Updated on 02/28/2022 08:26 am Amnesty International denounced on Monday the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, which caused the death of civilians, including a child, and called for an investigation to be opened for “war crime”. According to the international NGO, a school in Okhtyrka, in the northeast of Ukraine, suffered the impact of […]
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The Kremlin says that the economic reality of Russia has changed and supports the central bank
Updated on 02/28/2022 08:14 am The Kremlin said Monday that Russia’s economic reality has changed, but sees no reason to doubt the effectiveness and reliability of the central bank, which has raised interest rates to 20% in a bid to shield the economy from sanctions. unprecedented western The bank has also introduced some capital controls […]
Russia and Ukraine begin negotiations on the Belarusian border
The Russian and Ukrainian delegations today began negotiations in Pripyat, on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, in which Kiev will try to achieve a ceasefire by Russia after five days of war. The beginning of the meeting was broadcast live by the official Belarusian agency BELTA. The Belarusian Foreign Minister, Vladimir Makéi, greeted the delegations, to whom […]
Russian nuclear alert and Western sanctions raise fears for supplies of raw materials
World commodity prices rose on Monday with strong gains in oil, grains, edible oils and metals, after Russia put its nuclear deterrent force on high alert and Western countries imposed new sanctions on Moscow following its invasion. to Ukraine. ANDBrent oil rose around 4% and exceeded US $ 100 per barrel, palladium soared 4% yeChicago […]
Oil escalation reveals shortcomings in energy security
The war between Russia and Ukraine, and its subsequent impact on oil and gas prices, have reopened the debate on energy security on the world agenda. In the region, Colombia awaits Hidroituango in July, a hydroelectric plant with the capacity to cover 20% of the country’s demand; Brazil, Guyana and Suriname enlist the largest hydrocarbon […]
European subsidiary of Russian bank in probable bankruptcy due to significant deposit withdrawals
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed the “bankruptcy or probable bankruptcy” of the European subsidiary of the Russian bank Sberbank, one of the largest in the country. This was due to the “significant” withdrawals of deposits in the face of the crisis in Ukraine and Western sanctions. Sberbank Europe AG, based in Austria and subsidiaries […]
European Union reaches political agreement to block Russian Central Bank transactions after Ukraine invasion
Updated on 02/27/2022 05:42 pm The foreign ministers of the countries of the European Union (EU) reached a political agreement on Sunday to block financial transactions with the Russian Central Bank, announced the head of European diplomacy, Joseph Borrell. With that measuremore than half of the reserves of the Russian Central Bank will be paralyzed, […]
The confrontation of Russia and Ukraine through culture
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia It is the latest chapter in a deep political and geographical confrontation that has been widely reflected in film and literature but has transcended international relations to affect many cultural issues. While such a renowned filmmaker as Sergei Loznitsa (Belarussian by birth but Ukrainian by adoption) has dedicated a […]
Ukraine believes that negotiations with Russia are a “small” opportunity
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not optimistic that the negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will yield results, but he believes that, “although small, they are an opportunity” for the de-escalation of the offensive carried out by Moscow. against your country. The president explained that he accepted that a Ukrainian delegation hold […]
Foreign Minister Ukraine: We are not going to capitulate or hand over territory
Updated on 02/27/2022 11:35 am The Minister of Foreign Affairs of UkraineDmitro Kuleba, affirmed today that his country is not going to “capitulate or surrender an inch of territory.” “We are going to listen to what Russia wants to say (…) and to say what we think about this war,” said the head of Ukrainian […]