Germany Russia energy Gazprom LNG gas Ukraine crisis – Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo The German government has taken control of three liquefied natural gas ships from Russian e...
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U.K. Sanctions Mining Magnate Vladimir Potanin—Russia’s Wealthiest Oligarch
Topline The U.K. government on Wednesday announced sanctions against Russia’s richest man, metals tycoon Vladimir Potanin, closing in on an oligarch who has escaped most Western sanctions unscathed as...
Russian Billionaire Deripaska Doubles Down On Ukraine War Criticism
Topline Billionaire Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, emphasizing the negative economic fallout of the war, a rare admission for an oligarch closely...
Protecting The Electric And Software-Defined Car
Automotive hacks are on the rise while innovative technology such as electric, autonomous and/or … [+] software-defined vehicles have exponentially increased the potential threats. So the cybers...
Russia Says Putin Will Be Part Of G20 Summit—Setting Stage For Showdown With Western Leaders
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to participate in this year’s Group of 20 Summit, the Kremlin said Monday, setting up a potentially dramatic first meeting between Putin and his critics ...
Vladimir Putin predicts the world will shift reserves from Western currencies
The inflation levels globally have risen massively over the past year. According to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the United States and other Western countries had caused th...
Vladimir Putin Slams Western Monetary Policy, Predicts Global Shift to Commodity Reserves
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently blamed the United States and other G7 countries for causing rampant inflation in global commodities markets. Under these circumstances, he predicts the world ...
Germany Decries ‘Economic Attack’ By Putin As It Inches Towards Gas Rationing
Topline Germany triggered the second phase of its three-stage gas emergency plan on Thursday and urged its citizens to cut back on usage, as it flagged concerns about a drop in supplies from Russia th...
German Coal, French Nukes Throw Europe Deeper Into Energy Crisis
Wind turbines are seen near the coal-fired power station Neurath of German energy giant RWE in … [+] Garzweiler, western Germany, on March 15, 2021. – On March 16, 2021, the group will pre...
Putin Taunts West Over ‘Putin Inflation’ In Speech At ‘Russian Davos’
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a Friday speech those blaming him for surging inflation don’t “know how to read or write,” directly mocking President Joe Biden, who’s pinned much ...
Europe’s Warm Embrace Of LNG Raises Methane Emissions Concerns
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 09: (EDITORS NOTE: Image was created using a variable planed lens.) The … [+] natural-gas fuelled Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte po...
Putin Commits Further War Crimes With Sham Trials Of Prisoners Of War
On June 10, 2022, two British nationals were sentenced to death by firing squad by a court in Russian-controlled east Ukraine. The death sentence comes after Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were found gu...
Dan Yergin Talks Oil, Gas, Putin, And Living His Book, ‘The New Map’
Dan Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global, during a Bloomberg Television interview on day three of the … [+] World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Photo...
Oil prices could go ‘parabolic,’ putting global economy in ‘critical situation,’ says Trafigura chief
“‘We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’” — Jeremy We...
Fiji Hands U.S. Seized $300 Million Russian Superyacht Owned By Oligarch
Topline Fiji has handed the U.S. a $300 million superyacht Washington claims is tied to billionaire gold magnate Suleimon Kerimov, the country’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday, ending a protracted leg...
What Is Ukraine’s End Goal In Its War With Russia? Voices From The Battlefield.
Injured child after Russian shelling of Mariupol, Ukraine. February 27, 2022 Evgeny Maloletka It has been over 100 days since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The fight rages on, taki...
OPEC Move Is Not Worth Biden’s Hype, And Won’t Stop Record Gasoline Prices
Biden speaking by video with a different cartel, of baby formula makers, June 1, 2020. © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Another day, another record for gasoline prices, which hit an average of $4.715 a gal...
Inflation And Biden’s Whole-Of-Government Price Hike
The Trump era saw countless news stories quoting unnamed officials speaking disapprovingly of their boss “on the condition of anonymity.” Because of record-level inflation that will persist through th...
A Friend In Need Is A Friend In Debt? Sino-Russian Energy Woes
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attend the Tsinghua … [+] Universitys ceremony, at Friendship Palace on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo ...
Electric Trucks Can Fight Inflation – And Petro-State Dictators Like Putin
Electric truck being charging at charging station. 3D rendering image. getty Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cost tens of thousands of lives and produced a stream of devastating images documenting th...
There Is A Risk Of Genocide In Ukraine
On May 27, 2022, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a legal analysis of the serious risk of genocide in Ukraine and Russia’s incitement ...
Biden Blasts Putin In First 2022 Commencement Address
Topline During an emotional commencement address Friday at the U.S. Naval Academy, President Joe Biden attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin for seeking to destroy Ukraine during Russia’s invasion...
Is There Progress In Addressing Putin’s Crime Of Aggression?
The last weeks have seen several domestic criminal prosecutions of Russian soldiers accused of war crimes. Further trials are anticipated as the Office of the Prosecutor in Ukraine collects evidence o...
Exposed By Putin, The Energy Know-Nothings Must Now Go Away
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a meeting … [+] at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. / AFP / POOL / MANDEL NGAN (Photo c...
Russia Prepares To Cut Gas Supplies To Finland Days After NATO Application
Topline Finland will be cut off from Russian gas after it refused demands to pay in rubles, Finnish state-owned firm Gasum said on Friday, just days after the Nordic country formally set aside decades...
Putin’s ‘Under Pressure’ Commanders Will Push Unprepared Forces To Donbas, U.K. Defense Ministry Says
Topline Russia will likely hastily redeploy forces from Mariupol to Donbas without time for “adequate preparation” once it has secured the city, the U.K.’s defense ministry said on Friday, as Moscow’s...
In 2011, Venezuela Was No. 4 For U.S. Oil Imports; In 2021, It Was Russia
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called a demonstration in the summer of 2019, complete with a … [+] hand-held sign in English, after former U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an economic em...
Julian Lennon Can Imagine How To Help Ukraine
Julian Lennon Robert Ascroft For Four Eleven Agency What is a more perfect illustration of how the old world and the new world are colliding than this: Ukraine is invaded by its neighbor Russia who ca...
Putin Sets Russians on Wild Hunt for Dollars in Black Market
(Bloomberg) — As the ruble’s official exchange rate parts ways with its value on the street, dollars are becoming hard to find. Most Read from Bloomberg For Boris, a doctor based in Moscow, the ...