Blavatnik holds both U.S. and U.K. citizenship and has generously funded election campaigns for both Democrats and Republicans.
Her trip, organized at the invitation of the celebrated Russian actor and director Vladimir Mashkov, became a notable event for Russia’s cultural and political elite.
Since early 2022, amid the war in Ukraine and the wave of sanctions, many assumed Russian tourism in Europe would grind to a halt. However, reality proved otherwise.
Six senior executives from India’s state-owned oil refiners admitted that the president’s remarks caught them off guard.
The move marks yet another episode in the escalating global struggle for technological supremacy between the United States and China.
He added that there had been “substantial communication” between the two sides over the weekend, after Beijing failed to respond to Washington’s inquiries regarding last week’s decision to impose new export restrictions.
According to Bloomberg, the component measures distance and can be used to initiate detonation.
The deal was finalized overnight into Thursday after several days of indirect consultations in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh with the participation of the US, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey.
Attempts at electronic jamming are observed on a regular basis and are accompanied by close monitoring of Britain’s space assets.
The European Union has encountered pushback in its attempt to turn income from frozen Russian central bank assets into a steady funding source for Ukraine.
The continent faces a whole set of constraints — from shortages in air-defense assets and technological inertia to the complexity of intergovernmental coordination and financing.
The report translates these sums into military equivalents: with such revenues, Russia could acquire up to 9.4 million 152 mm artillery shells (roughly three years at today’s 3 million-per-year output), about 270,000 Shahed-type attack drones, or 2,658 tanks.
Despite political pressure from President Donald Trump directed at key importers — India, Turkey, Hungary, and Slovakia — these countries are in no hurry to abandon Russian crude.
