As he prepares to run for re-election in 2024, is President Vladimir Putin right to claim the worst is over for the Russian economy?"We have overcome all problems that arose after the sanctions were imposed on us and we have started the next stage of development," Putin announced in October.
Top EU officials will raise an array of concerns from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to trade irritants in a summit with Chinese leaders on Thursday that is expected to be long on firm words, but short on outcomes. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in the morning and Premier Li Qiang in the afternoon on their one-day visit to Beijing.
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries will hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday with Ukraine's president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, in a show of support for the country's war against Russia, Japan said on Wednesday. "We'd like to make clear that we stand with Ukraine as the G7" a Japanese government official said, adding the message would be reinforced amid concern that the international community's focus could shift away from Ukraine to the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
Kyrgyzstan has sharply increased its import of goods from all over the world and their export to Russia over the past year and a half. Some product categories have increased tenfold. What other countries re-export Western goods to [dictator Vladimir] Putin’s Russia?
The U.S. seeks to cut Russia's oil and gas revenue by half by the end of the decade, the Financial Times reported on Dec. 1, citing U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt.