After two years of travel restrictions due to the pandemic, Amsterdam it’s back to what it was: tourists en masse dragging suitcases down the bike path, and fed-up locals looking for cozy neighborhoods on the outskirts of the Dutch capital. They want to reduce a tourism that, in reality, settles the accounts to the coffers […]
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Ukraine’s debt amounted to 71.6% of GDP in 2022
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine reported today that the State debt amounted in 2022 to the equivalent of 71.6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to 43.3% in 2021, the year before the Russian invasion. In 2022, the nominal GDP fell from 200,000 to 161,000 million dollars (from 182,000 to 146,000 million euros, […]
G7 warns of “severe costs” for those who help Russia in Ukraine
The heads of G7 diplomacy warned on Tuesday of “severe costs” for those who help Russia in their war against Ukraine and showed a united front in the face of another geopolitical challenge such as China. After a two-day summit in the bucolic Japanese mountain town of Karuizawa, the foreign ministers of these leading economies […]
US says Lula “parrots” Russian propaganda about war in Ukraine
The Government of the United States affirmed this Monday that the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvahas been “repeating like a parrot“Russian and Chinese propaganda about the war in Ukraine and has not even stopped to study”the facts”. “The way in which Brazil has addressed this issue both substantively and rhetorically by suggesting that […]
Food shipments at risk: Russia demands conditions to extend the grain agreement
Russia warned this Thursday that it will not extend the grain agreement, which allows food to be exported through the Black Sea, if there is no progress in fulfilling the commitments that emerge from the memorandum signed by Moscow and the UN. “Without progress in solving five systemic problems (…) there can be no talk […]
Coal miners power Ukraine at war
In the bowels of the earth in the southeast of Ukrainethe miners work 24 hours a day to extract the coal that the country needs to wage war and provide electricity and heating to the inhabitants. Coal is essential for Ukraine’s energy needs after the offensive russian six months to destroy power plants and other […]
Russia demands “new world order” to negotiate peace with Ukraine
The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, considered this Thursday in Ankara that peace negotiations in Ukraine are possible within a “new world order”, as long as the “fair interests” From Russia. In a press conference, together with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, the Russian minister blamed Western countries and the United States for […]
Russia threatens to suspend Ukrainian grain export deal
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened on Friday in Ankara to suspend the agreement to export Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea if the sale of Russian agricultural products continues to be hindered. The agreement, negotiated in July with the mediation of Turkey and the United Nations, is key to world food security. “If there […]
The US and Russia went from the Cold War to the hot war, according to Vice Chancellor Riabkov
United States and Russiapassed by” by the Cold War and are now going through a stage of a hybrid “hot war”, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said today. “I think we are past this period” of the Cold War, he told the Russian radio station Sputnik, noting that “now we are in a phase […]
Billion-dollar destruction in Ukraine already exceeds $143.5 billion
One year after the Russian invasion, the estimated losses in Ukrainian infrastructure amount to about 133,000 million euros (US$ 143,500 million), the most affected areas are those of Kharkiv and Donetsk and 40% of the damage is registered in homes. “The housing stock has so far suffered damages of about 50,000 million euros. In total […]