономического кризиса», — написал Володин в своем телеграм-канале. По его словам, Франция также потеряла свою субъектность «в выработк...

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili were hit by Ukrainian sanctions . The reason was the dispersal of opposition protests. The Kremlin called it an attempt to "destabilize the situation" within the country Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree introducing sanctions against the Georgian leadership. He announced ...

The UK has acknowledged its dependence on Russian whitefish by abandoning new tariff restrictions, the All-Russian Association of Fishery Enterprises, Entrepreneurs, and Exporters of Russia (VARPE) told RBK. The organization noted a report in Undercurrent News that the UK will not impose additional restrictions on imports of Russian fish products from third countries in 2......

At the end of November, the dollar exchange rate reached 109.6 rubles, and on the forex currency market it exceeded 114 rubles at one point. This was a consequence of US sanctions against Gazprombank, Siluanov said . According to him, the rate will stabilize in the coming weeks Anton SiluanovThe weakening of the ruble is connected with the introduction of sanctions against Gazprombank (GPB); a wee...