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Iran has concluded a confidential arms deal, worth 500 million euros, with Russia for the acquisition of portable launchers and advanced ground-to-air missiles. According to Agerpres, a contract signed in December in Moscow stipulates that Russia will deliver 500 portable “Verba” launchers and 2,500 “9M336” missiles over a period of three years, according to the Financial Times (FT). Reuters states that it could not verify the information. According to FT, the contract provides for deliveries to take place in three tranches, from 2027 to 2029. The contract was negotiated between the Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport and the representative in Moscow…
The US President, Donald Trump, has increased temporary customs tariffs from 10 to 15% for all countries, including the Republic of Moldova. The new American measures, approved on Friday and modified on Saturday, come into effect from Tuesday, February 24th. Canada and Mexico are exempt from taxes, under the North American trade pact, reports IPN. In a post on social networks, the White House leader explained on Saturday that the decision to increase taxes comes after the US Supreme Court declared a large part of the customs tariffs announced in April 2025 illegal. The application of taxes is applied under…
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, attacks the Western strategy towards the war in Ukraine, comparing the EU’s policy on the conflict to the failures of Napoleon and Hitler. “Today the war continues because European leaders want it to continue”, Orbán stated at an election rally in Békéscsaba, without mentioning the responsibility of the Russians who started the war, reports Index.hr. In his speech, he explained that “Putinization” is primitive and frivolous, and that the real threat to the freedom of Hungarians is Brussels, not Moscow. According to him, European leaders want to continue the war because they have only one…
Russian jeweler Aleksandr Doțenko, sentenced for distributing anti-war messages in stores in Saint Petersburg, died after suffering a heart attack in a penal colony. The information was confirmed for RBC by his lawyer, Serghei Podolski. According to his defense, on February 12, Doțenko, 65, was hospitalized with a heart attack at the Mariinsky Hospital. The colony representatives did not inform either the lawyer or the relatives. The family and the defender found out about the incident only two days later, from an anonymous person. Later, the doctors informed his daughter about his death. Before his detention, Doțenko worked as a…
The Arbitration Tribunal of the Krasnodar Territory has made a decision considered unprecedented and has suspended the examination of the case regarding the nationalization of “Novoroscement” — the largest cement producer in Russia, which owns two factories in Novorossiisk. According to RBC, the request for withdrawal of the action was filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office itself, the institution that had previously initiated the confiscation of the factories in favor of the state. The owner of “Novoroscement”, Lev Kvetnoi (estimated wealth of 1.3 billion dollars, according to Forbes), became the second Russian billionaire who managed to reject a nationalization process.…
President Vladimir Putin stated that employers need to play “a crucial role in the demographic agenda” and encourage their staff to “build large families”. The statement was made during a meeting of the Supervisory Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). In this context, Putin reminded that the number of children under six years old of the employees will be included in the new “Standard of the social capital of businesses”, recently approved by the government. According to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the document is intended to assess the “real impact of companies on social welfare”. The…
The Central Court of Soci has admitted the anti-corruption action brought forward by the deputy prosecutor general of the Russian Federation against the former and current deputy of the State Duma, Anatoli Voronovski, deputy Andrei Doroshenko, and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the Krasnodar Territory, Aleksandr Karpenko. The case involves 30 individuals, and 19 organizations have been involved as third parties. According to the investigation, since 2016, Voronovski, initially in the position of Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure of the Krasnodar Territory, and later as a deputy in the State Duma, allegedly requested illegal commissions and bribes.…
Out of the approximately 170,000 channels existing in the national messaging app Max, about 70% — that is, 118,200 — were created by state structures, according to the publication “Agenstvo”. The majority, 116,600 pages, use the suffix _gos in their names, assigned to public institutions through the “Platform for Partners”, according to the instructions of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development. At least another 1,000 state-owned blogs do not use this suffix. Through the same platform, initially intended for the business environment, 22,200 channels with the suffix _biz were registered. Of these, over 500 also belong to state structures. Approximately…
What pro-war bloggers in Russia were desperately warning about is starting to happen. After almost simultaneously losing access to modern means of communication, Russian troops faced serious difficulties, went on the defensive in certain sectors of the front, and limited offensive operations with drones. At the same time, Ukrainian units are causing them greater losses, European officials and military personnel told Bloomberg. High-ranking European diplomats have described the communication problems of the Russian army as significant. According to a NATO representative, some of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield were possible because Russian soldiers were left without access to Starlink.…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has extended for one year the sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas, and the large-scale invasion in Ukraine. The notification was published in the Federal Register of the USA, the official collection of government documents, reports the Russian agency TASS. According to the document, the restrictive measures will remain in force even after March 6, 2026. The extension targets the sanctions introduced by the administration of Joe Biden in February 2022, by the Trump administration in September 2018, as well as by the…