The move is intended to prop up the cause of “democracy” in the country, Oslo’s top diplomat says Norway has adopted a new name for Belarus to be used in official documents, Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced on Sunday. The country will now be called Belarus instead of Hviterussland, a historic Norwegian name for the…

Belgrade has agreed a new three-year gas supply contract with Moscow, Serbian president has announced Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday he had agreed a new three-year gas contract with Moscow during phone talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Already on the rise, fertilizer prices skyrocketed amid trade disruptions over the conflict in Ukraine The rush to impose sanctions on Russia, and the departure of scores of companies from the country, following the launch of the military operation in Ukraine was done with a specific calculus: To devastate the Russian economy. However, in a…