Russian Export Center JSC (REC) shared the results of the successful performance of Russian brands displayed at the inaugural “Made in Russia” festival that is currently taking place in China.
Germany's ruling coalition is not yet out of trouble after scraping through a vote to pass this year's budget. Challenging times lie ahead as the nation’s 2025 spending plan faces a gaping €20 billion deficit, which must be reduced in line with the constitutional debt limit.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - EU member states are in the process of drawing up sanctions against violent Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the European Union's lead spokesperson for foreign affairs said Friday.
A new turn in Germany’s never-ending migrant labor controversy has seen apparently boundless German generosity extended to thousands of Uzbek natives.
BERLIN (Sputnik) - The German parliament, Bundestag, said on Friday it had passed in the final vote the 2024 budget which envisages cutbacks in subsidies for farmers.
BERLIN (Sputnik) - Around 90,000 public transport workers at over 130 companies in Germany staged walkouts on Friday to demand reduced working hours and extra days off, media reported.
BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - Ruling parties of Hungary with two thirds of votes will not vote on Sweden's NATO membership bid on February 5 and will wait for a meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Hungarian broadcaster ATV reported on Friday.
Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday leveling sanctions against four Israeli settlers accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after weeks of warnings to Tel Aviv. Sputnik asked a pair of leading observers of regional politics what the unprecedented move will mean for US-Israeli relations going forward.
Attacking Iran would be a catastrophic mistake for Washington, as the US is too internally weak to wage a new major in the Middle East, University of Tehran professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi told Sputnik's New Rules podcast.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The UK Home Office will start housing undocumented migrants at the former air force base Scampton, located in the county of Lincolnshire, in April, media reported on Friday.
US forces in Iraq and Syria have been coming under almost daily drone and rocket attack by militias since October amid Washington’s support for Tel Aviv’s military assault in Gaza. Last Saturday, three US troops were killed and 47 others wounded in a drone attack on a base in Jordan just across the border from an illegal US outpost in Syria.
The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2050 nuclear power production should double in order to meet the challenges of the global economy. The US would like to dominate this market, however its resources are dwarfed by Russian expertise and technologies.
TULA (Sputnik) - Russia’s newest arms are clearly better compared to the ones of NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that there were over 600,000 Russian troops currently serving in the special operation zone along the whole line of combat contact. A great number of those are volunteers. Recently, a brand new elite unit has finished military training in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
The liberation of Stalingrad in 1943 was a pivotal moment in World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union. This significant event marked a crucial victory for the Soviet Union over the Nazi German forces.
The Yemeni militia kicked off an operation to hijack and strike suspected Israeli-affiliated commercial vessels sailing through the Red Sea in November over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The US responded by assembling a “coalition of the willing” in December, which almost immediately fell apart as major allies pulled out.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - As many as 78.9% of Russians trust President Vladimir Putin, while 76.2% generally approve of his job performance, a survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) showed on Friday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Asia has replaced Europe as a destination for Russian lumber exports, with the share of Central Asia rising to almost 100% and China continuing to lead the pack of importers, the federal forest inventory manager said.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Volodymyr Zelensky wants to remove Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny from his post because of his alleged involvement in secret talks with Western officials about pursuing a ceasefire with Russia, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germany will send its frigate Hessen to the Red Sea next week to take part in a European operation to protect merchant vessels from Yemen's Houthi rebels, DPA news agency reported.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A federal judge has sentenced former CIA officer Joshua Adam Schulte to 40 years in jail for the biggest data breach in the agency's history, espionage and child pornography, the Department of Justice announced in a press release.
With tensions growing between the US Federal government and the state government of Texas rising rapidly, calls for Texas’ secession from the union have grown from a whisper to, if not a scream then certainly a loud grumble.
Days after the US State Department announced that three US troops were killed in a drone attack on a base near Jordan, US President Joe Biden blamed Iran, arguing that they provided weapons to the militants and promised a strong response, including hitting Iranian targets. Iran, in turn, said it would respond to any attack.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, announced the start of construction of a new nuclear power plant (NPP), which is in line with the country's initiative to upgrade nuclear energy generative capacity to 20,000 megawatts, Iranian state-run news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The White House will look into reports of a years-long US campaign of sending undercover operatives into Venezuela to build drug trafficking cases against the country's leadership, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday.
