There is a strong possibility that the Biden admin will lift any sanctions on Russia-Iran trade, letting Tehran be Russia's sanctions avoidance hub. Effectively meaning that sanctions on Russia will be in name only. All Russia needs to do is buy from Iran. Iran will source what Russia wants.
The Biden admin is absolutely obsessed with the Iran deal, as was Obama. There is clear discomfort in Washington over this deal, even from some Democrats. But for whatever reason, there is a real obsession to get this terrible deal done.
Wonder what Chelsea fans, screaming about the unfairness of it all, think about him running back to dad
Moscow is a fantastic City to visit ( and so is Saint Petersburg , even more so architecturally ) Plenty to see and do there always. Of course that was before Putin started his war......
It has been pretty satisfying, though, watching them become overconfident and then slapped with a threadban.
I'd a holiday planned for 2020 to get to St Petersburg and a couple of the Baltic capitals, looks like it'll be even more of a while at best. 😅 Watched a similar video and you see the Russian countryside and all and it's hard not to think "What a waste".
An AusAirforce C-17A Globemaster III aircraft has delivered another load of defensive military assistance supplies to a European airport for forward movement to the Ukrainian Government
Australia are heavily involved in the help for ukraine
Not until you post some links, they aren't.
It is a lot easier to be successful when you inherit a lot of money though, I am sure you would agree.
He/she can't post here anymore. He/she's threadbanned.
Quite strange how they're now broadcasting this as if it's a new discovery.
It isn't. The fact that this man swindled his way to the wealth he has accumulated isn't something new.
It might be unpalatable and uncomfortable for his cheerleaders and friends in Westminster but none of this is new.
Re: "Whatever her motivation".
One of her parents is Russian, the other is Ukrainian.
Football fans are fickle, new suitors are already promising them seats on the board, etc.
It will be Roman who with the vast majority of them soon.
The only thing you can hope for is that whoever buys the club will be scrutinised properly by the premier league, doubt it though.
Yes, I used to live there. Great Country, lovely people easy to get to know and become friendly with. If you are not familiar with drinking vodka, I strongly suggest Russia is not the place to start.......or else start on a serious training regime before you go there!!☺️ ( assuming you take a drink??? )
The premier League and central and west central London is awash with bloody stolen money. It isn't news.
I suppose what's news us that those that have been shielding this money are starting to feel a little heat so maybe some action will be taken. Not before the long heads up of course so that the ill gotten gains can be moved to another haven.
It's like Mayor Quimby in the Simpsons after the Burlesque House is revealed:
"Er, uh, well... eh, in light of these new facts, of which I now realize I was largely aware, I must take action"
Abramovich has a history of suing anyone who mentions him and putin in the same sentence.
The fake mayor lady got her house firebombed, apparently. Such a shame.
Please God she'll be in it next time
No, Nationalism is when one nation feels they are better than other nations...
Kadyrov is not exactly the most popular man in Chechnya....and without Putins support, he will have a very difficult , if not impossible job holding onto power.
Zelensky praised her...
An interesting take on it.
One more common in those from countries with long imperial histories or those influenced by that miasma.
And this PMs' visit was not authorised by EU.
Frankly I am more scared of these idiots actions than anything else....
If you cower and hide, it makes it worse in the long run.
Yeah, they can provoke something on a very large scale. They are idiots...
It's literally going after the Mafia. From the Guardian:
The UK is to impose sanctions on 370 more Russian individuals, including more than 50 oligarchs and their families with a combined net worth of £100bn, in the latest raft of measures against Vladimir Putin’s regime, Peter Walker and Jessica Elgot report.
More than 1,000 individuals and entities have now been targeted with sanctions since the invasion of Ukraine, with fresh measures announced against key Kremlin spokespeople and political allies of Putin, including the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, considered a member of his elite inner circle of advisers known as his siloviki.
Other key political figures placed under sanction include the prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, and former president Dmitry Medvedev, as well as Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, and foreign affairs spokesperson, Maria Zakharova .
Oligarchs now subject to UK sanctions include Mikhail Fridman, who co-founded Russian conglomerate Alfa-Group with German Khan, also now subject to sanctions as well as close Putin ally Petr Aven, who was previously head of Russia’s largest commercial bank. The FCO said family members would also be subject to sanctions.
The slew of new sanctions on individual oligarchs and elites, as well as businesses, politicians and organisations came after the passage of the economic crime bill on Monday night, which is intended to make it swifter and easier to target oligarchs and Russian interests.
A lot may not see it that way JM. The few I know don't and they live in the West(and this seems to be the general gist "back home" too). Now these are older Russians, 30-50 kind of range, but what they believe as a general and obviously simplistic reading of it is that the breakup of the USSR and the chaos that followed was their low point, with their country being raped by a handful of pirates and that putin put a stop to that(Oh I know, I know) and that since he's been in power the lot of the average Russian has measurably improved and self confidence in Russia and Russians has gone up.
And the fact is it has. The Russia of today in eastern urban areas anyway might be below the standards we're used to, but way ahead of the same urban Russia in the 1990's. Back then there was essentially no middle class, just the poor and the rich pirates, today there is a middle class, with the trappings of same. Their IKEA, Chanel, holidays in the sun, fur coat no knickers type deal. Or it had all that... They also seem to basically ignore putin's murderous actions against dissenters, or buy into the Kremlin spin that they were "enemies of Russia", or think the accusations are a "western plot to destabilise Russia".
The latter is a very strong thread in Russian thinking and one that has been reinforced for generations, centuries even, through the autocracy and with not a little bit of help from their church. It's easy to forget, especially for a small island race like us who tended to look outward more than in(because we had to), Russia, with rare exceptions like Peter the Great(and he got a lot of pushback), from the top down has been an extremely inward looking and isolationist nation for the guts of a thousand years and when conflict came, it was more often than not an attack from beyond. That kind of deep root in any nation's psyche is hard to dig out.
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