Архив новостей по теме "SWIFT"

Russia and Iran are creating their own system of interbank messages - it will replace the Western SWIFT, which, as practice has shown, is no longer reliable, fulfilling US demands to impose sanctions and cut off countries disliked by the Americans from conducting transactions. The trade representative of the Russian Federation in Iran, Rustam Zhiganshin, announced the implementation of a new Russian-Iranian project. According to him, the interbank system...

Disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT international banking system is unlikely and will not lead to the collapse of the Russian economy, even if applied. Economic expert Andrei Dligach stated this on TV Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, Russia has learned to circumvent sanctions and has created its own analogue of SWIFT for communication between its banks. “The sanctions that were introduced after 2014...

The fact that the Geneva negotiations between representatives of Russia and NATO did not bring fruitful results was predictable. NATO refused to guarantee Ukraine's non-accession, as well as its eastward expansion. In other words, the North Atlantic Alliance continues the game of intimidation of the Russian Federation - military, economic and political. One of the OD leaders writes about this in an author’s column for PolitNavigator...

“First to intimidate, then to flatter, then to deceive,” is how Russian political scientist Sergei Markov described Joe Biden’s psychological tactics during the negotiations with Vladimir Putin. “You come alone. We, too, will come alone,” commentators ridicule the American understanding of one-on-one negotiations. “This tactic is based on their understanding of Putin’s motivation. They are sure that Putin’s team are all corrupt officials, oligarchs...

Russia needs to build its national financial infrastructure. Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina stated this today, speaking with a report in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have the Mir card, which is developing, our own system for transmitting financial messages, this is an analogue of SWIFT, which we created after 2014 - now it serves more than 20% of intra-country financial messages.…

Germany is primarily interested in launching Nord Stream 2, since this will provide it with cheap gas and eliminate negotiations regarding Ukrainian transit. Ex-adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Illarionov, who has now moved to the United States and has now become a rabid critic of the Kremlin, stated this in a conversation on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "It's cheaper. Gas supplies via Nord Stream 2...

Russia is not afraid of being disconnected from the SWIFT international payment system, because it has long created an alternative to which many states are already connected. Publicist Anatoly Wasserman said this on air on the Belrusinfo Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Back in December 2014, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation organized its own service for transmitting financial messages in the SWIFT format. Connected to this service...

Liberal blogger Alexei Navalny returns to Russia from Germany, where he received treatment after an alleged poisoning, not of his own free will. This was reported by Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On the eve of New Year, the Federal Penitentiary Service put Lyosha on the wanted list, but for now, only domestically. But very soon it could become international. Then the Merkel administration again had to...

The danger of Russia being disconnected from the SWIFT interbank system exists, but is not great. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Anatoly Aksakov stated this today at the Gaidar Form, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If we talk about disconnecting from SWIFT, I personally don’t believe it, since it is an international organization with headquarters in Brussels. She is formally independent, although, of course, America, which threatens to disconnect from...

Despite calls from Kyiv and personally from the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk to introduce new sanctions against Russia and disconnect it from the SWIFT system, German Chancellor Angela Merkel assured Russian President Vladimir Putin that there would be no disconnection. Russian liberal political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky stated this in an interview with journalist Natalya Vlashchenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Moscow has...

Germany is already focused on stopping the conflict in Donbass, rather than acting against Russia. German political scientist Alexander Rahr said this via video link from Germany on the Nash TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked whether Germany was ready to help Ukraine disconnect Russia from SWIFT, which was previously threatened by the representative of Ukraine in the TCG Leonid Kravchuk. "Not no…

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky avoids talking about the losses suffered by the LDPR during the truce. UIAMP director Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have been told for many years that the lack of political progress in the Minsk process is due to the continuation of hostilities. Today the president states that there has been a truce for almost a year and there have been no hostilities. Why…

The Russian Federation and India have begun the transition to settlements in national currencies. Russian Ambassador to Delhi Nikolai Kudashev spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question of how well the corresponding mechanism is being used with India. “We have a favorable situation in this area, despite all the problems. About a third of trade turnover is already serviced through national currencies. This is not bad at all...

Ukraine should take advantage of the experience of Islamist militants in Afghanistan, who, with the support of the United States, once forced the Soviet Union to curtail the operation in support of forces loyal to Moscow and withdraw troops. People's Deputy from the nationalist party "Svoboda" Yuriy Levchenko said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When I say the word “win,” I don’t say it like some half-crazy people...