Tag: Russia

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Ukraine has 22 million tons of grains blocked because of Russian invasion, claims Zelensky

  

  While Ukraine claims to have some 22 million tons of grains and seed in stock, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and the European Union to restore Ukrainian grain exports and prevent the current global food crisis from getting worse.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:52 UTC

  EU wants to sign stalled trade agreements, but with Mercosur objections persist

  

  The European Union aims to finalize and sign at least three stalled trade agreements this year as the bloc looks to reinforce strategic alliances amid the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Germany's largest gas importer accepts Moscow terms and pays in Euros/Rubles

  

  Despite the rules agreed by the European Commission, one of Germany's largest natural gas importers, VNG, has opened an account with Gazprombank for payments for Russian gas under Moscow's new terms, in Euros then converted into Rubles helping the Russian currency to recover its value.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic exempt from joining EU embargo on Russian oil imports

  

  The European Union is set to give some member states heavily dependent on Russian oil – such as Hungary and Slovakia – time until the end of 2024 to comply with the proposed embargo on oil imports from Russia, as the bloc is looking to keep a united front against Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, reported Bloomberg on Friday.

• Friday, May 6th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Sophisticated software impedes Russian looters from using Ukrainian farm equipment, CNN report

  

  Russian soldiers have reportedly looted some five million dollars worth of agricultural state-of-the-art equipment from Ukraine, but it is not clear whether they have been able to man it, given their sophisticated software system.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Gov't against exclusions from Summit of the Americas

  

  Following the announcement by the United States that the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were not going to be invited to June's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles because they do not respect democracy, Argentina has urged it to review its stance.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Beijing boasts Chinese companies purchase Russian coal and oil paying with Yuans

  

  Several Chinese companies purchased Russian coal paying in Chinese currency in March, and the first shipment would be made in April, according to Fenwei Energy Information Service Co., China’s leading information and service provider to the coal and coke industries. This is also the first shipment of Russian commodities paid in Yuan to arrive in China after Russia was sanctioned by Western countries.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Turkey entices Latin American leaders to get Putin, Zelensky to discuss end to war

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted over the weekend that the Government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting a series of efforts to organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Major UK troop deployment in mainland Europe announced

  

  UK defense authorities Friday confirmed they were deploying some 8,000 of its troops to continental Europe between April and June from Finland to North Macedonia in what is regarded as the largest movement of military resources since the Cold War.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Mercosur-Europe FTA now or never, EU diplomat in Buenos Aires says

  

  The European Union's Ambassador to Argentina said Thursday that if the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur was to be revived it was now or never.