18 May 2022 10:45 am Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is to lose office space and employees in the Bundestag. On Thursday, the SPD, Greens and FDP want to pass a corresponding resolution in a meeting of the budget committee. With Nancy Faeser, the first cabinet member is now also demanding that Schröder be expelled from […]
Apr 21, 2022 1:40 p.m One of the most famous tennis players Novak Djokovic has declared that the Wimbledon organizers’ decision to suspend athletes from Russia and Belarus from the tournament was insane. The organizers justified their decision with the war in Ukraine. Prominent tennis player Novak Djokovic has expressed his opinion regarding the banning […]
16 mar 2022 8:44 am The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the Russian appeal against the ban of Russian football clubs from competitions in Europe. A decision on the exclusion of the Russian national team from the World Cup qualification has not yet been made. Source: Sputnik © ALEXANDER WILF The Russian […]
12 mar 2022 12:33 p.m Turkish business officials say decoupling Russian banks from SWIFT could boost local currency trading. According to the Turkish Exporters Association, the shutdown will not affect shipments of agricultural products to Russia. The exclusion of Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system will boost trade between Russia and Turkey in the […]
4 mar 2022 1:57 p.m Excluding Russia from the UN Security Council is out of the question, the White House spokeswoman announced. Washington also opposes a no-fly zone over Ukraine as it could lead to war between NATO and Russia. Russia is abusing its position on the UN Security Council, but expelling the country from […]
24 Feb 2022 2:11 pm The international payment system SWIFT is also at the center of the discussion about sanctions against Russia. However, the exclusion is considered unlikely. The damage for European donors would be too great. From 2012 to 2016, Iran was banned from SWIFT because of its nuclear program. In 2018, some Iranian […]
27 Jan 2022 06:15 am In an interview with RT DE, the economist Max Otte (CDU), who was asked by the AfD to run for the federal presidency, provides information about his motivation for accepting this nomination. He also talks about the consequences for the “union of values” and his now threatened status as a […]