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In The United States has named the price of gas for Europe under long-term contracts, the European Union has increased LNG purchases after the start of a special operation in Ukraine and a reduction in Russian supplies. According to the IEA, in June last year, for the first time, the EU imported more LNG from the United States than pipeline gas from Russia

The United States is ready to supply natural gas to Europe at a price of $12/Mmbtu (Mmbtu— British thermal unit), but for this it is necessary to conclude long-term contracts, the head of the largest gas producer in the United States, Toby Rice, said at a conference in Abu Dhabi.

“We can deliver gas to the threshold of Europe at a price of $12 per Mmbtu (about $380 per thousand cubic meters), and this will mean a gas price in the US of $4 per Mmbtu,” he said, noting that such a price would be a great deal, especially compared to with the current $20 per Mmbtu.

By the end of 2022, the European Union became the main buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world, ahead of the previous leaders – China, Japan and South Korea. The European Commission called the United States the most important partner for replacing Russian gas supplies, which have sharply declined amid the confrontation between Russia and the West over the conflict in Ukraine, which, along with Qatar, Australia, and Russia, are the largest LNG producers.

The International Energy Agency pointed out that in June last year, LNG supplies from the United States exceeded Gazprom’s exports to Europe for the first time. In November, the State Department indicated that American companies supply 70% of all their LNG exports to Europe.

Unlike pipeline gas, which is usually supplied under long-term contracts, LNG is more often bought on the stock exchange and gas hubs. In the context of a reduction in Russian supplies and increased demand for LNG, gas prices in Europe last summer reached record levels of $3,000 per 1,000 cubic meters. In December, the EU countries agreed on marginal gas prices in the amount of €180 per megawatt·hour (about $2 thousand for 1 thousand cubic meters).

The cost of the February natural gas futures on the index of the most liquid European TTF hub in the Netherlands at the close of trading on Friday, January 13, amounted to €63 per MWh or about $719 per 1 thousand cubic meters, follows from the ICE exchange data.

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InRussian Russian part of the cemetery in Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois makes up 62% of the total area. The lasti of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois did not accept money for the maintenance of the Russian part of the cemetery. This year, the mayor’s office did not accept money from Russia for its maintenance, it became like “a forest where few people go for a walk”

Visible cemetery in Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois

Russian Russian cemetery authorities in Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois (located 30 km south of Paris) refused to accept money from Russia for the maintenance of the Russian part of the local cemetery, Nikolai Lopukhin, chairman of the Committee for the Care of Russian Orthodox Burials, told Le Monde.

“This year, the city did not accept money from the Kremlin to finance the renewal of the lease of land, which expired,” he said. Le Monde writes that this was confirmed by the Russian embassy, and the city hall declined to comment.

RBC sent a request to the press service of the Russian Embassy in France and to the Paris Mayor’s Office.

Russian Russian part of the cemetery has been operating since the late 1920s: in 1927, Princess Vera Meshcherskaya founded a Russian old man’s house in Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois, whose boarders were the first Russian emigrants. Subsequently, they were buried at the local cemetery. Russian grave site Le Monde calls it “the largest Russian necropolis abroad”: according to the Russian government, as of 2016, the Russian sector had more than 5,2 thousand graves. In the same year, the Cabinet of Ministers included it in the list of historical and memorial monuments abroad.

Lopukhin said he was looking for other sources of funding. According to him, the committee’s funds will be enough to lease 22 plots for up to ten years. He is also concerned about the dilapidated state of the cemetery: in 2018 and 2020, inspections organized by the Russian side showed that 45% of the graves need restoration. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the armed conflict in Ukraine, Moscow had to abandon this project.

According to Le Monde, the suspension of funding from Russia threatens the future of the Russian part of the cemetery – 62% of the total area. The publication notes that after the start of the military operation in Ukraine in February last year, the number of visitors who tended the graves has decreased, and this site now looks like a forest where few people go for a walk.

Writers Ivan Bunin and Nadezhda Taffy, ballerinas Matilda Kshesinskaya and Olga Preobrazhenskaya, artists Zinaida Serebryakova and Konstantin Korovin, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev are buried in Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois. The grave of the latter, which Radio France calls a work of art, is decorated in the form of an oriental carpet; his sketch was created by set designer Ezio Frigerio.

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AboutUkrainian Ombudsman: Turkey has offered to open a humanitarian corridor for the wounded A humanitarian corridor for the return of civilians and wounded soldiers to Russia and Ukraine could be opened in Turkey, Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. Tatiana Moskalkova stated that she did not discuss its creation

Dmitry Lubinets

The Turkish authorities have proposed to launch a humanitarian corridor between Russia and Ukraine on their territory for the return of wounded military and civilians, Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said on the air of the national telethon.

“The idea of the Turkish side looks like they want to become intermediaries. They want to use their channels of communication with the Russian authorities and civilians or wounded military personnel to first return from Russia to Turkey, and after that they will return to Ukraine,” Lubinets said (quoted by UNN). He noted that so far this is only a proposal that the parties are discussing.

In an interview with Ukrinform, Lubinets noted that the idea of creating a humanitarian corridor arose during a conversation with Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova and Turkish colleague Sheref Malkoch in Ankara. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that he supports its opening and is going to discuss the proposal with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia. Erdogan noted that the corridor could be used by wounded from other countries: Syria, Azerbaijan and Libya.

According to Lubinets, Turkey “has certain opportunities to influence Russia’s position on certain issues so that it fulfills agreements and activates processes.” He noted Ankara’s mediation in concluding a food deal that allows grain to be withdrawn from Ukrainian ports, stuck in the country after the outbreak of hostilities.

Lubinets and Moskalkova held several rounds of negotiations in Turkey. The Russian Ombudsman said on January 12 that the topic of the humanitarian corridor was not discussed at them, the military departments of the countries are talking about issues of a “global, strategic nature.” The Commissioner urged “not to replace state bodies, but to act in a coordinated manner.”

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Withtoltenberg on relations with Russia after the settlement in Ukraine: as before, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Western countries “should not underestimate Russia,” which has “huge resources”

Jens Stoltenberg

We should not expect normalization of relations between NATO and Russia after the end of the conflict in Ukraine, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, Handelsblatt reports.

“As before, it won’t. Even if the guns are silenced in Ukraine, we should not expect that our relations with Russia will normalize,” he said (quoted by TASS).

The NATO Secretary General also expressed the opinion that now the decisive stage of the conflict in Ukraine has come and Kiev needs to supply weapons for victory. He said that Western countries “should not underestimate Russia”, which has “huge resources”.

“We are in a decisive phase of the war,” Stoltenberg believes.

He called the commitments made by the alliance countries to supply heavy military equipment to Kiev important and expects more military assistance in the near future.

After the start of the Russian special operation, the Ukrainian authorities repeatedly asked Western countries to supply heavy military equipment, including tanks and fighter jets. The United States, Germany and France in January promised to supply Ukraine with dozens of infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs)Bradley, Marder and AMX-10 RC, and the UK announced the transfer of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Kiev.

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Germany has so far evaded the transfer of German Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Poland and Finland wanted this, but in order to send tanks to Kiev, they need to get Berlin’s consent. Bloomberg, citing sources, wrote that the German government is likely to approve this next week. At the same time, the Leopard manufacturer, German Rheinmetall, indicated that if Germany agrees, the tanks can be delivered no earlier than next year.

Russia has repeatedly criticized the military support of Kiev from the West. The Kremlin stated that this would not interfere with the goals of the special operation, and also expressed the opinion that Western arms supplies would bring Ukraine “more suffering”.

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Sky News: The British authorities have denied the supply of Apache helicopters to Ukraine, The Mirror newspaper wrote about the supply of American-made Apache attack helicopters, citing a source. The note was later deleted

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The British Ministry of Defense called the information untrue in an article by The Mirror, which reported that London would send Apache attack helicopters equipped with Hellfire missiles to Kiev. Sky News correspondent Deborah Haines wrote about this on Twitter.

“The Ministry of Defense says that the Daily Mirror article, which claims that the UK will send Apache attack helicopters to Ukraine, is incorrect,” the journalist wrote.

She also cited a link to the British government’s January 14 message on new assistance to Ukraine and said that British Defense Minister Ben Wallace would provide more detailed information on this on Monday.

On the eve of the British government announced that it would send Kiev 14 Challenger 2 tanks and about 30 self-propelled artillery units (ACS) AS-90. The message indicated that the training of the APU to control this technique will begin in the coming days. In general, over the past six months, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in Britain, the British government noted.

At the same time, The Mirror, citing a source in the defense sector, wrote that following the Challenger 2 tanks, London will send up to four Apache attack helicopters to Ukraine. Now the material of the publication is not available.

The interlocutor of the publication claimed that we are talking about the transfer of Apache AH64 E — the most modern version of helicopters that can destroy several targets in seconds. “Apache will change the rules of the game,” the source said.

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Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American-made helicopter. It can be equipped with up to 16 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, 76 70mm Hydra missiles and a 30mm autocannon. Four Apaches are capable of instantly destroying an entire regiment of 70 tanks, the publication wrote. The helicopters are equipped with Rolls Royce engines, can reach speeds of up to 186mph (about 300 km/h) and detect more than 250 potential targets at a distance of up to 10 miles (16 km). The cost of one Apache is estimated at about $85.6 million

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Initse-Prime Minister ruled out Georgia’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons, Thea Tsulukiani, explaining Tbilisi’s refusal of military assistance to Kiev, said that the authorities would not allow the country to be involved in an armed confrontation

Thea Tsulukiani

Georgia will not allow itself to be involved in a military conflict, Deputy Prime Minister Thea Tsulukiani said, explaining Tbilisi’s refusal of military assistance to Kiev. Her words are quoted by Sputnik Georgia.

The Charge d’affaires of Ukraine in Georgia, Andrei Kasyanov, wrote in an article for “European Truth” that Kiev asked Tbilisi to return the Buk complexes transferred in 2008 and Javelin received from the United States, but he refused. In response, the Georgian Defense Ministry explained that it had bought the Buk systems in 2007 for several million dollars.

“There is only one answer,” the Georgian authorities will not allow the state of Georgia to be involved in a military confrontation. Therefore, we will not provide military-type assistance, of course, to any of the parties to the military conflict, especially since, as far as I know, we are talking about the transfer of such weapons that we have acquired, but this is just a detail,” Tsulukiani said on the air of Channel One.

The Georgian side does not agree to supply weapons to Ukraine, not wanting to become a party to the conflict, the military department explained. The adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, in response to Georgia’s unwillingness to help with weapons, said that even after ten and a half months of hostilities, she does not understand which side she should be on.

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In Peru, including the capital Lima, declared a state of emergency due to the protests, a state of emergency has been declared, including in the regions of Puno, Cusco, Lima and Callao. Puno residents were forbidden to leave the house from 20:00 to 4:00

The government of Peru has declared a state of emergency in some regions of the country, including in the capital Lima, because of the protests since January 15, LaRepublica newspaper writes. A special regime has been introduced for 30 days.

“Declare from January 15, 2023, for a period of 30 calendar days, a state of emergency in the regions of Puno, Cusco, Lima, Callao, in the province of Andahuailas of the Apurimac region, the provinces of Tambopata and Tauamanu of the Madre de Dios region, as well as in the city of Torata of the province of Mariscal Nieto of the Moquegua region,”mdash; the decree says.

The internal order will be maintained by the National Police of Peru and the armed forces.

The decree also applies to five highways, including the Southern and Northern Pan-American Highways. In addition, Puno residents are forbidden to leave the house from 20:00 to 4:00. The ban is valid for ten days.

Protests in Puno, Arequipa, Cusco and other regions in the south of the country began in December 2022, after Dina Boluarte came to power after the resignation of President Pedro Castillo. Castillo was impeached in response to his decision to dissolve Congress and declare a state of emergency. The ousted leader was accused of an attempted coup, hearrested. Castillo’s supporters are demanding early elections, the dissolution of parliament and the resignation of Boluarte. On January 9, as a result of clashes with security forces in Hulyak (Puno region), 18 protesters and one policeman were killed.

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In Tel Aviv 80 thousand protesters demanded to cancel the reform of the Supreme Court of Israel Netanyahu’s government wants to reduce the powers of the Supreme Court and gain control over the selection of judges, this has led to thousands of protests in recent weeks. The prime minister’s cousin compared the actions of the authorities with the Nazis

An opposition rally was held in Gabima Square in Tel Aviv demanding to cancel the reform of the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice, writes JPost. The publication indicates that more than 80 thousand people took part in the demonstration, the organizers of the protest action say about 100 thousand participants.

Thousands of people also gathered in Haifa and near the residence of Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog in Jerusalem, and about 200 demonstrators took to the Ha-Shalom highway, but were stopped by the police, who detained those trying to circumvent the barrier. In addition, the police detained protesters who were unfurling Palestinian flags, according to the instructions of the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who ordered in early January to remove Palestinian flags from public places.

A cousin of the current Prime Minister, Dan Netanyahu, spoke at the rally, who compared the government’s actions with the measures of the Nazis in the first half of the last century, which eliminated legal obstacles in Germany on the way to obtaining full power.

“The government in Israel has entered into a war against the very democratic institutions in order to rule without restrictions. No debate, no legitimate criticism, just a political coup. No, the elections do not allow those in power to destroy democracy itself,” former Justice Minister Cipni Livni said at the rally.

At the end of December last year, the Israeli parliament confirmed Netanyahu’s government, formed based on the results of the elections held in November.Netanyahu became prime minister for the third time. The new head of the Ministry of Justice, Yariv Levin, proposed a legal reform, which assumed that the powers of the Supreme Court of Justice would be limited in relation to laws and government decisions, and the Cabinet of Ministers would also gain control over the selection of judges.

The opposition believes that the reform threatens the democratic foundations of Israel, the first rally was held on January 7 in Tel Aviv, then 30 thousand people took part in it. “The achievements of the High Court, which contributed to the development of society and benefited everyone, are now in serious danger,” the collective letter of the formerThe Attorneys General of Avichayamandelblitai Yehudyvainstein, the former Chairman of the Supreme Court of Aaronabarak and the former Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Elyakimarubinstein.

Netanyahu demanded an end to the protests.

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MForeign Defense: The SBU wants to set off an explosion at a granary near Kharkov to accuse Russia, the SBU intends to blow up a granary in the Kharkiv region in order to then accuse Russia of provoking famine, according to the Defense Ministry. According to the ministry, Kiev thus wants to convince the West to increase the supply of weapons

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is engaged in mining a granary in the east of the country, Kiev plans to accuse Moscow of undermining and “deliberately destroying grain stocks.” This was announced by the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of Russia for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, the publication is posted on the telegram channel of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The explosion is planned to be staged in the city of Karaichnoye, Kharkiv region, Russia will be accused of “provoking hunger” and “disrupting” the grain export deal from Ukrainian ports, the report says. The Ministry claims that the Western media intend to present the incident as “another atrocity of the Russian troops”, requiring “a tough response from the world community”.

The Russian Defense Ministry linked these data to the “military failures of the Ukrainian army”, explaining the plans by Kiev’s intention to achieve an increase in military support from Western countries before the meeting of Western defense ministers on January 20 at the Ramstein base.

A group of SBU officers and mine-blasting specialists has already arrived in Volchansk, their total number does not exceed 30 people, they are now stationed at the Volchansk military enlistment office, the ministry said in a statement. It also says that the granary is owned by a freelance employee of the Security Service of Ukraine V. Uvarov, the group is headed by A. Tkachuk.

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The parties have repeatedly made counter-accusations on the process of implementing the agreements. Thus, by the end of December, the Russian Foreign Ministry did not see “real progress” in the implementation of agreements regarding agricultural exports from Russia. Food producers and suppliers continue to “face blocking of bank payments, prohibitive insurance rates and denial of access to ports,” the agency insists.

In turn, the Administration of Seaports of Ukraine (AMPU) accused Russia of creating a long queue of ships that move along the grain corridor. According to her, the Russian side “slows down inspections of vessels, which is why they have to wait in line for an average month”.

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PFinnish resident Niinisto: Putin “went all in” in Ukraine Niinisto also spoke about the easy reaction of the Russian president to Finland’s plans to join NATO. In his opinion, Moscow decided to “ignore it”

Sauli Niinisto

A really disturbing event for Helsinki was the statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the entry of the republics of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into the country forever, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

“I interpreted it as if he was putting everything on the war, talking about “[joining] forever.” He played poker and went all-in. It still bothers me that we are dealing with someone who goes to all lengths without being able to win everything. And what does it mean if you lose, if you bet everything?— continued Niinisto.”The worst thing is that there is no end in sight.”

The determination of Ukrainians was underestimated, Joseph Stalin made a similar mistake before the start of the Soviet-Finnish War, believing that Soviet troops would take Helsinki in two weeks, he continued. Speaking about the way to achieve peace for Ukraine, the President of Finland said that “it is difficult to regain its territory”, and recalled that his country had made a difficult decision on a peace agreement with the Soviet Union, having lost part of the territory. At the same time, he stressed that only Ukrainians should determine what will become a just world.

Niinisto said he was surprised by Putin’s easy reaction to Finland’s decision to join NATO. In his opinion, Moscow decided “not to pay attention to it”, one of the reasons the Finnish president called the unwillingness of the Russian government to say that “now we have a new problem in Northern Europe”. “What you did is wrong, of course,” [Putin] said, but it’s not so disturbing,” he retold to Niinista the contents of the conversation with the president of Russia.

The Finnish authorities decided to apply to NATO in mid-May, until today this process is blocked by Turkey, which requires the fulfillment of a number of conditions, in particular, to extradite members of the Ankara-recognized terrorist organization PKK.

Putin called Helsinki’s decision a mistake, recalling that the country had previously adhered to neutrality, and stressing that Russia does not pose a threat. “Such a change in the country’s foreign policy course may negatively affect Russian-Finnish relations,” he noted. At the same time, his representative Dmitry Peskov called the prospect of Finland joining NATO an unconditional threat to Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that in such a scenario, Moscow “will be forced to take retaliatory steps both of a military-technical and other nature”.

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Niinisto phoned Putin at that time, in mid-May. According to him, the dialogue was cold-blooded. The President of Finland said that he called because he was worried about possible “military-technical measures” of counteraction, which were mentioned in Moscow’s warnings.

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