Category: 1. Russia
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Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Fall 17% Year-on-Year in March
Russia’s budget revenues from oil and gas fell 17% year-over-year to 1.08 trillion rubles ($12.8 billion) in March, the Finance Ministry reported Thursday.
The government collected approximately 230 billion rubles ($2.7 billion) less…
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Poland expects up to €500m compensation from the EU for arms supplies to Ukraine
Poland claims €400-500m in compensation from European funds for arms deliveries to Ukraine. This statement was made by the head of the Polish National Defence, Vladyslav Kosyniak-Kamysh, in a conversation with…
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Karabakh refugees protest in Yerevan Armenia cuts back aid
Story by Rima Grigoryan for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart
In Yerevan, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are protesting the Armenian government’s decision to cut back a vital aid program for the fifth day straight. Armenia began offering this…
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Russian Lawmaker Stripped of Seat After 2-Year Absence
Russia’s lower-house State Duma voted Thursday to strip lawmaker Yury Napso of his seat after he failed to attend parliamentary sessions for two years while still collecting his official salary.
Napso, a member of the nationalist…
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How NATO ships monitor Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’ in the Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea handles around 15 percent of global shipping traffic — approximately 2,500 vessels daily, according to researcher Julian Pawlak. A rising number of these ships belong to Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a group of hundreds of…
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Secretive Energy Supplies and Harboring Assad: Inside the Kremlin’s Balancing Act With Syria’s New Leaders
The Kremlin is capitalizing on Syria’s energy crisis in an effort to keep its military bases in the country, even as it refuses to hand over fugitive former dictator Bashar al-Assad to the new…
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Lithuania Honors Four US Soldiers Who Died In Military Exercise
Lithuania held a farewell ceremony for the four American soldiers who died during a military exercise in March. Mourners gathered in Vilnius on April 3 for the procession before the bodies were taken to the airport and returned to the United…
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