US hits Russia's largest bank
The United States has hit Russia's top bank and leading energy and technology companies with sanctions, restricting access to finance and technology to punish Moscow's support for Ukraine's separatist rebels. In its latest round of sanctions, Washington on ...
Russia 'may not respond to new sanctions': Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin calls new wave of sanctions "weird" as EU and U.S. intensify pressure on Moscow. DUSHANBE, Tajikistan Russia would not respond to the new round of EU and U.S. sanctions at the expense of the Russian economy, President ...
U.S., EU hit Russia with more sanctions despite Ukraine ceasefire
KIEV/DUSHANBE (Reuters) - The United States and European Union imposed new sanctions against Russia on Friday, tightening financial measures against Moscow over its intervention in Ukraine despite a week-old ceasefire which has brought calm to the ...
US, EU levy sanctions on Russia despite cease-fire
Unsatisfied with a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine, the United States and the European Union levied new sanctions Friday against major Russian banks and defense companies, as well as penalties aimed at curtailing Russia's ability to develop oil and gas projects.
Exxon Said to Rile U.S., EU by Using Russia Sanctions Loophole
Rex Tillerson, the Texas-bred Eagle Scout atop the world's largest energy company, and Vladimir Putin confidante Igor Sechin, his counterpart at Russia's state oil company, forged a partnership to tap billions of barrels of crude together in Russia.
In Favour of An Assertive Germany
In 1999 Germany deployed troops abroad for the first time since World War 2 in order to join the NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR). The seriousness of the threat of ethnic cleansing was enough for the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to support a break from German Foreign Policy’s traditional pacifism. ...
Drive Toward World War 3 Going According To Plan - The Stage Is Set For Nuclear War
By Susan Duclos, via All News PipeLine Many have warned that as the US economy, as well as the global economy, got closer to total collapse, the drums of war would continue to beat until the war of all wars, World War III, had been started. Recent events, when looked at together, show those predicti ...
The One Company Most At Risk From Russian Sanctions Is Actually American
When Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson detailed a $3.2 billion deal to drill for oil in Russia's Arctic Sea two years ago, he predicted that the project would strengthen the ties between the U.S. and Russia. However, as WSJ reports, Exxon has instead wound up in the cross hairs of U.S. foreign policy, w ...
It's getting sunny!
So I realised that I haven't done a blog post in a while, I haven't been on any proper trips since break but wanted to update you all on what's happening in Dunedin. Firstly, it's getting warmer, at long long last!! Having a bedroom with two windows, one which gets the sun most of the day, is finall ...
QUESTIONS...
I watched the President address the nation and announce a new strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (ISIS). It is not lost on me that as I write a response to it today on September 11, eleven years after this nation was attacked, it was an attack which was used to justify two wars and a disman ...
WW4 File: UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR: Conflicting reports beset news of Russian invasion force’s withdrawal from Donbass: Poroshenko initially stated 70% troop draw down, NSDC now says evacuation suspended, R ...
Find the Russian troops: Kiev: Russia has suspended the evacuation of its 1,000 troops from Ukraine. NATO: The original invasion force of 1,000 Russian troops is still in Ukraine. Moscow: What Russian troops? source 1 source 2 source 3 source 4 source 5 source 6
