Tag: Russia

Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 - 10:33 UTC
BRICS summit in South Africa has to decide on the access of new members

This week Johannesburg is hosting the 15th summit of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) when a historic decision is expected, reconfiguring the group with the access of new country members.
Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 11:33 UTC
Russia/Ukraine conflict, ruble collapses and Moscow forced to hike interest rate

Russia's 's central bank hiked its key interest rate to 12% on Tuesday. The 3.5 percentage point rise represents a bid to fight high inflation and the sharp depreciation of the country's currency against the US dollar.
Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 18:51 UTC
Ukraine and Croatia agree for grain shipments from ports on the Danube and Adriatic Sea

Ukraine and Croatia have reached an agreement for Croatian ports on the Danube and Adriatic Sea to be used for the export of Ukrainian grains, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after talks with his Croatian counterpart on Monday (July 31).
Thursday, July 27th 2023 - 10:40 UTC
Russian drones attack Ukrainian alternative inland grain ports on the Danube

Russia has destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River and injured seven people in a drone strike this week, expanding the target area of an air campaign launched last week after it pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal, the Kiev government said.
Monday, May 29th 2023 - 20:36 UTC
UK marks one year without any imports of Russian gas

New figures published this week show the UK did not import any Russian gas in the 12 months to the end of March 2023, while UK gas exports to Europe tripled over the same period. The UK has gone a whole year without importing any Russian gas - a boost for the country’s energy security and a blow to Putin’s war machine.
Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 10:00 UTC
Lula not to travel to St Petersburg for Putin meeting

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has become a major player in South American diplomacy lately, but he has been forced to decline an invitation from his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to go to St. Petersburg. “I can't go to Russia now,” Lula said days after a frustrated meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima.
Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 10:23 UTC
Moscow declares Greenpeace an “undesirable organization,” forcing it to close its Russian branch

Russia on Friday declared the environmental group Greenpeace an “undesirable organization.” The designation criminalizes the work of organizations that bear the brand and puts employees at risk of criminal prosecution.
Thursday, May 11th 2023 - 10:55 UTC
Brazilian envoy meeting Ukrainian officials to devise a peace plan

Ukrainian diplomat Andrij Melnik Wednesday said Brazil can “play an important role” in stopping the war with Russia ahead of his meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's envoy Celso Amorim in Kyiv.
Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 14:43 UTC
Drones crash into Kremlin, Russia accuses Ukraine of attempted Putin's assassination

The Kremlin announced on Wednesday that its HQ had been targeted for the first time in the war unleashed against Ukraine. At least two drones reportedly attempted to strike the residence of President Vladimir Putin but were shot down by the residential complex's anti-aircraft defenses, it was reported by the presidential press service.

Drones crash into Kremlin, Russia accuses Ukraine of attempted Putin's assassination
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 16:32 UTC
Moscow warns Ukraine's Black Sea “export channel” conditioned by West obstacles to Russian trade

Moscow warned that the outlook for extending a deal beyond May 18 that allows the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports was “not great” as Russia’s own such exports still faced obstacles.