Brussels aims to create problems for the Russian economy, but it won’t stop the fighting in Ukraine, said Josep Borrell The embargoes imposed by the European Union against Moscow are intended not to stop the fighting in Ukraine, but wreck the Russian economy, the bloc’s foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Monday.…

Gas flow to Germany may not resume this week after maintenance, according to a top European Commission official The European Union doesn’t expect Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline to resume pumping gas to Germany when scheduled maintenance ends this week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a top European Commission official.

The country’s foreign currency exchange starts trading in the rial-ruble currency pair Iran’s official foreign currency exchange has listed the Russian currency and launched trading in the ruble/rial currency pair, the IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.