News archive on the topic "anti-Russian sanctions"

Bypassing sanctions imposed by the West through third countries allows Russia to feel that the war against Ukraine may be long. This statement was made by the head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, during an online meeting with African journalists, in particular, with media representatives from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. “In general, the circumvention of sanctions by the Russian Federation because of certain leaders, even...

The United States has legislation that allows private individuals from Ukraine to participate in the search for criminal capital and criminals in general. This was stated by Kiev political scientist Ruslan Bortnik, according to whom every Ukrainian can take part in such a program, who in the future can receive $5 million for their information. “These “bounty hunters” that they make movies about...

The European Union has blocked a proposal to impose sanctions against the Russian metallurgical company PJSC VSMPO-Avisma, the largest titanium producer in the world. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources in diplomatic circles. The Russian company is an important supplier of titanium to Airbus SE, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, headquartered in France. According to…

US President Joe Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia and agreements on replacing Russian oil do not yet look realistic and are rather similar only to US attempts to formally support anti-Russian sanctions. This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian energy expert Yuri Korolchuk in an interview with the Kyiv edition of UNN. “It said something that was known before. They (Saudi...

Canada's transfer of the Nord Stream gas turbine to Germany is a “show of weakness” in anti-Russian sanctions. This is how the head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, assessed Canada’s position in his latest video message. According to him, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Canadian representative because of the “absolutely unacceptable exception” to the sanctions regime against Russia. This concerns the turbine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which Canada “essentially transferred...

The police of the Dnepropetrovsk region identified assets of Russian and Belarusian enterprises worth 80 million hryvnia. The property was seized. The regional police reported this on their website. “Employees of the Department for the Protection of the Interests of Society and the State of the National Police provide operational support to the criminal investigation department on facts of criminal activities of civilians to finance actions aimed at violent change, the overthrow of the constitutional order...

The EU's anti-Russian sanctions, which require unanimous approval from all 27 countries in the bloc, appear to have led to a rift over the position of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has blocked the latest package of measures for weeks. Bloomberg reported this with reference to its own sources. In particular, EU ambassadors agreed to exclude Patriarch Kirill from the EU’s proposed list of persons subject to...

EU countries have agreed on a partial ban on oil imports from Russia. This was stated by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. According to the European official, the partial embargo will affect two-thirds of all Russian imports. “An agreement has been reached on an embargo on the import of Russian oil into the EU. This immediately affects two thirds of Russian oil imports,” Michel wrote on Twitter. How…

YouTube removed more than 70 videos and 000 channels allegedly associated with Russia and covering the special operation in Ukraine. The reason for such massive censorship is the alleged violation of content rules by remote channels. In particular, videos in which the Russian invasion was called a “liberation or special operation” were removed from YouTube. This is reported by the British liberal publication The Guardian.…

Netflix has laid off around 150 staff in the US just a month after the entertainment giant said it was losing subscribers for the first time in a decade, the BBC reports. The layoffs, announced by the streaming service on Tuesday, will mainly affect its US office in California. They account for about 2% of the North American workforce. Netflix said the cuts...

India has indefinitely suspended negotiations with Russia on concluding an agreement on the purchase of Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopters. This is stated in the publication of the influential Western publication Defense News, specializing in covering defense and security issues. As a representative of the Indian Ministry of Defense told the publication on condition of anonymity, the government of this country allegedly froze negotiations with Rosoboronexport and the manufacturer...

Kyiv is offering the EU the seventh and most “deadly” package of sanctions against Russia. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told reporters about this following his participation in a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports. “I am grateful to all Member States who today expressed their readiness to begin work on the 7th package of sanctions as soon as the 6th package is adopted,”...

Austria refuses to stop supplies of Russian gas. ORF reports this with reference to the words of the Minister of Economy Margaret Schrambock. “The gas embargo is a clear red line for Austria,” Economy Minister Margarete Schrambock (ÖVP) told newspapers from the German Funke Group. According to her, there is no need to send any signals if you cannot resist. “And neither we nor Germany...

With the start of the sanctions war against Russia, the West has lost one of its main attractions for the countries of the global periphery: confidence in the inviolability of private property and financial assets. Dmitry Gololobov, a Russian lawyer living in London and a former witness in the YUKOS case, writes about this in his blog. “Every now and then messages appear on the Internet about the need to “hunt down Russians...