Putin Is Shipping Grain to Africa. The Largesse Comes With a Price
Russia is distributing free grain to countries facing food shortages, and in return it’s getting some valuable political support…
Putin is trying to solve a ‘trilemma’ in Russia’s fragile wartime economy now, a former Russian official says
Russia reported 5.5% GDP growth in the third quarter of this year — reversing a 3.5% decline in the same period last year…
A defiant Putin renewed calls for countries to trade with Russia using local currencies in his first international appearance after the failed Wagner mutiny
The Russian President said 80% of the trade between Russia and China is now transacted in the Chinese yuan and the ruble…
Russia’s Putin rebuts key elements of African peace plan for Ukraine
Russia’s Putin rebuts key elements of African peace plan for Ukraine
Putin orders stronger Russian border security
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered stronger border security to ensure “fast” Russian military and civilian movement into Ukrainian regions now under Moscow control. Speaking in a congratulatory message to the border service, a branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), on their Border Guard Day holiday…
Putin has destroyed Russia’s most important oil market – and what’s next for crude prices depends on him and Xi Jinping, energy expert Daniel Yergin says
Europe just set a $60 price cap on Moscow’s oil — so the Russian president has “basically destroyed his most important market,” Dan Yergin said…
Putin called an additional 300,000 men into the military a month ago, and it’s taking a toll on the economy
Russia’s energy sector is still holding up despite the sanctions, but the mobilization of men is hitting its economy, per the country’s central bank…
Putin Is Set to Halt Gas and Germany Fears It’s Not Coming Back
Maintenance on a critical pipeline to Europe is an opportunity for the Kremlin to further squeeze the continent…
Putin has awakened a ‘dark nationalism he is more and more dependent on,’ says Russian political analyst
The truth is that Putin is more afraid of pro-war protests,” Russian analyst Tatiana Stanovaya writes for the magazine Foreign Policy…
Putin is no longer interested in negotiating with Ukraine and just wants to seize as much territory as possible instead, report says
Vladimir Putin initially believed in a peace deal with Ukraine but has since changed his mind, sources close to him told the Financial Times…
Putin says Russia must undergo a ‘self-cleansing of society’ to purge ‘bastards and traitors’ as thousands flee the country
Putin said the “self-cleaning of society” would “strengthen our country, our solidarity, togetherness, and our readiness…
Putin puts nuclear deterrent on alert as West rallies behind Ukraine,
KYIV/MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities. The United States said Putin was escalating the war in a “totally unacceptable” way…
Putin says West has not addressed main concerns in Ukraine standoff
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday the United States and NATO had not addressed Moscow’s main security demands in their standoff over Ukraine but that it was ready to keep talking. The United States for its part said Russia now had the capability to act against Ukraine after massing troops on its…
Putin Says Can Ship More Gas to EU Once Nord Stream 2 Approved
Bloomberg) — Russia is able to start gas deliveries via the controversial Nord Stream 2 link immediately after it gets regulatory approval, according to Vladimir Putin. “The first pipe of Nord Stream 2 is filled with gas. If the German regulator allows supplies tomorrow, deliveries will begin the day after tomorrow,” the Russian president said…
Putin Is Betting Coal Still Has a Future
(Bloomberg) — European governments are drawing up plans to phase out coal, U.S. coal-fired power plants are being shuttered as prices of clean energy plummet, and new Asian projects are being scrapped as lenders back away from the dirtiest fossil fuel.And Russia? President Vladimir Putin’s government is spending more than $10 billion on railroad upgrades…