Russia’s gas exports to China were nearly 50% higher in 2023 than they were the previous year, energy giant Gazprom has revealed. In 2023, Russia supplied 22.7 billion cubic meters of gas to the Asian nation via the Power of Siberia pipeline, the company said in a Telegram post on Wednesday. The amount exceeded Gazprom’s…

Russia’s Alrosa and its CEO have been targeted as part of the import ban on diamonds produced in the country The EU has added Russia’s mining giant Alrosa as well as its CEO Pavel Marinychev to its sanctions blacklist, the European Council announced on its official website on Wednesday.

According to average salary statistics, only 15% of Ukrainians would have qualified in 2023 Ukrainian authorities are entertaining the idea of exempting high earners from the draft if they pay their dues in taxes, Forbes has reported, citing anonymous sources from President Vladimir Zelensky’s office. The monthly income threshold reportedly under consideration would leave most…