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US senate approves bill on new sanctions against Russia
On Wednesday, the US Senate almost unanimously (97 for, 2 against) approved the document which could put into law and expand the sanctions against Russia, Golos Ameriki reports.
Corresponding amendments were introduced into the law on sanctions with respect to Iran. The senators added the Russian sanctions there too.
Amongst other things, the document obligates the White House to coordinate the decision with Congress if it decides to ease, suspend or lift the current sanctions against Russia. …
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Moldova wants to ban Russian TV news
The Democratic Party of Moldova intends to register a bill in parliament to combat foreign propaganda, including Russian propaganda.
Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Andrian Candu said that there are plans to stop broadcasting the "news and political and analytical programs" produced by Russian TV channels.
Earlier, the Moldovan parliament discussed a draft on restricting the broadcasts of information and analytical programs of TV channels from the states that had not ratified the European …
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Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister: Belarus' dependence on Russian gas and oil is 'dangerous'
“We have a dangerous dependence, even if it is with a friendly country. We receive 95% of our energy resources from there,” Semashko said to journalists in Minsk on Tuesday.
He stressed that the Republic is building BelAES (the nuclear power plant) to avoid this dependence.
Semashko expressed his confidence that there would be a significant increase in prices for natural gas in the near future. Before this happens, the nuclear power plant will be operational and Belarus will be insured …
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Media: Russian-Chinese negotiations on new gas contracts came to a deadlock
The two-year-long negotiations with China on increasing gas supplies and the building of two new pipelines have come to a deadlock, as stated in an article by Reuters.
Sources of the agency who are familiar with the situation note that Beijing does not see the need for "The Power of Siberia-2" pipeline (western route) and supplies from Sakhalin (Far Eastern route), which had been discussed since 2015. The capacity of the first gas pipeline, as expected, will be 30 billion cubic meters per year, …
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German Ministry of Defense advocates for negotiations with Russia 'from a position of strength'
Germany is interested in a meaningful relationship with Russia, but "from a position of strength," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said at a meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on International Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense in Strasbourg.
"Our position is such: that we want meaningful relations with Russia, but we know that this should happen from a position of strength. It should be clear that we are interested in the resolution of conflicts at …