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Gas prices rose in the Netherlands and Britain on Monday morning, October 30, driven by news that Egyptian gas imports would stop, which will consequently affect its exports of liquefied natural gas. Cold weather and unscheduled outages in Norway also supported prices. The Dutch November benchmark natural gas contract rose …

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and that the two leaders indicated that the latest agreements on reducing oil supplies ensure stability in global energy markets. Saudi Arabia and Russia announced on Tuesday the extension of …

Russia’s central bank raised interest rates by 350 basis points, to 12 percent, on Tuesday, in an emergency move aimed at trying to halt the ruble’s slide below 100 against the dollar after the Kremlin’s public call for tightening monetary policy. The convening of the extraordinary meeting of the Central …

As Moscow raised military spending and Western sanctions put pressure on its energy exports, the value of the Russian currency dropped to its lowest level since the early days of the Ukraine conflict. As a result, the Russian central bank announced that it will hold an emergency meeting to review …

The Russian ruble fell to more than 100 against the dollar on Monday after an economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was interested in strengthening the ruble and that monetary easing was the main reason behind the local currency’s depreciation. The ruble fell to 100.4975 against the …

The Russian ruble fell by more than two percent against the dollar on Tuesday, to its lowest level in more than 16 months, above 97, due to strong domestic demand for foreign currency. The ruble recovered on Monday to post intraday gains for the first time in August, but gave …

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that Moscow is ready to return to the deal to export grain across the Black Sea once the West fulfills its obligations regarding Russia’s grain exports. The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin, in a call …

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said Friday (July 28th) that her country will urge buyers of its agricultural exports to pay in rubles instead of dollars as a way to get around Western sanctions. She stated that the government is preparing a draft decree that would enable buyers to …

Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published early Monday that Russia withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Transport Agreement, which guaranteed the safe export of Ukrainian grain, because the agreement had lost its meaning. “The continuation of the grain deal … has lost its meaning,” Putin said in …

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the first line of the Arctic LNG2 project in Murmansk, the first phase of a giant Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in which the French group Total Energy was a party before its withdrawal in 2022. The value of the project is estimated at …