Source link The pledge comes amid a halt in US contributions and Kiev’s increasing clamor for arms following its failed counteroffensive Germany will shell out more than €7 billion ($7.6 billion) on military aid for Ukraine this year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. Late last year, Bild reported that Berlin was going to double its […]
Source link Approval by US regulators of exchange-traded funds that invest directly in world’s top crypto could reportedly drive up the price Bitcoin could surge to record highs this year following a landmark approval of the first-ever spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to a report by […]
Source link Temperatures were “very likely” the highest in 100,000 years, an EU climate watchdog has said The year 2023 was the hottest on record and likely the hottest in tens of thousands of years, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) revealed in its annual Global Climate Highlights report published on Tuesday. With a […]
Source link The country will nearly meet its consumer price index target in 2024, economist Aleksander Isakov forecasts Inflation in Russia will be lower this year, as the government will nearly meet its 4.0 – 4.5% target, Bloomberg Economics reported on Monday, citing Aleksandr Isakov, its leading expert on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. […]
Source link The term ended up in the spotlight as MPs in Kiev are reviewing controversial measures to call up more soldiers to fight Russia The word ‘mobilization’ has been declared the word of the year amid Kiev’s attempts to replenish battlefield losses and its plans to call up an additional 500,000 conscripts, according to […]
Source link Elvira Nabiullina embarks on a new decade, steering the sanctioned country’s financial landscape though a maze of Western sanctions Russian Market is a project by a financial blogger, Swiss journalist and political commentator based in Zurich. Follow him on X @runews Elvira Nabiullina’s ten-year stewardship at the forefront of the Bank of Russia, marked by […]
Source link Some 3,000 foreign citizens were apprehended by police in St. Petersburg on New Year’s Eve, with hundreds of them found to be in Russia in violation of migration laws, according to media reports. St. Petersburg police were out in full force ensuring the protection of public order and security during New Year’s Eve […]
Source link Police in France and Germany made hundreds of arrests over New Year’s Eve as mobs torched vehicles and shot fireworks at officers. Nevertheless, authorities in both countries described the night as more “peaceful” than last year. Authorities in Berlin deployed 4,500 police officers to the streets of the German capital in anticipation of […]
Source link Kiev’s shelling of Donetsk at midnight on Monday killed four people, with 13 injured, according to local officials Only violent savages could stoop so low as to attack civilians on New Year’s night, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, referring to a Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk that left several people dead. […]
Source link The Moscow Zoo has released a video of a giant panda male named Zhui opening its New Year gifts. Zhui, who recently became a father, excitedly inspected a shiny bundle decorated with mandarin oranges before moving on to another gift in the shape of a festive tree while munching on bamboo shoots. Zhui […]
Source link The US president got no New Year’s greetings from the Kremlin as relations are at an all-time low Most Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have not received New Year’s congratulations from Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the Ukraine conflict continues. On Saturday, the Kremlin published Putin’s felicitations to leaders of countries […]
Source link Gold prices are expected to rally further in 2024 as lingering uncertainty about the prospects for the global economy spurs safe-haven demand for the metal, Reuters reported this week, citing industry experts. Bullion finished the year at $2,063 per ounce, surging more than 13% year-on-year in its first annual gain in three years, […]
Source link From Ukraine to Israel to China, the chaos of the past year saw the American hold on the reins of the world slip By Timur Fomenko, political analyst As we conclude the year 2023, we look back on another 12 months of global turmoil, upheaval, and uncertainty. Conflicts such as the war in Ukraine […]
Source link The outgoing year is set to become the best in history for Russian banks, which saw their profits soar despite Western sanctions on the economy, the Vedomosti news outlet reported on Tuesday, citing central bank data. According to the report, the cumulative profit of the country’s banking sector has exceeded 3 trillion rubles […]
Source link Violence in the Palestinian territory has reached “unprecedented levels,” the United Nations body says The UN’s agency for children, UNICEF, has deemed 2023 the deadliest year on record for young people living in the occupied West Bank, amid stepped-up Israeli police and military action stemming from the ongoing war in Gaza. In a […]