Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to Tunxi, Anhui province, in China today ostensibly for a two-day “Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Neighboring Countries of Afghanistan.” Chinese sources tout

After an initial headline shock, markets generally dismissed demands last week by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that purchases of Russian gas exports be paid for in Russian rubles instead of

According to China’s state media, President Xi Jinping told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call today that the international community should “truly” promote peace talks, where China

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced today that he will demand payment for Russia’s natural gas from countries it defines as hostile be made in Rubles starting in a week, after

In an historic decision, European Union leaders will declare on Friday in Versailles, outside Paris, that they will phase out purchases of Russian gas, oil, and coal, because Moscow’s invasion

Iranian officials negotiating in Vienna to limit the country’s nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of sanctions, including on its critical oil exports, have struck an optimistic tone on

President Xi Jinping has instructed China’s State Council to support Russia in the spheres of economy, finance, trade, and high technology, and to help Russia cope with western sanctions. Chinese

The southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson has fallen to Russian Federation troops, with Mariupol and Kharkiv under siege, and with historic Odessa, where Russia’ President Vladimir Putin has explicitly

The European Commission announced today that due to the expected negative impact of the war in Ukraine on European growth, they will re-think whether EU fiscal rules that impose limits

The European Union has formally adopted the latest package of sanctions against Russia (and Belarus, more on Belarus below), under which seven Russian banks will be disconnected from the SWIFT

Beijing released a statement today after a call between China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba deploring the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine and has publicly

Much has been made in the press and analyst community of statements by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi over the weekend expressing Beijing’s support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

At 23:10 pm Beijing time (18:10 Moscow time, February 21), Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov placed an urgent call to China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. In the

European Union leaders will meet tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, for an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss the latest developments in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. If – we believe when

With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia now under way, European Union leaders will be asked by the European Commission to agree tonight on a new package of sanctions

Momentum is building across the European Union to cut Russia from the SWIFT payments system, the “nuclear” option for the financial sanctioning and isolation of Moscow. Resistance from Germany, Italy,

China’s President Xi Jinping will hold face to face talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on February 4 in Beijing for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid

Yesterday, the German network regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, suspended the process of approving the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, delaying the day when gas starts flowing through that pipeline by

The tweet by President Donald Trump earlier this morning that he spoke to “my friend MbS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia” and that he “expects and hopes they will be cutting back approximately 10 million barrels, and

The pressure is mounting from leaders across the globe on Saudi Arabia and Russia to produce a “cooperative understanding” that both Riyadh and Moscow can sign off in a G20