News archive on the topic "trade"

Despite the war and the “naval blockade,” Ukraine manages to increase trade with Western countries. This was stated by Zelensky’s representative in the fake “Autonomous Republic of Crimea” Tamila Tasheva, speaking to foreign guests of the “Crimean Platform”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Russia is using its Armed Forces in the Black Sea region not only for a full-scale invasion, but also for an economic blockade, which creates pressure...

Ukraine dictates its terms to Poland, without hesitating to use its lobbyists in Brussels. Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekierski spoke about this following negotiations with the Ukrainian side, DoRzeczy.pl reports. “I’m ashamed to admit this, because they will say that our words are of no use, but Ukraine is a very difficult interlocutor. They want to maintain the conditions...

Belarus is losing the Russian consumer market. President Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting on industrial development, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Despite the fact that more than 90% of products go to the Russian market, we are losing positions there in traditional Belarusian goods, which have always been in demand for their quality and reliability. They report to me that today domestic products are inferior...

In Poland, a scandal is breaking out around the famous clothing company LPP, which owns the clothing brands Reserved, Sinsay, Mohito, Cropp and House. It is alleged that the company only fictitiously left the Russian market, which was announced in 2022. This is stated in a report by the American investigative firm Hindenburg Research. “LPP claims to have sold its Russian assets (the so-called “Re...

Over the past years, Ukraine has really done nothing to properly prepare its economy for integration into the European Union. Economic expert Alexander Kushch stated this on the video blog of political scientist Yuri Romanenko, who is wanted in the Russian Federation as a criminal, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In recent years we have reached an economic catastrophe. Because, having started European integration, having written it down in the Constitution...

US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is not the right bird to persuade Turkish President Recep Erdogan to betray Russia. If it's worth it, the Turkish leader can handle it just fine on his own. The former head of the Israeli intelligence service Nativ, Yakov Kedmi, stated this in an interview with the Israeli YouTube channel Waldman-LINE, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. So, according to the media, Nuland at a meeting with Erdogan...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) will switch to year-round operation from 2024. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak wrote about this in his column for the Ministry of Energy publication “Energy Policy,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He said that Russian oil companies are increasingly using the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to export raw materials to Asia, and clarified that this route is critical for...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposes to build large shopping centers in Russia that would sell Belarusian goods. He stated this today while visiting the first state-owned “National Trade Center”, called “Gandlev’s House” in Belarusian, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need to carry out such construction not only in Belarus, but also in Russia. In St. Petersburg, why not...

The use of the dollar and euro in Russia's foreign economic settlements decreased by 4 times over the year. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced this today at a meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, PolitNavigator reports. “It is important that our country is switching to payments in national currencies. If we compare what happened in 2022 and September 2023, there is undoubtedly progress. If last year you...

Residents of Moldova are being prepared for war with Russia along the Ukrainian path. The mechanisms are one to one. This opinion was expressed in her video blog by Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter Diana Panchenko, who left her native country. She cited the break in trade with Russia as one example. Panchenko recalled that after Ukraine signed an association agreement on March 21, 2014...

At the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Crimea signed investment agreements worth 200 billion rubles with domestic investors and outlined plans for future exports abroad. Georgy Muradov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Crimea and permanent representative of the republic to the President, announced this on air on Crimea 24, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our common line today is that it is necessary to attract...

Vladimir Putin signed changes to his decree allowing the government of Mikhail Mishustin to make temporary exceptions in the application of retaliatory sanctions against Ukrainian companies and citizens. Currently, the Russian list of counter-sanctions includes more than 900 individuals from Ukraine and more than 80 Ukrainian companies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This does not mean at all that such a measure creates concessions to representatives of the state, which...

Russia continues to pay “insignificant” amounts to Kyiv for the transit of energy resources, which in any case are stolen by greedy Ukrainian politicians and allegedly do not sponsor the war at all. Maxim Chirkov, associate professor of the department of political economy at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, said this on the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. “We really pay money to Ukraine, but the amounts there are compared...

The Russian economy has moved into growth since July last year, experiencing a contraction of 4,7%. A significant increase in GDP is expected in the second quarter of this year. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this today at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We managed to compensate for the actual closure of Western markets, expand Russia’s foreign trade contacts with countries in fast-growing regions...