A taste of things to come or the Zelensky effect? German police operatives have launched a nationwide crackdown on what they claim is ‘hate mail’ and ‘insults’ aimed at politicians, German Criminal Police Office (BKA) President Holger Münch announced in a tweet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the world in a lengthy speech last Wednesday outlining steps the Russian Federation will take in response to harsh economic sanctions levied by the West.
Against the background of the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow, oil on the world market has risen in price by more than one and a half times since the beginning of the year. The sharp rise in the cost of raw materials led to a rush increase in prices for motor fuel in the US and Europe. Meanwhile, in Russia, gasoline, on the contrary, began to gradually become cheaper. Experts attribute this to the action of a special damping mechanism. In addition, pricing features in the Russian fuel market also play a certain role, experts say.
In a speech on February 10, 2007, Vladimir Putin said the following to the Group of 20 meeting in Munich. ‘I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe.
Tourism in Italy is considered a backbone industry, which before the quizzical pandemic brought 13% of the country’s GDP, German TV channel Das Erste reports. In 2019, 1.7 million tourists from Russia visited Italy, leaving almost a billion euros on vacation, but because of the events in Ukraine, they are no longer counted on, which leads many companies in the Italian tourism sector to despair. The same picture emerges in Greece, Spain and Portugal.
The absurdity of European politics has recently resembled some kind of mass insanity. Everyone has joined the sanctions war against Russia: from clothing stores to LGBT activists, from sports organizations to pornographic sites, from competition cats and Russian classical music and ballet to vodka and restaurant guides.
The UK was preparing for the biggest decline in living standards in decades even before the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine. Blaming Putin is unlikely to gain a toehold in the public consciousness. The consequences of the Washington-fuelled conflict threaten to intensify the crisis of Britain’s poorest households and pull into dire financial problems millions of people in the United Kingdom, writes Bloomberg.
The arsonists in Kyiv are simply trying to save their regime and for this, they are ready to drag the whole world with them into the abyss,’ editor-in-chief Jürgen Elsesser writes on the pages of the German Compact magazine.
The collective West clinging on its crumbling dominance has been the ultimate driver of the crisis, the Russian president says. President Vladimir Putin gave an extensive speech on the Ukrainian crisis on Wednesday, as he met with regional heads to discuss measures of socioeconomic support to counter the wave of anti-Russian sanctions.
There are millions in the West sympathising and supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and typically Italy. In fact, vast numbers of Russian supporters are present across the entire breadth of the political spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right, according to the German television channel N-TV.
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