Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law to allow the conviction of former Ukrainian President Yanukovych, and his close associates, in absentia in Ukraine. The development was posted on the official Ukrainian website. “Yanukovich is stripped of the president’s title precisely by a court ruling as the court establishes the…
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that 8 billion rubles of unallocated subsidies will most likely be added to the Reserve Fund this year. At the current exchange rate, the amount is equivalent to about $140 million. “It has been proposed to boost the fund by another 8 bln rubles…
Russia Says It Will Not Attempt To Shoot Down Further US Missiles.
The targeting of George Soros founded, Central European University in Budapest, by Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban via a new law passed through parliament, which uses a technicality to force the institution to close, has been causing a festering resistance within the Eastern European country. The government sees George Soros as…
The Czech Republic removed the cap on the currency, the crown, against the euro last Friday as inflation was seen under control and the cap no longer necessary. The Czech National Bank had kept the crown at less than 27 to the euro since 2013. The volatility after the action…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish deputy prime minister, and economy minister, said the former member of the Warsaw Pact will attempt to diversify energy imports away from Russia to reduce that country’s ability to use energy as a weapon against the Polish people. The primary alternative to Polish energy supplies will…
Russian Language Baltic News Channel, Baltnews, Accused Of Being Linked To Moscow.
The Russian Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Oreshkin, said last week that the Kremlin expects the price of crude oil to weaken again to the $40 area and stay there. “The basic precondition from the standpoint of oil price is that oil prices will drop to $40 per barrel in…
On of the major casualties of the disastrous Obama administration foreign policy was the loss of trust from Israel in the United States as an unwavering ally. Obama actively tried to undermine the Netanyahu government, even paying for opposition party funding before and during the poll. Obama ‘negotiated’ the Iran…