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Russia's Gazprom borrows pension money to pay off debt
Gazprom, which has been cut off from international capital markets as a result of a gas dispute with Ukraine, has turned to Russians’ pension savings in order to make large foreign debt repayments.
On Tuesday, for the second time since the start of the year, the Russian gas company has entered the Russian debt market and borrowed 40 billion rubles. Investors were offered three bond placements – a 15-year bond of 10 billion rubles, and two tranches of 15 billion rubles 30-year securities. …
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Putin’s ‘Night wolves’ establish a military camp in Slovakia
On the eve of the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact troops’ incursion into the territory of then Czechoslovakia, a group of the Kremlin’s propagandists from the biker club Night Wolves established a military camp near the capital of Slovakia, reported Radio Svoboda.
Their camp is located sixty kilometers away from Bratislava in the Dolná Krupá village, not far from the border crossings of Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic. The camp is a big area enclosed with high fences with several …
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Kremlin to allow Russian Defense Ministry to confiscate civilian vehicles for military use
All of Russian citizens’ light vehicles are to be put on the military register, Russian news outlet Izvestia reports. The Defense Ministry has already drafted the corresponding document which introduces amendments to the list of vehicles which can be transferred to the army under martial law. The bill is currently undergoing interdepartmental coordination and anti-corruption examination.
According to the bill, the list of vehicles taken into account by the military commissariats in peacetime …
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Kremlin: Putin invited to Washington at the end of the year
According to the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin received an invitation to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington later this year. Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s assistant told journalists on Tuesday, July 24 that preparation for this summit has not yet begun.
According to Ushakov, the Presidents of the two countries agreed on the importance of continuing bilateral contacts during their first official meeting in Helsinki on July 16. "The issue of organizing upcoming meetings wasn't …
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German Federal Intelligence Service accuses Russia of espionage
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany has included Russia, China and Iran among the "players" engaged in espionage against Berlin, according to the agency's annual report.
The document says that Russian special foreign operation services have invested a lot of financial and organizational resources for its activities against Germany. The agency emphasizes that such attacks affect all areas, including the economy and politics. “The scale of the problem increased …