The bloc’s criticism of Russia-China cooperation in the Arctic underlines its Cold War mentality, the Foreign Ministry said NATO’s claims that cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic represents a ‘challenge’ signals that the alliance is still dwelling in the Cold War, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday.
On March 2, Valve, the American game developer, restricted the main payment methods on Steam for users from Russia, which are Visa, Mastercard and Mir cards. Now you can pay for purchases only through PayPal or an internal Steam wallet. Users of other gaming services faced similar difficulties, in particular PS Store, Microsoft Store, Nintendo…
Russia has increased its reserve fund used for emergency spending by 551.4 billion rubles ($9.5 billion), the government said on Thursday. “The funds will be used in part to implement measures aimed at ensuring the stability of economic development in the conditions of external constraints,” the government said, referring to Western sanctions placed on Russia…