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Moscow’s oil revenues will likely take a hit as tougher logistics and payment hurdles cut into profits and force deeper discounts, but for now analysts expect that exports will hold steady. Experience suggests Russia will turn to its shadow fleet, obscure networks of intermediaries and nondollar financial channels to sidestep the sanctions.
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How hard will Trump’s ‘tremendous’ Russian oil sanctions hit Moscow? China and India may decide
The impact of President Donald Trump’s attempt to financially choke Moscow’s war machine by imposing sanctions on Russian oil firms was instant; not on the battlefield in Ukraine, but in the offices of oil traders in India and China,
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha believes that the latest sanctions imposed by the EU and the US are a real blow to Russia, although Moscow denies this. Details: Sybiha believes that this week marked a new stage in the pressure to force Russia to make peace,
President Donald Trump hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions in his latest sharp policy shift on Moscow's war in Ukraine, prompting global oil prices to rise by 3% on Thursday and India to consider cutting Russian imports.
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US sanctions Russia’s two largest oil companies and calls on Moscow to agree to immediate ceasefire
The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.
The United States accused the Russians of a lack of commitment toward ending the war in Ukraine, as Moscow conducted a major training exercise involving nuclear arms.
America’s latest sanctions on top Russian oil producers throw India’s lucrative energy strategy into disarray, leaving it to navigate soaring costs, disrupted supplies, and the politics of managing relations with Washington and Moscow.
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Top Russian envoy visits US for ‘official’ talks, days after Trump imposes sanctions on Moscow
Russia’s top economic envoy has arrived in the United States for “official” talks just days after President Donald Trump announced tough new sanctions on Russia, sources with knowledge of the visit have told CNN.
A bright green fireball was spotted streaking across the sky in Moscow in the early hours of yesterday morning. Footage shared by local media showed the glowing green object with a long, bright tail racing across the sky before disappearing from view. Witnesses in several other cities in the Moscow Region all reported seeing the mysterious light.
The Kremlin sits on Borovitsky Hill, rising above the Moscow River in the center of the city. Its first white-stone walls and towers went up in 1367-68, and a rebuild little more than a century later employed skilled artists and architects from across Europe to shape the site into roughly its modern form and appearance.
A bus driver suspected of committing indecent acts against a minor has been detained in the Krasnogorsk city district. This was reported on October 23 in the Telegram channel of the Main Investigative Directorate (GSU) of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow region.