Russia has cut European Union–bound natural-gas exports to 20% of last year’s level. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Text size Stymied for the moment on Ukraine’s battlefield, Vladimir Putin is escalating h...
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Russia Accuses Ukrainian Special Services Of Organizing Killing Of Putin Ally Alexander Dugin’s Daughter
Topline A Russian security agency on Monday accused Ukraine of carrying out a car bombing Saturday that killed the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, an attack for wh...
Putin Accuses U.S. Of Prolonging Ukraine Conflict, Labels Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit ‘Planned Provocation’
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. government of trying to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and raising tensions along the Taiwan Strait while delivering the opening address at t...
LNG, Fastest-Growing U.S. Export Since Covid-19, Heading To Europe
The fastest-growing markets for U.S. LNG are all in Western Europe, in response to the Russian … [+] invasion of Ukraine. ustradenumbers.com The fastest-growing top 100 U.S. export from pre-pand...
Russian Journalist Who Protested Ukraine War On TV Charged With Spreading False Information
Topline Marina Ovsyannikova—a former Russian state television journalist who made headlines in March after she interrupted a live broadcast to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine—had her home raided Wedne...
Here’s Where Prices Are Lowest
Topline The average national price for a gallon of gas has dropped for 50 straight days since its record high of $5.02 mid-June, falling 86 cents to $4.16 Wednesday as oil prices tumble, although it’s...
I’m Going Nuclear To Beat Putin At His Own Game
The crisis is a boon for nuclear power, and Cameco Corp. (CCJ). Johannes Plenio Gas Crisis in Europe Heats Up Uranium Prices Winter is coming and Russia is threatening for cut off natural gas supplies...
Russia And Iran Experiment With Stripping Dollars From Their Bilateral Trade
A close-up image of an Iranian 10,000 rial bank note and a Russian 100 ruble bank note getty Russia and Iran have begun to take some small – but potentially significant – steps towards removing the U....
EU Finally Strikes Deal To Slash Gas Demand As Russia Starts Squeezing Taps Closed
Topline With the colder months approaching, the EU reached a deal Tuesday for countries to slash gas demand by as much as 15% from August to March, as the bloc tries to wean itself off Russian gas sup...
Russia Denies Rumors Putin Is Sick
Topline The Kremlin denied Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is sick following months of speculation that he’s battling a serious illness. Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he ...
M60 And Leopard Tanks Offer A Strong Response To Russia’s Asymmetric Attacks
M60 battle tanks operate in Saudi Arabia Sygma via Getty Images As Russian strongman Vladimir Putin continues his illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has branched out from the immediate battlefie...
Russians flee Putin’s regime after Ukraine war in second wave of migration
A ‘second wave’ of Russians are now formally relocating to countries spanning Europe, the Middle East and Asia after spending time getting their affairs in order. Natalia Kolesnikova | Afp...
A Texas Natural Gas Pipeline Highlights America’s Energy Conundrum
US President Joe Biden, flanked by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, makes a … [+] statement about Russia at the US Chief of Mission residence in Brussels, on March 25, 2022. (...
Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone Charged With Fraud
Topline British authorities charged billionaire Bernie Ecclestone Monday related to allegations of fraud, the latest drama in a controversy-filled year for the former Formula One boss. Bernie Ecclesto...
People ‘Can Be Imprisoned For Almost Anything’
Russian police officers detain a man during a protest rally against the military invasion of … [+] Ukraine, on March 6, 2022, in Moscow. (Photo by Vladimir Pesnya/Epsilon/Getty Images) Getty Ima...
Donetsk Governor Calls For Immediate Evacuation Amid Russian Advance
Topline Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Donetsk, urged the 350,000 remaining people to leave the province just one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in Luhansk, a separatist reg...
Putin Will Kill Russia’s Oil And Gas Economy And Ukraine Will Eventually Emerge Stronger
TOPSHOT – The mother of Ukrainian soldier Lubomyr Hudzeliak, who was killed during Russia’s invasion … [+] of Ukraine, mourns over his flag-draped coffin during his funeral at the Ly...
Here Are The Three Russian Oligarchs Who Have Spoken Out Against The War In Ukraine
Topline While most of Russia’s billionaires and oligarchs have chosen to remain silent or tacitly support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a deluge of Western sanctions ...
Billionaire Former F1 Boss Bernie Ecclestone Says He’d ‘Take A Bullet’ For Putin
Topline British billionaire and former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “first-class person” in a TV interview on Thursday, breaking rank with several other business ...
It’s Not Just Rising In The U.S.—But Europe, South Korea And More
Topline Inflation in the U.S. hit a 40-year high in May when consumer prices rose 8.6% in the 12 months ending in May—but the country is not the only one to see rising costs: A host of European nation...
How Betting Big On Clean Energy Could Save Europe $1 Trillion
A tractor drives past wind turbines under construction near Grapzow, Germany. Getty Images When politicians and pundits take to the airwaves to address climate change, they regularly reduce the challe...
Five Reasons The Ukraine War Could Force A Rethink Of Washington’s Pivot To Asia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has greatly complicated U.S. military and diplomatic calculations, but it doesn’t seem to have changed official Washington’s belief that China is the greater threat. A fac...
Russia’s New Economic Policy: Famine, Looting And Stealing?
A wheat field at a farm in southern Ukraine’s Odessa region, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by GENYA … [+] SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images In the 1920s, despair prompted Soviet...
China’s Xi says trade with Russia to hit new records in coming months
Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Friday via video at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s plenary session, which Russian President Vladimir Putin opened with a speech over an hour...
15,000 Russian Millionaires Are Trying To Exit The Country Amid War In Ukraine, U.K. Says
Topline Thousands of Russian millionaires may be preparing to leave their country as the war with Ukraine continues, the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Friday in its daily intelligence update, signalin...
Pope Decries Russian ‘Cruelty’ In Ukraine But Suggests War Was ‘Provoked’
Topline Pope Francis once again criticized the “brutality and ferocity” of Russian troops in their ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a conversation with the European Jesuit media published on Tuesday, st...
Buy Energy Stocks As The Ukraine War Fuels Inflation
It’s a devilish economic twist: Russia starts a horrific war in Ukraine, and ends up sabotaging … [+] Western economies all over the world. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Getty Images Russi...
Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine Has Created 5 Million Refugees
Women and children from Ukraine, including a mother carrying an infant, arrive in Poland at the … [+] Medyka border crossing on March 04, 2022, near Medyka, Poland. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty I...
Exxon Responds To Biden’s Inflation Blame-Shifting Attack
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 10: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks aboard the Battleship … [+] USS Iowa Museum at the Port of Los Angeles on June 10, 2022 in Los Angeles, Califor...
Ukrainian Troops Counterattack In The South And East
Ukrainian troops with an ex-Norwegian M-109 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo After retreating from northern Ukraine in late March and early April, the battered Russian army—having lost as many as 15,000...