Blavatnik holds both U.S. and U.K. citizenship and has generously funded election campaigns for both Democrats and Republicans.
At present, experts see no reason for the Kremlin leader to end the war, despite the high costs and heavy losses.
Officially, 89-year-old Salman remains the monarch. However, his public activity has nearly ceased, and updates on his health have become rare.
On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was shot dead in Utah—a piece of news that shook the political world and far beyond.
The initiative came during the U.S. president’s video call into a meeting of senior U.S. and EU officials in Washington, where they discussed ways to raise the cost of the war for Moscow.
Germany has faced a sharp spike in electricity prices amid weak renewable generation and surging costs of carbon allowances.
Russia is promoting the state-backed messenger Max — a service without end-to-end encryption and with a privacy policy that allows authorities to access messages, contacts, photos, and geodata.
Why Vladimir Putin is sidestepping President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal.
The debate over the price of money and the risks of cooling the economy is coming to the fore ahead of the next central bank meeting on September 12.
The meeting at the Élysée Palace brought together Volodymyr Zelenskyy and leaders of 35 countries; after in-person talks, the participants held a joint call with the President of the United States.
Europe’s question of the day: what, exactly, will allies put on the table to back Kyiv?
Beijing has moved Russia’s Power of Siberia-2 pipeline closer to reality and signaled its willingness to receive LNG from the sanctioned Arctic LNG-2 project.
Pyongyang signals readiness to support Moscow “to the very end” — against the backdrop of a parade in Beijing seen as a show of unity among China, Russia, and North Korea. President Donald Trump responded with a sharp post on Truth Social.
