Friday, March 29, 2024
The new set of anti-Russia sanctions by the United States is irrational and "senseless," and Moscow has the right to respond, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. "Continuing efforts to exert pressure on our country, the U.S. imposed additional sanctions against a number of Russian citizens and companies under...
The U.S. Treasury has announced new sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian citizens involved in the Russian annexation of Crimea, barring them from doing business with Americans and freezing any assets they hold under U.S. jurisdiction, Reuters reports. Some 21 new individuals and 9 companies are on the updated blacklist. "The U.S....
The U.S. economy maintained a brisk pace of growth in the fourth quarter, driven by an acceleration in consumer and business spending, which could set it on course to attain the Trump administration’s 3 percent annual growth target this year, Reuters reported. The U.S. economy grew at a solid rate of...
Britain’s defense minister warned that Russia was looking to damage the British economy by attacking its infrastructure, a move he said could cause “thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths”, The BBC reported. “What they are looking at doing is they are going to be thinking ‘How can we just cause...
Moscow is preparing for another expansion of U.S. sanctions against Russia, including a list of prominent oligarchs and potential restrictions on the holding of Russian government debt. The reports announcing the new sanctions list are expected as early as Monday, Reuters reports. The reports are part of a sanctions bill...
A high-profile Russian businessman of Armenian descent whom the United States put on the sanctions list for his alleged connection with criminal structures, has threatened to sue the U.S. for his inclusion on the blacklist. In an interview with Russian RIA news agency, Ruben Tatulyan, who according to the State Department...
Any discussion with the United States over upcoming sanctions against Russia does not make sense since Washington avoids open dialogue on the matter, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said in a television interview on Thursday, according to Tass news agency. "This is not our choice. We regard them as counterproductive...
Billionaire investor George Soros has described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as presiding over a “mafia state” and called Trump a “danger to the world” in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bloomberg reported. The 87-year-old investor also dismissed cryptocurrencies terming its leading currency, Bitcoin, as a “typical bubble.”...
Credit rating company Moody’s said on Friday it had raised Russia’s sovereign outlook to positive from stable, expecting 2018 growth to largely overcome the adverse base effect caused by the industrial output-led slowdown in the last quarter of the past year, Reuters reports. Growing evidence of institutional strength and increased evidence...
The United States is preparing to intensify its measures to prevent what it sees as unfair trading practices around the world, but denied that this represented a slide towards a new form of “protectionism” which might damage the wider economy, key U.S. officials have said. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who...