Source link “Everyone” may end up getting a call, including those who left the country, the defense minister says Ukraine has been working on a single database to list all the potential recruits, with a system to deliver digital conscription notices already in the works, the country’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has revealed. The minister […]
Source link Russia must take urgent action to ensure the “proliferation” of its people, Patriarch Kirill believes Russia must take “extraordinary and effective measures” to fix its demographic situation, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, has said. Speaking during an annual Eparchial meeting in Moscow earlier this week, the Patriarch […]
Source link The deputy head of Zelensky’s office believes the holdouts will have the political will to eventually endorse the document Six EU member states have yet to support a declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine, a senior official in Kiev has said, signaling that the embattled country will continue to court the holdouts. The […]
Source link The French bank had been a controlling shareholder of the Russian lender before it divested amid Ukraine-related sanctions last year Russian lender Rosbank has received permission to buy out the local assets that belong to its former controlling shareholder, French banking group Societe Generale, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin […]
Source link Shipments of crude to China and India have surged as Moscow redirects supplies from the EU Russia has sharply increased oil shipments to China and India this year, Nikolay Tokarev, the CEO of the Russian state-owned pipeline transport company Transneft, told the Rossiya24 broadcaster this week. Russia remained China’s top crude supplier in […]
Source link The unsatisfied demand for workers is stalling economic growth, a researcher says The Russian economy is suffering from a shortage of skilled labor according to a recent study by Nikolay Akhapkin, a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Published in the RAS Herald earlier this week, […]
Source link A group of men escaped under the pretext of delivering aid amid fears of total mobilization in Kiev A group of volunteers, who had been granted exemptions to temporarily leave the country to deliver humanitarian aid, have failed to return to Ukraine and vanished abroad, authorities have said. Under martial law, which Kiev […]
Source link Metropolitan Mark believes medics should refrain from questioning the unborn babies’ “right to live” Russian doctors should drastically change their approach when dealing with pregnant women, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan Diocese said, arguing that it is not just inappropriate but also “criminal” to ask an expectant mother whether she intends to keep the […]
Source link Metropolitan Mark believes medics should refrain from questioning the unborn babies’ “right to live” Russian doctors should drastically change their approach when dealing with pregnant women, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan Diocese said, arguing that it is not just inappropriate but also “criminal” to ask an expectant mother whether she intends to keep the […]
Source link Many Ukrainian officials believe it is “cool” to take bribes, Mikhail Podolyak has said A certain number of Ukrainian public office holders continue to engage in corrupt activities despite the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, said on Saturday, complaining that bribes remain a socially acceptable […]
Source link With hopes of a Ukrainian victory fading, Antti Hakkanenn foresees a long face-off against Moscow The West does not have enough ammunition to prop up Kiev’s forces indefinitely, and without a serious boost in production, the conflict in Ukraine will likely simmer down to “some kind of a new Cold War,” Finnish Defense […]
Source link Russian President Vladimir Putin traditionally sends foreign leaders his holiday wishes in December The leaders of nations Moscow considers “unfriendly” will not be sent traditional New Year and Christmas greetings from President Vladimir Putin this year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Saturday, adding that only Russia’s friends and allies will receive […]
Source link Next year will be worse for the country than 2022 and 2023 combined, an air defense commander has said Ukraine is likely to resort to “total mobilization” next year in a bid to contain Russia, which is superior in many aspects ranging from economic might to personnel reserves, Ukrainian officer Vasily Samovar, who […]
Source link A local parliament committee plans to ask the Russian Constitutional Court to review whether the 1954 handover was legal Crimea’s handover to Kiev in 1954, which made the peninsula part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, was facilitated through an unprecedented number of legal violations, Vladimir Konstantinov, the head of the Crimean parliament, […]
Source link Russian wine lovers are switching from red wine to white and rosé, Maxim Protasov, the head of Roskachestvo, the food quality regulator, told RIA Novosti news agency in an interview published on Saturday. According to Protasov, the trend is strong with regard to both domestic and imported wines. “The trend that needs to […]