Fast Retailing, a Japanese multinational retail company that owns the clothing subsidiary Uniqlo, announced Thursday plans to “temporarily suspend” Uniqlo’s business in Russia.
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has dropped a young Russian prodigy pianist from events this week, despite the pianist being outspoken on his opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
MILAN (AP) – Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging ground to a halt as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent natural gas prices skyrocketing.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson may travel to Saudi Arabia next week to beg for increased oil production as sanctions restrict Russian exports, despite the dictatorship executing 81 people en masse on Saturday.
China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned the U.S. government against imposing financial sanctions on China in response to its stance on Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, saying Beijing would answer such a gesture with a “strong and resolute response.”
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Germany’s foreign minister has urged Serbia, which has not imposed sanctions on traditional ally Russia over the war in Ukraine, to align policies with the European Union if it wants to join the bloc.
Former Prime Minister David Cameron has re-entered Britain’s political arena by calling for PM Boris Johnson to lower taxes to help tackle the energy crisis.
Radical protestors have announced that they plan to block oil refineries to protest the UK’s use of fossil fuels, despite the energy crisis.
The House moved to ban the importation of Russian gas on Wednesday night, however many Republicans voted against the bill as it would not boost American energy production to offset rising energy costs.
The region of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro freed two American citizens, identified as an oil executive and a tourist, late Tuesday night following a meeting between the socialist leader and a delegation sent by President Joe Biden.
Growing international boycotts against doing business with Russia have created opportunities for Chinese firms with fewer scruples about supporting aggressive tyranny. One of those opportunistic Chinese companies is reportedly electronics giant Huawei, which was already Russia’s top telecom equipment provider.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) argued that we need to put secondary sanctions on Russian banks to keep China from undercutting American sanctions. Toomey stated, “Well, there’s an easy way to
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) called for the U.S. to cut off imports of Russian oil in order to deprive them of “by far the most important source of hard currency” for them and
The London Stock Exchange said on Thursday that it has suspended trading in dozens of Russian stocks.
This week saw the introduction of a new phenomenon in international relations: canceling an entire country. But the global effort to cancel Russia is a big boon to the communists who still rule China.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a phone call to plan strategy with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, one of Putin’s few outspoken supporters during Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin said Maduro expressed “strong support” for Russia’s war effort during the call.
As the EU bans Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system, a bank linked to the sale of Russian gas is said to be exempt from sanctions.
A group of over 130 alumni of China’s top universities issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling on their own government to honor its 1994 security pact with the Ukrainian government.
Big, brave Hollywood is determined as all get out to make Evil Russia pay for its evil invasion of Ukraine. But, uhm, what about China…?
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) stated that the move by the Biden administration to block some Russian banks from the SWIFT international banking system is a half-measure because of the
The Russian ruble crashed amid a public frenzy to pull cash out of bank accounts on Monday, instantly knocking almost 30 percent off the value of a currency that was not in good shape to begin with.
British oil company BP is pulling its $14 billion stake from Russian oil giant Rosneft. This, according to the far-left Washington Post, is “one of the most significant Western investments in Russia ever[.]”
Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb.
A number of U.S. lobbying firms have terminated contracts with Russian banks and enterprises that President Joe Biden recently sanctioned.
On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that in order to stop Russia’s aggression, “we need China to also impose sanctions” and help isolate Russia. Because if they don’t, “the Russians can get around” sanctions imposed by other
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued that the U.S. can remove Russia from the SWIFT financial system even if Europe doesn’t want to like it forced SWIFT to act against Iran
During an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) stated that the personal sanctions the Biden administration has levied against Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials are a P.R. move that won’t make a difference in Russia’s actions,
The French navy has intercepted and detained a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel in the early hours of Saturday morning.
On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo argued that cutting off Russia from the SWIFT international banking system “would be a temporary disruption” while the actions the Biden administration has already undertaken have “permanently cut them
China lifted all wheat import restrictions on Russia Thursday, the same day the U.S. and the U.K. announced the imposition of financial sanctions on Moscow in response to its invasion of Ukraine this week.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told reporters on Friday his country’s government will not join those of other nations in imposing sanctions on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, TASS news agency reported.
Russia’s state-run Sputnik News reported on Friday that Moscow is preparing ostensibly devastating retaliatory sanctions that will be “well-calculated and painful for the American side.”
Despite tough talk over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is squabbling internally over whether to include luxury goods and diamonds in sanctions, while there is reluctance on all sides to restrict energy imports.
Ukrainian President Zelensky rebuked suggestions he had gone into hiding by Italian Prime Minister Draghi after they missed a phone call.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that President Joe Biden has given America’s European allies veto power over U.S. sanctions and that the Biden administration doesn’t want to go after Russia’s
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia is not worried about U.S. and European sanctions as punishment for invading Ukraine, because Russia long ago gamed out every possible sanctions move and fortified its economy to withstand them.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) argued that President Joe Biden handled sanctioning Russia “exactly right” by not preemptively sanctioning it because preemptive sanctions, or any sanctions, weren’t going to deter Putin and “preemptive sanctions
President Joe Biden on Thursday contradicted Vice President Kamala Harris’s assertion less than a week ago that Russian sanctions would “absolutely” deter Russia from invading Ukraine.
The international coordinated release of strategic reserves last year failed to keep prices down. But President Biden wants to do it again anyway.
The European Union (E.U.) sought to place itself in front of Russia’s territorial ambitions Thursday as it announced the “strongest, the harshest package” of sanctions to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.
