Exactly 70 years ago, in October 1956, the USSR and Japan adopted a Joint Declaration under which the countries announced the end of the war, restored diplomatic relations, and officially recorded the USSR’s agreement to transfer the Habomai and Shikotan islands to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty. But the treaty was never signed. Now Russia and Japan have reached a critical peak in relations between the countries that, over all these years, were if not allies, then not enemies either — economic cooperation between them only grew. Even after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Japan remained one of the largest importers of Russian LNG.

#diplomacy #hostages #China #Russia #sanctions #specialservices #FSB #spyscandal #Japan

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Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin that Russian authorities want to create «favorable conditions» for European companies that remained in the country after the start of the war in Ukraine. He also criticized Western sanctions and called the idea of banning everything connected with Russia «stupid».

#nestlé #reuters #VladimirPutin #Europeancompanies #Russia #sanctions

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On October 21, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with U.S. President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia could supply fertilizers to the American market. According to The Insider, citing StoneX vice president Josh Linville, fertilizer shipments from Russia to the U.S. have not stopped during the war and have increased significantly for nitrogen fertilizers.

#StoneX #VladimirPutin #sanctions #StivUitkoff #UnitedStates #fertilizers

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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament held hearings on the situation in Russia. MPs and experts discussed what could happen after Vladimir Putin’s death and whether a new mutiny modeled on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising is possible.

#UnitedKingdom #VladimirPutin #evgenyprigozhin #sanctions #FSB #ChVKVagnera

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The authors of a report by the American Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the George Bush Institute claim that the plant in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, where Shahed-type attack drones are assembled, uses the labor of trafficking victims. According to their data, Russian teenagers, foreigners from Global South countries, and citizens of the DPRK are involved in production.

#CSIS #Alabuga #drony #KimChenYn #odd #sanctions

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Russian citizen Alexander Suvorov, extradited from Sweden to the United States, appeared before a federal court in New York State. U.S. authorities accuse the 52-year-old Suvorov of illegally shipping electronic components from the United States to Russia in violation of sanctions; he has been charged on three counts.

#Russia #sanctions #USA #FBI #Sweden

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While the shock from Trump’s «diesel deal» with Putin and the American president’s statement that Ukraine needs a different president instead of Zelensky has not yet passed, I will try to explain from the standpoint of dispassionate economics why what happened is bad first and foremost for the United States itself.

#Analytics #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #diesel #dollar #DonaldTrump #MunichAgreement #Russia #sanctions #USA #exportofpetroleumproducts

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Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with RBC that the tax burden on business has already exceeded the level after which it begins to hurt budget revenues. He named the shortage of investment as the key internal problem for the coming years.

#budget #Taxation #NorilskNickel #potanin #rbc #sanctions

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Russian authorities asked the US to lift sanctions during negotiations on an «energy ceasefire», The Kyiv Independent writes, citing Ukrainian and American sources. According to them, Moscow is also trying to tie sanctions relief to a ceasefire in the Black Sea.

#DonaldTrump #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine #EnergetikaUkrainy

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Montenegrin authorities will expel from the country the founder of the Telegram channel «Rybar», Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife, and three employees. Zvinchuk’s detention became known on the morning of October 9; Montenegrin law enforcement said they had prevented potentially dangerous activity by these people on the country’s territory.

#EuropeanUnion #MihailZvinchuk #Fisherman #sanctions #Montenegro

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Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate — the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker — urged Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Russia more quickly. They sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

#WarinUkraine #Democrats #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Russia #sanctions #USA

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In Vienna and the German city of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, raids were carried out on two entrepreneurs suspected of supplying cars to Russia in circumvention of European Union sanctions. This was reported by the Kaiserslautern prosecutor’s office; the court seized assets worth about 7 million euros.

#Austria #Belgium #Germany #EuropeandRussia #EU #Russia #sanctions

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Donald Trump approved the idea of easing American sanctions against Russia in exchange for the release of some Russian political prisoners, The Atlantic пишет. The initiative is at an early stage: the specific individuals involved and the list of possible sanctions concessions have not yet been disclosed.

#AlexandrLukashenko #VladimirZelensky #DonaldTrump #politicalprisoners #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine

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The European Union imposed sanctions on 10 people and 17 organizations that the EU considers involved in the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and to occupied territories, as well as in the «suppression of democratic opposition» in Russia. The restrictions affected Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian officials in occupied territories, and the Songdowon children’s camp in North Korea.

#EU #odd #LevShlosberg #RussiaandEurope #sanctions #Apple

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While ordinary Russians are being denied the opportunity to obtain visas to the EU, sanctions are being lifted from two emblematic figures of Putin’s Russia. The negative consequences of this decision are clear. But are there any positive ones? 

#AlisherUsmanov #Analytics #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #doublestandards #EuropeanUnion #compromises #Luxembourg #MikhailFridman #oligarchs #sanctions #France #elites

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Lithuania has banned Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from entering the country for five years after the EU did not extend the restrictions against them. Both have been added to the national list of undesirable persons, and the ban took effect on September 25.

#AlisherUsmanov #europe #EU #Lithuania #MikhailFridman #sanctions

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On September 28, Vladimir Putin signed a decree that restricted access to information about the fuel and energy sector. It is now forbidden to distribute this information through the media and the internet, except for data that companies disclose themselves about their activities.

#VladimirPutin #oil #oilrefinery #Russia #Rosstat #sanctions #fuelcrisis

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In the referendum in Switzerland, 70.15% of participants voted against the initiative, which proposed enshrining a stricter interpretation of neutrality in the Constitution and limiting the country's ability to impose sanctions against states involved in wars. It was not supported by a single canton.

#ProSuisse #neutrality #sanctions #FederalCouncil #Switzerland #SwissPeoplesParty

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Bloomberg reported that Russian billionaires are studying the circumstances of the EU sanctions being lifted from Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, hoping to use this experience in disputes with the European Union. At least two of the publication’s sources intend to view Fridman’s case as a precedent for their own lawsuits.

#AlisherUsmanov #EU #MikhailFridman #Russia #sanctions

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Leonid Volkov called the European Union’s decision to lift sanctions on Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov «shameful» and creating a «terrible precedent». He reminded that in 2022 he himself signed a letter to the European Commission asking for sanctions to be lifted on Fridman and other top managers of Alfa Group if a number of conditions were met.

#AlisherUsmanov #EU #LeonidVolkov #MikhailFridman #sanctions #FBK #JuliaNavalnaya

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