Thread: How dangerous is Vladimir Putin?

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Lift your game, your obfuscation is starting to rival OHOh, the obfuscation gold medallist.

Another award, keep them coming. Having said that, other than the 3/4 stooges, the competition is sadly lacking.

Durian, the food of the winners

President Vladimir Putin was the only other speaker to echo what Lukashenko said

So realistically they're on their own. Wankers.

23.05.2022 17:09

On the Russia-ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting at the Level of Deputy Foreign Ministers

1085-23-05-2022

MEDIA RELEASE

"On May 23, a meeting of senior officials of Russia and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) at the level of deputy foreign ministers was held in the format of a videoconference. Russian delegation was headed by IV Morgulov .

The prospects for the development of the Russian-ASEAN strategic partnership were discussed in accordance with the decisions adopted at the meeting of leaders in October 2021, as well as the practical aspects of preparing for the meeting of Russia-ASEAN foreign ministers in August this year. A detailed discussion was held on ways to promote cooperation in the political, economic and humanitarian spheres.

An in-depth exchange of views took place on topical international and regional issues, including the situation in Ukraine , as well as the formation of a modern security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and joint counteraction to common challenges and threats.

The meeting was held in a constructive atmosphere, reflecting the traditional friendship and strategic partnership between Russia and ASEAN."

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Originally Posted by OhOh

23.05.2022 17:09

On the Russia-ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting at the Level of Deputy Foreign Ministers

1085-23-05-2022

MEDIA RELEASE

"On May 23, a meeting of senior officials of Russia and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) at the level of deputy foreign ministers was held in the format of a videoconference. Russian delegation was headed by IV Morgulov .

The prospects for the development of the Russian-ASEAN strategic partnership were discussed in accordance with the decisions adopted at the meeting of leaders in October 2021, as well as the practical aspects of preparing for the meeting of Russia-ASEAN foreign ministers in August this year. A detailed discussion was held on ways to promote cooperation in the political, economic and humanitarian spheres.

An in-depth exchange of views took place on topical international and regional issues, including the situation in Ukraine , as well as the formation of a modern security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and joint counteraction to common challenges and threats.

The meeting was held in a constructive atmosphere, reflecting the traditional friendship and strategic partnership between Russia and ASEAN."

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Can’t recall a more bland media release!

Low level functionaries meet online. Despite the “in depth exchange of views” nothing newsworthy was announced.

You really are scraping the barrel for something, anything positive. Russia would have preferred some arse licking to have taken place, but ASEAN already has a more productive link to Chinese interference.

Originally Posted by Switch

Can’t recall a more bland media release!

How can you tell if it's more bland than any of the other rubbish he posts? You don't actually read the shit do you?

British Catholic priest denounces the West

26 May 2022

Lots of Ukrainians in Alberta.

Train carrying potash derails east of Fort Macleod in southern Alberta

By Caley Gibson Global News

"Fort Macleod RCMP said police and fire crews were called to the derailment east of Fort Macleod at 8:15 a.m. Police said it happened along Highway 3 between Range Road 251 and Range Road 252.
RCMP said the train was heading west when about 43 cars carrying potash derailed.

There are no injuries or concerns to public safety, the RCMP said. CP Rail has also responded to the incident.

“CP personnel have responded to the scene and recovery operations are under way. The cause of the derailment is under investigation,” read a statement from CP Rail.

The RCMP said traffic along Highway 3 is being rerouted to allow crews to work. The detour is expected to last several hours, police said just before 11:30 a.m.

Westbound traffic is being diverted onto the shoulder of Highway 3. The public is asked to avoid the area.

Fort Macleod is located about 45 kilometres west of Lethbridge.

Updated highway reports can be found on 511 Alberta."

Train carrying potash derails east of Fort Macleod in southern Alberta - Lethbridge | Globalnews.ca

^Quite a few Canadians too.

What do you suggest blaming them for?

There are idiot mittens, clutching at straws, desperation, and then there’s you!

Originally Posted by OhOh

British Catholic priest denounces the West

Hoohoo is this particular kiddie fiddler a mate of yours?

Just wondering.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Hoohoo is this particular kiddie fiddler a mate of yours?

Just wondering.

He has never shared his profession with us

28 May, 00:26

Delimitation of border with Armenia to settle territorial claims — Azerbaijani president

Azerbaijan’s president emphasized that the delimitation of state boundaries would also eliminate the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status

BAKU, May 27. /TASS/. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has focused on importance of the first meeting of the national commissions on delimitation of the state boundaries between Azerbaijan and Armenia, emphasizing that the delimitation will put an end to territorial claims.

"On May 24, the first meeting of the commissions (on the delimitation of state boundaries - TASS) was held at the Azerbaijani-Armenian border. It is of paramount importance. On the one hand, it is crucial from the point of view that we will determine those borders, as Armenians have seized those borders as well. On the other hand, it will officially put an end to Armenian revanchist forces’ territorial claims against Azerbaijan," Aliyev said, opening the first phase of the Smart Village project in the Zangilan District on Friday.

Azerbaijan’s president emphasized that the delimitation of state boundaries would also eliminate the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status.

"If we delimit the borders, what status of so-called Nagorno-Karabakh can we talk about? There is the Karabakh zone, there is the Karabakh Region. It is Azerbaijan’s territory, and the whole world recognizes this. Therefore, the first meeting of the commissions on delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border is crucial," Aliyev added.

On May 22, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev held a meeting in Brussels under the mediation of President of the European Council Charles Michel. They agreed, in particular, to hold the first meeting of delimitation commissions at the border in the coming days. On May 23, Aliyev signed an executive order to establish a state commission on the delimitation of state boundaries between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The next day, Azerbaijani and Armenian deputy prime ministers met at the border in the format of commissions on boundary delimitation."

https://tass.com/world/1457113

27 May, 23:44

Four US biolabs operate in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from — Defense Ministry

According to the WHO, the monkeypox pathogen strain was imported from Nigeria, where the US deployed its biological infrastructure

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. At least four US-controlled biological laboratories operate in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from, Russian Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection troops head Igor Kirillov stated Friday.

He pointed out that, according to the World Health Organization, the monkeypox pathogen strain was imported from Nigeria, where the US deployed its biological infrastructure.
"According to the available information, at least four US-controlled biolaboratories operate in Nigeria," Kirillov said.

According to Kirillov, in this regard, it is necessary to point out a "strange coincidence that requires additional inspection by specialists."

"According to European and US media, materials of 2021 Munich Security Conference (that is, amid the COVID-19 pandemic) mentioned practice of monkeypox countering scenario," NCB troops commander said.

https://tass.com/society/1457093

Originally Posted by OhOh

Four US biolabs operate in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from — Defense Ministry

You have to admire OhWoe for his idiocy

U.S. and NATO Allies Blockade Russia’s Economy, Then Blame Russia for World Hunger

May 27, 2022



Can Russia be possibly portrayed as any more evil and monstrous than that, as per Western propaganda narratives of Russophobia?

"In an incredible feat of hypocrisy, the United States and European Union are accusing Russia of using food exports and global hunger as a weapon.

Just when you think you’ve heard the most absurd smear, the Western powers outdo their own perverse ranting and Russophobia.

Previously, Russia has been accused of weaponizing energy trade and mass refugee flows in waging a dastardly “hybrid war” to “undermine Western democracies”. Oh, those evil, evil Russians! Cue the James Bond villain caricatures, please.

Never mind that Russia has for decades been a reliable supplier of economical oil and gas to the European Union crucial for the bloc’s civilizational existence. Even during recent geopolitical tensions and insults, Moscow has ensured full delivery of its contracted hydrocarbon resources to drive Europe’s economies and heat European households. Russia has long invested in developing infrastructure to underpin its strategic role as an energy supplier to Europe. And yet when Russia provides even more reliable pipeline infrastructure in the form of Nord Stream 2 under the Baltic Sea it has incurred nothing but foolish and insolent accusations of using energy as a weapon. It is the United States and its lackey European governments who are using the vital resource as a weapon and politicizing economic relations for selfish strategic reasons that end up riling dangerous warlike tensions and conflict while jeopardizing the well-being of ordinary citizens.

Likewise, when Europe was facing a migration crisis in recent years from millions of displaced people fleeing to the European Union from the Middle East and North Africa, it was Moscow that ended up being accused of “weaponizing refugees”. The dislocation of millions of people from Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other countries, was and is directly caused by U.S.-led NATO wars. And yet again, Russia was blamed for weaponizing the phenomenal mass migration in an alleged plan to destabilize the EU. Let’s remember that it was Russia’s military intervention in support of Syria against a covert war for regime change sponsored by the U.S. and its European NATO allies that put an end to that criminal war. If the United States and its NATO accomplices had succeeded in completely destroying Syria as they had done elsewhere, it is a fair assumption that the refugee numbers flowing to Europe would have been even greater.

Russia’s alleged ability for “hybrid warfare” – is based on a thoroughly debased prejudice among Western imperial powers that is echoed in the dutiful Western propaganda system known as the “news media”. To accuse Moscow and in particular Russian President Vladimir Putin of such heinous machinations is a betrayal of the diseased minds that prevail in the Western powers, diseased by Russophobia and their imperial arrogance. There is also a large factor of guilt projection whether conscious or not. That is, the U.S. and its NATO lackeys accuse Russia of the very crimes that they have committed on a world-beating scale.

And so, we come to the latest manifestation of malignant doublethink and hypocrisy – accusing Russia of starving the world.

This week U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen both leveled the allegation that Moscow was blocking exports of wheat and other staple foods to the world market, thereby causing crippling shortages and price inflation. That, in turn, is inflicting hunger on the world, especially among food insecure poor countries. The United Nations has warned of an impending global food crisis.

Ominously, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board urged a naval intervention by the U.S. and its allies to “escort shipping” in the Black Sea. That would result in an overt escalation by NATO powers based on a disingenuous pretext: NATO goes to war to feed the world! In a similar cynical fashion to past pretexts of “protecting human rights”.

Can Russia be possibly portrayed as any more evil and monstrous than that, as per Western propaganda narratives of Russophobia?

The war in Ukraine has certainly impacted critical exports of wheat and other staple grain products. Russia and Ukraine account for about a third of the world’s supply of wheat. The Black Sea shipping of agricultural and other commodities has been disrupted since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine on February 24, over three months ago.

But this conflict was primarily created by the U.S. and NATO policy of weaponizing the far-right Ukrainian regime to attack Russian people and destabilize Moscow. After eight years of deadly provocations, President Putin ordered an intervention to preempt the growing hostility.

If agricultural exports have been halted and world prices impacted, then the Western powers should be the ones held responsible for recklessly stoking a war in the first place. Secondly, the ports of Mariupol and Odessa have been mined by the NATO-backed regime in Kiev. This is why civilian shipping has been hampered. That amounts to criminal conduct by the NATO side, not Russia.

Thirdly, Blinken and Von der Leyen complain that Russia is deliberately with-holding exports of wheat and other foods. The fact is Russia is being subjected to economic warfare in the form of illegal and unilateral sanctions on its ability to conduct international financial transactions. Russia finds itself in an “existential challenge” from Western imperial powers who are waging a “total war” to destroy Moscow’s government. And yet, Russia is accused of not exporting food to the rest of the world.

The arrogant Western powers betray a mentality that is tantamount to a robber berating a house owner for not leaving doors and windows wide open for his convenience.
The fact is reckless Western elites have hit their own citizens and societies with unprecedented problems over migration due to their criminal wars and with spiraling living costs due to their aggravation of relations with Russia over energy and other trade. The Western ruling class are the ones waging hybrid war – against Russia, China, and others, as well as against their own populations.

If the Western powers had any concern about food security and hunger (they certainly don’t) why are they funneling weapons worth hundreds of billions of dollars and euros into Ukraine to intensify the conflict? Washington and its European vassals are deliberately thwarting any political, diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine and more widely with Russia. They are the culprits for endangering the planet, not just from mass hunger, but also from world war."

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Possibly the mines floating around, released by Ukraine military, are one reason. ?

A second reason, the lack of utilising the Russian cleared exit route, daily available to all ships currently unable to leave port, due to Ukrainian degrees?

A third reason, the inability of ships to obtain insurance?

The Eurasian Economic Union Steps Up

Pepe Escobar May 27, 2022

The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed – economic integration – train has already left the station.

"The first Eurasian Economic Forum, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, took place this week at a very sensitive geopolitical juncture, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov keeps stressing that, “the West has declared total war against us, against the entire Russian world. Nobody even hides this now.”

It’s always important to remember that before Maidan in 2014, Ukraine had the option to become a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and even balance it with a loose association with the EU.
The EAEU comprises five full members – Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenia – yet 14 nations sent delegations to the forum, including China, Vietnam and Latin American nations.
There was much rumbling that the proceedings would be jeopardized by the serial sanctions packages imposed on Russia by the collective West. There’s no question that some EAEU members – such as Kazakhstan – seem to be more worried about the effects of the sanctions than about fine-tuning business with Russia. Yet that’s not the point.

The crucial point is that by 2025 they have to harmonize their legislation concerning financial markets. And that’s directly connected to what the executive body of the EAEU, led by Sergey Glazyev, is working on, extensively: designing the lineaments of an alternative financial/economic system to what the West would rather coin as Bretton Woods 3.

The Eurasian Economic Forum was established by the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council explicitly to further deepen economic cooperation between EAEU members. No wonder the official theme of the forum was Eurasian Economic Integration in the Era of Global Shifts: New Investment Opportunities, focusing on strategic development in the industrial, energy, transport, financial, and digital areas.

So Many Converging Strategies

President Putin’s speech to the plenary session was quite revealing. To really appreciate the scope of what’s implied, it’s important to remember that the Greater Eurasian Partnership concept was presented by Putin in 2016 at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, focused on a “more extensive Eurasian partnership involving the Eurasian Economic Union” and including China, Pakistan, Iran and India.

Putin stressed how the drive for developing ties “within the framework of the Greater Eurasian Partnership” (…) “was not the political situation but global economic trends, because the centre of economic development is gradually – we are aware of this, and our businesspeople are aware of this – is gradually moving, continues to move into the Asia-Pacific Region.”
He added, “in the current international conditions when, unfortunately, traditional trade and economic links and supply chains are being disrupted”, the Greater Eurasian Partnership “is gaining a special meaning.”
Putin established a direct connection not only between the Greater Eurasian Partnership and EAEU members but also “BRICS members such as China and India”, “the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN and other organizations.”

And that’s the core of the whole, ongoing, multi-layered process of Eurasia integration, with the China-led New Silk Roads intersecting with the Eurasia Economic Union, the SCO, BRICS+, and other converging strategies.
Lavrov this week said that Argentina and Saudi Arabia want to join BRICS, whose next summer in China is being meticulously prepared. Not only that: Lavrov mentioned how quite a few Arab nations want to join the SCO. He was careful to describe this process of converging alliances as “not antagonistic”.

Putin for his part was careful to define the Greater Eurasian Partnership as “a big civilizational project. The main idea is to create a common space for equitable cooperation for regional organizations”, changing “the political and economic architecture on the entire continent.”

Thus, the necessity to “draft a comprehensive strategy for developing large-scale Eurasian partnership”, including “a roadmap for industrialization”. That translates in practice as developing “engineering centers and research centers. This is inevitable for any country that wants to increase its economic, financial, and ultimately political sovereignty. It is inevitable.”

Yaroslav Lissovolik at the Valdai Club is one of the top analysts tracking how this convergence may profit the whole Global South. He stresses that among the “variability and diversity in the platforms that may be launched by Global South economies, the most sizeable and comprehensive of which could include the aggregation of CELAC (Latin America), African Union (Africa)”, and the SCO in Eurasia.

And an even more diverse set of “regional blocs that targets deeper integration could feature a BRICS+ platform that comprises the South African Development Community (SADC), MERCOSUR, BIMSTEC”, the China-ASEAN free trade agreement, and the EAEU.

The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed – economic integration – train has already left the station. It’s quite enlightening to notice the sharp contrast with the endless doom and gloom afflicting a collective West prone to inflation, energy shortages, food shortages, fictional “narratives” and the defense of neo-Nazis under the banner of liberal “democracy”

https://www.strategic-culture.org/ne...nion-steps-up/

Is life getting precious for Vlad the Murderer?

No videos of dead people here:

25 May, 03:16Updated at: 05:32

Russian military to open Black Sea-bound corridor for vessels leaving Mariupol port

It will be organized from 08:00 Moscow time on May 25

MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/.

"Starting from 08:00 Moscow time on May 12, the Russian armed forces will open a humanitarian corridor to the Black Sea, allowing foreign vessels to safely exit the port of Mariupol, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Tuesday.

"In order to ensure safe exit of foreign vessels from the port of Mariupol, a 115-mile-long and two-mile-wide corridor towards the Black Sea will be organized from 08:00 Moscow time on May 25," said Mizintsev, who also heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.

"As a result of a complex of measures taken by the Russian Navy, the danger of mines has been eliminated in the port of Mariupol, measures to rebuilt port infrastructure are under way," the Russian official added.
Combat engineers of the Black Sea Fleet and engineer troops have completed their work to clear the territory of the Mariupol seaport of mines, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported earlier on Tuesday. Over 12,000 explosive devices and items of armament abandoned by Ukrainian militants have been uncovered and rendered harmless.

The Russian personnel have also cleared approach canals and internal water areas of sunken vessels and other navigational obstacles and demilitarized the port. Overall, they have inspected over 1.5 million square meters of the water area, 18 berths and 32 vessels, the ministry reported. The Russian combat engineer squads have also removed mines from the coastline of the Sea of Azov adjacent to the Mariupol seaport."

https://tass.com/defense/1455355

Russia having control of the Port of Mariupol, the Sea of Azov, the Kerch Strait bridge and the Black Sea to the exit at the Bosphorus means Ukraine can no longer stop Russia importing or exporting civilian products.

Whether NaGastan, or it's "allies", will try more piracy is unknown. Possibly the world will prefer Russian grains being made available, to the alleged starving hoards, to take their war to another dimension, only POTUS knows.

The optics suggest otherwise. The Greeks shipowners will make another killing, buying low, selling high.

Puffy probably thinks if he's nice they won't worry about his war crimes so much.

Originally Posted by OhOh (How dangerous is Vladimir Putin?)
Four US biolabs operate in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from — Defense Ministry





You have to admire OhWoe for his idiocy

OhOh didn't write that. So who's the idiot?

Originally Posted by sabang

OhOh didn't write that. So who's the idiot?

You are for thinking at there was any implication he did.

28 May, 21:32

US provokes food crisis in Ukraine by depriving it of grain reserves — Russian diplomat

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that the US and the EU voiced intentions to export 20 mln tonnes of grain from Ukraine within 2.5 months, allegedly for their transportation to African and Middle Eastern countries in order to prevent a food crisis

MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/.

"Washington provokes food crisis on the territory of Ukraine, depriving it of grain reserves, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.

"US President Joe Biden's statement on May 10 about the need to look for opportunities to export 20 mln tonnes of grain from Ukraine coincided with the signing of the Lend-Lease law for Ukraine. Turns out, Kiev will pay for weapons with wheat. In fact, the US itself provokes food crisis in Ukraine, depriving it of grain reserves," the diplomat said, commenting on the situation with food security amid statements by official representatives of foreign states about the alleged "blocking" of the Black Sea.

She stressed that the US and the EU voiced intentions to export 20 mln tonnes of grain from Ukraine within 2.5 months, allegedly for their transportation to African and Middle Eastern countries in order to prevent a food crisis. "However, in reality, grain is transported to warehouses in Europe. Rail, road, and river routes are organized for its delivery to destinations in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria," she added.

"The West’s attempts to pin all troubles on a special military operation and accuse Russia of blocking foreign ships in the ports of the Black and Azov Seas are absolutely groundless," she continued. "Prices for agricultural products surged back in 2020, which is by no means the result of the special military operation. The pandemic has caused major disruptions to supply chains and significantly increased the price of food transportation services," Zakharova said.

According to the diplomat, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization experts have repeatedly noted that prices reached record-breaking figures before February 2022.

She emphasized, the anti-Russian sanctions of the West, which led to ruptured ties in the global logistics and transport infrastructure, became the "main catalyst" of the existing negative trends."

https://tass.com/politics/1457307?ut...rer=google.com

Oh look, it's America's fault that Puffy invaded Ukraine again.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, it's America's fault that Puffy invaded Ukraine again.

I wish I kept count of the times this utter nonsense has been spouted on this forum. Honestly, it is sad that there is no moderation anymore. All of this crap Kremlin propaganda should go right into OhDoh's DH thread.

29 May, 2022 19:47 HomeBusiness News

Serbia secures new gas contract with Russia

Belgrade has agreed a new three-year gas supply contract with Moscow, Serbian president has announced

"Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday he had agreed a new three-year gas contract with Moscow during phone talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Apart from the gas contract, the two presidents also discussed the prospects of expanding gas storage facilities in Serbia, Vucic revealed. The price of gas will be tied to the price of oil, he explained, though he did not give any further detail, adding that these still have to be ironed out with Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom."

Continues :

Serbia secures new gas contract with Russia — RT Business News29 May, 2022 19:13

HomeWorld News

Hunger games: How the world's farmers have become collateral victims of sanctions against Russia

Already on the rise, fertilizer prices skyrocketed amid trade disruptions over the conflict in Ukraine.

"The rush to impose sanctions on Russia, and the departure of scores of companies from the country, following the launch of the military operation in Ukraine was done with a specific calculus: To devastate the Russian economy. However, in a globalized world where everything is linked, all actions have consequences.

Russia is one of the world’s leading exporters of fertilizers. According to the Fertilizer Institute in the US, in terms of the global export market, Russia accounts for 23% of ammonia, 14% of urea, and 21% of potash, as well as 10% of processed phosphate exports.

The World Bank’s Fertilizer Price Index rose nearly 10% in the first quarter of 2022, to an all-time high in nominal terms. The increase follows last year’s 80% surge. According to the projections, the prices will rise by almost 70% this year before falling – presumably – twelve months hence.

Prices soar higher than ever

In April, the EU adopted another package of sanctions against Moscow that included a ban on the import of fertilizers – plus, vessels registered under the Russian flag were banned from EU ports. “Derogations are granted for agricultural and food products, humanitarian aid, and energy,” the bloc said"

Continues:

https://www.rt.com/news/556124-fertilizer-prices-victims-sanctions/

29 May, 2022 08:04 HomeBusiness News

EU explains why it keeps buying Russian oil

An immediate embargo would let Russia sell its oil elsewhere and get more money, Ursula Von der Leyen says.

"Europe cannot place an immediate embargo on Russian oil, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has said, as it would allow Moscow to sell its fuel elsewhere and possibly earn more money to fund its military offensive in Ukraine.

“If we would completely, immediately, as of today cut off the [Russian] oil, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin might be able to take the oil that he does not sell to the EU to the world market, where the prices will increase, and sell it for more – and that would fill his war chests,” the EU leader said in an interview with MSNBC earlier this week.

The EU, along with the US and several other Western nations, have placed unprecedented sanctions on Russia over the past three months in response to its military operation in Ukraine, which the West views as an act of unprovoked aggression."

Continues:

https://www.rt.com/business/556275-putin-eu-energy-purchase/

28 May, 2022 15:00

HomeBusiness News

Russian gas embargo is ‘poison’ for German society – official

"An immediate ban would lead to job losses and seriously affect the economy, the labor minister says
An embargo on Russian natural gas would seriously affect the German economy, as well as society, Labor Minister Hubertus Heil said in an interview with news outlet Funke, published on Saturday.

“We should gradually become independent from gas imports, but the immediate imposition of an embargo would both complicate the situation with rising prices even more and lead to job losses. So we must avoid this,” he warned.

Heil noted that the labor market in Germany, despite suffering from the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, is currently stable, but drastic measures such as cutting off Russian gas would change the situation for the worse."

Continues:

https://www.rt.com/business/556246-r...oison-germany/

29 May, 2022 09:36 HomeBusiness News

Key energy market headed for crunch this winter – experts

LNG demand is expected to outstrip supply as the West shifts away from Russia, data shows.

"The liquefied natural gas (LNG) market could be hit with a potentially historic shortage this winter as the world rushes to secure the super-chilled fuel, Bloomberg reported this week, citing experts.

According to the sources, the EU’s plan to cut imports of piped Russian gas by two-thirds by the end of this year and replace it with LNG from the US and Africa is sharply intensifying competition for the power-plant and heating fuel.
In a normal year, LNG importers stock up on supplies for the peak winter season over the summer. They started replenishing stockpiles earlier this year, people with knowledge of the matter said, noting that the looming supply crunch risks driving up electricity bills and inflation.

“This coming winter has everyone on edge,” James Whistler, the global head of energy derivatives at Simpson Spence Young, told the media outlet. “All things point to tight supply under normal conditions, but additional risks are also present,” he added.

Rystad Energy estimated this month that global demand will hit 436 million tons in 2022, outpacing 410 million tons of available supply."

Continues:

https://www.rt.com/business/556016-energy-market-crunch-winter/

29 May, 2022 13:06
HomeWorld News


EU won't approve full Russian oil embargo – Bloomberg

Brussels proposes an initial ban only applying to seaborne crude, according to Bloomberg.

"The European Commission has suggested kick-starting an embargo on Russian oil by giving up on seaborne deliveries, while delaying a ban on pipeline supplies, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing “people familiar with the matter.”The revised proposal was sent to the governments of member states on Saturday and could be discussed by EU ambassadors as soon as Sunday, according to the news agency.

The EU's executive arm says shipments of oil through the Druzhba pipeline, which connects Russia to Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, should for now be spared from the embargo that the bloc is looking to impose on Moscow over its military offensive against Ukraine."

Continues:

https://www.rt.com/news/556292-eu-oil-embargo-ukraine/

I reckon half of hoohoo's day is spent wanking over RT and the rest copying and pasting it.