With Kiev’s defenses unraveling, the narrative surrounding the country’s leader has suddenly changed in Western media By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen.
Kaliningrad needs more products from mainland Russia than Western sanctions allow EU sanctions, regulating the quantity of goods that can be delivered from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad, are preventing the exclave from receiving all the items it needs, the local governor said on Tuesday.
Supplies of Russian goods to the US have fallen to their lowest level in 18 years, news outlet RBK reported on Tuesday, citing data from the US Census Bureau. June imports from Russia to the US amounted to $661 million, the lowest since February 2004, when they stood at $653 million. The figure dropped 1.7…