Russia has suspended gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract. This is reported by the Onet portal, citing unofficial data in government circles and the energy company PGNiG, as well as Bloomberg.
Onet sources confirmed the information about a significant reduction in gas supplies, and then about their suspension. Russia did not inform Poland about the reasons. Earlier, Poland announced its refusal to pay for Russian gas in rubles
Gazprom denies the suspension of gas supplies to Poland, the company said. At the same time, they reminded that Poland is obliged to pay for gas under the new rules.
The Polish state-owned gas company PGNiG refused to pay for Russian gas supplies in accordance with the new procedure — with mandatory conversion into rubles, it said in a statement.
The Polish oil and gas company PGNIG received a notification from Gazprom that from the morning of April 27, the supply of Russian natural gas will be completely stopped through all points of entry of Russian gas into Poland
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In March, online psychological support services recorded an increase in requests for anxiety, stress and uncontrollable aggression, according to Forbs.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands suspends the issuance of short-term visas to Russian citizens from April 27. At the same time, Russians can still apply for humanitarian visas if they have a temporary residence permit or good reasons.
Gazprom, meanwhile, denies the suspension of gas supplies to Poland, the company said. At the same time, they reminded that Poland is obliged to pay for gas under the new rules.
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The American logistics company UPS has decided to suspend all commercial activities in Russia and Belarus.
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The International Ice Hockey Federation has stripped Russia of the right to host the 2023 World Championship.
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Rosaviatsia gave Aeroflot permission to maintain foreign-made Boeing and Airbus aircraft, which are in the Russian register. About how many aircraft in question, the company did not specify.
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Uzbekistan does not intend to replace Russian gold in foreign markets, Deputy Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of the country Shukhrat Vafaev told RBC. In 2021, Uzbekistan and Russia were among the world leaders in the export of the precious metal
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The German concern Deutsche Bahn and its subsidiary logistics company DB Cargo offer to export grain from Ukraine by rail instead of their traditional export through Ukrainian seaports, whose work is currently blocked, Handelsblatt reports.
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The American media company Discovery Inc., which owns the TV channel of the same name, as well as TLC, Animal Planet and others, more than tripled its net profit in the first quarter of 2022
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Elko grupa, a Latvian distributor of IT products and home appliances, has entered into an agreement to sell all its subsidiaries in Russia and is starting to separate operational and technical business processes, Elko grupa said in a stock report.
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The contractors of the state company Avtodor, whose fleets are 80-90% equipped with road-building equipment of foreign brands, are so far ready to purchase only a thousand units of Russian-made equipment over the next three years. Igor Koval, First Deputy Chairman of the Board for Investment Policy of Avtodor, announced this.
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Global central banks sold 4 tons of gold from international reserves in March after notable purchases of over 32 tons in February, the World Gold Council (WGC) has calculated.
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Information about the strike of couriers in Moscow due to lower payment for orders is not true, RBC was told in the press service of the Delivery Club. As for the tariff, the company explained that they did not reduce it, but changed the structure itself.
Earlier, the strike was reported by the Telegram channel «News of Moscow». According to him, since April 21, couriers have reduced their work fees by an average of 20%
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Every ninth Russian is below the poverty line, that is, his income is below the subsistence level, which is 12,792 rubles. The population in the Russian Federation with incomes below the subsistence minimum is currently 16.1 million people.
Such data are provided by the Center for Monitoring and Analysis of Social and Labor Conflicts of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions (SPbGUP), which estimated the number of Russians living below the poverty line.
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Engineers at the US Naval Science Laboratory have demonstrated the wireless transmission of 1.6 kilowatts of power over a distance of a kilometer using microwave radiation. In the future, the technology could be used to transfer energy from space to Earth.
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German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, after a meeting with Polish Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskva, said that Germany can now abandon Russian oil, Der Tagesspiegel reports.
The newspaper explains that the share of Russian oil in deliveries to Germany is now approximately 12%, and this oil is intended exclusively for a refinery in the city of Schwedt (the federal state of Brandenburg).
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In Pridnestrovie, the simplified regime for crossing the border of the region, including for diplomats, was canceled, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic reported
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Chinese President Xi Jinping urges officials to make sure that China’s GDP growth this year surpasses that of the US
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Kaliningrad Railway (KZD, a branch of Russian Railways) has launched a new transport and logistics project to send container trains from Chernyakhovsk station (Kaliningrad region) to China to Chengxiang station (Fujian province), the press service of the branch reported.
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Bulgaria has refused to pay Gazprom under the new scheme and is waiting for supplies to stop. Gazprom Export LLC has notified Bulgargaz that gas supplies will be stopped from April 27, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy reported.
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The French automaker Renault will transfer its 68% stake in the capital of AvtoVAZ to NAMI with an option to buy over the next 5-6 years, a stake in the Moscow automobile plant CJSC Renault Russia will be transferred to Moscow, Denis, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, told reporters Manturov.
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The title of champion, the winner of the carnival in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday (Wednesday Moscow time) was given to the Grande Rio samba school, according to the Brazilian TV channel Globo.
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Israeli airstrikes hit targets near Damascus early Wednesday morning, Syrian media reported.
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The Central Bank, as the sole shareholder, terminated the powers of members of the Supervisory Board of Otkritie Bank ahead of schedule and approved a new composition. The names of the members of the new composition are not disclosed. The Central Bank is trying to sell the bank from 2021
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The construction of the Russian part of the railway bridge between Russia and China in the Jewish Autonomous Region at the Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang crossing has been completed, an Interfax correspondent reported from the completion ceremony of the construction and supporting infrastructure.
Construction has been underway since 2008 on both sides. On March 21, 2019, the authorities of the Chinese province of Heilongjiang announced that the builders had completed the connection of the bridge across the Amur. The cost of the project exceeds 9 billion rubles. The length of the bridge is 2209 meters, of which the Russian part is 309 m
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The international payment system Visa reflected in its financial statements for the quarter and half year ended March 31, a loss of $35 million as part of general and administrative expenses, Visa said in its financial statements.
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The chain of stores of fixed prices ix Price, in the first quarter of this year, increased its revenue by 21.2%, to 62.6 billion rubles, according to a press release from the company.
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The reusable spacecraft Crew Dragon-4 of the American company SpaceX with four astronauts on board on Wednesday launched to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said.
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Slovakia will continue to pay for Russian gas in euros in accordance with the agreed rules, Slovak Prime Minister Edvard Heger said.
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The lower house of the parliament of Belarus approved amendments to the Criminal Code, providing for tougher penalties for attempted terrorist attacks, up to and including the death penalty.
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Bulgaria expects to receive Azerbaijani gas through the Greece-Bulgaria Interconnector (IGB) in September 2022, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov said during a visit to Greece.
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In the first quarter of 2022, Germany’s largest bank Deutsche Bank AG recorded its highest net profit since 2013. In January-March, Deutsche Bank net profit amounted to 1.23 billion euros compared to 1.04 billion euros in the same period last year
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The ex-head of the Center for Heat Transfer and Aerogas Dynamics (CTA) of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash) Roman Kovalev, who was convicted in 2020 for high treason, has died.
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The German chemical company BASF SE, one of the largest in the world, intends to curtail all activities in Russia and Belarus by July, except for the production of additives for the food industry
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Russia has announced its intention to withdraw from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the organization said on Wednesday.
Russia’s withdrawal from the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will not affect the development of this industry, it will continue its development in domestic and foreign directions, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.
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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer denied information about plans to pay for gas from the Russian Federation in rubles, payments will be made in euros.
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The Swedish AAK, which specializes in the supply of vegetable oils and industrial fats for the food industry, announced that it had decided to leave the Russian market.
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The Asadel holding, which develops the OBI brand in Kazakhstan, is not currently considering the acquisition of OBI assets in Russia, the company told Interfax.
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All Russian and Belarusian truckers detained at the Ukrainian border, whose passes were sought by the Russian Federation, have returned home, Tatiana Moskalkova, human rights ombudsman in the Russian Federation, said on Wednesday.
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The Bulgarian authorities are studying retaliatory measures to Gazprom’s decision to cut off gas supplies to a country that refused to switch to a payment scheme «in rubles». The Bulgarian government intends to revise contracts with Gazprom, including for the transit of gas, which is pumped through the Turkish Stream pipeline to Serbia and Hungary, — Prime Minister Kirill Petkov.
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The German asset management company DWS Group said it would temporarily stop investing in Russian securities.
DWS Group is a former division of Deutsche Bank (until 2018). As of 2020, the company was managing $10 trillion in assets.
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Moscow is expelling eight employees of the Japanese embassy, they must leave Russia by May 10, the Russian Foreign Ministry said
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The company of the director and actor Danila Kozlovsky «DK entertainment» filed a claim for 128.1 million rubles against the Start online cinema. The reason for the appeal was the non-payment by streaming of exclusive rights to the series «Karamora»
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The Federal Penitentiary Service may allow the involvement of IT specialists serving sentences in correctional centers to work for private companies. The IT industry is faced with a «staff shortage», the economy needs about one million IT specialists, Turchak said earlier
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The Bulgarian heat and power company Toplofikatsia Sofia has the gas volumes needed until the end of April and May, Bulgarian national television reported on Wednesday, citing Mayor Yordanka Fandukova.
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$9.34 billion worth of Russian assets have been frozen in Switzerland, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported on Wednesday. Compared with data as of April 7, this amount has increased by more than $1.5 billion.
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The Belarusian Association of Journalists received the UNESCO Prize for Freedom of Speech.
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The President of Ukraine was invited to the G20 summit in Indonesia — Volodymyr Zelensky himself announced this after a conversation with Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
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The EC has proposed to cancel all export duties from Ukraine for a year. The European Commission also plans to suspend anti-dumping and protective measures of the European Union on the export of Ukrainian steel, according to the EC website.
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reported higher-than-expected profits as rising prices for its cars outweighed negative factors related to supply chain problems and the war in Ukraine.
Mercedes-Benz AG group’s adjusted earnings before interest and taxes rose to 5.3 billion euros ($5.64 billion) in the first quarter. Although Mercedes delivered fewer cars during this period, car sales revenues still rose by 8%. The unit’s margin on sales rose to 16.4% in the three months to March, a record high.
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The cost of basic building materials in Russia over the past month has increased by 15-30%, said the president of the National Association of Builders (NOSTROY), which officially participates in monitoring the prices of building resources, Anton Glushkov.
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Switzerland has imposed new sanctions against Russia and Belarus. The new measures include a ban on the import of coal, timber, cement, seafood, caviar, as well as on the export of goods that «may contribute to strengthening the industrial potential of Russia» (such as industrial robots or chemical products).
«In Switzerland, it is no longer possible to register trusts for Russian citizens or individuals or legal entities residing in Russia. Various services for such trusts will also be prohibited,» the message on the website of the government of the Confederation says.
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Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created an ultra-thin speaker — it is as thin as a sheet of paper. When scaled up, it can be produced in rolls to paste over car and aircraft interiors, room walls and any other surface.
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