The Dow Jones Index fell almost 400 points on Thursday

An extremely insane first week of the year for US stock traders was exacerbated on Thursday when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 392 points. Thus, American funds fell by 5% in the first days of 2016. Among other things, on the indicators of an index covering 30 ...

What will change after the Americans cancel the ban on oil exports?

Republican and Democratic leaders in the US Congress agreed to lift the 40-year ban on oil exports. In theory, this means that a very strong player will once again enter the world oil market, but in practice, little will change. In any case, the world ...

US State Department doubts Turkey’s oil purchases from militants

A senior US State Department official questioned Russian claims that Turkish officials buy large quantities of oil from Islamic State militants. “I do not believe in the existence of smuggling trade between the territories controlled by the Islamic State and Turkey in any ...

What Putin said in his annual message

On December 3, President Vladimir Putin read out the traditional message to the Federal Assembly. Part of it turned out to be very similar to the message of the previous year, but emotionally it was completely different: Putin's most formidable words were not addressed to the United States, as is usually the case, but to the Turkish leadership. Below are the main points of the sentry ...

Erdogan accused Russia of oil collusion with the Islamic State

The US has evidence that the Islamic State and Russian companies are selling oil to Syria. This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the same time, he called the accusations that jihadists sell oil to Turkey as slanderous. On November 26, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Obama has blocked the construction project of the pipeline "Keystone"

After seven years of discussions, US President Barack Obama on Friday, October 6, rejected the idea of ​​building the Keystone pipeline, which would connect oil fields in Canada with the central US region. According to the president, the 1900-kilometer pipeline "does not meet the national interests of the United States." Keystone ...

The Financial Times: Russia is in trouble because of falling energy prices

“Russia’s most pressing problem is not Western-imposed sanctions or the protracted conflict in Ukraine. The problem is economic,” writes Nick Butler in The Financial Times, seeing “the risk that economic problems will lead to political instability both within Russia...

The United States has banned the supply of equipment to Gazprom's field

The United States has included one of the largest Russian offshore oil and gas fields on its sanctions list against Russia. The relevant information was published yesterday in the US government magazine Federal Register. “The Bureau of Industry and Security adds the Russian oil and gas field, Yuzhno-Kirinskoye...

Greenpeace activists blocked Finnish icebreaker in Portland

  American activists of the environmental organization Greenpeace prevented the Finnish icebreaker Fennica from leaving the port of Portland, Oregon, on its way to the coast of Alaska to participate in the program of the energy company Royal Dutch Shell to search for oil in the Chukchi Sea. About…

Lukashenka ordered to find oil and gas in Belarus

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko does not believe that there is no oil and gas in the depths of the country, Belta reports. “In similar territories in Russia and other countries, a lot of oil and natural gas, as well as valuable metals, are produced, this creates the basis for prosperity and...

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