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European politicians have acknowledged that further sanctions threaten the EU itself.

In an interview with the media, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, said that the EU has reached the limit in anti-Russian restrictive measures.

As the politician explained in an interview with Franceinfo, the EU could have gone further, but the participating countries have reached the limits of what can be done from their side.

Borrel believes that “we have done everything we could”.

The head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Berbock, agrees with him on this. She appealed to the European powers to be cold-blooded and think about the chance to destabilize Europe by imposing an embargo on energy imports from Russia.

According to RIA Novosti, Berbok said that the EU countries themselves should be ready to introduce such a measure, otherwise hospitals may be left without electricity, citizens may lose mobility.

If it turns out that Europe cannot withstand the measures imposed, they will have to be canceled.

All this will lead to the destabilization of the situation, which, in her opinion, Russian President Vladimir Putin would like.

As a result, even “if it breaks the heart”, do not introduce measures, but work faster to replace imports of Russian raw materials.

The truth, according to Berbok, lies in the powerful reserves of Russia, which has the resources for a long-term bombing of Ukraine.  And the only harsh measure that the West can take is to isolate the Russian president further, she believes.

As Topnews wrote earlier, anti-Russian measures were introduced by the EU and other countries in response to the conduct of a military special operation in Ukraine on February 24.

It became possible after Russia accepted the sovereignty of the LDPR.

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Kristalina Georgieva explained what influences such chances.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday that default in Russia can no longer be considered an incredible event.

According to the expert, who spoke on CNBC, the country is experiencing a deep recession, to which it was pushed by tough sanctions.

She did not consider it necessary to make forecasts in such a situation, due to the fact that the specific chance of default directly depends on the special operation in Ukraine.

Secondly, the duration of the sanctions themselves will affect it. It is also unclear whether the country will be able to pay its debts.

“As for default, this scenario no longer seems improbable,” Georgieva said.

She believes that not only Russia, but the whole world will be under the consequences of the events in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation, which is already noticeable now.

These include rising prices for raw materials, energy resources and food.

Further serious inflation increases will affect global incomes, consumer demand and the global economy as a whole.

As Topnews wrote earlier, after Russia announced the special operation on February 24, international rating agencies significantly lowered the ratings of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Finance believes that in case of freezing of gold and foreign exchange reserves of Russia, the West faces default on obligations to the country.

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Roscosmos reported how much the States lost on anti-Russian sanctions.

US President Joe Biden, assessing the economic situation of the country, called the reason for the sharp rise in inflation.

Recall, as analysts note, its indicators are record for the last 40 years.

The President explained that the incomes of the country’s citizens are falling amid rising prices.

According to him, it was Russia that made a big contribution to the increase in gasoline and energy prices. He noted that the budgets of Americans are being depleted due to price increases.

“As the markets reacted to Putin’s aggressive actions,” Biden said in a statement.

He added that the Russian economy suffered even more from the sanctions.

The US Department of Labor estimated the growth of consumer prices at 0.8% compared to January 2022. Annual figures are estimated as a record since 1982 and amount to 7.9%.

In turn, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the United States, which had stopped supplying Russian-made rocket engines, had already lost about $ 4 billion.

In an interview with State Duma deputies from the LDPR, he explained that the retaliatory sanctions of Roscosmos amount to $ 12 billion, which the United States will lose. As a result, the damage caused by anti-Russian sanctions is higher for their initiators, Interfax reports from his words.

Recall that Russia has already canceled the launch of British OneWeb satellites, and earlier Rogozin himself claimed that a blow to international cooperation on the ISS could lead to the station’s departure from orbit.

Then he explained that the station does not run over the territory of Russia, and the fall of the 500-kilogram ISS may fall on the territory of the United States..

As Topnews wrote earlier, on February 24, a Russian special operation was announced in Ukraine, which caused anti-Russian sanctions from the United States.

Biden announced them as “unprecedented”, assuring that he has nothing against ordinary Russians.

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The expert explained that the crisis will affect even American farmers.

Financial analyst, ex-CIA adviser James Rickards told the media that the tough restrictive measures that the United States imposed on Russia could boomerang the country’s economy.

In an article for The Daily Reckoning, he explained that despite the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West, they will hit not only Russia, but also the United States.

According to the expert, Russia can bypass many of the measures introduced, for example, disconnection from SWIFT. So, to replace the payment system, it can use payments through an older Telex PS.

The second way out is to conduct banking operations through countries that did not support the measures.

And it can replenish the foreign market of products that have left Russia through import substitution.

As for Russia’s retaliatory measures, the analyst appreciates their threats highly, they will affect both Europe and the United States.

“This will lead to defaults in the West and may even mark the beginning of a global liquidity crisis, which can only be contained with the help of currency swaps of the Federal Reserve System, as we saw in the early stages of the pandemic, when markets collapsed, ”, – the expert explained.

Rickards recalls that the Russian authorities, represented by President Vladimir Putin, have already banned the export of a number of Russian products, because the country has not only oil, but also rare metals needed by the West – aluminum, titanium, palladium, platinum, fertilizers, grain and a number of food products.

The ban on their export will seriously affect the economy of Western countries, the analyst believes.

He gave an example of what will happen to farmers who grow food and raise livestock, butchers and processors who produce meat, poultry, bread and dairy products. They are intermediaries, and the source of the supply chain is nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, which were supplied from the Russian Federation. .

Rickards stressed that when the supply chain of a number of materials and goods from the Russian Federation is disrupted, prices in the United States and Europe will continue to rise upwards. Moreover, food products will also be affected.

In general, the ex-CIA adviser defined the restrictive measures introduced as a sanctions boomerang.

As Topnews reported earlier, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Barrrel, said that Europe had almost reached the limit in anti-Russian sanctions, and subsequent measures could harm Europe itself.

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Astrologers explained what awaits the country in the next 2-3 years.

Russian astrologers Ziraddin Rzaev and Tamara Globa said that the economic crisis will not last long.

According to their version, the stars say that the date when a new economic recovery will begin in Russia has already been determined.

So, according to the finalist of the “Battle of Psychics” Ziraddin Rzayev, waiting for everything to come back to normal will take two, at least three years.

The crisis, the astrologer predicts, will cover the whole world, not just Russia. However, the stability of the dollar will happen earlier – he took three months for this.

Since June, a gradual rise will already begin, and those Russians who are engaged in domestic production can count on success.

“The advice is to strive to develop production as much as possible,” the astrologer explained.

It is better to take a vacation after June, and Turkey, Egypt, the UAE and other open countries will be a suitable place for it.

Astrologer Tamara Globa agrees with her colleague, whom Russians see in the show “Let’s get married!”.

According to her, the global economic crisis will last two and a half years.

The current March will be the time of agreements and peace negotiations, and in April it will be possible to wait for a response.

In May, the time will come for new conflicts that will subside only by the summer, when the forces will take a pause.

Another astrologer, Vasilisa Volodina, as reported by “StarHit”, a year ago voiced the opinion that Russia would enter a phase of crisis.

She considered 2022 to be economically connected with 2021, and both periods will demonstrate the consequences of what happened earlier. She also believes that Russia has its own economic phases, which, according to the stars, replace one another.

“The peak of our well-being under the existing formation was reached in 2007, from that moment until 2025, everything is sliding down,” Volodina said.

As Topnews wrote earlier, astrologers previously named the most unlucky zodiac sign in 2022.

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It is assumed that the chain will include 250 fast food restaurants.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a meeting with the heads of retail chains and catering enterprises announced the decision to allocate 500 million rubles for a targeted loan.

It is assumed that the money on preferential grounds will go to create a chain of fast food restaurants, an analogue of McDonald’s, which announced the closure of its establishments in the country the day before.

According to Interfax, referring to the words of the mayor, it is assumed that the Russian analogue will be able to replace 250 McDonald’s establishments in a year, covering consumer demand in the capital.

Sobyanin explained that the decision was made after a conversation with the management of a number of Moscow enterprises that are already working in the same field.

He recalled that 99% of American fast food products were supplied by Russian firms. Now the authorities will be asked to use the same personnel potential for the Russian counterpart.

According to the mayor, at the moment there are over 12,000 catering enterprises operating in Moscow, which have appeared over the past 5 – 8 years, and they will quietly replace foreign restaurants that will not be able to return to the market for another 6 – 12 months.

As Topnews wrote earlier, in a statement “McDonald’s” said that the salary of employees of closed restaurants will be maintained at least until May 2022.

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The owner of Norilsk Nickel justified his protest.

The day before, as Topnews wrote earlier, the Russian government approved the idea of nationalizing the assets of companies leaving the Russian Federation.

Moreover, the list of companies that can be subjected to this procedure includes Apple and IKEA.

The owner of “Norilsk Nickel ” and one of the richest people in Russia, Vladimir Potanin, decided to speak out on this issue in the Telegram channel of the corporation.

He is confident that this measure will take us back 100 years to 1917, as this measure will lead to the emergence of global distrust of our country by investors in the future, and it may take decades.

Potanin also noted that a more correct measure in the circumstances would be the transfer of such assets under external management, which would allow the companies to “avoid collapse” and the owners to retain ownership.

“And personally I would save such an opportunity for them”, – Potanin noted.

The owner of Norilsk Nickel added that the announcement of his departure from Russia was dictated by an emotional decision due to the situation around Donbass and pressure from the West, but expressed confidence. that soon everything will return to normal.

“We should be wiser and avoid such a scenario when retaliatory sanctions will hit us ourselves, – Potanin explained.

The businessman, however, admitted that the desire to nationalize everything is understandable in the current situation with the sanctions policy.

It is noteworthy that later it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin came out in support of the idea of installing external management of companies that decided to leave the Russian market.

The Russian leader explained that Russia does not close itself off from foreign partners and is ready to cooperate. Moreover, all the rights of foreign investors who have decided to stay in Russia will be protected at the legislative level.

But in relation to investors who have decided to close their production facilities, it is necessary to take decisive measures on the basis of legal market instruments without any arbitrariness, Putin explained.

Then, as the prime minister suggested, it is necessary to introduce external management and then transfer these enterprises to those who want to work, Putin said.

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The list appeared on the portal of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The Russian government has identified a list of goods and equipment that were previously imported into the country from abroad, the export of which is prohibited until the end of 2022.

It is also reported that the export of a number of timber products from Russia is limited for the same period.

As reported by Interfax, the list includes

• technological equipment,
• telecommunication equipment,
• medical equipment,
• vehicles,
• agricultural machinery,
• electrical equipment

These include, for example, railway wagons, metal and stone processing machines, monitors and others.

The full list includes over 200 items of goods.

They cannot be exported to all foreign countries. An exception was made for the members of the EAEU, South Ossetia and Abkhazia – the export of goods to these states is regulated by a separate resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Responsible for issuing export permits will be  The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Earlier, Topnews wrote that European experts estimated Europe’s economic losses from anti-Russian sanctions.

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Ural Airlines will be able to fly for only two months.

China refused to supply spare parts for aircraft to Russia.

This was told by Valery Kudinov, head of the Airworthiness Maintenance Department of the Federal Air Transport Agency.

At the same time, Russia is looking for other opportunities for supplies.

Kudinov said that Turkey or India could start supplying parts for aircraft.

“Each company will negotiate on its own,” Kudinov added

Against the background of anti-Russian sanctions and without disassembling the aircraft into parts, the Ural Airlines air carrier will be able to fly for another two months. This was told by the technical director of the carrier Igor Poddubny at the MRO Russia and CIS 2022 forum.

According to RBC, Poddubny admitted that after analyzing the world market, it is possible to supply spare parts and materials, bypassing EU and US sanctions. The air carrier did not see a completely “black picture”.

Ural Airlines also admitted that a hacker attack was carried out on their website on February 24, after which specialists lost access to information systems.

For five days they had to work with paper media.

Recall that Ural Airlines has 54 Airbus aircraft leased, after the start of the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the giant Airbus stopped servicing airlines from Russia.

As the media write, in the resolution of the Ministry of Transport there is a proposal to keep aircraft leased abroad on the territory of Russia. Russian carriers will be able to pay for the fleet in the national currency.

At the same time, Rosaviation transferred Aeroflot, Izhavia and UTair airliners to the Russian registry. We are talking about 180 aircraft. The agency clarified that some of the aircraft will be returned to Western companies, and the situation itself should not affect the cost of flights within the country.

As Topnews wrote earlier, large companies continue to leave Russia. On March 10, Uniqlo announced the suspension of work.

Hugo Boss clothing stores have temporarily closed. In addition, Mars (Bounty, Milky Way, Twix, M&M’s, Skittles, Orbit, Wrigley’s, Pedigree, Royal Canin and Sheba) suspended advertising and investments in Russia

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The politician sent greetings to McDonald’s.

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Dmitry Medvedev reacted to the withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market. The ex-President of the Russian Federation recalled that Russia itself can produce good “cutlets and rolls”.

On the VKontakte page, Medvedev said that all the decisions of companies to leave the Russian market are not business, but “pure politics.”

According to Dmitry Medvedev, Washington and Brussels, “dancing to his tune,” will not calm down in any way and will come up with “new stupid bans.” Medvedev called everyone together “ridiculous” and even felt sorry for them.

Medvedev noted that no one thinks about Russians and Europeans who will lose their jobs and incomes. Politicians only put pressure on the shareholders of enterprises and force them to submit to this will.

Russia promises a tough and principled response to this. Medvedev again recalled the arrest of foreign assets, the nationalization of departed companies.

Now the government of the Russian Federation is working on measures to prevent the dismissal of people who were left without investors.

In addition, Medvedev warned that it would not be easy to return to the Russian market. In 2014, in response to Western sanctions, Russia responded with symmetrical restrictions, and a number of issues in the field of import substitution were resolved.

“We will cope now. After all, cutlets and rolls, and of excellent quality, we are able to produce ourselves. Hello to McDonald’s!”, – writes Dmitry Medvedev.

Earlier, Medvedev warned about the possible nationalization of enterprises and the return of the death penalty in Russia.

As Topnews wrote earlier, several major brands left Russia on March 10 at once. This includes Hugo Boss, Uniqlo, Royal Canin and Sheba.

At the same time, the Moscow authorities were going to spend 500 million rubles to create an analogue of McDonald’s. It was clarified that 99% of the products for the American brand were supplied by Russian enterprises.

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