A BBC producer has shown a new video showing the destruction of the “Northern Streams”. The sabotage on the gas pipelines occurred at the end of September. Who undermined the flows is still unknown.
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ToGerman Chancellor Scholz: the root cause of the crisis in the EU was not the fighting in Ukraine, they accelerated the process of fighting in Ukraine and COVID-19 accelerated the end of the period of low inflation for the West, but they were not the main reason, the German Chancellor believes. He explained the trend by the growth of incomes in Asian countries, where previously there were cheap productions
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The time of “economic exclusivity” for Europe and North America could not exist for long, during which the inhabitants of these continents could enjoy low inflation, stable economic growth and low unemployment. This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at an economic summit organized by Süddeutsche Zeitung. His words are quoted by the publication.
“Russia’s war and the economic consequences of the pandemic may have accelerated its end. But they were not the reason for this,” Scholz believes.
The Chancellor pointed out that for decades Vietnam, Indonesia and similar countries produced goods at relatively low prices, products were sent mainly to Europe, North America and, eventually, to China. Now, he continued, 1 billion people in this region have become the middle class with the corresponding purchasing power. Scholz explained that this has become one of the main causes of inflation, but at the same time a great success story created by globalization.
Speaking about the current situation with energy supplies to Germany, the Chancellor noted: “[That’s what it means to become too dependent on such a strategically important resource as gas. Scholz stressed that this mistake will not be repeated a second time. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, this means that Germany will look for other markets and sources of supplies besides China.
Scholz noted that the world expected big problems for Germany due to the termination of gas supplies from Russia, but this did not happen. “Everyone is very impressed with what we did, how quickly we did it and that we really did it,” the head of the German government pointed out.
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The IMF calls the prospects for the global economy gloomy, explaining the dynamics of the situation by the fighting in Ukraine and related sanctions, which worsened food security and the energy crisis, weak growth rates in China amid restrictive measures due to the pandemic and the crisis in the real estate market, as well as high inflation in a number of countries.
“The problems facing the global economy are huge, and the weakening of economic indicators indicates that new challenges are ahead of us,” says Tryggvi Gudmundsson, an economist at the IMF research department.
The fund believes that more than a third of the global economy will shrink in 2022 or 2023, and stagnation will continue in the three largest economies (the USA, the EU and China). IMF Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gurinsha described the prospects in the words “the worst is ahead”.
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La Repubblica: The EU may postpone the decision on the gas price ceiling until December, the publication indicates that, according to the EU plan, the price ceiling should begin to operate under conditions that have not yet been met. EU ministers intend to finalize the project and postpone the final decision until December, writes La Repubblica
The ministers of energy security of the EU countries will probably not be able to reach an agreement on limiting prices for Russian gas at a meeting on November 24, so the decision may be postponed until the next summit, which will be held on December 19. This is reported by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
According to the publication, the concept of a price ceiling in the current proposal is virtually absent, and the conditions for its introduction have not yet been met. So, according to the EU plan, the restriction comes into force if the gas price for at least two weeks exceeds 275 per 1 MWH on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, and the difference with the LNG price should be greater than 58 for at least ten days.
As La Repubblica points out, even at times of peak prices, these two conditions were not met simultaneously, and the adoption of the project in its current form may cause gas prices to rise in Europe.
The introduction of marginal prices for Russian gas in September was supported by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. At that time, she noted that the EU countries managed to fill gas storage facilities by 80% even earlier than planned. However, the final agreement could not be reached. According to the FT, at least ten EU countries supported the introduction of a price ceiling for all suppliers, not just from Russia.
Against the background of gas shortages in Europe, prices for energy resources and products have increased. The European Commission has warned residents of EU countries about the upcoming difficult winters due to the energy crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about plans to limit prices for Russian energy carriers, threatened to “block” oil and gas for countries where political decisions will be made that contradict contractual obligations. “We will only have one thing left: as in the famous Russian fairy tale, to sentence: “Freeze, freeze, wolf’s tail,” the head of state said.
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PAsechnik: there are over 600 LPR servicemen in Ukrainian captivity, the head of the LPR noted that soldiers in Ukrainian captivity, in addition to moral humiliation, are subjected to physical violence, torture and beatings. He also accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of ignoring violations by Kiev
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There are over 600 LPR servicemen in Ukrainian captivity, but the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) does not provide accurate data, Leonid Pasechnik, the acting head of the republic, said in an interview with Izvestia.
“We can only talk about the number of servicemen held captive by the VFU (Ukrainian armed formations) according to our lists, which were formed on the basis of statements by their relatives. At the moment, this is 640 applications,” the head of the region said.
Pasechnik noted that the authorities are making every effort to release every soldier, but the process is difficult due to the inconsistent position of the Ukrainian side, which has repeatedly disrupted agreements.
According to him, soldiers in Ukrainian captivity, in addition to moral humiliation, are subjected to physical violence, torture and beatings. In addition, the human rights defenders of the LPR revealed facts of false information about the causes of death of prisoners held in Ukraine, but the ICRC ignored this because of its “political bias”, said Pasechnik.
“The Luhansk People’s Republic has repeatedly drawn attention to the violation by Ukrainian nationalists of the norms of international humanitarian law, including with regard to prisoners of war,” he stressed.
The LPR, as well as the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, were incorporated into Russia by decree of President Vladimir Putin on October 5. The acting head of the LPR was a beekeeper who led the region since November 2017.
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After the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the parties repeatedly reported on the exchange of prisoners of war. The previous exchange of prisoners took place on November 10 according to the formula “35 to 35”, the Beekeeper reported. “35 servicemen of the People’s Militia of the LPR returned home from Ukrainian captivity,” he wrote then. A few days later, the exchange was confirmed by the Ukrainian side.
Before that, in early November, the Russian Defense Ministry announced an exchange according to the formula “107 to 107”. The Russian military were taken to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation. “All those released are provided with the necessary medical and psychological assistance,” the department added at the time.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense does not provide official data on how many Russian military remain in Ukrainian captivity.
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TschEmezov announced that Rostec supplied weapons to the troops ahead of schedule Ahead of schedule, the weapons of the Ministry of Defense were handed over by Uralvagonzavod. The company has already sent the department lots of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A, T-90M tanks and self-propelled howitzers “Malka”. The work at the factories goes in three or four shifts, Chemezov added
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The enterprises of the Rostec state corporation are increasing the production of military products within the framework of the state defense order, some of them are delivered to the troops ahead of schedule. This was stated by the Director General of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov in an interview with TASS.
“Today, the enterprises of the state corporation are doing everything possible to increase the production of military products. Employees of Uralvagonzavod, Tsniitochmash, Kalashnikov Concern, High-Precision Complexes Holding, enterprises of the United Aircraft Corporation and other enterprises working on the state defense order work in three or four shifts. The Ministry of Defense regularly receives new batches of aviation equipment, armored vehicles, artillery systems, small arms, equipment and much more,” he said.
Uralvagonzavod in September prematurely shipped a batch of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A to the Ministry of Defense and handed over another batch of T-90M tanks, Chemezov said. In October, a batch of self-propelled howitzers “Malka” was sent to the department ahead of schedule, he added.
In addition, a new batch of Su-35S fighters produced by the aviation plant named after him was transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces in September. Gagarin in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, said the head of the state corporation. A batch of other Su-57 2022 fighters, according to him, is almost ready and will soon be handed over to the customer. The plant is also expanding production to increase the production of the Su-57, he said.
According to Chemezov, the state corporation accounts for almost half of the total state defense order. In recent years, it has been executed almost one hundred percent, the head of Rostec added.
Earlier, the Russian government approved targets to meet army needs. The day before, this was announced by the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting of the coordinating council for ensuring the needs of the Armed Forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on its creation on October 21. The Council was created to promptly take measures to “fulfill the target task in all key areas”. Mishustin listed among them the supply of equipment and equipment for the military, construction work and the provision of transport.
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In addition, the government allowed nine departments (the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, Ministry of Emergency Situations, FSO, SVR, FSIN, Rosgvardiya, Rosrezerv and the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of Russia) to make public procurement for the needs of the special operation under a simplified procedure.
“The solution will make it possible to purchase ammunition and other goods faster for the units participating in the SVO, promptly repair military and special equipment, as well as perform other tasks related to the defense and security of the state,” the government order said.
Mishustin instructed all nine departments to monitor the relevance of production plans, clarify them in time and adjust them taking into account incoming applications.
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Pthe Agency has approved the rules for marking materials of foreign agents The requirements stipulate that notifications of materials of foreign agents should last at least 15 seconds, the font size of the notification should be twice the font size of the material, etc. The resolution comes into force on December 1
The Russian government has approved the requirements for the placement of notifications before materials published by foreign agents, the corresponding decree was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
This resolution, in particular, defines the rules for the placement of instructions provided for in Parts 3 and 4 of Article 9 of the Law “On the Control of the Activities of Persons under Foreign Influence”. The law states that materials distributed by a foreign agent or by the founder, member, participant, head of an organization included in the register of foreign agents must be marked with an indication that this information is distributed by a foreign agent or concerns its activities.
The resolution states that the corresponding instruction in text or audio form must be in Russian, the font size of the text instruction must be twice the font size of the text material. The indication must be published at the beginning of each text material under the heading, and if it is not, then before the beginning of the material. It is also noted that the duration of the demonstration of a text indication in an audiovisual material at the beginning of the broadcast of such material should be at least 15 seconds.
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The indication form should look like this:
«This material (information) ______ (produced, distributed and (or) sent) ______ (surname, first name, patronymic) ______, who is ______ (founder, member, participant, manager or a person who is part of the body of persons specified in Part 4 of Article 9 of the Federal Law “On Control over the Activities of Persons under Foreign Influence”) ______ included in the Register of Foreign Agents”.
The concept of “foreign agent” was first introduced into Russian legislation in 2012. At first, it applied only to NGOs engaged in political activities. The law on Foreign Media in Russia was adopted in 2017. In 2019, amendments were made to the legislation, which determined the possibility ofassignment of the status of a foreign agent to individuals and legal entities if they distribute or participate in the creation of information of foreign media and are financed in one form or another from abroad. By the end of 2020, the concept of unregistered public associations performing the functions of a foreign agent appeared in the legislation.
The legislation contains a number of prohibitions and restrictions on persons involved in the lists of foreign agents. The messages and materials of the foreign media should be distributed on the territory of Russia with the appropriate labeling. The dissemination of information about the NGO-foreign agent, NGO-foreign agent, natural person-foreign agent should also be accompanied by labeling. Administrative responsibility is established for violation of this requirement. From February 1, 2020, foreign media can distribute information only through Russian legal entities established by them, also performing the functions of a foreign agent.
In addition, foreign agents cannot receive state funding when carrying out creative activities, teach and conduct educational activities among minors, produce information products for minors, as well as participate in the procurement of goods, works and services to meet state and municipal needs. NGOs and individuals who are foreign agents must report to the authorities about their activities and expenses.
According to the latest data, the number of media-foreign agents in Russia is 200 people and organizations; NGOs-foreign agents- 64 organizations; unregistered public associations performing the functions of a foreign agent, 10 structures.
The work of foreign agents without being included in the register may entail both administrative and criminal penalties. The maximum penalty for the management of organizations and media-foreign agents in this case is imprisonment for up to two years. For individuals-foreign agents – imprisonment for up to five years (Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). Criminal punishment is also threatened for malicious evasion of the duties of a foreign agent, including for the lack of labeling and reporting.
In mid-July, President Vladimir Putin signed a law “On the control of the activities of persons under foreign influence”. According to it, in order to be recognized as a foreign agent, it will not even be necessary to receive funding from any foreign source. It will be possible to get into the register, including for “support due toabroad”or being under “foreign influence”. The concept of an individual affiliated with foreign agents is also introduced (they are entered into different registers), and the procedure for inclusion and exclusion from the register is described. Now Russia will have a single register of foreign agents instead of the existing four. The law will come into force on December 1.
Earlier this month, Mishustin signed an order according to which the Ministry of Justice will be able to publish in the unified register of foreign agents the personal data of individuals added to it. In addition to the full name and date of inclusion in the register, we are talking about INN, SNILS, date and basis of inclusion in the list with specific provisions of the law.
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GSevastopol’s ubernator: the target of the drone attack was the Balaklava thermal power plant, Governor Razvozhaev recalled that on November 22, 2015, Crimea was de-energized after the explosion of a power line in the Kherson region. According to the head of the city, Ukraine tried to coincide the current attack with the events of seven years ago
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The purpose of the drone attack on Sevastopol on November 22 was the Balaklava thermal power plant (TPP), Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said in the telegram channel.
“The Ukronazists tried to attack our Balaklava thermal power plant again. Probably, they wanted to coincide the attack with their terrorist act, which they committed 7 years ago, when on November 22 they blew up a power line in the Kherson region and a blackout came in Crimea and Sevastopol. It didn’t work out,” the head of the city wrote.
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In November 2015, several transmission towers were blown up in the Kherson region. The first explosion occurred on November 20, two of the four pillars were damaged. Two days later, the remaining two were blown up, which stopped the supply of electricity to Crimea from Ukraine and the peninsula was completely de-energized.
On December 2 of that year, the opening of the first stage of the energy bridge to the Crimea from the Krasnodar Territory along the bottom of the Kerch Strait to ensure the independence of the peninsula from energy imports took place.
He added that two drones were shot down on the approach to the thermal power plant, the attack of three more was repelled over the water area. As a result of the incidents, no fires, damage to civil infrastructure and casualties were recorded.
Razvozhaev reported about the work of the air defense in connection with the drone attack at about 19:30 Moscow time on November 22. At the same time, the movement of marine passenger transport was stopped in the city, but it was resumed an hour later.
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Balaklava TPP is located on the eastern outskirts of Sevastopol, next to the memorial “Sapun Mountain”.
This thermal power plant has already been attacked by drones on October 27. Then an idle transformer caught fire, the fire was promptly extinguished by the company’s employees.
In November, the Sevastopol authorities reported three times about drones trying to attack the city. Earlier, drones were shot down on November 1 and 8. The largest was the attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol Bay on October 29. More than 15 drones, including autonomous marine ones, participated in it.
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GThe governor of Sevastopol, Razvozhaev, reported on the attack of drones and the work of air defense, air defense means shot down two drones, civilian objects were not injured during the attack, Governor Razvozhaev said. The movement of marine passenger transport has been suspended in the city
Sevastopol was attacked by drones, air defense forces are working in the city, Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said in a telegram channel.
“Our air defense forces on duty are working right now. There is a drone attack. According to preliminary information, two UAVs have already been shot down. All forces and services are on alert,” he wrote.
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According to him, civilian objects were not damaged.
The movement of marine passenger transport was stopped in the city, according to the Directorate for the development of the road transport infrastructure of the city of Sevastopol.
The telegram channel Mash also reports on the alleged work of the air defense over Yevpatoria.
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Crimea and Sevastopol were repeatedly attacked by drones during the special operation. On October 29, drones attacked ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol Bay. The Russian Defense Ministry said nine drones and seven autonomous marine drones were involved in the attack. Naval weapons and naval aviation were used to destroy them. One vessel and a boom-net barrier were damaged.
Moscow accused Kiev and British specialists of organizing the strike. “Partly in response to this attack, Russia struck the energy infrastructure of Ukraine on October 31, President Vladimir Putin said. Because of the attack, the country also suspended participation in the grain deal.
Later, two more drones were shot down over Sevastopol – one on November 1, one on the 8th. No damage to any objects was reported. On November 17, a drone was shot down in Feodosia, near a 220 kV substation. Its fragments fell on the territory of the substation, but it was not damaged. «Kafa» is part of the peninsula’s energy bridge system.
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AboutThe operator of the GTS of Ukraine rejected Gazprom’s accusations of “settling” gas for Moldova, Gazprom said that part of the gas intended for Moldova “settles” in Ukraine, and threatened to cut supplies. Kiev claims that part of the gas is returned in the form of a virtual reverse
The accusations of Gazprom, which stated that part of the gas it supplies to consumers in Moldova, de facto settles in Ukraine, represent a gross manipulation of facts in order to further limit the volume of fuel supplies to European countries. This is stated in the statement of the operator of the gas transportation system (GTS) of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian company assured that the entire volume of gas received by Ukraine at the borders with Russia is transferred to Moldova. However, at the same time, part of the gas is returned to Ukraine in the form of a virtual reverse. Gazprom’s intention to restrict gas supplies to the GTS is assessed as an attempt to block the virtual reverse tool, increasing dependence on Russian natural gas at the beginning of the heating season and depriving Moldova of the opportunity to use the Ukrainian GTS and underground gas storage facilities (UGS).
“Virtual reverse” involves the exchange of gas between operators of gas transmission systems. In this case, the gas does not physically move across the border, and the parties make offsets.
On the afternoon of November 22, Gazprom announced that it had recorded the subsidence of gas destined for Moldova in Ukraine. The Russian company warned that if the transit imbalance persists, “Gazprom” on November 28 will begin to reduce the supply of gas to GIS “Sudzha” for transit through the territory of Ukraine. The reduction will be in the amount of daily under-delivery. On November 22, Gazprom submitted 42.9 million cubic meters for transit through the territory of Ukraine. m per day.
At the same time, Gazprom noted that on November 21, Moldovagaz paid for part of the October deliveries under contracts. “The volume of actually delivered Russian gas, in respect of which payment for current supplies in November was violated, is 24.945 million cubic meters of gas. The total accumulated volume of subsidence on the territory of Ukraine is 52.52 million cubic meters of gas, the Russian company reported.
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On October 1, the Moldovan authorities announced that Gazprom had reduced supplies to the country by a third, to 5.7 million cubic meters. m per day. “Gazprom” explained the reduction by Ukraine’s refusal to accept Russian gas at GIS “Sokhranovka”, and also complained about Moldova’s violation of payment deadlines. The company has threatened to stop deliveries if payments are not received by October 20. Chisinau issued a loan to Moldovagaz to pay for gas.
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ShUkhevich was a dissident, spent almost 30 years in prison during the Soviet era, was engaged in active political and public activities in Ukraine after the collapse of the Union, represented extreme nationalist views
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Yuri Shukhevych died in Germany, the son of the last commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA, recognized as extremist in Russia and banned) Roman Shukhevych, the Lviv agency NTA reports, citing the wife of the deceased.
Shukhevych was born on March 28, 1933 in the Lviv Voivodeship of Poland. Since 1939, his family lived in Krakow, and in 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the Shukhevichi moved to Lviv.
Under Soviet rule, Shukhevych was a dissident, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, served his sentence in 1948, 1956, 1956, 1968, 1972, 1988 and spent a total of 28 years in prisons and camps of the USSR. He got his first term as a teenager.
In 1990–1994, Shukhevych organized and headed the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly— Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia), in 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko awarded Yuri Shukhevych the title of Hero of Ukraine.
However, the political projects in which Shukhevych participated were not popular with the majority of residents of Ukraine and gained an insignificant percentage of votes in the elections. Shukhevich became a deputy of the Rada following the results of the elections in October 2014, however, he was on the party list of the Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko, because of which he was removed from the post of chairman of the UNA-UNSO. In the Rada, he was one of the authors of the bill on the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia, which then failed.
On November 1, 2018, Shukhevych came under Russian sanctions among other 322 individuals and 68 legal entities.
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His father Roman Shukhevich is an active figure of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. In 1941, he entered Ukraine as part of the German special forces “Nachtigall” with the rank of Hauptmann, later became deputy commander of the 201st security battalion, which took part in the fight against the partisans of Belarus. In 1944, Roman Shukhevych led the Ukrainian insurgent army, which, after the departure of the military of Nazi Germany, fought against the Soviet government. He was killed during a special operation to detain him in March 1950.
Shukhevych and his subordinates were repeatedly accused of involvement in mass killings and ethnic cleansing. In January 2010, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded Roman Shukhevych the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously, but in April of that year a court in Donetsk declared this decision illegal, since Shukhevych had never been a citizen of Ukraine.
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