dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 16 augusti 2024 14:46
Uttrycket "befriats" ovan är struntprat och dessutom folkrättsligt felaktigt. Ukraina kan inte "befria" rysk territorium.
Russia summons Italian ambassador over journalists reporting from Kursk
Reuters skrev:Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it had summoned Italy's ambassador in Moscow over what it said was "illegal border crossing" by a team of correspondents from Italian state broadcaster RAI, who reported from Ukrainian-held parts of Russia's Kursk region this week.
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The Italian foreign ministry told Reuters that the ambassador, Cecilia Piccioni, had explained to the Russian authorities that RAI and its news teams "plan their activities in a totally independent and autonomous way."
RAI on Wednesday aired the first foreign media report from the Russian town of Sudzha, which was taken in the opening stages of Ukraine's offensive against Russia last week.
Italienska reportrar från den statliga tv-kanalen Rai har korsat gränsen och tagit sig in i Kursk utan tillstånd. Vad säger folkrätten? Samtidigt
ryker Lenin-statyer:
OSINTtechnical skrev:The statue of Lenin has been removed by Ukrainian forces in the recently captured Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast.
The statue initially received damage in the short battle to take the town.
Italiens regering har naturligtvis kritiserat Ryssland för tillrättavisningen av landets ambassadör.
Friends don't let friends pay in yuan
Janis Kluge skrev:Until late 2023, Russia seemed to have successfully adapted to the reality of financial sanctions. Using a combination of dollars, yuan, and rubles to settle trade meant that paying for imports wasn't usually a major headache. That changed in December 2023, when U.S. President signed an executive order threatening secondary sanctions against foreign banks that facilitate transactions with Russia's military-industrial complex. In June 2024, the Moscow Exchange was sanctioned, expanding the scope of the December sanctions.
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The statistics of Russia’s Central Bank seem to support the reports about payment issues in Chinese currencies (see chart above). Earlier in 2024, they show a certain decrease in the share of Russian imports that are settled in yuan (more precisely: Yuan and other non-Western currencies - but this is almost all yuan). Meanwhile, the share of settlements in rubles is increasing. This is most likely due to two-stage payment schemes, as Alex Isakov from Bloomberg suggests: Russian companies pay rubles to an agent (perhaps in one of Russia's neighboring countries), and this agent pays the business partner abroad in "clean" currency. I recently stumbled upon an advertisement from one of these agents on a Russian telegram channel for importers.
Of course, these agents are not free. According to VI, their services increase the effective price of imports by 6-30%, depending on “how intensively sanctioned” a certain imported good is. These costs could be passed on to Russian consumers, worsening Russia’s inflation problem. In monthly inflation figures for non-food items, there are no clear signs of this problem yet. Prices on non-food items (such as consumer goods imports) grew slower in July (4.3% from June, seasonally adjusted, annualized) than overall inflation, if the increase of gasoline prices is excluded, the Central Bank reported. But price increases in imports could be hidden behind changes in the exchange rate (the ruble was strengthening recently, at least until Ukraine’s Kursk operation) or they could come with a delay.
Har Ryssland några vänner kvar? Dessutom
galopperar matpriserna, trots
chockhöjda räntor.
