Source link Such a move would only lead to the emergence of an illegal market and spike in female mortality, Valentina Matvienko says Russia is not going to ban abortions as such restrictions will only complicate the problem, the speaker of the upper chamber of the national parliament, Valentina Matvienko, has said. A possible abortion […]
Source link Big names have been hiking prices faster than their costs increased, says Competition and Markets Authority Many popular grocery suppliers have been pushing up prices by more than their cost, fueling ‘greedflation’, according to a recent report by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). ‘Greedflation’ refers to artificial price increases introduced by […]
Source link Fighting always ends with a diplomatic agreement, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr. says The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will not have a purely military solution, Charles Brown Jr., the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has suggested. During his appearance at the Reagan National Defense […]
Source link Heavy troop losses and Western weapons did not help Ukraine achieve its goals, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said In the six months since Kiev launched its push against Russian defensive lines, it has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 heavy weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated during a ministerial meeting on […]
Source link A Pentagon official has claimed that failure to pass a new budget would hurt recruiting and block new projects Funding for America’s troops will be jeopardized if US lawmakers continue to rely on stopgap funding measures, rather than passing a new Pentagon budget, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr. […]
Source link Eitan Dangot, the ex-coordinator for Palestinian territories, said authorities from the West Bank should replace Hamas It would be in Israel’s best interest if the Palestinian administration from the West Bank filled the vacuum left behind by Hamas in Gaza, if and when the Israeli military succeeds in vanquishing the militant group, a […]
Source link Alexander Schallenberg welcomed the decision to allow Moscow’s foreign minister to attend the OSCE meeting in Skopje this week Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has said he welcomes the decision by the North Macedonian Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) Chairmanship to allow Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend the annual meeting […]
Source link Marianna Budanova has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning, reports claim Marianna Budanova, the wife of the head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), is in a hospital after allegedly being poisoned, the Babel news website claimed on Tuesday, citing intelligence sources. The outlet reported that Budanova was hospitalized after […]
Source link David Arakhamia, the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction, admits his nation’s dependency on the West and the lack of a coherent strategy A few days ago, President Vladimir Zelensky’s most important political ally David Arakhamia gave a long interview to TV presenter Natalya Moseichuk. Both are heavyweights of Ukraine’s public sphere, with […]
Source link The financial sector has withstood “lawless” Western restrictions, Andrey Kostin has told President Putin Russian banks have withstood unprecedented Western sanctions and have had a “highly successful” 2023, the head of the country’s second-largest lender has said. VTB CEO Andrey Kostin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, where they discussed the […]
Source link Hostilities could spread beyond the east and south of the country, the general in charge of Ukraine’s border defense told ABC The frontiers of the Ukrainian conflict could expand if Russia continues to increase arms production while Kiev’s troops are deprived of advanced weapons from Western allies, Lieutenant General Sergey Naev told ABC […]
Source link Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government is “completely helpless,” head of Bavaria Markus Soeder says German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his cabinet have led Germany into a “serious national crisis,” Markus Soeder, the prime minister of the nation’s most populous state, Bavaria, told journalists on Saturday. Berlin can now hardly find a way out of […]
Source link Speaker Laszlo Kover fired a broadside at Berlin and the UN, and even launched a personal attack on the US ambassador Germany is destroying itself faster than under Adolf Hitler’s rule, while the UN is nothing but a front company for propaganda, Hungarian parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover has said. The senior MP, well-known […]
Source link Russia was ready to stop the fighting had Ukraine agreed to remain neutral, but the West advised Kiev to keep going, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction – and the chief negotiator at the Istanbul talks – David Arakhamia admitted on Friday. Arakhamia, who heads the ‘Servant of the People’ parliamentary […]
Source link Vyacheslav Volodin has claimed in a meeting with Xi Jinping that Moscow-Beijing relations are at the strongest point in history Russian State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has led a parliamentary delegation to Beijing, vowing in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to strengthen cooperation between legislatures of the two nations as they […]