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Putin vows to 'knock out teeth' of anyone who tries 'to bite' Russia
The enemies are trying to limit Russia's development, but, thanks to its armed forces, the country can respond harshly to all of them, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the organizing committee "Victory".
According to him, always the same thing happens. As soon as Russia becomes stronger, they find reasons to limit its development.
"Everyone wants to bite us or to bite a piece off us," Putin said. "But those who are going to do it need to know, that we'll knock out their teeth so …
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U.S. decides not to impose sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO
Joseph Biden’s administration imposed and immediately suspended sanctions against the operator of the Nord Stream 2 project, Nord Stream 2 AG, and its CEO Matthias Warnig, according to the State Department’s report sent to Congress on Wednesday, May 19. U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez confirmed that the document had been received.
“I have determined that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of sanctions on Nord Stream 2 …
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Kremlin claims SWIFT promises to continue working in Russia
The Russian Central Bank does not see the risks of Russia being disconnected from the system of inter-bank payment SWIFT, said the first deputy chairperson of the Russian Central Bank, Olga Skorobogatova, during the meeting of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Markets.
"At first, they speculated a lot about SWIFT, then it spilled over to Visa and Mastercard. From SWIFT point of view, a similar situation was in 2014, when some EU deputies spoke about it. We have direct contact with …
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Kremlin threatens to slow down access to YouTube
Foreign Internet platforms continue to allow posting banned content in Russia. This includes Facebook and YouTube, said Russian media watchdog, Roskomnadzor.
Roskomnadzor warned that these internet platforms would face sanctions similar to those applied to Twitter, namely partial slowdown of user access using equipment installed by internet providers under the "sovereign Internet" law.
As for Twitter, it will not be blocked, despite the fact that the deadline for removing ”illegal content”, …
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Germany blocks sales of sanctioned technologies to Russia
The Russian military industry continues to lose suppliers of Western technologies, which have to be purchased illegally because of the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.
On Tuesday, the German Prosecutor General's Office, together with customs officers, detained in Leipzig a businessman who had been selling sanctioned equipment to Russia since 2018.
German citizen Alexander S., managing director of a trading firm in Saxony, cooperated with a Russian company whose …