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Ukraine says grain yield down 40%
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 27 Dec 2022

As of December 24 the grain yield is down because of the war, the Ukrainian Grain Association told AFP. The 2022 yield will probably be 65 million tons:the counting is not quite complete. In 2021 it was 106 million tons. The war has led to a paucity of fuel, fertilizer and workers. It has become ...

Ukraine attacks Russian air base
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 26 Dec 2022

On December 26 a Ukrainian drone attacked the Engels Air Base. The worrying thing for Russia is that this is 600 km from the Ukrainian border. Moscow announced that its troops had downed the drone and that although the debris killed three technicians, no Russian aircraft were hit. This is the sec...

Armenia refuses talks with Azerbaijan for the moment
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 26 Dec 2022

On December 22 Armenia declined to speak to Azerbaijan about resolving the tense standoff on Lachin Road. Russia was supposed to mediate the talks. On December 12 Azerbaijani demonstrators blocked the road through the Lachin Corridor. The road connects Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh to Armeni...

China-Russia examined: Xi and Medvedev meet in Beijing
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 24 Dec 2022

On December 21, former Russian Prime Minister and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev met with Xi Jinping in Beijing. This was a surprise visit. Both parties claimed to have discussed matters economic, political and military, including the war in Ukraine. One o...

Russia warns it will not sell oil to price cap countries
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 23 Dec 2022

On December 23 Putin said that next week he shall announce Russia's reaction to the USD 60 per barrel price cap imposed earlier in December 2022 by the EU, the G7 and Australia.  The Deputy Prime Minister said that Russia would outlaw oil sales to price cap nations. He said that Russia might need...

Kazakhstan to send oil to Germany
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 22 Dec 2022

On December 22 it was reported that KazMunaiGaz will sell oil to Germany and it will be transported via the Druzhba Pipeline that goes through Russia. Russia will earn transit fees. The project shall commence in January 2023. The EU has banned most Russian oil imports. Germany was very dependent ...

Zelensky in the US hears Ukraine will receive Patriot air defense
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 22 Dec 2022

On December 21 the Ukrainian President arrived in Washington on his first trip abroad since the war began. The US announced a USD 1.85 billion aid package including air defense missiles. Zelensky is due to address the US Congress. He has met with Biden. The Patriot announcement had been leaked. T...

Putin visits Belarus
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 20 Dec 2022

On December 19 Putin was in Minsk and met with Lukashenko. They discussed military cooperation. Belarusian-Russian drills are ongoing. Russian TV showed the drills. Putin said there is no plan to fuse the two countries. This was the first such presidential meeting in Belarus for 3 years. The US s...

Azerbaijan agrees to supply electricity to South-East Europe
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 19 Dec 2022 · 1 response

On December 17 an agreement was signed. An electricity cable will go through Georgia and go under the Black Sea to Romania and on to Hungary. The agreement was signed in Bucharest with the presidents of all four countries present. The 1,200 km cable will take 6 years to build. The three receiving...

West accuses North Korea of supplying Russia
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 19 Dec 2022

In November 2022 the US said that North Korea was selling shells to Russia to use in Ukraine. Russia has run down its stock of ammunition and missiles.  The UN put an arms embargo on North Korea in 2016. Arms sales would be a breach of this. North Korea and Russia deny any arms trade. North Korea...

Intense Russian bombardment as Putin meets army chiefs
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 17 Dec 2022

On December 17 Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava and other cities. Ukraine says 40 missiles were fired at Kyiv and 37 were shot down. Ukraine is happy about its increasingly sophisticated air defense. Nonetheless it cannot stop all missiles and drones. Russia was attacking en...

Russian diplomat in Africa injured by letter bomb
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 17 Dec 2022

On December 16 a letter bomb in Central African Republic (CAR) wounded the head of the Russian cultural center. The letter addressed to him said, ''It was from all the French: the Russians to get out of Africa.'' The diplomat had already received death threats. The head of the Wagner mercenary gr...

Road to disputed Azerbaijan region blocked
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 16 Dec 2022

On December 15 Russia voiced its disquiet because of heightened tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia. A road connecting Armenia to Nagorno Karabakh has been blocked since December 11. Nagorno Karabakh is home to 120,000 ethnic Armenians and virtually no Azerbaijanis but it is legally part of Az...

Ukraine defends the east as Russia warns West against arms shipments
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 16 Dec 2022

On December 16 Ukraine was successfully defending itself in the Donbas. Russia is trying to take Bakhmut. On December 15 Ukraine said there were 23 air strikes and 4 missile strikes against Kharkiv but minimal damage was done.  On December 15 Kherson was deprived of all electricity due to Russian...

Russia evades computer sanctions
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 14 Dec 2022

On December 13 Reuters published a report showing that Russia has obtained USD 2.6 billion worth of IT components and electronics despite Western sanctions. Reuters and the Royal United Service Institute learnt this from an analysis of published Russian Customs Service data. Semiconductors were i...

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