EU restricts travel rules for Russians, but no outright ban (Update 2)
EU foreign ministers decided on Wednesday to make it more expensive and lengthier for Russians to obtain visas to travel to the bloc, but stopped short of agreeing to the ...
Kremlin: Gorbachev helped end Cold War but was wrong about ‘honeymoon’ with West
The Kremlin on Wednesday hailed late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as an extraordinary global statesman who helped end the Cold War, but said he had been badly wrong about the ...
Grain silos at Mykolaiv port hit by Russian attack
Grain silos in Ukraine’s second biggest port, Mykolaiv, were hit by Russian shelling of the city on Tuesday, causing a fire that was still burning on Wednesday, Ukraine’s ...
Russia gives 12.5 per cent stake in Sakhalin Energy to Mitsui unit
The Russian government on Tuesday said it approved handing over a 12.5 per cent stake in operator of Russia’s Sakhalin 2 liquefied natural gas plant to Dubai-based MIT SEL Investment Ltd, ...
New Russia gas halt tightens energy screws on Europe
Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe on Wednesday, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in ...
Ukraine makes push along entire front, Zelenskiy says, as Russia halts gas
Ukrainian troops have attacked Russian positions along the entire front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Germany citing the need for ...
Rouble firms in early Moscow trade, Russian stocks hit 2-month high
The rouble firmed towards 60 against the dollar and euro in early Moscow trade on Tuesday, while higher oil prices helped push Russia’s benchmark stock index to its highest point ...
Russia fines streaming service Twitch 3 mln rbls -agencies
A court in Russia on Tuesday fined streaming company Twitch 3 million roubles ($50,209) for refusing to remove a two-hour interview with an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Russian news agencies ...
Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny in solitary confinement yet again
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that he had been thrown into solitary confinement for the third time this month to punish him for his political activity.
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France accuses Russia of using gas supply as ‘weapon of war’
France on Tuesday accused Moscow of using energy supplies as “a weapon of war” as Russian gas giant Gazprom GAZP.MM reduced deliveries to one of its main utilities and ...
Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic states treated as “second-class people” says Moscow
Russia condemned the destruction of Soviet war memorials in the three Baltic states and accused them on Tuesday of persecuting their Russian-speaking minorities.
In a forcefully worded statement, Moscow said ...
Zelenskiy tells Russians to run for their lives from Ukraine offensive in south
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Russian troops to flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine, but Moscow said it had halted the ...
Russia-installed official accuses Ukraine of fresh shelling of nuclear plant
Russian-installed authorities in an occupied part of Ukraine accused Ukrainian troops on Tuesday of once again shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the run-up to a ...
‘Gymnich’ begins in Prague, Russian tourist visa ban proposal on agenda
Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will have bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of Estonia and Ukraine on the margins of his participation in the informal meeting of the European ...
EU split on visa bans for Russia, plans Ukraine training missions (Update 2)
Germany and France have issued a joint warning against a ban on tourist visas for Russians, saying such a step, advocated by other European Union member states, would be counter-productive.
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Zelenskiy urges Russians to ‘go home’ as Ukraine presses offensive in south
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Russian troops to flee from an offensive launched by his forces near the southern city of Kherson saying Ukraine‘s military were taking back ...
Ericsson to wind down business activities in Russia over coming months
Ericsson (ERICb.ST) said on Monday it will gradually wind down business activities in Russia over the coming months as the Swedish telecoms equipment maker completes its obligations to customers.
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Russia’s inflation will be 12-13 per cent in 2022, Kremlin aide says
Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said inflation will come in at 12-13 per cent in 2022, below earlier expectations, as the economy looks set to defy the gloomiest ...
Russian shelling wrecks houses in Mykolaiv as Ukraine begins counter-offensive in south
Ukrainian troops bolstered by stepped-up supplies of Western military aid on Monday started a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the south from Russian forces, the Ukrainian military said.
Moscow ...
More western tech companies set out Russian exit plans
Western technology companies, including Ericsson ERICb.ST and Nokia NOKIA.HE, announced plans for complete exits from Russia on Monday, following Dell DELL.N last week, as the pace of ...
EU may agree tightening visas for Russians, discuss training of Ukraine troops (Update)
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Prague on Tuesday and Wednesday, may agree tightening the issuance of visas for Russians and start debate on a wider ban on tourist visas ...
IAEA mission heads to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant near war frontline
A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog headed on Monday to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the agency’s chief said, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of shelling ...
Shelling near Ukraine nuclear plant fuels disaster fears; Russia pounds Donbas
Russian forces have pounded Ukrainian towns across the river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, officials said, while reports of shelling around the facility fuelled fears of a radiation disaster.
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Dell ceases all Russian operations after August offices closure
Dell Technologies Inc. said on Saturday it had ceased all Russian operations after closing its offices in mid-August, the latest in a growing list of Western firms to exit Russia.
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