With no clear alternatives and surging energy prices, sanctions look set to hurt the bloc more than they will harm Russia By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst  The European Union, this week, announced ambitious proposals to embargo the importation of Russian oil by the end of 2022. After teeth-pulling negotiations which have been met with strident…

An explosion at the compound in Berlin could have triggered a “massive blaze,” a senior journalist has said An improvised explosive device (IED) discovered late on Friday on the grounds of a Berlin compound that houses journalists from Russia’s RIA Novosti and Sputnik Germany media outlets, had been stuffed into a remote basement ventilation shaft,…

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