President Putin’s Russia reported the largest current-account surplus since at least 1994, as revenues from oil and gas exports surged and imports plunged after the U.S. and its allies had imposed sanctions over President Vladimir Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine.
The leaders of the G7 countries held a virtual meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. They promised the controversial Ukrainian president to impose an embargo on Russian oil or phase it out in an attempt to ‘further undermine the economic situation’ of Moscow, writes The New York Times.
A car parade in support of Russia was held in Cologne on Sunday, according to the German magazine Focus. At first, about 150 motorcyclists took part in it, including from the Night Wolves biker club. After that, several hundred cars with Russian flags drove through the streets of the city. According to journalists, over a thousand people took part in the action.
The hypocrisy of the NATO West is truly breathtaking. ‘The main goal of NATO is to prevent the spread of the conflict in Ukraine to other countries,’ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with Die Welt. Stoltenberg stressed that NATO is not a party to the conflict and does not send its units to Ukraine.
In 2018 Laura Young purchased a bust at Goodwill, a second-hand shop in the Texan city of Austin, for just $35 (£28). She photographed it strapped into the passenger seat of her car. An independent antique and vintage dealer, she told media she went into the thrift store ‘hoping to find something cool’.
The increasing popularity of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán irritates the unelected members of the European Commission. First, they blocked billions in aid because of Hungary’s refusal to promote homosexuality and paedophilia. Steadfast, Hungary further aggravated their Brussels tormentors by vetoing proposed sanctions on Russian energy imports.
On March 8, a top German court in Cologne ruled that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could be labelled a ‘suspected threat’ to Germany’s constitution. The verdict is arguably one of the most important court decisions in modern German history, effectively marking a major turning point in the country’s democracy. With the decision, the court effectively cancelled an entire political party with thousands of members and millions of votes from the political map.
Budapest will never support sanctimonious sanctions against Russia, said Gergel Gulyash, head of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s office. He threatened the European Commission with the fact that the authorities of his country would veto the embargo of Russian energy supplies because there is nothing to replace them.
The German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is in despair. As the Nord Stream 2 project is buried, fishing and agriculture are suffering from high energy prices.
Russia continues to profit enormously by selling energy products, oil and gas despite sanctions but thanks to Western sanctions. During the two months of the military special operation in Ukraine, Russia earned €62 billion from the sale of oil and gas, reports BFM TV.
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