Thursday, August 13, 2026
The disruption in flows in a pipeline carrying oil from Russia to Belarus this year should be compensated with $70 million from the Russian side, Belarusian officials have said, according to Reuters. Vladimir Semashko, the Belarus ambassador to Moscow, said the compensation issue was discussed by presidents of the two...
Popular web platform Reddit has banned dozens of accounts after it revealed that documents containing confidential details of discussions between the U.S. and UK about a post-Brexit trade deal were likely leaked onto the platform by Russia, the Associated Press reports. The leaked documents, currently the subject of heated debate...
A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket that blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport delivered a Progress MS-13 cargo craft into the near-Earth orbit, Russia’s Roscosmos state space corporation reported in a live broadcast on its website on Friday, TASS informs. "The spacecraft’s separation from the carrier rocket’s third stage completed," the space...
The United States is trying to catch up with Russia in developing hypersonic weapons, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the Reagan National Defense Forum, TASS reported. "We took a pause on these technologies some years ago, when we had a clear lead. And what we are doing now, we...
Ukraine can receive Russian gas directly at a lower price compared to reverse-flow supplies, but a win-win solution has to be found, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the Vesti v Subbotu (News on Saturday) TV program, TASS informs. "Whether they (the Ukrainian authorities) want that or not, it is...
Belarus does not ask Russia to sell cheap natural gas or cheap crude, but proposes providing equal economic opportunities for enterprises, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, TASS reported. "We do not ask, as some say, for cheap gas or cheap oil....
Electronic visas and easier visa formalities for foreign visitors to the Russian Arctic are set to attract more tourists to the region, the deputy head of the country’s Federal Agency for Tourism, Sergei Korneyev told the Arctic: Today and the Future international forum on Thursday. "We could without major financial...
Germany is not hiding its irritation with pressure coming from Washington and the country’s parliament, and the Bundestag has vowed to retaliate if the United States imposes restrictive measures against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Izvestia reports. According to the newspaper, different European countries got into quarrels over the gas...
Energy ministers from some of the world’s largest oil producers will attempt to ratify a deeper round of output cuts on Friday, The New York Times reported. OPEC and its non-OPEC partners, sometimes referred to as OPEC+, have gathered in Vienna, Austria to decide the next phase of their oil...
Russia’s Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic expects around 15 trillion rubles ($235 billion) to be invested in the Arctic within the next 15 years due to subsidies envisioned by the development strategy for Russia’s Arctic zone through 2035, Deputy Minister Alexander Krutikov...