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Fiasco. Biden team reworks plan for Russia oil-price cap as markets sour

10:29 29.10.2022

Fiasco. Biden team reworks plan for Russia oil-price cap as markets sour

US officials have been forced to scale back a plan to impose a cap on Russian oil prices, following skepticism by investors and growing risk in financial markets brought on by crude volatility and central bank efforts to tame inflation, informs Bloomberg. Instead of strangling the Kremlin’s oil revenues by …

Most important decade since end of World War II: Putin’s speech at Valdai club

12:52 28.10.2022

Most important decade since end of World War II: Putin’s speech at Valdai club

The age of Western global dominance is becoming a thing of the past, and the world has the most important decade since the end of World War II ahead, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Valdai international discussion club meeting Thursday,informs TASS.In his speech, Putin underscored that Russia does …

Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House

11:31 28.10.2022

Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House

The White House has lowered its earlier optimism about the midterm elections and is now worried that Democrats could lose control of both chambers of Congress, - administration officials say for Reuters. Recent polls have shown Democrats who once had comfortable leads in some Senate races on a knife's edge, …

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin calls ‘cutting’ Russia out of global economy ‘absurd and illusory’

11:00 28.10.2022

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin calls ‘cutting’ Russia out of global economy ‘absurd and illusory’

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin (photo) has made several important announcements addressing a Eurasia-themed economic forum in Baku (Azerbaijan): - The sanctions pressure targeting Russia culminated in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. “The pressure of sanctions reached its climax resulting in the sabotage of the …

Social unrest boils in Europe

10:59 28.10.2022

Social unrest boils in Europe

Citizens across much of the continent are marching in the streets, protesting against inflation, the Western proxy war in Ukraine, as well as the Washington-led sanctions blitz, - writes Connor Freeman, an assistant editor and a writer at the ‘Libertarian Institute’, primarily covering foreign policy. As inflation and energy prices …

Did U.S./NATO blow up the Nord Stream pipelines?

10:48 28.10.2022

Did U.S./NATO blow up the Nord Stream pipelines?

“There was no nation that had a clearer motive to destroy the pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 other than the United States”, declared Col. Black (photo), who was the head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, a Virginia State Senator, and is a decorated Vietnam …

French script or bomb for Ukrainian comics

20:43 27.10.2022 Alexander Sheffner

French script or bomb for Ukrainian comics

A couple of days before the start of the Russian military operation, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly announced that he was considering obtaining nuclear weapons for his country. After the collapse of the USSR, Kyiv declared its non-nuclear status, but after 2014 the ambitions of the Ukrainian elites changed. …

European tragedy: EU’s independent ability to steer and act is diminishing

13:12 27.10.2022

European tragedy: EU’s independent ability to steer and act is diminishing

‘Greater EUrope‘ essentially under German leadership – in friendly co-operation with the U.S. – not only in my view this equally is a mirage, and the Franco-German leadership duo now subordinates itself to US geopolitics, -writes German columnist Klaus Dräger. He analyzes the current state of affairs in Europe, which, …

POLITICO: The world’s biggest ‘dirty energy club’ is cracking up

13:09 27.10.2022

POLITICO: The world’s biggest ‘dirty energy club’ is cracking up

The fossil fuel industry is facing the disintegration of one of its most important international agreements — and the man running the show is not taking it well. A succession of major European Union governments have now dumped the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), -writes POLITICO.This is a deal between 53 …

“Quasi-civilian infrastructure in Space may become a legitimate target for retaliation”

13:08 27.10.2022

“Quasi-civilian infrastructure in Space may become a legitimate target for retaliation”

Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation Mr. Konstantin Vorontsov made a statement at the Thematic Discussion on Outer Space (Disarmament Aspects) in the First Committee of the 77th Session of the UNGA. He said in particular:The Russian Federation has consistently advocated the preservation of outer space for exclusively peaceful activities …

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