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One of Vladimir Putin’s closest friends, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, has become the owner of “Domodedovo” airport — the largest private air gateway in Russia, which authorities confiscated last year from former owner Dmitri Kamenski and nationalized. According to information published by RBC, as a result of the auction on January 29, Domodedovo airport was sold to the company OOO “Perspectiva” — a subsidiary 100% owned by the international airport Sheremetyevo Airport. Sheremetyevo, in turn, is 30% state-owned and 66% owned by the Cypriot trust TPS Avia Holding (re-registered in 2022 in the Russian offshore on Russki Island). Rotenberg owns 34%…
The Hungarian Foreign Minister raises an alarm in front of the EU Council in Brussels, warning that a military exercise of EU forces on Ukrainian territory could quickly escalate into a global conflict. The Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, issued a warning on Thursday, January 29, about plans to deploy a military exercise of European Union forces on Ukrainian territory, emphasizing that such a move could escalate into a global conflict. Statements were made in front of the Hungarian press in Brussels, where the official was attending the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). “They want the European Union’s…
From Greenland and trade tariffs to Iran, NATO or migration, Donald Trump does what he knows best: turning foreign policy into a spectacle. Not because he’s interested in details or solutions, but because he perfectly understands the golden rule of modern politics – attention means power, writes Catherine De Vries in The Guardian. When the American president assured that he would not use force to “acquire” Greenland, after days of veiled threats, he only demonstrated once again that his agenda is not solving problems, but capturing attention. The fact that the idea itself was unlikely matters less. What’s important is…
Sweden and Finland are calling on the European Union to introduce a total ban on maritime services for all ships carrying Russian energy products, with the aim of blocking the so-called “shadow fleet” or “ghost fleet”, used by Russia to export oil despite Western sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Swedish Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, according to the EFE agency, quoted by Agerpres. “Sweden and Finland have proposed three measures for the new package of European sanctions” against Russia, declared the head of Swedish diplomacy, ahead of a meeting of…
The political-military analyst Dmitri Snegirev emphasizes that the so-called “energy armistice” should primarily be viewed in a political context. According to him, the very emergence of such signals is an indicator of the parties’ negotiation capacity and their potential readiness for further negotiations. “An energy armistice is not a matter of who benefits more from it, Ukraine or Russia. Such formulations seem, in general, undiplomatic. It’s a signal from both parties about their readiness to negotiate,” the expert explains to Focus. According to Snegirev, the emergence of information about a possible ban on strikes on energy infrastructure is not accidental.…
An intervention by the British Royal Navy caused the crew of the Russian ship Sinegorsk to raise anchor and leave British territorial waters, after authorities identified a suspicious positioning of the ship. A Russian cargo ship, Sinegorsk, was forced to leave the territorial waters of the United Kingdom after it anchored in the Bristol Channel, near the transatlantic data cables. The incident took place on Tuesday evening, when the ship stopped about two miles from the town of Minehead, on the north coast of Somerset County, less than a mile from the submarine cables that connect Britain with the USA,…
Russia will consider international security guarantees only in the case of a Ukraine that has friendly relations with Moscow, declared on Thursday the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, quoted by the Interfax agency, reports Agerpres. In an intervention held in Moscow, Lavrov stated that Russian authorities do not know the details of any possible agreements between the United States and Ukraine regarding security guarantees. However, he warned that, “if the goal is to preserve (the current) regime in a part of the former Ukraine’s territory so that this regime can then be used as a bridgehead for threats against Russia,…
NATO is preparing a fundamental change in the way it protects the Eastern Flank, from Finland to Romania. The plan aims to create a “buffer zone” that is technologically advanced, where sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotic systems will cooperate to detect and stop a potential Russian aggression from the first meters. The details of this concept, called the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” (EFDL), were first presented by German Brigadier General Thomas Lowin, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at NATO’s Land Command in Izmir, in an interview with the German publication Die Welt. The official clearly explained the stakes…
Searches took place at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main and one of its branches in Berlin as part of an investigation into suspicions of money laundering. According to the publication Der Spiegel, on Wednesday morning, about 30 officers of the German judicial police entered the main headquarters of the bank in Frankfurt. The investigation targets companies associated with Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. According to the prosecutor’s office, the bank had previously maintained business relations with foreign firms that could have been used “for money laundering purposes”. The authorities did not provide further details about the investigation.…
Europe must take urgent measures to improve its defense capabilities and to make NATO “more European”, so that the alliance can maintain its power, warned the head of EU diplomacy, according to BBC. Kaja Kallas said that the US-Europe relationship has undergone “tectonic changes”, and the Trump Administration has shaken the transatlantic relationship to its foundations. However, she said, the US will continue to be Europe’s partner and ally. At the annual conference of the European Defense Agency, Kaja Kallas said that the European Union continues to support relations with the United States, which remains an ally, but Europe must…