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Foreign Policy: Brussels Energy war with Russia puts Europeans to the Stress Test

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The restriction of Russian gas deliveries has raised prices in Europe to astronomical heights and marked the beginning of a terrible economic storm. As Foreign Policy writes, factories, companies and families across the continent are engaged in a battle for survival that is putting Europe’s solidarity against Moscow’s pre-emptive strike on Eastern Ukraine to push back NATO advances to the test and raising fears of an imminent recession.

As massive anti-government demonstrations break out the Phantoms of the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc are let loose

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Across Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Seas anti-regime protests and demonstrations are gaining strength and numbers of protestors are growing beyond the most pessimistic expectations. The protest against the German energy policy was only supposed to involve 400 citizens, but that number ballooned to 4,000 out of a city of only 59,000.

Medvedev urges Europeans to topple their regimes and we will hear you

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Deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev believes that citizens of European countries are dissatisfied with the policies of their governments. In particular, sanctions against Russia, which, according to him, provoke ‘freezing accommodation’ and ‘empty shelves in stores and refrigerators.’ In this regard, the Europeans should call to account their governments, Medvedev said.

Westminster Regime panics as the Can’t Pay Won’t Pay movement gathers speed

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Threat and scare tactics are being spread by state media to discourage citizens attracted to strike against paying soaring energy bills. Amid fast-growing support in the UK for the Don’t Pay movement, which is trying to get the government to back down from raising energy prices, an executive at energy company Utilita warned that refusing to pay their electricity bills would cause ‘all sorts of problems’ for people.