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The European Central Bank (ECB) believes that the European Commission’s plan to offer Ukraine a loan of 140 billion euros financed from Russian assets frozen in the EU is impossible to implement. Such an action “would probably violate EU legal treaties, which prohibit monetary financing,” said an ECB spokesperson, reports Agerpres. The Financial Times previously reported that the ECB refuses to support this payment of 140 billion euros for Ukraine, dealing a blow to the EU’s plan to offer Kiev a loan financed from frozen Russian assets. The European Commission continues to insist on its own plan to use Russia’s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Europe on Tuesday, in a press statement made before meeting with Donald Trump’s envoys. Putin says that Russia is ready for war “right now”, and “if Europe suddenly starts a war with us, a situation could quickly arise where we have no one to negotiate with”. Also, the Russian president warned that he will strike Ukrainian ports in response to attacks on oil tankers and reiterated his desire for Ukraine to be “isolated from the sea”, which means conquering Odessa and reaching the Danube Estuary. Russia is currently acting with caution, “surgically”, in the case…
Until now, Europeans have been the great absentees from the peace negotiation table. As many as there have been, they have only involved the USA and Russia. However, there is hope that from now on, Europeans could become part of the actors in this whole negotiation process, after they have been watching everything from the sidelines, powerless for a long time. Political scientist Radu Albu Comănescu, from UBB Cluj, explained for “Adevărul”, how this could be possible and what the scenarios for future negotiations would be. The European Union was excluded from the negotiations for Ukraine, as the American president…
The former German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to clarify that she does not blame Poland and the Baltic states for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, describing this point of view as “fake news”, reports dpa, quoted by Agerpres. A month ago, she was at the center of a scandal because of a statement made in an interview. A fragment from her autobiography “Freedom” was placed “in a wrong context”, Merkel declared on Thursday for the German television channel Phoenix. The fragment states that the Baltic states and Poland rejected a dialogue format with Russia proposed by Merkel in 2021. However,…
North Korea has instituted mandatory Russian language study in schools starting from the age of ten, announced on Thursday the Russian co-chair of the intergovernmental Russia-North Korea commission, Alexander Kozlov, reports the EFE agency, according to Agerpres. “The Russian language has been included in the school curriculum of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a mandatory language starting from the fourth grade,” explained the Russian official, who is also the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, during the intergovernmental commission meeting, which took place in Moscow. A higher education center specialized in the Russian language is opening in North…
Russia has begun to produce large quantities of long-range missiles, enough not only for a massive bombing of Ukraine, but also for preparing future attacks in other potential war theaters. US Army Secretary, Dan Driscoll, issued this warning at a meeting with European diplomats in Kiev, sources told The New York Times. According to them, Trump’s envoy mentioned the growing threat from Russia during discussions about the American peace plan. European diplomats interpreted this as a hint from Washington that the war in Ukraine needs to be ended as soon as possible. At the same time, as the NYT notes,…
Vladimir Putin made his first statements about the peace plan negotiated by the Americans with Ukraine, after the initial version, sent by his advisers to Steve Witkoff, was substantially modified. Putin stated on Thursday, at a press conference, that “there were no projects or final agreements. There was a set of issues that needed to be discussed and definitively formulated” and that “the Russian Federation generally agrees that the list of US points regarding Ukraine can serve as a basis for future agreements”. “After that, negotiations took place in Geneva between the American delegation and the Ukrainian delegation. And they,…
WSJ: Who and why leaked the Witkoff–Ushakov–Dmitriev conversations? The target could have been a Russian official. Diplomats around the world are trying to understand how the interception took place and who might have the greatest interest in leaking the phone conversation between high-ranking Russian and American officials. Who has the necessary technology to intercept a mobile discussion between high-ranking officials from Russia and the USA? And who could benefit the most from such a leak? ▪️ Was it perhaps a European intelligence agency trying to sabotage a possible agreement favorable to Russia? This theory was immediately formulated by Russian officials.▪️…
The data of a new study conducted by the experts of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation show that the war in Ukraine has caused a paradoxical social redistribution: families with low incomes have recorded the highest increases in real income, while Russians with above-average income have been the main losers. The analysis is based on the results of the national survey on household finances, conducted once every two years. According to the study, in the period 2022–2024: 65% of households have seen an increase in real income (adjusted for inflation), 26% have recorded decreases in real income, 22%…
The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) intends to obtain the legal right to access the personal data of Russian citizens from banks, tax institutions, real estate transaction registries, and other financial structures — according to a draft order published on the portal of regulatory acts in Russia. At present, the FSB does not have this right, and requests for access to such data can only be made by 17 categories of officials, including judges, prosecutors, governors, and members of the presidential administration. The new legislative initiative would allow a significant expansion of the list of persons with access rights,…