Thursday, June 19, 2025
According to specialists contacted by Izvestia who remarked on the Perm tragedy, the law banning the possession of weapons from the age of 21, which enters into effect in June 2022, may help protect educational institutions from attacks by their own students. An 18-year-old Perm State University law student went...
The Ukrainian-US military exercises called Rapid Trident-2021 began on Monday in Ukraine, with the goal of training Ukrainian soldiers for defensive and offensive actions as part of NATO allied forces. The drills are part of a series of international exercises that will take place in Ukraine in 2021. Another...
Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, has declined an option to increase gas supplies to Europe, as the continent confronts an impending energy crisis due to rising natural gas prices. Gazprom did not book any of the extra capacity available in transit pipes running through Ukraine in October auctions, Moscow Times...
The Federal Antimonopoly Service announced the need to revise all current insurance conditions for the risks of a bank borrower - in exchange for a bank loan, Russians should not agree to onerous insurance conditions and must choose an insurance company themselves. For example, if a citizen takes a loan...
Inter RAO, the only Russian energy exporter, is ready to resume electricity supplies to Ukraine after October 1, Alexandra Panina, head of the Inter RAO trading block, told Russian media. Earlier, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine announced that it did not plan to lift the ban on the import...
The Russian government decided to approve Rosneft's proposal and allow joint gas supplies to the EU with Gazprom, Russian media reported. Under the proposal, Rosneft would be ready to export 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year to the European union, per a joint agreement with Gazprom that would start from...
Many cafes, restaurants, and shops in the capital were unable to adapt to the new working conditions during the pandemic, Russian media reported. For these establishments, revenues fell 1.5-2 times, and expenses for meeting sanitary requirements increased, according to the Colliers consulting company. As a result, the share of vacant commercial...
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party claimed a clear victory in legislative and regional elections plagued by numerous voting fraud allegations after an extraordinary crackdown on observers and opposition candidates, Moscow Times writes. According to Interfax, Andrei Turchak, United Russia's general council secretary, informed reporters that the party has gained...
The next German administration will not be able to stop Nord Stream 2, but it may begin to renegotiate individual agreements with Russia on the gas pipeline, according to Urs Unkauf, a spokesman of the national association for economic development and foreign trade of Germany (BWA), in an interview...
Ukraine runs the risk of being left without gas transit, but there is a way to stop Gazprom and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Ukrainian Deputy Energy Minister Elena Zerkal said. Ukraine needs to rebuild the gas transportation system (GTS) in case Gazprom stops gas transit through Ukraine and...