Germany has boosted imports of nitrogen fertilizers from Russia during the past agricultural year despite Berlin’s repeatedly voiced intentions to distance itself from the sanctioned country, the Berliner Zeitung news outlet reported this week, citing calculations based on data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

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The UN has reportedly suggested reconnecting a sanctioned Russian bank to the system, but there are doubts the proposal will bear fruit A new UN plan aimed at reviving the Black Sea grain deal includes reconnecting Russian agricultural lender Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT interbank messaging system, Türkiye’s Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday, citing Foreign…