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Starting from 2025, Russian citizens have filed 26 thousand complaints to Rostrud about unpaid wages — a 1.6 times increase compared to 2024 (+11 thousand cases). These represent 37% of all electronic requests to the institution, compared to 31% last year, according to calculations made by Izvestia based on official data. In total, the number of complaints filed since the beginning of the year has exceeded 70 thousand, almost 50% more than in 2024. According to analyst Natalia Milceakova from Freedom Finance Global, the wave of complaints is explained by the increase in companies’ debts to employees. According to Rosstat…
A man from the village of Pepeni, Sîngerei district, Republic of Moldova, found a drone in a field and hauled it into the village with a motor cultivator on Wednesday. The announcement was made on Facebook by the mayor of the locality, Oleg Cernei. According to a police statement, the man who found it removed the engine and other parts together with another local. The law enforcement officers determined that it is a pilotless aircraft, a Gerbera type, used to mislead anti-aircraft defense. “The drone was found at the border between the communes of Pepeni and Copăceni. A citizen thought…
NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, responded on Wednesday, after a meeting of the allies, to the aggressive comments of Vladimir Putin who said he is “ready for war” with Europe. “Ultimately, NATO is a defensive alliance. We will remain a defensive alliance, but make no mistake, we are prepared and willing to do whatever is necessary to protect our 1 billion people and secure our territory,” Rutte said. According to the official, Russia continues its brutal war against Ukraine, increasingly hitting its people and critical infrastructure as winter sets in. “Russia also demonstrates increasingly reckless behavior towards NATO, such as…
What do the most recent negotiations regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine tell us about the disposition and intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin? For starters, that he is not ready to sign a peace agreement. At least not now. And certainly not the agreement (or agreements) under discussion, reports the BBC. “A compromise version has not yet been found,” commented the Kremlin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, after five hours of discussions in Moscow between Putin, American envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, adviser and son-in-law of Donald Trump. The lack of a compromise is not a surprise,…
The Porsche cars of Russian owners have become unusable across the country – amid suspicions of deliberate interference with the satellite signal. Hundreds of Russian Porsche car owners have reported in recent days that their vehicles have suddenly become unusable, as fears grow over possible deliberate interference with satellite location systems. Drivers have reported that the cars suddenly locked up, lost power supply, and refused to start. Both owners and service centers are talking about a series of failures that have left hundreds of vehicles immobilized. The problems affect Porsche models manufactured after 2013, equipped with the VTS security system,…
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…