VTB is considering the possibility of issuing special ordinary shares. A bank under sectoral sanctions needs to do this in such a way as not to spread sanctions risks to existing securities. There has never been such a practice in Russia yet VTB VTBR ₽0.04895 +3.09% Buy VTB is considering the option of carrying out an additional issue of special ordinary shares, Dmitry Pyanov, a member of the VTB ...
After several European countries banned Belaviause its airspace, the airline announced the forced cancellation of a flight to Kaliningrad Belavia Airlines has announced that due to flight bans by several European countries, it is canceling flights to Kaliningrad and 11 other foreign cities. A message about this was published on the airline's website. From May 27 to October 3......
West is discussing a serious tightening of sanctions against Belarus for the forced landing of a Ryanair aircraft and the arrest of a journalist. Sanctionscan hit the country's ties with the outside world. RBC looked at how big these ties are The European Union said it was preparing sanctions against Belarus for the forced landing of a Ryanair passenger airliner in Minsk and the subsequent arrest ...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko supported the proposal to introduce liability for calls for sanctions, BelTA informs. “If you make a proposal to my level or to parliament about responsibility for calls for sanctions, I guarantee that it will be accepted. Again, not our know-how, but very necessary for our country,” Lukashenka said, answering a relevant question at a meeting in parliament...
On May 28, the heads of Russia and Belarus will discuss the situation with Russian oil companies that have fallen under sanctions, supplying raw materials to Belarusian refineries. This was stated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, speaking in front of the country's parliament, reports the publication "Belarus Segodnya". “We are now trying to find a way out of one or another specific si...
The West is discussing a serious tightening of sanctions against Belarus for the forced landing of a Ryanair plane and the arrest of a journalist. Sanctionscan hit the country's ties with the outside world. RBC looked at how big these ties are The European Union said it was preparing sanctions against Belarus for the forced landing of a Ryanair passenger airliner in Minsk and the subsequent arrest...
Measures that Belarus can take against countries that have taken a "blatantly hostile position" will include an embargo on the import of goods and a ban on transit through the territory of Belarus,warned Roman Golovchenko Roman Golovchenko The government of Belarus has prepared a set of responses to Western sanctions , including an embargo on the import of certain goods and a ban on transit throug...
In particular, the state may terminate its participation in the Eastern Partnership with the EU.Minsk is also considering the option of stopping cooperation on illegal migration and combating organized crime Vladimir Makei Belarus may withdraw from joint programs with the EU, including the Eastern Partnership, if the bloc intensifies sanctions pressure on the republic, Foreign Minister Vladimir Ma...
Xiaomi won the case against the Pentagon and got out of sanctions The US Department of Defense will remove the Chinese telecommunications corporation Xiaomi from the sanctions list, which included Chinese companies associated with the military, Reuters reports. The District of Columbia Court in the United States has invalidated the Pentagon's decision to list Xiaomi as a "Chinese military enterpri...
sanctions on the project would be "unproductive" for US relationswith Europe, Biden said.Earlier, Washington abandoned restrictions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO Matthias Warnig Gazprom GAZP₽261.5 +0,66% Buy Joe Biden Construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is "nearly complete" and imposing new sanctions on the project would be "unproductive" for US relations with Europe. This, according to B...
At the first face-to-face summit of the year, the heads of the EU countries discussed relations with Moscow and decided not to change anything. Experts explained the decision by the lack of unity within the union and the imminent meeting of the leaders of Russia and the United States How the discussion of the Russian topic was prepared On Monday, May 24, late in the evening, the leaders of 27 coun...
Emmanuel Macron The sanctions policy towards Russia is ineffective in the long run. French President Emmanuel Macron stated this at a press conference following the EU summit. “As far as Russia is concerned, increasing sanctions in response to frozen conflicts is no longer an effective policy,” the French president explained. He noted that EU experts will have to develop other instruments of influ...
Vilnius calls on the European Union for new sanctions against Minsk because of the Ryanair plane. According to a representative of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, they may affect the export of petroleum products, fertilizers, Lithuania advocates the introduction of sectoral sanctions against Belarus due to a diplomatic conflict that arose after an emergency landing in Minsk of a Ryanair passenger...
After the incident with the landing of the Ryanair plane in Minsk, the UK stopped air traffic with Belarus, the next one will be Ukraine. In the coming days, the EU will decide on a collective response to Minsk How Europe is responding to the Ryanair incident On Monday, May 24, a two-day EU summit begins, one of the main topics of which will be sanctions against Belarus due to the forced landing o...
The EU announced a possible increase in sanctions against Belarus against the background of the incident with the Ryanair plane, which had to land in Minsk. “We would not want to participate in this race right now,” Ryanair said in the Kremlin. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Western calls to impose sanctions in connection with the incident with the Ryanair ...
Ursula von der Leyen 's planeEU leaders on Monday will discuss possible sanctions against Belarus (including travel restrictions and a possible flight ban) in connection with the forced landing in Minsk of a Ryanair aircraft carrying Roman Protasevich, co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel that covered the protests. It is reported by Bloomberg, citing two officials familiar with the situation. ...
Sanctions against the Belarusian company will be considered at a meeting of the Council of Europe. This is how the EU intends to respond to the incident with the Ryanair airliner, on which the co-founder XXXXX was flyingRoman Protosevich The authorities of the European Union are considering the possibility of imposing a ban on the landing of Belavia aircraft at all airports located on the territor...
The decision may be taken because of the incident with the plane flying from Athens to Vilnius. To escort him into the air, a fighter of the Belarusian Air Force took off Secretary of State for European Affairs of the French Foreign Ministry Clement Bon on the air of the BFMTV channel said that EU sanctions against Belarus could be expanded due to the incident with the Ryanair aircraft. “This is a...
In Warsaw, they called the incident state terrorism. Earlier, an Athens-Vilnius plane was urgently landed in Minsk because of a bomb report. On board was the founder of the Belarusian Telegram channel XXXXX, he was detained by Mateusz Morawiecki Польша попросила Евросовет ввести санкции против правительства Белоруссии из-за самолета Ryanair, который экстренно посадили в Минске после сообщения о ми...
The completion of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will be the most "terrible" sanction against the United States . Alexander Sherin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, stated this in an interview with the radio station "Moscow speaking". “The most terrible economic and geopolitical sanction against the United States is when Russia completes Nord Stream 2, ...
At the EU leaders' summit next week, the participants will discuss the imposition of new sanctions against Russia, including economic ones. This was stated by the Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for the policy of preserving European values and transparency and former Czech Minister Vera Yourova in an interview with Czech Radio. “The legitimate demands of the European Union...
Unemployment should return to pre-crisis levels by the end of this year. According to Oreshkin, 1 million jobs have already been restored. The authorities expect the situation in the labor market to recover to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2021. This was stated by Assistant to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin, speaking at the New Knowledge marathon. Oreshkin recalled that in January, Vladi...
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appealed to the US Congress with an appeal to use all possible tools to stop the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The resolution was published by the press service of the Verkhovna Rada. According to the statement, the Ukrainian parliament asks the US authorities to apply sanctions against all project participants, in particular Nord Stream AG, in order...
The restrictions included the Nobility company and two ships it owns, participating in the completion of the gas pipeline. Also, an insurance company was included in the sanctions list, which was considered a potential insurer of the project. video The United States imposed sanctions against the Russian companies Nobility and Constanta, as well as against the ships Ivan Sidorenko and Ostap Shereme...
In response to a question about whether the new restrictions against Nord Stream 2 will affect the decision on the Putin-Biden summit, the spokesman said,that “we need to figure it out” Dmitry Peskov The Kremlin would like to understand the actions of the United States , which "say one thing, do another," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax. So he answered the question of whether Wa...
Israelis and Palestinians agreed on a truce, LUKOIL will divide its energy business, which of the senators will leave the Federation Council, in the USAprepared a new draft law on sanctions for Nord Stream 2. Breaking news - in the review of RBC Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire The Israeli government voted for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the Palestinian organization Hamas c...
US senators decide to restore sanctions against Nord Stream 2against "subcontractors of any organization" involved in the construction of the pipeline A group of 14 Republican senators has submitted a bill that proposes to restore sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 project. This was announced by one of the authors of the initiative, Kevin Kramer (Senator from North Dakota). The bill, if passed, w...
Gazprom GAZP₽260,9 -2% Buy The Kremlin positively assesses the fact that the information that the United States may refuse to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 operator is positive, but considers it "impersonal". This was told to journalists by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, reports TASS. Work with obstacles: a chronicle of the construction of Nord Stream 2 “We a...
Washington has decided on its plans for Nord Stream 2, which shares turned out to be the most profitable for investors, Manizha's performance at Eurovision, how many Russians cannot leave because of debts - the main news in the RBC review How Washington plans to delay Nord Stream 2 On the evening of May 18, Gazprom shares rose sharply after a report by the Axios portal, whose sources said that the...
Washington will impose sanctionsagainst four vessels involved in the construction of the gas pipeline and companies associated with them. Politico sources confirmed the Axios data that The US State Department is in favor of imposing sanctions on four vessels involved in the construction of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and four companies associated with them. This is reported by Politico,...