German Vice Chancellor Habek said that G7 ministers will not pay Russia for gas in rubles
According to Habek, the ministers of all G7 countries agreed that changing the payment currency would be a violation of contracts and demanded that their companies not pay in rubles.
So, they want to switch off the gas. Let's try.
The authorities of Shanghai, which is located in the eastern part of China, decided to close the city from March 28 due to a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus infections, Xinhua reports.
The administration will alternately close the southern, eastern and western parts of the city to test local residents for the coronavirus. At the same time, the entire population was obliged to observe strict quarantine. Almost 25 million people lived in Shanghai, according to the 2020 census.
At the first stage (from 5:00 on March 28 (00:00 Moscow time) to April 1), the areas located to the east and south of the Huangpu River will be closed. On the second, starting from 03:00 on April 1 to 03:00 on April 5 (22:00 Moscow time on March 31 and April 4, respectively), it will not be possible to violate self-isolation in areas west of this river.
“We have to turn off Putin's money valve. This means that we also need to turn off the gas and oil taps so that freedom in Europe has a chance. 15 degrees! 15 degrees in winter can be experienced in a sweater. No one will die from this! Hawke says.
Nice.
2008 allowed US to start printing and injecting money into shale project (with losses)m without it they'll be in same place EU is now with North Sea.
Auchan refused to leave Russia — the CEO said that the company will continue to work on the territory of the Russian Federation
“It is useless to set people against each other. The most important thing for us is to keep our employees and ensure the fulfillment of our main mission, to continue to feed the population of these two countries. We never had another goal. I am ready to accept public opinion that does not agree with us. It is easy to criticize us, but we exist, we are open and act for the civilian population,” said Yves Claude.
Analysts note that the shortage of components provoked a significant increase in prices for final products. As a result, the total revenue of the ten largest players in the industry jumped by almost one and a half times - by 48%. If in 2020 their income amounted to about $86.0 billion, then last year it was $127.4 billion.
Qualcomm remains the largest integrated circuit developer with $29.3 billion in revenue and 51% annual growth. The company's chips for smartphones and the Internet of things are in high demand.
NVIDIA jumped from third to second with $24.9 billion in revenue last year. The company's sales soared 61%.
Rounding out the top three is Broadcom, which was in second place in 2020. For the year, the company's revenue rose by 18%, reaching $ 21.0 billion.
In fourth and fifth places are respectively MediaTek and AMD with revenues of $17.6 billion and $16.4 billion. Growth compared to 2020 was 61% and 68%.
The global energy crisis is hardest hitting third world countries. The tropical island of Sri Lanka is forced to introduce emergency measures to cope with problems in providing the population with automotive fuel.
According to CNA, authorities on Tuesday ordered troops to take control of all gas stations owned by the local state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in order to prevent chaos at gas stations. Shortly before this, thousands of motorcyclists and simply furious residents began to block roads and protest against problems with the supply of gasoline, as well as kerosene, which is used by a significant part of the local poor to cook food. Low-income people were forced to switch to kerosene after the local second-largest gas supplier raised the price of a bottle by nearly five and a half dollars.
The queues for fuel have become a real disaster for the inhabitants of the island, who are forced to suffer, trying to get the necessary fuel. During the many hours of waiting, two elderly Sri Lankans have already died, another local resident died during a fight in the queue for fuel.
The situation on the island is now really difficult, and not only because of the lack of gasoline. The electric power industry is also suffering, because of which a wave of power outages swept across the country, in some areas the power is turned off for several hours. Many call the current economic crisis the worst in the history of independent Sri Lanka, which has existed as a separate state since 1948.
In Poland, local authorities solemnly demolished a monument to the soldiers-liberators of the Red Army
Broadcast from the scene in the Chrzowice area in the south-west of the country was broadcast live by Polish television. First, a five-pointed star with a hammer and sickle was joyfully removed from the monument, and then its systematic destruction began.
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