Standard Chartered fined £20m for breaching sanctions against Russia By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 4 April 2020 Standard Chartered has been fined £20 million for breaching sanctions against Russia. The British bank handed out 21 loans worth close to £100 million to the … Read more
Wall Street stocks opened down on Friday, as doubts grew about an end to the Saudi-Russia oil price war and investors awaited data on business activity to assess the extent of the economic hit from coronavirus. Stock indexes gained about 2 percent on Thursday as oil prices soared on hints of a Saudi-Russia deal, but … Read more
Oil soars 20% after Trump claims Saudi Arabia and Russia are close to ending price war By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 2 April 2020 Oil surged more than 20 per cent after President by Francesca Washtell Trump claimed Saudi Arabia and Russia were … Read more
Small escorted tour holidays are increasing in popularity, whether they offer trips to Russia or the Lake District. All transportation is organised for you, as well as hotels and most meals. A tour manager is on hand throughout to take care of the itinerary, paperwork or any problems. And along the way, the best guides … Read more
Britain must toughen up its attitude to China and treat it more like the former Soviet Union in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a former Cabinet minister warned today. Damian Green said that the contagion, which started in the Asian nation, plus the row over Beijing tech giant Huawei and its access to 5G … Read more
Physician who shook hands with Vladimir Putin a week ago tests positive for coronavirus Denis Protensko met with Russian President Putin last week for a hospital tour Neither of the men were wearing personal protective equipment at the meeting The Kremlin said today that Putin was being regularly tested for coronavirus and that ‘everything is … Read more
Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off the Kuril Islands as tsunami warning is issued for Hawaii A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck in the northern Pacific on Wednesday Tsunami warning was issued for shores on Russia ‘s far eastern Kuril Islands Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said hazardous tsunami waves were possible By Associated Press Published: 04:05 GMT, … Read more
Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia’s third president 20 years ago. Yet today Putin has become the Godfather of a vast Mafia state – and to do that he has combined the dirty skills of a former … Read more
Russia to send a spacecraft to the MOON for the first time in 45 years in a bid to find water on its surface Russian agency Roscosmos will send Luna-25 to the Moon on October 1, 2021 It will mark the first time Moscow has landed on the Moon since Luna-24 in 1976 The mission … Read more
Hero rescuer catches girl by the legs and hauls her to safety as she plunges from a 14th floor balcony in Russia A rescuer managed to save a teenage girl as she fell from a tower block The girl was saved as she was about to plunge around 140 feet to her death The teenager, … Read more