‘Mediate your own first’ — Trump rejects Putin’s offer to negotiate Israe-Iran peace U.S. President Donald Trump has stated that he rejected an offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. Trump advised Putin to focus on resolving Russia’s own issues first. In a statement made on Wednesday,…
Russian President, Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, has said unidentified forces were trying to sow tension between Russia and the United States. Dmitriev, who said this on Telegram on Thursday, claimed that the forces are trying to disrupt any steps towards dialogue, sparing neither money nor resources for the course. He said Putin had…
Danish brewer Carlsberg announced Tuesday an agreement to sell its shares in its Russian unit, a day after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ending state control of the business. Carlsberg, like many other Western firms, had announced in March 2022 that it would leave Russia, where it employed 8,400 people, following Moscow’s invasion of…
The news that the International Monetary Fund will become the first major international financial body to officially return to Russia since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 underscores the systemic pro-authoritarian impulses of the IMF and its tolerance to blunt violations of international law by Russia under its current Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, who…
