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Greek Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas has claimed Greece will pay for gas from Russian energy giant Gazprom without violating sanctions. 

Reuters on Monday cited shipping data showing at least 24 ships filled with 678,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer are en route to Brazil, despite heavy sanctions imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.

The Russian embassy in New Delhi last week asked India for help with obtaining certain food supplies blocked by international sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. The Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) obliged by arranging a meeting between Indian food and pharmaceutical sellers and Russian buyers.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet published an opinion column on Sunday declaring that the United States was “quite similar” to Lord Voldemort, the primary villain in the Harry Potter book series.

Chinese telecom giant Huawei suspended some of its operations in Russia this week, evidently nervous that Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine would become a crushing burden if added to U.S. sanctions already imposed on the company.

We are witnessing the potential destruction of globalization and the fragmentation of the global economy into competitive but somewhat isolated trading groups.

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has drawn ridicule for saying that people can either choose peace in Ukraine or their air conditioners.

The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine.

During an interview with NBC News aired on Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while there are some loopholes in the sanctions against Russia, the administration is working to close them, but

U.S.-based chip manufacturer Intel announced on Tuesday it has suspended business operations in Russia, becoming the latest Western corporation to distance itself from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Intel is still doing business with Russia’s genocidal ally China, however, and was a sponsor of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union were set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia.

Supplies of potato chips and various types of confectionery are now under threat as a result of disrupted export caused by sanctions and the Ukraine War.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) argued that the most important step that can be taken against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is to implement all of the sanctions that have

Joe Biden spoke Monday morning about Ukraine upon his return to Washington, DC, from a weekend at his home in Delaware.

A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.

Italian inflation rose to 6.7 per cent in March as the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to a surge in energy prices, marking the highest inflation the country has seen since July of 1991.

Ukraine’s leading English-language state media outlet has traduced Germany’s political class, including Angela Merkel and the sitting Chancellor and President, as bearing “collective responsibility” for having “effectively encouraged” Russian aggression.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Wednesday for a meeting ostensibly focused on Afghanistan, but touted by Russian media as a landmark in the new axis of global power formed by the two authoritarian nations.

The European Union (EU) said on Wednesday that it plans to deliver an ultimatum to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in a virtual summit on Friday that assisting the Russian invasion will be punished with sanctions.

President Joe Biden claimed last week during his trip to Europe that sanctions were “never” meant to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.

Italy may be forced to ration gas supplies due to the country’s reliance on supplies from Russia, which could lead to businesses and households not being allowed to use air conditioning this summer. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has

Two out of three Democrats favor strong sanctions policies against Russia, even if those policies damage their fellow Americans’ economy, according to an AP poll. 

The United Kingdom has warned Communist China it will face sanctions if they send weapons to Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine.

PARIS (AP) – French automaker Renault plans to pause production at its Moscow plant in an apparent move to fend off mounting criticism, breaking ranks with other major French companies that have defied pressure to keep operating in Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

BRUSSELS (AP) – President Vladimir Putin’s threat to have “unfriendly” countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on got the not-so-friendly treatment from European Union nations Thursday.

The president complained that the media continued to harp on the failure of his tough sanctions to prevent Putin from escalating his war in Ukraine. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) argued that the most important sanctions the U.S. can impose on Russia would be getting other countries to cut off Russian energy imports by providing more

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday celebrated the end of Chinese telecom giant ZTE’s probation in the United States as an “inspiring” victory for Chinese Communism against the American legal system, and urged more Chinese companies to take advantage of those mercurial U.S. courts to wage lawfare against American trade policy.

Vladimir Putin demanded “unfriendly” countries buy gas in rubles rather than dollars or euros in an attack against US global hegemony.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chief of the Russian Security Council, took an apparent satirical shot at U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday by saying the United States should become a “responsible superpower,” not a “refuge for the senile.”

China’s ZTE telecom corporation announced on Wednesday that its five-year probation from a 2017 plea deal for illegally shipping American technology to Iran has ended.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) discussed the prospect of sanctions on China and stated, “we should be sanctioning them right now. We should be putting secondary sanctions on Chinese entities

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) stated that lifting sanctions on Iran under the Iran nuclear deal would give “billions of dollars of revenue to a terrorist regime” that will

Ten European Union member-states have been exposed for selling hundreds of millions of euros worth of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020, despite sanctions.

The White House did not immediately produce a readout of the video call between President Joe Biden and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Friday morning, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry produced a detailed account of the call immediately, publishing it within the hour through Chinese state media.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers’ strike Friday and farmers in France and Greece snarling traffic with their protests.