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2,000 German companies have pulled out of Russia
German companies are continuing to withdraw from Russia, winding up operations in the wake of US sanctions and the decline of solvent demand.
In the five years since Russia annexed Crimea, its relations with the West have deteriorated sharply, and nearly 2,000 German companies have left the Russian market, Deutsche Welle reports, citing data from the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber.
At the end of 2019, 4,274 companies with German capital were operating in Russia, as opposed to 6,200 in 20 …
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Swiss company accused of supplying Ukraine with coal from Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics
The largest Swiss coal trader, Adelon AG, has been accused of buying coal from the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LDPR) and reselling it to Ukraine, the Ukrainian news outlet Delo.ua reports. The Swiss company denied the allegations. The company specializes in supplying coal from the Kuzbass (Russia’s Kemerovo and Novosibirsk provinces) to a number of European and Asian countries, but it does not work with Ukraine.
Adelon AG does not accept Donbas coal, and this applies not only to …
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Polish Prime Minister: USSR was an ally of Nazi Germany
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the Molotov—Ribbentrop Pact was initially a Union agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany.
Morawiecki also accused the Russian authorities of supporting Stalinism.
"Russian citizens are the main victims of Stalin, one of the greatest criminals in world history, and therefore they deserve the truth. I believe that the Russians are a nation of free people, and they reject Stalinism, even if Putin's government is trying to justify it," wrote …
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Kremlin: US did not inform Russia about its airstrikes in Syria and Iraq
During a press conference with journalists, the Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the US did not inform Russia about its strikes on several targets in Syria and Iraq over the weekend.
"No, [Washington did not inform Moscow about this]," said Peskov.
Speaking about the attacks of the US army, Peskov noted that "any actions aimed at eliminating terrorists are assessed positively. On the other hand, any actions that lead to the destabilization of the situation in …
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Russia threatens to unleash hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees on Europe
The Syrian army’s offensive in the Idlib province in December, accompanied by the mass bombing of settlements by the Russian Aerospace Forces, has brought the Middle East to the brink of a new migration catastrophe.
The series of bombing runs which began on December 12 has forced more than 200,000 residents of the northern regions of Syria to leave their homes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told Reuters.
According to the department, by December 25 the …