Russia’s State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Tuesday that the situation in the Ukrainian city of Bucha is a false flag to discredit Moscow and justify Western sanctions. “The only objective is to discredit Russia, justify the sanctions, weapons supplies and other unfriendly actions, as well as to further ...
Germany has taken ownership of a local branch of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom. Berlin’s energy regulator will temporarily control the company despite Moscow’s previous insistence that such a move would be illegal. Gazprom Germania, a subsidiary of the Saint Petersburg-based firm, operates some of the country’s largest natural gas ...