• Putin promises Hungarian Prime Minister $2 billion loan

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to Moscow at the height of Russia’s conflict with the West over Ukraine ended with a large loan from Russia.

    After 5-hour talks with Orban, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is ready to provide additional funding for the construction of a railway around Budapest.

    According to Putin, Russia is ready to provide a loan of $ 2 billion.

    "The Prime Minister raised such a question. I think we will solve it. $ 2 billion is a possible amount …

  • Poland to send weapons to Ukraine

    Poland will provide Ukraine with Polish-made man-portable air-defense system Grom, drones and various ammunition, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki ahead of his visit to Kyiv on February 1, reports Ukrinform.

    "We are in solidarity with our neighbors as they are facing threats from Russia. But solidarity and the words are currently not enough. We need to turn them into action. That is why we are ready to deliver defensive weapons," he said.

    Morawiecki clarified that Poland will be …

  • Russia sharply increases gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine after Britain and US threaten to impose sanctions against Putin’s oligarchs

    Russia is significantly increasing gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine amid negotiations with the West on security guarantees, where the Kremlin was offered a "carrot" in the form of negotiations on the non-deployment of missiles and a "stick" in the form of tough sanctions, including against the inner circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    Since February 1, Gazprom has doubled transit through the Ukrainian gas transit system and brought it almost to the volume required by the long- …

  • Kremlin admits Russia is not ready to lose access to foreign software

    U.S. threats to impose tough technology sanctions in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine with a ban on the supply of chips and a possible disconnection from foreign software cause concern among the Russian authorities.

    The newspaper Kommersant reports, citing sources in the Russian government and in the IT market, that the Russian Cabinet of Ministers is working on possible scenarios in the event that the supply of microelectronics to Russia is stopped, and Russian companies lose …

  • Kremlin threatens to retaliate if assets of Russian oligarchs in UK are seized

    Statements by the British authorities about plans to confiscate the London real estate of pro-Kremlin oligarchs cause concern and will not go unanswered, warned Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

    According to him, threats made by the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, are a direct attack on business and demonstrate the "considerable unpredictability of London", which worries not only the Kremlin, but the entire European community.

    "These are very disturbing statements. The Anglo- …