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Cryptocurrency Turnover Growing in Russia, Watchdog Reports to Putin – Bitcoin News
Use of cryptocurrencies is increasing in Russia, the head of the country’s financial watchdog has informed President Putin. The agency, Rosfinmonitoring, is following thousands of participants in digi...
How Putin Revived Energy Security
TOPSHOT – Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a screen set at Red Square as he addresses a … [+] rally and a concert marking the annexation of four regions of Ukraine Russian troop...
Russian Crypto Advocates Urge Putin to Address Delayed Regulations
The adoption of rules for the cryptocurrency business in Russia has been notoriously slow. As a result, the Russian Association of Crypto Industry and Blockchain (RACIB) has taken the initiative to pe...
Russian crypto advocates urge Putin to stop regulatory hostility
As Russia continues to delay the adoption of cryptocurrency regulations, local advocates have appealed to Russian president Vladimir Putin to change the government’s approach to regulating the market....
Russian Crypto Industry Association Asks Putin to Help With Regulations – Regulation Bitcoin News
The organization representing Russia’s crypto and blockchain sector has urged Vladimir Putin to spur regulatory efforts. The association fears the Russian Federation may lag behind other nations if it...
Russia’s deficit leaps to £29bn as Putin spends ferociously
Russia’s federal budget deficit widened to 2.58trn roubles (£29bn) in the first two months of the year – MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s budget deficit jumped in...
Calls For Putin To Face War Crimes Trial Intensify As Invasion Enters Second Year
Topline It is only a matter of time before Vladimir Putin is put on trial for war crimes, U.S. envoy Beth Van Schaack said in an interview with Sky News released Friday, joining growing calls to hold ...
The Bloody Battle For Bakhmut Offers A Possible Preview Of How Year Two Of The Ukraine War Will Go
The eastern Ukrainian town isn’t strategic, but it hardly matters. As the second year begins of what was predicted to be a days-long conflict, Vladimir Putin keeps throwing Russians into combat there ...
One Year Of Putin’s War In Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Putin unleashed a military attack on Ukraine, without any provocation and without any credible justification. And while on February 24, 2023, the world marks the year of the war,...
US Markets Tumble as Real Estate Weakens, Putin Suspends Nuclear Treaty, Morgan Stanley Warns of Stock Market ‘Death Zone’ – Economics Bitcoin News
On Tuesday, all four major U.S. benchmark stock indexes fell as real estate data showed home sales dropped by 0.7% last month and Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the nuclear arms control tr...
Xi Jinping Reportedly Planning Moscow Trip As U.S. Claims China Might Offer ‘Lethal’ Aid To Russia
Topline Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning his first trip to Moscow since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine nearly a twelve months ago to promote peace talks and urge the Kremlin to avoid usi...
Putin attempting to sabotage North Sea energy assets, Netherlands warns
Russia has been secretly collecting intelligence to sabotage Netherlands’ North Sea energy infrastructure – REUTERS/Jana Rodenbusch Russia has been secretly collecting intelligence to sabotage N...
How the Russian economy self-immolated in the year since Putin invaded Ukraine
A year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, some cynics lament that the unprecedented economic pressure campaign against Russia has not yet ended the Putin regime. What they’re missing is the transforma...
The Overprivileged West’s Delusion Of ‘Transitioning Away From Oil’
Over 15 years in the business, easily the smartest people I’ve met in energy reside in Calgary and Toronto: “Don’t get caught up in the supply story. The demand is insatiable. It’s unstoppable. And it...
Putin losing energy war as European gas supplies near record levels
Vladimir Putin has seen Russian revenues from gas tumble from highs set in August – Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel via Reuters Europe is on course to end the winter with near record volumes of gas in st...
Putin has given oil a new lease of life – we’d be mad not to take advantage
Putin It’s a cliche, I know, but “stick to your knitting” has long been the best piece of advice you can give to the chief executive who, bored with the dreary old business of doing what he̵...
Economists say Moscow and Putin won’t drain war chest any time soon
Men wearing military uniform walk along Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow on February 13, 2023. Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty Images The coming months will be crit...
Europe’s energy bill nears €800bn after Putin cuts off gas
Putin gas supplies Europe energy crisis Bruegel – Getty Images European countries have forked out nearly €800bn (£708bn) to protect households and businesses from soaring energy prices. EU natio...
Putin Likely Supplied Missile System That Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight, Investigators Say
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin likely supplied the anti-aircraft missile system that was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, killing nearly 300 people, according to fin...
China Helping Russia’s War With Ukraine With Military Aid—Violating Sanctions—Reports Show
Topline China is providing military aid to Russia in violation of U.S.-led sanctions placed by western countries, according to Russian trade data reported by the Wall Street Journal, as tensions build...
Former Russian Billionaire Mysteriously Died Last Year. Now His Family Is Feuding Over His Fortune
Dmitry Zelenov and his widow Natalia, pictured here in Miami in 2016. getty On December 4, real estate baron Dmitry Zelenov became one of the latest Russian oligarchs to mysteriously pass away after h...
How We Got Here And What To Do About It
(Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images As we watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, we canno...
Ex U.K. Leader Boris Johnson Claims Putin Threatened To Kill Him With Missile Before Russia Invaded Ukraine
Topline Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to kill him in a missile strike just weeks before invading Ukraine, a chilling allegation as...
Global Trade More Fizzle Than Sizzle Until 2031
The World Economic Forum, held in Davos Switzerland, brings together the world’s global elite and … [+] its most prominent globalists. AFP via Getty Images Nikolaus Lang says there are thr...
Biden’s SPR Drawdown Big Win For Beijing
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a group photo during the … [+] G20 Summit in Osaka in 2019. (Photo by DOMINIQUE JACOVIDES/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via...
To Avoid Handing Putin Another Victory, The West Must Save Saakashvili Now
One of the free world’s greatest allies in the post-Soviet era lies dying as a political prisoner in his home country, having been deliberately poisoned. The former President of Georgia, Mikheil...
Putin’s War Crimes Could Be Prosecuted In The United States
On Thursday, January 5, 2023, President Joe Biden signed into law the bipartisan Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act (S. 4240), which expands the scope of individuals subject to prosecution for war ...
If Russia Is This Bad At Conventional Warfare, What Does That Tell Us About Its Nuclear Posture?
Russia’s military performance in Ukraine has proven to be, in the words of the Economist’s year-end edition, “spectacularly incompetent.” Western observers have noted major deficiencies in intelligenc...
Russian Sausage Tycoon Dies By Suicide In Hotel Fall—Just The Latest Russian Elite (Including Putin Critics) To Die Mysteriously
Topline Russian sausage magnate Pavel Antov, a lawmaker who criticized the war on Ukraine this summer, mysteriously died at a hotel in India on Saturday while traveling for his birthday—becoming the l...