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Russia to enter trade war with US
The Russian government intends to place customs duties on American goods in response to Donald Trump’s administration policy, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said on Tuesday.
These measures will be a response to the American tariffs on steel and aluminum from Russia, which have been in force since April. The tariffs will cause the Russian economy to lose roughly $500 million per year. The US has refused to compensate these losses, and so Moscow intends to introduce “ …
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Russian public figures ask Putin to pardon Sentsov
Russian filmmakers Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pavel Lungin, Alexander Sokurov and other public figures have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to pardon the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in Russia. The petition was posted on the website of the Echo of Moscow radio station.
“The man is dying. We don’t think that his guilt is so great he should be given 20 years for it. He is sincere and honest in his convictions – his indefinite hunger-strike …
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Warsaw: Poland painstakingly working to prevent Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Polish Deputy Minister of Energy Michał Kurtyka said that Warsaw has demanded that the EU gas directive be changed as soon as possible to prevent the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Polskie Radio reports.
According to Kurtyka, the ambassadors of the European Union will amend the document in late June. The deputy minister said this has become possible as a result of "the hard, painstaking and months-long work of Polish diplomats." These amendments will extend EU legislation to all …
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US State Department will track weapons deals with Russia
The US State Department's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction has announced a tender for the monitoring of open source information about arms deals involving the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. The data will be collected in Russian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Urdu, and several other languages.
The information will be used for decision-making and planning the sanctions against foreign states. It particularly concerns the violation of UN Security Council resolutions and of …
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Crimea may face hour-by-hour water supply
All regions of the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula may soon shift to an hour-by-hour water supply system, Vladimir Bazhenov, the Director General of the State Enterprise Voda Kryma, stated.
“I am afraid that soon the whole Crimea will receive water by the hour. There is no rain at this temperature. There is terrible evaporation of water in all surface reservoirs. Soon, daily water intake from reservoirs to the water supply network will equal evaporation into the sky. It applies to all …