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By Rhod Mackenzie

The European Union (EU) Council has not yet received any official proposals for the new package of sanctions to be imposed against Russia, according to an official EU representative who spoke to the newspaper Izvestia. However, the European Parliament anticipates that new measur...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Hungary is doing all it can to maintain its economic relations with Russia. This stated by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Hungary today is an island of pragmatism in Europe, which makes rather unusual and an exception. Why are contacts with Moscow so important for thi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Energy prices are at historically high levels. This not only applies oil and gas, but also to lithium ("battery fuel") and uranium. The revival of interest in nuclear power use and firing up reactors in the wake of the energy crisis plus the desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia has been instrumental in establishing a brand new energy sector in Bangladesh, namely nuclear energy. Global nuclear analysts have acknowledged both Russia's accomplishments and superiority in the nuclear sector when compared to its American and French competitors. These...

By Dmitry Skvortsov

The EU's refusal to purchase Russian electricity has become one of the most important points of the West's sanctions program against the economy of the country. However, the effect of this measure turned out to be the opposite: the sanctions stimulated the resumption of a whole...

By Sergey Kudiyarov

Despite the opposition of Brussels, Hungary has managed to agree on the construction of the second stage of the Paks NPP with the Russian Rosatom. That said, the anti-Russian European front is bursting at the seams

The first stage of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary w...