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Italian ports will be closed to Russian ships from Sunday 17 April. The ban will also apply to ships that have changed flags after 24 February. This is reported by the newspaper Stampa with reference to the circular of the General Command of the Port Authority. Earlier, the decision to close all EU ports for Russian ships was made by the EU authorities on April 8 as part of the fifth package of sa...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked US President Joe Biden to recognize RUSSIA as a "country sponsor of terrorism," The Washington Post reports, citing sources. According to the interlocutors of the publication, Biden did not give the Ukrainian leader any obligations on this issue, but promised to consider a number of proposals to increase pressure on Moscow. WP sources added that Zel...

Three Chinese taikonauts (as cosmonauts are called in the country), who spent a record six months on the Tianhe orbital station, returned to Earth, Xinhua reports. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu went into space on the Shenzhou 13 on October 16 last year. Having docked with the main module of the Chinese space station Tianhe, Shenzhou-13 formed an orbital complex with it and the cargo shi...

A number of businessmen who were born and raised in RUSSIA amid US sanctions, Britain and the EU asked FORBES not to call them Russian billionaires. Among them are Pavel Durov, Yuri Milner, Businessmen "connected with Russia" asked the American Forbes not to call them Russian billionaires, the magazine writes. Such appeals have been received for several years, but in the past few months their numb...

Vahan Kerobyan paid a visit to Moscow. In an interview with RBC, he spoke about the Armenian approach to complying with sanctions, about how many Russians have come to Armenia since the start of the special operation, and how the economy reacts to their arrival and the crisis. 00:00 Advertisement 00:......

Top 10 deposit rates. On Friday, Western stock exchanges are closed - investors celebrate Good Friday. Participants of the Russian market do not yet find reasons for active purchases. notable events, SPB Exchange changed the trading schedule on April 15 and 18 due to non-working holidays on foreign trading floors. On Friday, April 15, investors will be able to trade only securities of TCS Group, F...

EU member states are discussing a phased embargo on Russian oil,however, concrete proposals will only be made after the completion of the presidential elections in France The European Union plans to introduce a phased embargo on Russian oil, but negotiations on this will begin no earlier than the end of the presidential election in France, writes The New York Times, citing sources. The second roun...

REUTERS wrote that the explosions in Kiev were among the strongest since the beginning of the Russian military operation. Power outage in the Kyiv region was confirmed by NetBlocks, it began around 1:30 Part of the Kyiv region was de-energized after reports of powerful explosions in the capital, the power outage was confirmed by the NetBlocks organization, which monitors the operation of the Inter...

of Justice, Alexander Babakov, Mikhail Plisyuk and Alexander Vorobyov were engaged in propaganda in the United States and recruited at least one American,who helped them organize meetings with politicians Alexander Babakov U.S. authorities have charged Deputy State Duma Speaker Alexander Babakov and his aide Mikhail Plisyuk and Alexander Vorobyov with "conspiracy to work in the United States as un...

Ukrainian firms previously associated with Igor Kolomoisky asked the United Statesrecognize the arbitration award against RUSSIA for $ 35 million. They are counting on assets blocked due to sanctions.Kolomoisky himself is on the sanctions list More than a dozen Ukrainian companies formerly associated with businessman Igor Kolomoisky have filed a petition with the U.S. District COURT for the Distri...

Top 10 deposit rates. US banks will publish first quarter financials. India has increased its coal imports from RUSSIA to a two-year high. notable events, SPB Exchange will start exchange trading in securities of international companies at 15:00 Moscow time. Previously, trading began at 16:00 Moscow time. Otherwise, trading on the Moscow Exchange and St. Petersburg Exchange on April 14 will be hel...

According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, we are talking about Gulbahor Ismailova, whom the BKA calls "Alisher Usmanov's sister" The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has identified the owner of the 156-meter superyacht Dilbar, despite attempts to hide offshore, the agency reports on Twitter. This is Gulbahor Ismailova, whom the BKA calls "Alisher Usmanov's sister." “The lu...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has suspended Russia's membership in the organization. Earlier, the OECD stopped negotiations with Moscow on joining the club of developed world economies. Russia's membership in the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be suspended from 11 May. This is stated on the website of the Agency. “Russia's membership...

US President Joe Biden has extended a state of emergency for one year in connection with the "harmful activities" of the Russian authorities. This was reported by the press service of the White House. The state of emergency was extended by the American authorities to eliminate the "emergency threat to national security", foreign policy and the US economy, the document says. The Biden administratio...

The sanctions list also includes Vagit Alekperov, Vladimir Yakunin, Vladimir Bogdanov, wife of the Russian Foreign Minister,as well as representatives of the leadership of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics The UK expanded the sanctions list by adding 206 more Russian individuals and organizations to it. The document was published on the website of the British government. The sanctions lis...

The ban will also include the EXPORT of quantum technologies and advanced materials. The sanctions are expectedwill come into force on April 14 From April 14, the UK intends to impose a ban on the import of steel and iron from RUSSIA, as well as on the export of quantum technologies and advanced materials, according to the website of the British government. “From tomorrow we are banning the import...

Obama said that in 2014 it was difficult to predict the situation in Ukrainethat might have reacted differently to the events of 2014, Obama said,that then there was a different situation Barack Obama What is happening now in Ukraine was difficult to predict "eight to ten years ago," former US President Barack Obama said in an interview with NBC. The situation in 2......

Vitol Group, the world's largest independent oil trader, plans to stop trading in oil and oil products from RUSSIA by the end of the year, a company representative told BLOOMBERG. The volumes of Russian oil resold by the company "will decrease significantly in the second quarter [2022] as current contractual obligations decrease," Vitol Group added. BP, following Shell, will abandon Russian oil an...

On April 12, 1961, the first man, Yuri Gagarin, flew into space, on this date Cosmonautics Day is celebrated. Less than a month after the flight into space, 27-year-old Gagarin went on a tour abroad. He made his first trip outside the USSR to Czechoslovakia. For several years, residents and top officials of about 3......

According to OPEC Secretary General Barkindo, as a result of sanctions and other restrictions against RUSSIA, the world market may lose about 7 million barrels.Russian oil per day Sanctions against Russia could trigger one of the worst oil supply disruptions in history, with lost volumes impossible to make up. This, according to REUTERS, at a meeting with representatives of the European Union, sai...

Previously, CANADA has already introduced restrictions against Russian enterprises, businessmen, banks, transport companies and officials.The Kremlin called the sanctions pressure of the West "gangsterism" Melanie Jolie Canada is imposing sanctions on 33 more Russian companies associated with the defense industry. This was stated by the HEAD of the Canadian Foreign Ministry Melanie Jolie. “New mea...

This is the first such decision of the European Committee on Credit Derivatives in relation to a Russian borrower after Western countries began to impose sanctionsagainst RUSSIA Russian Railways (RZD) has been declared in default on one of its Eurobond issues, BLOOMBERG reported citing the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee EMEA. We are talking about Eurobonds for 25......

The GOOGLE Translate translation service has stopped offering to replace the phrase dear russians (dear Russians) with dead russian (dead Russians), REUTERS reports. Interfax was confirmed by Google to correct the error. Earlier in the day, Roskmonadzor demanded that Google take measures to correct the situation, explaining that it had identified a “violation of an extremist nature” in the service...

Employees of the Ericsson office in RUSSIA will be sent on paid leave Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson is suspending business in Russia for an indefinite period, the company said in a statement on its website. “In light of recent events and European Union sanctions, the company will indefinitely suspend its activities with clients in Russia,” the statement said. The press...

supplies 40% of all gas purchased by Italy. Rome intends to reduce dependence on Moscow and wants to increase supplies through the pipeline from Algeria. Zakharova said, Moscow is not blackmailing the EU with gas supplies, European countries are doing this by imposing sanctions against RUSSIA and building up armed forces near its borders, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said o...

The launchers of the anti-aircraft missile system were located in the Kharkov and Nikolaev regions *View of the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation The Russian military destroyed the launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, discovered by intelligence, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. “High-precision air-launched missi...

This decision was made by Takeda and Astellas, among other things, due to difficulties with logistics and transactions. Ongoing clinical trials will continue, Two Japanese pharmaceutical companies - Takeda Pharmaceutical and Astellas Pharma - will refuse to conduct new clinical trials of drugs in RUSSIA, the Nikkei newspaper reports. According to her, Takeda also stopped all investments in Russian...

The American intelligence services believe that Putin may regard Washington's support for Ukraine as an "insult", which "will give him an additional incentive to intervene."Moscow has denied all such previous accusations. US intelligence agencies admit that Moscow may use US support for Ukraine to further interfere in the political affairs of the country, the Associated Press reported, citing sour...

issued a license allowing sanctioned Russian citizens and companies to freely use communication web services, including the paid version of Zoom.In the case of Iran or Crimea, there were no such exceptions. The US Treasury issued a general license (that is, applicable to all market participants) that allowed Russian citizens and companies that fell under US blocking sanctions (SDN list) to freely ...

European Union has not yet made general purchases of gas and oilfor European countries, so that Budapest will continue to adhere to the contracts concluded with RUSSIA. This will not mean circumvention of the sanctions policy, Payments for Russian gas in rubles do not violate European sanctions , since Budapest and Moscow have signed a bilateral contract. This was stated by the representative of t...