Russia warns Norway over conflict in Arctic

Moscow has summoned, on Wednesday, Norway’s charge d’affaires Solveig Rossebo over the “unacceptable” ban on the delivery of supplies to a Russian Arctic mining operation in the Svalbard Islands, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

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Russia won’t replenish national wealth fund this year

Russia’s National Wealth Fund (NWF) will not be replenished with additional revenue from oil and gas exports this year, the Accounts Chamber announced on Thursday. In its report on the management of the NWF in 2022 and the first half of 2023, the Accounts Chamber explains that the government has had to increase spending to…

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German transport minister threatens public with ‘indefinite driving bans’

Volker Wissing was accused of “frightening people for no reason” with his draconian environmental proposal German Transport Minister Volker Wissing has warned that he may forbid citizens from driving on weekends if reforms aren’t made to a controversial climate law. Even Germany’s Federal Environmental Agency considers such a move “unnecessary” and “frightening.”

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