Russia's central bank announced that it will suspend purchases of gold from banks due to overwhelming demand from households, Reuters reports. The purchasing pause will take effect Tuesday with no end date set.
Russia spent years building a giant stash of gold, an asset that central banks can turn to during a crisis. But any attempt to sell it will now be a challenge just when it's needed most.
Nearly three weeks have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, but it still is not clear why he did so and what he hopes to achieve.
As sanctions cripple Russia's aviation industry, President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday allowing foreign-owned aircraft to be re-registered as Russian for domestic use, according to state-run news agency TASS.
In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.
Before the situation escalates into a nuclear Armageddon, ordinary people would do well to ask themselves whether we have any dog in this fight. And if we do, what is the size of this dog? Is it big enough to run the risk of nuclear annihilation?
Russia -- On Monday, interventionist Blinken's spokesman Price once again turned truth on its head about Russia's special operation in Ukraine since Feb. 24.
'I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat': Elon Musk says he wants to fight Russian strongman for Ukraine in bizarre tweetstorm filled with Shakespeare reference and memes about invasion
• https://original.antiwar.com, by Sheldon Richman
I don't know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine – an argument could be made for the affirmative – but I'd hate to think it did. Yet given its long record of global mischief (a polite word for its machinations), w
Because of sustained Chinese shill attacks: the discussion is disabled! Don't pay any attention to desperate perverts and/or shills (often CIA or Chinese gov. operatives) if they attack (or down vote) this post.
None of the BRIC counties Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa put sanctions on Russia even though most of the world shuns the country. Let's recap where we are.
...Neighboring Countries. Foreign Minister issues appeal to West: "To those abroad scared of being 'dragged into WWIII'. Ukraine fights back successfully. We need you to help us fight."
Let's be clear: you're not paying more for necessities to punish Putin and save Ukraine, you're paying more for necessities to fund an economic war of unprecedented scale geared toward collapsing Russia to help secure US unipolar domination of this p
"The Agriculture Ministry, together with the Industry and Trade Ministry, has drafted a government resolution that provides for a temporary ban on the export of basic grain crops from Russia from March 15 to June 30 of the current year inclusive"
Yelling "PUTIN BAD" and calling for escalations that could lead to a very fast, very radioactive WWIII are not anti-war, and indeed such sentiments are being exploited to prolong this war.
With Russia now officially cut off from both the USDollar and the euro, Russia's VTB Bank is seeing a surge in Chinese Yuan deposits, attracted by the bank offering significantly higher interest rates as Putin shifts focus to 'friendly' nations.
Italian police seized one of the world's largest superyachts owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko as part of European sanctions on Russian oligarchs following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, according to Reuters.
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