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  • Trump administration toughens sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banking sectors

    03/13/2025 2:05:44 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    CBS News ^ | 3/14/2025 | Jennifer Jacobs, Ed O'Keefe
    The Trump administration is placing more restrictions on Russia's oil, gas and banking sectors by further restricting Russian access to U.S. payment systems, according to four people familiar with the plans. The Treasury Department on Wednesday let lapse a 60-day exemption put in place by the Biden administration in January that allowed specific energy transactions involving sanctioned Russian banks to continue. By letting the waiver lapse, the banks may no longer access U.S. payment systems to conduct major energy transactions. The Russian financial institutions that had been exempt from sanctions included Vnesheconombank, Bank Financial Corporation Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB Bank,...
  • Parliament probes BARRELGATE [Bulgaria Iraq Zebari]

    02/16/2004 8:06:08 AM PST · by syriacus · 9 replies · 208+ views
    sofiaecho.com ^ | Christina Dimitrova
    PARLIAMENT has decided to set up a temporary committee to investigate allegations that the Bulgarian Socialist Party received 12 million barrels of petrol from Saddam Hussein's regime. The decision on the committee was taken with 125 votes for, 24 against, and 32 abstentions. The membership of the committee will be decided upon on Friday. The proposal for it was made by MPs from the right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and was supported by the BSP. The majority National Movement Simeon II (NSMII), however, initially did not support the idea. Last week the Speaker of Parliament, Ognyan Gerdjikov, opposed the...