Moscow believes that Yerevan’s decision to ratify the Rome Statute was “incorrect,” a Kremlin spokesman has said Russia considers the Armenian people intrinsically allied with Russia and is concerned by the country’s leadership, which is pushing a policy that Moscow considers harmful to bilateral relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

Kiev would be entitled to the funds upon its accession to the bloc, according to the newspaper Ukraine could receive billions of euros in subsidies from the EU upon the country’s accession to the bloc, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing an internal study by the secretariat of the EU Council.

Russia is not selling crude under the price cap mechanism introduced by the G7 and EU in an effort to curtail Moscow’s energy revenues, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak stated on Tuesday.    Oil companies are complying with a presidential decree obliging Russian legal entities and individuals to avoid Western-mandated oil price limits in their…