Western countries will keep sanctioning Moscow and damaging their own economies, former Russian president says Europe is in the grip of an energy crisis and the situation will only get worse as the West attempts to ban Russian energy imports, the country’s former president Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
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The Republican frontrunner has repeatedly questioned the bloc’s usefulness, accusing its members of freeloading off the US There is growing concern among the German leadership that NATO will not survive if Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is reelected as US president, the New York Times has claimed.
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The sanctioned countries no longer need the Western system for transactions, the deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran has announced Iran and Russia have officially switched from the West’s SWIFT financial clearing system to a direct interbank transfer mechanism, the deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said.
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