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Putin BLOCKS key exports from leaving Russia, British farmers face £760m bill

BRITISH farmers could face an extra £760million bill for fertiliser over the coming year thanks to the "double whammy" of soaring gas prices and Russian moves to suspend fertiliser exports in response to Western sanctions. The warning came from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), whose analysis has indicated that British farmers already faced £160million in additional fertiliser bills last year as a result of volatile gas prices. Many of the primary chemical and mineral fertilisers are made using methane derived from pipeline gas as a main ingredient, the production processes also call for significant amounts of energy, further tying the cost of fertiliser to gas prices. In fact, last Autumn, the impacts of the rising cost of gas resulted in a number of fertiliser factories being forced to close their doors.

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267 Ukrainian Marines surrendered in Mariupol today

267 marines from the 503rd battalion assigned to the 36th marine corps of the Ukrainian Navy surrendered to the Russian Chechan forces today in Mariupol. Chechan leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Ukraine Marines families, no longer need to worry about them. They are completely safe. According to the report Ukrainian Marines were forced to surrender after being surrounded & running out of food, ammo & supplies.
Adam Delimkhanov commander of the Chechen forces speaks to Ukrainian marines and said "You will be treated with respect, like prisoners"

The truth is that those so-called wise and prudent theologians know absolutely nothing about the so-called resurrection
simply because it never happened. Easter, or the celebration of the resurrection, is merely a tradition, a tradition that you
have been taught from childhood, and coming into maturity you have accepted it because that is what you were taught.
That is what you read bout. That is what your parents made you observed every Easter Sunday. Thus, you continued to go
along with it and before you knew it, you had carelessly assumed what you now believe without question or proof.
Easter is the feast of feasts celebrated in honor of the risen Christ. You have even reached the point where you will
defend vigorously and emotionally your belief, a belief that can lead you straight to hell.It has become human nature
to flow with the stream, and to go along with the crowd, to believe and perform like those around you. And, even when
you stumble on the truth, you will not believe because like the majority of the people, you stubbornly refuse to believe what
you are unwilling to believe. There is an old saying that says: He who is convinced against his will is of the same opinion still

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Air Nigeria to take off April 2022 - Minister

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Dangote's Opening Address At Commissioning Of Fertilizer Plant

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Police Debunks Report Of Strike

The Nigeria Police Force says any attempt by policemen to embark on strike will be considered a mutiny.
The Police hierarchy is reacting to reports of an impending strike by policemen due to issues bordering on welfare

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Is Abuja the most beautiful city in West Africa?

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Americans driving to Mexico to fill up their gas tanks

In September 2017 the IPOB was declared a militant terrorist organisation by the Government of Nigeria

Elvictor:
Do you think there are are CIA agents in Nairaland?

Yes, there are agents, and ask yourself the following question: Why the US is building the World’s largest consulate in Lagos?
This is very suspicious and I believe that here is an ulterior motive

seunny4lif:
I will post it here
If using google chrome, it translate to English.
Even the Members of the house of Slovakia want to throw the Ukraine flag on the floor when 2 PMs was asking for solidarity with Ukraine against Russia.
Slovakia

Acording to Google Translate your link said that Economy Minister Richard Sulík is willing to pay for gas in rubles

ken6488:
Thousands of Imran Khan supporters took to the streets of Karachi following assassination plot claims

In your opinion who is behind the attack

The Mossad and the USA combined

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Russia’s Gazprom Stops Deliveries Of Russian Gas To Germany

Sirlancelort:
Look into Africa for food?

No doubt Africa have what it takes to feed the world, but those opportunities have not been utilized.

Now is the time for Africans to produce more food. Agriculture is the backbone of human existence. For our African civilisation to prosper, agriculture has to be healthy and sustainable. We need to get our focus back on agriculture which is the primary industry.
Our Africa has plenty for everyone. We only have to manage its resources well

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Cost of Living Crisis: Jeremy Corbyn says the UK Government is 'out of touch

Protesters across the UK have urged the Government to pass rising energy prices on to providers instead of low-earning workers.

Around 100 people, among them former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, waved signs reading “tax the rich” and “freeze energy bills, not people” at a Downing Street protest on Saturday.

Similar demonstrations were staged across the nation, including in Belfast where campaigners called for every household in Northern Ireland to receive £1,000 to help mitigate the increasing cost of fuel and food.

At Downing Street in central London, demonstrators made speeches asking for energy bills to be frozen and for benefits to be boosted

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Famine coming to Europe, expert warns European sanctions hurt Europe itself

European sanctions harm not Russia, but Europe itself - this is the inability to obtain fertilizers, meet the needs for food and other goods.
According to the expert, it will be caused by the situation in Ukraine, as well as a number of other factors: drought in the Middle East and anti-Russian sanctions. “Some of the sanctions against Russia affect important sectors, [for example, the sector] of fertilizers, and other aspects necessary for food production. Farmers in Western countries cannot carry out sowing work. I think that we will undoubtedly feel the consequences in the form of rising prices and inflation: food will become very expensive in Europe, as in the US and in many other countries, inflation is growing at a high rate.”

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Russia’s Gazprom Stops Deliveries Of Russian Gas To Germany

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Russia’s Gazprom Stops Deliveries Of Russian Gas To Germany

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South Africa's Nuclear Weapons

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London: Families braced for huge cost of living squeeze

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Nigerian Airforce Day

South Africa built six atomic bombs and then abandoned its nuclear weapons program

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Russian RUBLE Bounces Back, Biden Losing Economic War

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Russian RUBLE Bounces Back, Biden Losing Economic War

World’s largest consulate in Lagos?, but why? There is an ulterior motive

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Russia Strikes Ukraine With Iskander-M Ballistic Missile Attack

The Russian Ministry of Defense released video footage of a Iskander-M ballistic missile launch.

The strike video from the missile attack was released on March 30 but it could have been filmed earlier and held back for OPSEC reasons.

On March 26 Russia already released drone footage of an alleged Iskander-M missile strike on a Ukrainian Buk system in the region of Kyiv.

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Russia Strikes Ukraine With Iskander-M Ballistic Missile Attack

The Russian Ministry of Defense released video footage of a Iskander-M ballistic missile launch.

The strike video from the missile attack was released on March 30 but it could have been filmed earlier and held back for OPSEC reasons.

On March 26 Russia already released drone footage of an alleged Iskander-M missile strike on a Ukrainian Buk system in the region of Kyiv.

Russia’s ruble rebound raises questions of sanctions’ impact

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ruble is no longer rubble.

The Russian ruble by Wednesday had bounced back from the fall it took after the U.S. and European allies moved to bury the Russian economy under thousands of new sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has resorted to extreme financial measures to blunt the West’s penalties and inflate his currency.

While the West has imposed unprecedented levels of sanctions against the Russian economy, Russia’s Central Bank has jacked up interest rates to 20% and the Kremlin has imposed strict capital controls on those wishing to exchange their rubles for dollars or euros.

It’s a monetary defense Putin may not be able to sustain as long-term sanctions weigh down the Russian economy. But the ruble’s recovery could be a sign that the sanctions in their current form are not working as powerfully as Ukraine’s allies counted on when it comes to pressuring Putin to pull his troops from Ukraine. It also could be a sign that Russia’s efforts to artificially prop up its currency are working by leveraging its oil and gas sector.

The ruble was trading at roughly 85 to the U.S. dollar, roughly where it was before Russia started its invasion a month ago. The ruble had fallen as low as roughly 150 to the dollar on March 7, when news emerged that the Biden administration would ban U.S. imports of Russian oil and gas. Speaking to Norway’s parliament on Wednesday, Ukraine’s president urged Western allies to inflict still greater financial pain on Russia.

“The only means of urging Russia to look for peace are sanctions,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message from his besieged country. He added: “The stronger the sanctions packages are going to be, the faster we’ll bring back peace.” Increasingly, European nations’ purchases of Russian oil and natural gas are coming under scrutiny as a loophole and lifeline for the Russian economy.

“For Russia, everything is about their energy revenues. It’s half their federal budget. It’s the thing that props up Putin’s regime and the war,” said Tania Babina, an economist at Columbia University who was born in Ukraine. Babina is currently working with a group of 200 Ukrainian economists to more accurately document how effective the West’s sanctions are in stymying Putin’s war-making capabilities.

The ruble has also risen amid reports that the Kremlin has been more open to cease-fire talks with Ukraine. U.S. and Western officials have expressed skepticism about Russia’s announcement that it would dial back operations. President Joe Biden promoted the success of the sanctions — some of the toughest ever imposed on a nation — while he was in Poland last week. “The ruble almost is immediately reduced to rubble,” Biden said.

Sanctions on Russian financial institutions and companies, on trade and on Putin’s power brokers were crushing the country’s economic growth and prompting hundreds of international companies to stop doing business there, Biden noted.Russian efforts to counter those sanctions by propping up the ruble can only go so far.

Russia’s Central Bank cannot keep raising interest rates because doing so will eventually choke off credit to businesses and borrowers.
At some point, individuals and businesses will develop ways to go around Russia’s capital controls by moving money in smaller amounts. As the penalties depress the Russian economy, economists say that will eventually weigh down the ruble. Without these efforts, Russia’s currency would almost certainly be weaker.

But Russia’s oil and gas exports have continued to Europe as well as to China and India. Those exports have acted as an economic floor for the Russian economy, which is dominated by the energy sector. In the European Union, a dependence on Russian gas for electricity and heating has made it significantly more difficult to turn off the spigot, which the Biden administration did when it banned the relatively small amount of petroleum that the U.S. imports from Russia.

“The U.S. has already banned imports of Russian oil and natural gas, and the United Kingdom will phase them out by the end of this year. However, these decisions will not have a meaningful impact unless and until the EU follows suit,” wrote Benjamin Hilgenstock and Elina Ribakova, economists with the Institute of International Finance, in a report released Wednesday.

Hilgenstock and Ribakova estimate that if the EU, Britain and the U.S. were to ban Russian oil and gas, the Russian economy could contract more than 20% this year. That’s compared with projections for up to a 15% contraction, as sanctions stand now. Knowing this, Putin has greatly leveraged Europe’s dependence on its energy exports to its advantage. Putin has called for Russia’s Central Bank to force foreign gas importers to purchase rubles and use them to pay state-owned gas supplier Gazprom.

It’s unclear whether Putin can make good on his threat. The White House and economists have argued that the impact of sanctions takes time, weeks or months for full effect as industries shut down due to a lack of materials or capital or both. But the administration’s critics say the ruble’s recovery shows the White House needs to do more.

“The ruble’s rebound would seem to indicate that U.S. sanctions haven’t effectively crippled Russia’s economy, which is the price Putin should have to pay for his war,” said Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. “To give Ukraine a fighting chance, the U.S. must sever Putin’s revenue stream by cutting off Russian oil and gas sales globally,” Toomey said in an email to The Associated Press.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said Wednesday that lawmakers are considering ways to expand the sanctions Biden recently imposed on members of the Russian parliament “and probably widen that to other political players.” Brown, D-Ohio, said lawmakers also are weighing more penalties against banks.

Western leaders, under Biden’s encouragement, embraced sanctions as their toughest weapon to try to compel Russia to reverse its invasion of Ukraine, which is not a member of NATO and not protected under that bloc’s mutual defense policy. Some of the allies now acknowledge their governments may need to redouble financial punishment against Russia.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that the Group of Seven major industrial nations should “intensify sanctions with a rolling program until every single one of (Putin’s) troops is out of Ukraine.” But that’s a tougher ask for other European countries such as Germany, which depend on Russia for vital natural gas and oil. The EU overall gets 10% of its oil from Russia and more than one-third of its natural gas. Many of those countries have pledged to wean themselves off that dependence — but not immediately.

If European nations did move more quickly off Russian petroleum, wrote analyst Charles Lichfield of the Atlantic Council, “a more comprehensive embargo from Europe would threaten Russia’s current account surplus — suddenly making it more difficult to pay public-sector salaries and wage war.” He noted that “such an outcome may be beyond the reach of Western consensus.”

Sweet reported from New York. AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

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The ruble has regained nearly all its losses since Russia's attack on Ukraine, despite sanctions

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Gas prices in Europe INCREASED by 37 percent with the Russia-Ukraine war