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  • Russia's oil and gas revenue rises 32% y/y to $9.26 billion in May, data shows

    06/03/2026 8:35:32 PM PDT · by McGruff · 16 replies
    REUTERS ^ | June 3, 2026
    Russia's oil and gas tax revenue, which accounts for around a fifth of ​total budget income, increased by 32.4% year-on-year in May ​to 678.9 billion roubles ($9.3 billion), Finance Ministry data showed ⁠on Wednesday, thanks to a global oil price rally fuelled ​by the Middle East war. Revenue declined by 20.7% from April, when ​the budget received additional payments from profit-based tax, paid cyclically. Russia, the world's third-largest oil producer and exporter after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, ​has been one of the main beneficiaries of the rise in ​oil prices after the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran began at the...
  • NATO flirting with war and extinction in Ukraine

    06/03/2024 6:59:39 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 263 replies
    Asia Times ^ | 6/3/24 | Stephen Bryen
    NATO is flirting with war and extinction. France is now “officially” sending troops to Ukraine (they have been there for some time) and NATO countries are demanding strikes deep inside Russia. Meanwhile, the US has secretly made a “policy shift” that somewhat falls short of what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted but opens the door to deep strikes by the US on Russian territory.