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Russian petrochemical raw material deliveries to key Asian markets have dramatically dropped in November, with percentages ranging between 57% and 80%, following the sanctions imposed by the USA on the companies “Rosneft” and “Lukoil”. According to data from S&P Global, published by “Kommersant”, naphtha exports (an essential petroleum derivative in the chemical industry) have registered the following decreases: India: -57%, down to 60,000 tons; China: -73.3%, down to 54,000 tons; Taiwan: -79.6%, down to 37,000 tons. Analysts anticipate a total withdrawal of Indian buyers, while the Taiwanese company Formosa Petrochemical, the largest regional importer of Russian naphtha according to the…

The Kremlin’s plan to increase the Value Added Tax to 22% starting from 2026 will place Russia at the top of the world’s countries with the highest levels of VAT. According to estimates from the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the total fiscal effect of this measure could rise to 1.4 trillion rubles (approximately 14.4 billion euros) from domestic VAT and up to 460 billion rubles (about 4.74 billion euros) from VAT applied to imports. The authors of the analysis warn that this additional burden will be overwhelmingly felt by citizens: 1.23 trillion rubles (about…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, according to the press. Orban has urged the EU to support the US plan and initiate direct discussions with Russia, reports Euronews. The information comes from sources within the Hungarian government who were involved in preparing the trip, according to the Central European investigative publication VSquare. The Hungarian government has not confirmed the visit so far, with Budapest stating that it will inform the public about Orban’s schedule at the appropriate time. The agenda of the meeting is not yet known. However,…

The European Parliament (EP) on Tuesday asked EU member states to continue the procedure of withdrawing Hungary’s voting rights in the Council of the European Union, citing the “collapse of democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights” in this country led by conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whom they accuse of being at the helm of a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”, reports the EFE agency. In the resolution voted by MEPs, with 415 votes in favor, 193 against, and 28 abstentions, they condemn what they call the “deliberate and systematic efforts of the Hungarian government to undermine the…

French President Emmanuel Macron stated on Tuesday, November 25, that there is “finally a chance to make real progress towards a good peace” between Ukraine and Russia. “But the absolute condition for a good peace is a series of very robust security guarantees and not just guarantees on paper”, warned the French head of state during a videoconference of the “Coalition of the Willing”, reports Agerpres. He specified that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will join this coalition meeting, mainly made up of European countries that want to provide these guarantees to Ukraine. “Ukraine has been subject to promises…

Journalist Kateryna Lisunova, Financial Times correspondent in Kiev, announced that Ukrainians are considering going to Mar-a-Lago to discuss with Donald Trump, behind closed doors, about the peace plan. “According to my sources, Ukrainians are considering a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago, without the press, to allow more individual discussions. They believe that a trip to Florida could be more productive than a meeting at the White House in Washington D.C. They are prepared to travel to the USA, but for now, everything depends on what will be agreed upon in Abu Dhabi,” the journalist wrote on X. Karoline Leavitt: There are…

Since the beginning of the invasion in 2022, the European Union has purchased more goods from Russia than it has provided to Ukraine in the form of financial, military, and humanitarian support. The Swedish Foreign Minister speaks of a “negative support for Ukraine”, and the analysis of official data shows that European imports – especially oil and gas – still exceed the amounts allocated to Kiev, writes Euronews. The Swedish Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, stated in a viral post that European countries have supported Ukraine with “187 billion euros”. At the same time, she said, “we have imported Russian…

General Christopher Donahue, the head of NATO ground forces, stated on Tuesday that the system with which the alliance intends to protect Romania from Russian drones will soon be located in the Danube Delta. Donahue made a visit to the Mihail Kogălniceanu base during the day, which he interrupted due to an incident in which a Russian drone fell in Vaslui county. The American general was accompanied to the military base by the Romanian Minister of Defense, Ionuț Moșteanu. Head of NATO ground forces: I believe you will soon see the anti-drone capability deployed in the Danube Delta “As the…

A laboratory at Yale University has been documenting since 2022, thanks to satellite imagery, the locations where displaced Ukrainian children are located in Russia, revealing 210 reeducation and military camps where they are sent, explained its director to AFP, according to Agerpres. All this was made possible by a mistake made by the Russians: they forgot to deactivate the location services on their phones when they took selfies with some of the kidnapped Ukrainian children. At the request of the US State Department this year, the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) is tasked with estimating the number of children displaced by…

Vladimir Putin has promoted to the rank of Major General FSB officer Alexander Samofal, who investigators link to the poisoning of opponents Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza. According to the publication Vajnye Istorii, his name, new rank, and position – Deputy Head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region – appear in the criminal case against journalist Valeria Ratnikova from Dozhd, writes The Moscow Times. Before his appointment to the Moscow police department, Samofal worked as an agent in the FSB’s Service Two. Officers from this unit have participated in special operations against Russian opposition politicians. The…