Russia has paid foreign holders of Eurobonds in rubles for the first time after an attempt to settle the $649.2 million payment was rejected by a foreign financial institution under orders from Washington, the Russian Ministry of Finance announced on Wednesday.
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The projectile, which was destroyed over the town of Feodosia, inflicted no casualties or damage, a local official said Russian air defenses have shot down a Ukrainian missile over Crimea, local authorities said on Saturday, adding that the strike did not result in any casualties or damage to infrastructure.
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Moscow is aware that Washington will try to maintain its illegal embargo, but the US is not the entire world, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. Peskov was commenting on the statements by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt, published by the Financial Times earlier in the…
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