Moscow and its trade partners should switch to transactions in national currencies, Andrey Kostin believes Russia should abandon the use of the Western-controlled global financial messaging system SWIFT, the head of Russia’s second-largest bank has argued.

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The country’s defense forces will show the militant group’s true colors to the world, a spokesman has claimed Israeli officials have pushed back against comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a speech on Wednesday, in which he called the Gaza-based militants “a liberation group.”