Problems with transporting agricultural products via the Black Sea have so far not led to a food crisis on the scale of spring 2022, but they have already caused the fastest price increase since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rose by 13.1% in Q3 and reached its highest level since Q1 2022, when it gained 19.5%.

#bloomberg #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #graindeal #acrisis #UN #food #statistics #Turkey #BlackSeaFleet

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In August, Russian exports to Turkey fell to $1.93 billion, almost 41% compared with July and to the lowest level since 2022. This follows from a Turkstat report; the decline came amid Ukraine’s de facto blockade of ports in southern Russia.

#SeaofAzov #Kremlin #Russia #Turkey #Ukraine #BlackSea

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The main buyer of Russian grain was Iran, and in the first three months of the new agricultural season, which began on July 1, Russia will export 8–8.5 million tons of grain abroad, including 5.6–7 million tons of wheat. A year earlier, exports for the same period amounted to 14 million tons, while the average figure for this period is 15–20 million tons.

#VladimirPetrichenko #Iran #Prozerno #Russia #Turkey

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the UN General Assembly in New York that he would like the Russian-Ukrainian war to end while preserving Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said that Turkey continues contacts with the parties for the sake of maritime safety in the Black Sea, food security, and preventing the war from spreading to a wider area.

#WarinUkraine #UN #RecepTayyipErdogan #Turkey #Ukraine

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In the second ten days of September, Russian wheat exports fell fourfold compared with the same period last year. The geography of shipments shrank from 29 to 8 countries, and Turkey’s purchases fell 32-fold.

#Egypt #cereals #Interfax #wheat #RussianGrainUnion #Turkey

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«Project» said in the announcement of its investigation «Travel Companions» that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Svetlana Polyakova, and Lyubov Kabaeva, the mother of Alina Kabaeva, regularly flew abroad together for vacations. According to the publication, they made such trips to Croatia, Turkey, and Italy on expensive business jets.

#Italy #RussianMinistryofForeignAffairs #project #SergeyLavrov #Turkey #Croatia

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In Turkey, large-scale raids against LGBTQ organizations and activists have been underway since September 13. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, citing human rights defenders, more than 100 people were detained, and 62 of them were held in pretrial detention.

#HumanRightsWatch #KaosGL #Ankara #Izmir #Istanbul #Turkey

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Amid Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries, Russia is expanding gasoline imports this summer and looking for new supply schemes. This week, the country bought 200,000 barrels of fuel from Turkey for the first time and agreed to process Russian feedstock in Kazakhstan.

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Today's Germany is a country of migrants. In some ways, even more so than the USA. From politics to culture, it has long relied on people with a migration background.

#Analytics #refugees #EastandWest #Germany #europe #Italy #xenophobia #culturalcode #Merkel #migrants #Myths #unificationofGermany #policy #rightandleft #Syria #Turkey #Emigration

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On Monday, the Montenegrin government approved amendments to the law on foreigners. The innovations not only significantly tighten the conditions for obtaining a residence permit but also apply even to those who have long lived in the country. In other words, the law has retroactive effect. Now the only hope is that the country's parliament will fix this.

#Balkans #business #residentcard #state #EuropeanUnion #legislation #personalexperience #theproperty #society #Russia #scandal #Turkey #Montenegro #Emigration

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The sharp and simultaneous escalation of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations that occurred recently reveals much about the Kremlin’s entire foreign policy.

#Azerbaijan #Aliyev #Armenia #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #Yerevan #migrants #Moscow #odkb #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #RecepErdogan #Turkey #Shos #EmmanuelMacron

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