More than 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the Belgian capital to protest against skyrocketing prices Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday for a “national day of action” to demand higher wages and lower energy prices. According to police, over 10,000 people descended on the Belgian capital as it…

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Western sanctions have failed to sink the Russian economy due to a “big country trap” effect, a recent study by the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences has found. If a state is a major player on the global market – like Russia – the imposition of restrictions on its exports will…