PThe heads of the VGTRK and the “Red Star” Dobrodeev and Pimanov, as well as several organizations that Wellington considers responsible for disinformation and cyberattacks, fell under the restrictions
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New Zealand has expanded sanctions against Russia. The list of individual restrictions included “subjects [responsible for] disinformation and malicious [activity] in the cybersphere” (in particular, the Internet Investigation Agency and the 85th Main Center of the Special Service and the Main Center of Special Technologies of the GRU were sanctioned).
In addition, the list included the CEO of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev, the president of the media holding “Red Star” Alexey Pimanov, the co-founder of the News Front portal Mikhail Sinelin, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Major General Igor Konashenkov and the head of the GRU Igor Kostyukov.
After the start of the Russian military operation, New Zealand imposed several packages of anti-Russian sanctions. On April 19, 18 banks and financial institutions, including the Central Bank and the RDIF, were subject to restrictions. On May 2, six defense companies of 170 senators were on the list. Personal sanctions also affected President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Foreign and Defense Ministers Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu, and other politicians. Export restrictions were introduced.
Wellington has banned the issuance of visas to Russian officials and other citizens associated with the special operation. In early April, New Zealand introduced a tariff of 35% on all imports from Russia.
To support Ukraine, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the transfer of protective equipment and financial assistance to Kiev in the amount of about $3.5 million through the NATO trust fund.
On April 7, Russia, in response to “unfriendly” actions, imposed sanctions against New Zealand, banning the entry of 130 of its representatives, including Ardern, her deputy Grant Robertson and Foreign Minister Nanaya Mahuta.
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Средства пойдут на поставку вооружений и гуманитарные нужды. Ранее президент США Джо Байден попросил конгресс в десять раз увеличить объем помощи Киеву — до $33 млрд
Палата представителей США приняла законопроект о дополнительной помощи Украине на $40 млрд, сообщает CNN. Теперь инициативу должен одобрить сенат, после чего она поступит президенту.
Ее поддержали 368 конгрессменов, против высказались 57, уточняет Reuters. Ранее президент Джо Байден обратился к конгрессу с просьбой одобрить выделение Киеву дополнительной помощи в размере $33 млрд, впоследствии сумма была увеличена.
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Помощь включает в том числе поставку вооружений, средства также пойдут на гуманитарные нужды.
С начала российской военной операции на Украине Соединенные Штаты передали Киеву вооружений на сумму более $3,5 млрд, включая гаубицы, зенитные системы Stinger, противотанковые ракеты Javelin, беспилотники Ghost.
В конце апреля Байден попросил конгресс в десять раз увеличить объем помощи Украине— до $33 млрд. Большая часть денег пойдет на военные нужды.
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Позже американский лидер подписал закон об отправке военной помощи Украине по программе ленд-лиза— она ускоряет и упрощает поставки вооружений.
Ленд-лиз — программа, по которой США сдавали в аренду или передавали в долгосрочный кредит военную технику и снаряжение союзникам во время Второй мировой войны. С марта 1941 года по август 1945-го США передали союзникам помощь по ленд-лизу на общую сумму более $50 млрд, из них около $11 млрд пришлось на СССР
Спикер Госдумы Вячеслав Володин, говоря о решении Байдена, заявлял, что украинский президент Владимир Зеленский «загоняет страну в долговую яму», поскольку программа ленд-лиза— «это товарный кредит, причем недешевый».
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In Gazprom saw no obstacles to the continuation of the Sokhranovka gas station in Ukraine, Gazprom sees no obstacles to the further transit of Russian gas through Sokhranovka gas station and Novopskov Gas Station in Ukraine. Kiev previously announced the termination of transit through this station, which is not controlled by the Ukrainian side
“Gazprom” has not received confirmation of the circumstances of “force majeure”, which was previously reported by the Operator of the gas transportation system of Ukraine, announcing the termination of gas transit through the gas distribution station “Sokhranovka” on May 11. The Russian company stated that they do not see any obstacles to the continuation of the operation of the GRS “Preservation” in the previous mode.
«Ukrainian specialists have been quietly working all this time at the GRS «Sokhranovka » and the CS «Novopsk » and continue to do it, transit through «Sokhranovka » was provided in full, there were no complaints from contractors and there are no »,— stressed in «Gazprom».
Also, the company found it impossible to transfer capacities from the connection point “Sokhranovka” to the point “Sudzha”, based on the Russian streaming scheme. “The distribution of volumes is clearly spelled out in the cooperation agreement of December 30, 2019, and the Ukrainian side is well aware of this,” Gazprom noted.
The Russian company stated that it fully fulfills all its obligations to European consumers and supplies gas for transit in accordance with the contract and the operator agreement.
Earlier, the operator of the GTS of Ukraine announced that from May 11 it will stop the transit of Russian gas to Europe through the gas distribution station “Sokhranovka” in the Luhansk region due to “force majeure”.
The message said that this station is not controlled by the Ukrainian side.
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Also, the Ukrainian operator considered it impossible to further transport gas through the border compressor station (CS) “Novopsk”. The Ukrainian side proposed to temporarily transfer inaccessible capacities from the connection point “Sokhranovka” to the point “Sudzha”.
Gazprom and Naftogaz signed a five-year gas transit agreement to Europe in 2019. His term expires in December 2024. During this period, Russia has pledged to pump 225 billion cubic meters of gas through Ukraine.
At the end of March, the head of the Ukrainian Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, said that gas transit through Ukrainian territory would continue as long as it was technically possible. Gazprom has repeatedly reported on the regular transit of gas through Ukraine.
Until now, the gas distribution station “Sokhranovka” and the compressor station “Novopskov” were among the main stations through which Russian gas was transited to Europe. According to the Operator of the GTS of Ukraine, the KC “Novopsk” is the first of the compressor stations of the Ukrainian GTS in the Luhansk region, through which almost a third of the gas transit (up to 32.6 million cubic meters) was carried out. m per day) from Russia. So, on May 10, Gazprom supplied 95.8 million cubic meters of gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine in accordance with the confirmed requests of European consumers.
According to Gazprom, Ukraine now accounts for about 30% of Russian gas transit to Europe. If the Ukrainian side stops receiving gas from Russia from “Sokhranovka” and “Novopskov”, then transit may be reduced by 10%.
Other Russian gas supply routes include a gas pipeline through Belarus and Poland, Yamal, Europe, and Nord Stream-1 (along the bottom of the Baltic Sea).
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On May 10, the governors of the Republic of Mari El, Kirov, Ryazan, Saratov and Tomsk regions announced their decision to leave the post ahead of schedule. Putin accepted their resignation and appointed interim officers
Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed decrees appointing interim heads of the Republic of Mari El, Kirov, Ryazan, Saratov and Tomsk regions.
Chairman of the Government of Kalmykia Yuri Zaitsev has been appointed acting head of the Republic of Mari El.
Acting Governor of the Kirov region— referent of the Kremlin Department for Ensuring the activities of the State Council Alexander Sokolov.
Acting Governor of the Ryazan region— head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov.
Acting head of the Saratov region – Chairman of the regional government, Vice-Governor Roman Busargin.
Acting Head of the Tomsk Region— Deputy Head of the Kremlin Department for Internal Policy Vladimir Mazur.
In each of the documents, the President accepted the resignation of the previous head of the region with the wording “at his own request”.
On May 10, five governors announced their early retirement. These are the governor of the Kirov region Igor Vasiliev, the head of Mari El Alexander Evstifeev, as well as the heads of the Tomsk, Saratov and Ryazan regions Sergey Zhvachkin, Valery Radaev and Nikolai Lyubimov.
After leaving office, Vasiliev said that he intends to continue working at the federal level. Radaev said that he plans to focus “on another area of work”, without specifying which one. Zhvachkin recalled that he turned 65 not so long ago and that the law limits governors to two terms of work. Lyubimov expressed hope that he would be able to “be useful to the country in this difficult time” in a new position, without specifying which position he was talking about.
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Earlier, two sources familiar with the discussion of the issue told RBC that Alexander Sokolov, an assistant of the Kremlin Department for Ensuring the activities of the State Council, could be appointed to the post of Kirov governor. Prior to joining the presidential administration, Sokolov worked as vice-governor and first vice-governor of the Kostroma region.
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In addition, RBC sources reported that the head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov, a native of Saratov, is the main candidate for the post of governor of the Ryazan region. Malkov headed Rosstat in 2018, before that he worked in positions in the Ministry of Economic Development, including as director of the Department of Public Administration of the Ministry, and also worked in various positions in the government of the Saratov region.
Acting Governor of the Tomsk Region Vladimir Mazur is a native of this region, from 2004 to 2007 he worked as Deputy Mayor of Tomsk for information policy, head of the Public Relations and Information Policy Committee. Later he held the positions of Vice-Governor of the Tyumen Region, head of the Tobolsk administration, Vice-Governor of the Kaluga Region. The fact that Mazur may become the acting governor of the Tomsk region, RBC reported in February.
Mazur, like Sokolov, has in recent years worked in the Kremlin’s internal political bloc, whose work is supervised by the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko.
Acting Governor of the Saratov region Roman Busargin can be called a person close to the speaker of the State Duma and a native of the region Vyacheslav Volodin.
Little is known about the new acting head of Mari El, Yuri Zaitsev: he was born in 1970, a former military man. He held the position of CEO of PJSC IDGC of the North Caucasus, in 2019 he became Chairman of the Government of Kalmykia.
Graduates of the “School of Governors”
Four of the five acting heads of regions have passed the “School of Governors” program of the management reserve of the Higher School of Public Administration of the RANEPA. These are Vladimir Mazur, Yuri Zaitsev, Pavel Malkov and Alexander Sokolov.
Roman Busargin in October 2021 reported in his Telegram channel that he took part in the final selection of the management competition “Leaders of Russia”.
There is a common logic in the appointments of the acting governors: they all have experience in the executive power of the regions, most have been trained in the “School of Governors” and thus “received a certain quality mark”, says the expert on regional policy Vitaly Ivanov. In fact, this is a continuation of the logic of appointments, which has been applied since 2017, when representatives of the technocratic generation, who passed the School of Governors, of young age, were mainly appointed to gubernatorial posts, the expert summarizes.
At the same time, the very question of whether direct gubernatorial elections will remain or they will be canceled, according to Ivanov, remains open. “It does not follow from today’s resignations and appointments that the acting ones will be elected in direct elections, just as the opposite does not follow,” the expert believes.
All the new heads have good managerial experience, political scientist Rostislav Turovsky noted in a conversation with RBC. According to him, some of the acting ones are directly affiliated with the Kremlin and its internal political bloc, which will provide them with “all possible assistance”. “There are still a lot of Varangians, but the practices of their promotion in the regions have long been worked out. At the same time, there is an example of a smooth transfer of power, as in the Saratov region,” Turovsky said.
According to the political scientist, against the background of the special operation and sanctions, the new heads may have a question about the formation of an image. By autumn, they will need to offer anti-crisis programs to the regions, taking into account the dynamically changing situation, the expert believes. “Apparently, this will be the image of a patriot and an anti-crisis manager in one person. And taking into account the problem field of each region,” Turovsky noted.
He added that appointments are held exactly at the time when it is possible to launch election campaigns and “promote new heads”. Therefore, there is a chance to keep direct elections of governors, the political scientist believes.
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GIgor Vasiliev, the governor of the Kirov region, became one of the five governors who announced their resignation on May 10. According to the sources of RBC, the main candidate for the position is the referent of the Kremlin administration Alexander Sokolov
Alexander Sokolov
The main candidate for the post of governor of the Kirov region was the referent of the Kremlin Department for Ensuring the activities of the State Council, Alexander Sokolov, two sources familiar with the discussion of the issue told RBC. Prior to joining the presidential administration, Sokolov worked as the vice-governor of the Kostroma region.
On May 10, the governor of the region Igor Vasiliev announced his resignation and intention to continue working at the federal level. In total, five heads of Russian regions announced their resignation or plans to resign from office on Tuesday.
Alexander Sokolov was born in 1970 in Kostroma. Graduated from the Kostroma Pedagogical Institute named after N.A. Nekrasov with a degree in history, as well as MGIMO. Since 2005 – Chairman of the National Council of Youth and Children’s Associations of Russia. In 2014, he was appointed First Deputy Governor of the Kostroma region for internal policy, in 2017 – head of the department in the presidential administration.
Over the past day in Russia, five governors have already announced their early retirement. These are the governor of the Kirov region Igor Vasiliev, the head of Mari El Alexander Evstifeev, as well as the heads of the Tomsk, Saratov and Ryazan regions Sergey Zhvachkin, Valery Radaev and Nikolai Lyubimov.
After leaving, Vasiliev stated that he intended to continue working at the federal level. According to him, President Vladimir Putin supported the decision. “Due to the approaching end of the term of office as governor, to which you elected me, I have made an important decision to leave the post of governor of the Kirov region and continue working at the federal level,” he wrote.
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In turn, Radaev said that he plans to focus “on another area of work”, without specifying which one. Zhvachkin recalled that he turned 65 not so long ago and that the law limits governors to two terms of work. Lyubimov expressed hope that he would be able to “be useful to the country in this difficult time” in a new position, without specifying which position he was talking about.
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The main candidate for the post of governor of the Ryazan region was the head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov, sources told RBC
Pavel Malkov
The head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov may leave his post. He became the main candidate for the post of governor of the Ryazan region, a source familiar with the discussion of the issue told RBC. Malkov can apply for any governor’s chair, there is a possibility that he will take the position of the head of the Ryazan region, but options are possible, in turn, says a federal official familiar with the discussions.
The current head of the Ryazan Region, Nikolai Lyubimov, announced on May 10 that he would not run for a new term.
Malkov was born on January 29, 1980 in Saratov.
In 2001, he graduated from Saratov State Technical University with a degree in computer engineering and automated systems software. In 2004, he underwent professional retraining at the Volga Academy of Public Service named after Stolypin majored in “state and municipal administration”.
From 2006 to 2009 – Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Saratov region. In 2010, he became the head of the Committee on Informatization of the Saratov region. In 2012, he took the post of Deputy Director
of the Department of State Regulation in the Economy of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
In 2017–2018— Director of the Department of Public Administration of the Ministry of Economic Development.
Rosstat headed in 2018.
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In Spain fired the head of intelligence because of the Pegasus spy program The new head of the National Intelligence Center of Spain will be the Secretary of State for Defense Esperanza Castelleiro
Paz Esteban Lopez
The Spanish government has sent the head of the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI) Paz Esteban Lopez resigned in connection with the appearance of information about the surveillance of Spanish officials using the Pegasus phone spyware, sources told Reuters, El País and El Español.
Suspicions against Paz Esteban arose after the publication of the results of its investigation by the Canadian digital rights group Citizen Lab. The researchers said that, together with Catalan civil society groups, they found at least 65 people with Pegasus and Candiru programs on their phones. We are talking about the phones of members of the European Parliament, presidents of Catalonia, legislators, lawyers and members of civil society organizations, Citizen Lab pointed out.
According to the agency’s interlocutors, Paz Esteban during a hearing in the Congress of Deputies of Spain (lower house of Parliament) last week admitted that the agency had listened to 18 leaders of the Catalan independence movement, but in each case – in accordance with the law and by court decision. The agency writes that Paz Esteban, in her speech to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, did not touch on the rest of the wiretapping allegations, the country’s government noted that it was investigating them.
As a result of the investigation, the Spanish authorities discovered the Pegasus spy program in the mobile phones of several ministers: the head of the government of the country Pedro Sanchez, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaski, Defense Minister Margarita Robles and Agriculture Minister and former Ambassador to Morocco Luis Planas, said the representative of the Spanish Cabinet Isabel Rodriguez during a briefing.
Paz Esteban became the head of the National Intelligence Center in 2020. The country’s Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced that she will be replaced by the Secretary of State for Defense Esperanza Castelleiro, reports El Periodico.
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The Pegasus software was developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. The company insists that the Pegasus software is designed to combat terrorism and crime.
Nevertheless, in the summer of 2021, the non-profit journalistic organization Forbidden Stories and The Washington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz and Les Echos, who joined the investigation, reported that the authorities of some countries used Pegasus to hack the phones of journalists and activists around the world.
Among those countries whose governments authorized the use of Pegasus against the press were Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, India, Israel, Bahrain, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
On November 3, 2021, the US Department of Commerce blacklisted NSO Group for actions in cyberspace that “threaten the interests of national security and foreign policy” of the country.
A month later, Bloomberg and the Financial Times, citing sources, reported that NSO Group was considering selling the company or closing its Pegasus division.
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The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, proposed to transfer frozen gold and foreign exchange reserves of Russia to Ukraine for the restoration of the country. Lavrov said that Borrel is known for ideas about the confiscation of other people’s property
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The possible transfer of frozen gold and foreign exchange reserves of Russia to Ukraine is theft, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference following his visit to Algeria. The video is published on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“This is, one might even say, theft, which they are not even trying to hide,” Lavrov replied to the question of whether the proposal to transfer Russian money to Kiev for the restoration of the country was robbery.
He said that for the West, theft is becoming “something of a habit”, and cited the freezing of money by the Afghan Central Bank in the United States as an example. “They want to use them not for the needs of the people of Afghanistan, who have suffered from the consequences of the 20-year stay of NATO countries, but they want to use them for some other purposes that are not related to the restoration of the Afghan economy,” he stressed.
The administration of the US president explained the freeze as an attempt to close access to money to the Taliban who came to power (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). In February, President Joe Biden ordered to allocate $7 billion of $9 billion of these assets for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Lavrov also said that the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, who owns the idea of transferring money for the restoration of Ukraine, is known not only for his ideas in the field of confiscation of other people’s property. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry advised Borrel not to forget that he is the chief diplomat, not the military head of the EU, because of his words about a military solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
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Lavrov suggested that soon there will be no post of chief diplomat, since the EU does not have its own foreign policy because of the “imposed” approaches of the United States. “But I assure you that we will consistently resist attempts to establish a unipolar world order and destroy the principles on which the UN was founded,” said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
After the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Western countries, including the European Union, froze about $300 billion – half of Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves, the Ministry of Finance reported. The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the Russian side would challenge the freeze in court.
The Ukrainian authorities talked about the desire to get money from Russia’s frozen reserves and use them to restore the country’s infrastructure and economy. President Vladimir Zelensky estimated the cost of recovery after the Russian special operation at $600 billion. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal reported on negotiations with the United States and partners regarding the transfer of funds.
On May 9, Borrel suggested that EU countries consider sending frozen reserves to pay for the costs of rebuilding Ukraine after the hostilities. He called the idea logical and expressed the hope that the initiative of “military compensation” would come from Russia itself.
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Pat the same time, according to the head of the US national intelligence, neither side can win in the conflict in Ukraine, and the risks of escalation are constantly increasing
Evril Haines
The United States does not see any prospects for successful negotiations around the situation in Ukraine in the near future, while the possibility remains for an escalation of the conflict. This was stated by the head of US National Intelligence, Avril Haines, speaking at a hearing in the Congressional Armed Services Committee, broadcast by C-SPAN.
“Given that both Russia and Ukraine believe that they can continue to achieve military successes, we do not see the possibility of viable progress through negotiations,” at least in the short term,” she said.
In addition, according to her assumption, over the next few months in Ukraine, a movement towards greater unpredictability and potential escalation is possible.
Since the end of February, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations have held several rounds of peace talks, both face-to-face and remotely. The greatest progress was achieved during the meeting in Istanbul on March 29, after which Russian forces were withdrawn from the Kiev and Chernihiv directions.
Moscow in early April reported that it wanted to complete the military operation in Ukraine through negotiations and was interested in President Vladimir Zelensky agreeing to its proposals.
Nevertheless, on April 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the position of the Ukrainian authorities on the terms of the settlement had changed dramatically after the talks in Istanbul. “They [the Ukrainian delegation] have moved away from their previous intentions to put out of brackets the issues of security guarantees [the status of] Crimea, Sevastopol and the republics of Donbass. They simply refused it,” the Russian leader stressed.
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Alexey Zaitsev, Deputy head of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on May 6 that negotiations with Ukraine are not developing and are stagnating.
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According to the head of the German Foreign Ministry, economic dependence on Russia “does not lead to security,” so Germany will completely abandon Russian energy carriers in the future
Annalena Berbock
In the future, Germany will completely and permanently abandon energy carriers from Russia. This was stated by the head of German diplomacy Annalena Berbock at a joint conference with the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba, FAZ reports.
“We are reducing our dependence on Russian energy carriers to zero with all the consequences. And it’s forever,” she said.
Berbok also stated that there can be no agreements with Russia behind Ukraine’s back. In addition, she promised Kiev support for EU accession, stressing that “no shortcut” is possible here.
Berbok became the first member of the German Cabinet of Ministers to visit Ukraine after the start of the Russian special operation on February 24. In mid-April, Bild newspaper reported that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also wanted to come to Kiev, but Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky refused to accept him. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the refusal annoying. He also said that the position of the Ukrainian authorities in relation to Steinmeier hinders the Chancellor’s arrival in Kiev. Later Zelensky called Steinmeier, and, according to the German side, the politicians “eliminated the annoying factors that were in the past.”
Since the beginning of the special operation, EU countries have imposed five packages of sanctions against Moscow. The restrictions also affected top officials of the state, large industrial and financial organizations, the reserves of the Central Bank and the supply of certain types of energy resources. At the same time, the sanctions did not affect the import of Russian oil and gas.
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On May 8, the countries of the “Big Seven” (G7), which includes Germany, agreed to gradually abandon the import of Russian oil or impose an embargo after the United States. The German Ministry of Economy previously noted that the rejection of Russian oil would be a “heavy burden”, however, they indicated their readiness to take this step.
Scholz previously indicated that sanctions against Russia can be lifted only after coordination with Ukraine. “We can and are going to lift our sanctions only in agreement with Ukraine. I think many people in the Kremlin have not realized this yet. For Russia, this has devastating consequences,” he said.
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