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Revenues in Russia’s budget from the oil and gas sector have dramatically decreased. In December, they amounted to just 448 billion rubles, and for the entire year of 2025 — to 8.48 trillion rubles, according to the Ministry of Finance. This is the lowest level since 2020, the year of the pandemic, when revenues were 405 billion in August and 5.2 trillion for the whole year. Then, the average price of Russian oil was 41.7 dollars per barrel. In the last months of 2025, similar levels were reached: 44.9 dollars in November and 39.2 dollars in December, according to the…

The European Commission will present, before July, a new European security strategy, intended to provide an “adequate response” to geopolitical changes, announced on Thursday the President of the institution, Ursula von der Leyen, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres. “The goal is, in fact, to gather all the knowledge to recognize the changes, the geostrategic changes and existing needs, but also the geopolitical changes in our world and to provide an adequate response to them,” stated Ursula von der Leyen, in a press conference held on the occasion of the visit of the College of European Commissioners to Cyprus. In…

Russia could launch a nuclear attack on Germany or the United Kingdom within 1-2 years to “punish” Europe, which continues to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, said Sergey Karaganov, an advisor within the presidential administration of the Kremlin, reports The Moscow Times. “My choice would be the United Kingdom and Germany,” Karaganov said in an interview given to Tucker Carlson, responding to a question about which countries could be the target of a nuclear attack by the Russian Federation. “I pray to the Almighty that this does not happen. But Germany must be the first, because Germany is…

President Vladimir Putin has remained silent about the actions of the USA in Venezuela, with which Russia is bound by a “comprehensive strategic” partnership agreement and in which it has invested nearly 20 billion dollars in the last two decades, notes The Moscow Times publication. Thus, during his first public speech after the New Year’s holiday, at the ceremony of presenting credentials of foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin, Putin did not utter a word about the capture of Nicolas Maduro by the American army, with whom he had met twice in the last year and a half (in May 2025…

The United States Administration announced on Thursday economic sanctions against several Iranian security officials, accused of coordinating the repression of protests in the country, reports AFP. “Iranian leaders responded brutally, with acts of violence, to peaceful protests, from mass killings on the streets to attacks on injured victims and hospitals”, denounced the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, in a video message, according to foreign agencies, quoted by Agerpres. As a response, the Treasury Department imposes a new round of economic sanctions targeting Iranian interests. Among those targeted is Ali Larijani, who leads Iran’s highest security body as Secretary of the…

In spite of the authorities’ promises to reduce the medical staff deficit, the problem continues to worsen. In 2024, Russia had 1,407,500 mid-level medical workers, or 96.3 specialists per 10,000 inhabitants. This is the lowest indicator since 1960, when there were 69.2 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, according to Rosstat data, published in the “Russian Statistical Yearbook”, cited by the “Verstka” publication. Official statistics show that the highest number of mid-level medical workers per capita was recorded in 1990 — 124.4 per 10,000. By the year 2000, the indicator had dropped to 107.6 and continued to decline steadily. Currently, the highest…

The Kremlin states that it is still awaiting an official response from the United States to the proposal to extend the New START nuclear treaty, the last strategic arms control agreement still in force between Moscow and Washington. Russia has not yet received a response from the United States to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to informally extend the provisions of the New START nuclear treaty for a year, the last pact of this kind still in force between the two powers, the Kremlin announced on Thursday, January 15, according to Reuters. The New START treaty is set to expire at…

The series of suspicious deaths among the Russian elite continues. This time, it’s about Aleksei Skliar, former deputy of the Minister of Labor from the Russian Federation, found lifeless at the entrance of his own residence in Moscow. According to the first information appeared in the Russian press, it would be a suicide. The lifeless body of the former official was discovered by the intervention teams on the threshold of a private house in the Filimonovski locality. The door was open, and the circumstances of the death are, at this moment, being investigated by the investigators. Before his death, Aleksei…

Germany has not allowed an oil tanker – considered part of the Russian “ghost fleet” – to cross its waters towards the Baltic Sea, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung. The federal police stopped the Tavian vessel, under the flag of Cameroon, on the morning of January 10, due to suspicions of false registration and the use of a forged identification number. It was found to be a 27-year-old “zombie tanker” that has already changed its name 13 times. Previously, it was known under the names Tia and Arcusat. The ship intended to pass through the Baltic Sea to Saint Petersburg, where important…

In the middle of winter, with temperatures dropping to -15°C, the residents of Kiev and the city of Boryspil survive in apartments without electricity and heating, after Russian bombings destroyed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. American journalists from the Associated Press visited Boryspil and Kiev to report on the consequences of Russian bombings on power plants and substations, as well as the efforts of energy workers to restore power under extreme conditions. “Repairers work in the snow, at temperatures of -15 degrees, from early morning until midnight,” said Yuriy Bryzh, head of the Boryspil regional branch of the private company DTEK, reports…