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Japan will keep its investment in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia, said the nation’s trade chief. The government has requested a Japanese consortium to keep its stake in the project, the nation’s Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told the press on Tuesday. Japan has few resources of its …

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since World War II and predicted that the historical period of the West’s “undivided dominance over world affairs” is coming to an end. Speaking on October 27 at a conference of international policy experts in Moscow, Putin said …

The 16th Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission will be hosted by Russia from October 30 to November 1. Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji is the head of the Iranian delegation of this joint commission and Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister of Russia, is also the head of the Iran-Russia joint …

Iran’s oil minister will head to Russia on Monday for the 16th joint economic commission of the two countries, with the finalization of the 40-billion-dollar memorandum of understanding in oil and gas sector topping the agenda of the visit. The visit comes on the heels of the meetings of different …

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has stated that UK Royal Navy officials took part in the planning and implementation of a terrorist attack on the Nord Stream network in the Baltic Sea on September 26th. “According to available information, Royal Navy representatives took part in the planning and implementation …

Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernised U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the “nuclear threshold” and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and …

U.S. President Joe Biden expressed skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s words that he does not intend to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the Voice of America reports. Biden considers the Russian president’s rhetoric dangerous. “If he has no intention, why does he keep talking about it? Why is he …

Western governments are in the final stages of preparing for the implementation of a price cap on Russian oil exports, Reuters has reported, noting that the price range for the cap has yet to be set. According to one unnamed source who spoke to Reuters, the most likely range would …

US President Biden on Tuesday warned Russia against using a tactical nuclear weapon amid concerns Moscow may be creating a pretext to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Hill reported. “Russia would be making an incredibly serious mistake for it to use a tactical nuclear weapon,” Biden told reporters after …

Russia in July took over second place in terms of natural gas supplies to China, regarding total gas supplies in pipeline and liquefied form, surpassing Australia, and consolidated its position in August, China’s customs service said. Turkmenistan has been the largest supplier of gas to China since the beginning of …