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Cuba’s power grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, according to the country’s state energy operator, marking the most recent blackout in recent years and the first since the Trump administration effectively cut off the Cuban regime’s access to oil, reports CNN. Efforts are currently underway to restore power on the island, the state energy company reported.Nationwide power outages have occurred in Cuba in recent years. Cuban officials have blamed them on American sanctions, but critics also attribute them to the lack of investment. The Cuban network is aging and increasingly difficult to maintain, and investments are lacking. Cuba is…

Tehran has announced that the strait remains open for some states, but not for the United States and their allies, reports Al Jazeera. Tehran has announced that the strait remains open for some states, but not for the United States and their allies, reports Al Jazeera. The move immediately caused turbulence in the international energy markets, with the price of oil exceeding 100 dollars per barrel, compared to about 65 dollars before the conflict. Approximately one fifth of global oil transports pass through this strategic maritime corridor. On March 2, Ebrahim Jabari, senior advisor to the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary…

The Prime Minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, has been harshly criticized for calling for the normalization of relations with Russia in order to restore access to cheap energy. He has been accused of playing into Russia’s hands, and any relaxation on the part of the EU towards Moscow will be perceived as a weakness by Vladimir Putin, reports The Guardian. The judgment of the Flemish nationalist leader has been questioned in Belgium and beyond its borders, after he declared on Saturday that the EU must reach an agreement with Russia. “We are losing on all fronts, we must end…

The Russian state corporation Rostec, led by Sergei Chemezov and considered the largest industrial company in Russia by production volume, has been allowed to no longer fully publish its financial reports. According to a decree signed by Vladimir Putin, the holding — one of the largest arms manufacturers in Russia — can decide for itself what information from the annual report and in what volume will be published on the internet. The changes were introduced in a presidential decree from 2024 that allows organizations considered to be of “strategic economic importance” to not disclose information about their activity due to…

In the summer of 2024, threats to maritime transport in the Red Sea had reached an unprecedented level. Houthi rebels from Yemen were attacking international commercial ships, forcing many of them to avoid one of the world’s most important maritime routes and bypass Africa. By August, two ships had been sunk, and several crew members had lost their lives, despite the airstrikes launched by the United States and the United Kingdom. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, then number two in the US Central Command (CENTCOM), decided he needed to see the situation on the ground firsthand. Cooper, tasked with developing a…

President Donald Trump stated that Vladimir Putin is “absolutely not” afraid of Europe, but rather, he fears the United States and its weapons. The White House leader emphasized that “we (the US) are NATO,” and that the Russian president fears the US. “We are NATO. You can ask Putin. He is not afraid of Europe at all. He fears the United States of America and the military that I built in my first term,” said the American president, in a press conference where he called for the assistance of NATO countries in the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump’s statement comes…

Hungary and Slovakia are planning to build a direct connection between their oil refineries in Bratislava and Szazhalombatta to limit what Budapest describes as the potential for blackmail by the Ukrainian leadership, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced in Brussels on Monday. The head of Hungarian diplomacy announced at a press conference following a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council that he had signed an important agreement earlier in the day with the Slovak Minister of Economy, Denisa Sakova, on the basis of which the two countries will build a new pipeline connecting the refineries in Bratislava and Szazhalombatta.…

In recent days, several videos and messages promoting the idea of creating the so-called “People’s Republic of Narva” have appeared online in Estonia. According to an analysis published by Bild, the phenomenon raises questions among authorities and could indicate a possible preparation by the Russian Federation for a new regional destabilization. Residents of Narva have noticed on social networks and in messaging apps a series of propaganda materials with radical anti-Estonian rhetoric. In some videos and on leaflets distributed online, masked individuals announce the creation of a “republic”, for which they even invented a flag: three horizontal bands of black,…

The European Union has added to the sanctions list nine Russian military officers, believed to be involved in the killing of Ukrainian civilians in the town of Bucha. The decision was made by the European Union within the sanctions regime related to the war in Ukraine. The sanctions list includes the former commander of the troops from the Eastern Military District of Russia, Colonel-General Aleksandr Ciaiko, as well as Major Generals Vadim Pankov, Vladimir Seliverstov and Sergei Ciubarikin. Also, the sanctions target Colonels Aleksei Tolmacev, Andrei Kondrov and Artem Gorodilov, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Suvorov and the paratrooper from Pskov Viktor…

One of the main ideologists of Russian President Vladimir Putin, philosopher Alexander Dugin, argues that Russia should completely shut down the internet during the summer, so that people can return to a “real” life. Dugin believes that Russians should disconnect from the internet during the summer months and only return online in the winter. In his opinion, people can communicate very well without technology, including through simple methods such as direct talking or even whistling at the window, according to The Moscow Times. “If the internet is completely shut down, especially in the spring, people will start to walk, meet,…