4 November 2024
1 year ago
Russian central bank hikes rates by 350 bp to 12% in extraordinary meeting(9% before)
Two explosions occurred at the Talinskoye oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. According to preliminary data, at least 2 people died and 5 were injured. Emergency services are looking for two more.
1 year ago
The CEO of Esfrain Industrial Complex in North Khorasan announced that an explosion occurred in the melting section of this complex and eight people were injured
1 year ago
Rescuers extinguished a flare fire from the valve of a gasoline production unit on the territory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery OJSC in the city of Mozyr, Gomel Region
Zaporizhzhia NPP lost main power source overnight, switched to reserve power line
Chinese Ministry of Commerce: US restrictions on investment in China harm the international trade system
Protest against power blackouts in Machachkala
Biden signs an executive order banning US companies from investing in China's artificial intelligence sector
US officials: The Treasury Department will investigate any violations regarding US investments in technologies in China
@StateDept announcement on visa restrictions for "101 government officials & their affiliates for undermining or harming democratic institutions in Belarus". @SecBlinken reiterates call for release of "all 1,500 political prisoners held by the Lukashenka government"
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against 8 people and 5 organizations connected with the government in Belarus, including Belavia Airlines
30 thousand people were left without electricity in Derbent due to a fire at a substation
1 year ago
Big fire at residential building in Kurchatov
1 year ago
Explosion rocks Derince Port in Turkey. CNN Turk reports that two grain silos have been affected by the explosion
1 year ago
Source in Russian naval vessels operator Rosmorrechflot reporting that drone hit a tanker 30 miles from the Kerch Strait
1 year ago
Putin signed a law on a one-time tax of 10% on excess profits for large companies
Security Service of Ukraine warns of false-flag operation at Mozyr refinery by Wagner PMC1 year ago
Security Service of Ukraine warns of false-flag operation at Mozyr refinery by Wagner PMC
Josep Borrell: We have adopted new sanctions in reaction to Lukashenka regime's human rights violations & repression against the Belarusian people & against its complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine. We stand by the Belarusian people in their quest for peace & democracy. EU imposes new sanctions against 38 people & 3 entities sectoral restrictions on firearms, aviation and space industry
1 year ago
Explosions at the battery factory in Achkasovo of Moscow region
Partial blackout reported in Odesa due to failure at high voltage power line
1 year ago
Blackout and issues with water supplies in Kharkiv after new round of Russian drone strikes
1 year ago
Explosive device exploded at Kuybishevsky refinery in Samara
EU ambassadors also prolonged by 6 months the visa bans and asset freezes on 1800 people/entities that have undermined Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Hungary managed to remove three minor names but wanted to remove as many as 9 initially
EU ambassadors have just approved sanctions on Belarus. Mainly aviation and dual-use goods. More important: no derogation for Belarusian potash. But expect this question to come up again in the autumn
Turkmenistan is ready to implement a project to build a gas pipeline along the bottom of the Caspian Sea in order to transport Turkmen blue fuel to European markets (Trans-Caspian pipeline) - the official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan says
According to Ukrainian nuclear power stations operator Energoatom Russian operators switched 4th unit of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant into “hot stop” operational regime
1 year ago
Russian Central Bank raised the rate to 8.5%
Politico: U.S. invited China and Russia to attend a ministerial meeting on food security during the APEC Forum in August
U.S issues Russia-related general license authorizing wind down and rejection of transactions involving certain blocked entities including Petersburg social commercial bank and Locko bank - treasury website
The U.S. Federal Reserve has officially launched the FedNow instant payments system. Currently, 35 banks and credit unions, along with the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service, are utilizing this cutting-edge service