Lana Pylaeva was born and raised in Russia’s northwestern republic of Komi in a family of Komi, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group indigenous to the region. 

A scientist by training, Pylaeva had been living and working in Europe for several years when Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted her to enter political activism. 

Pylaeva — who s

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A Russian missile fired Tuesday on the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum killed at least five people and wounded nearly 40 others, Ukrainian regional authorities said.

"According to initial reports, the occupiers used a ballistic missile. Four people were killed," Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram, adding that five people had

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A Russian rocket fired Tuesday on the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum killed a minimum of 4 people and injured 20 others, Ukrainian local authorities said.Izyum, which had a pre-war population of around 45,000, was inhabited for a number of months after Russia released its major intrusion. Ukraine freed the city in September 2022. According
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A seventh-grade student in the city of Yekaterinburg was apprehended for stabbing a schoolmate following an argument, the state-run TASS news firm reported Tuesday.Investigators said the run-in in between the 2 13-year-old kids began after one allegedly ruined the other's notebook. The fight intensified, and among the young boys retaliated by
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has stressed the value of high oil prices in Russias ability to wage war on Ukraine and recommended that strangling its energy incomes would make the Kremlin more amenable to compromise in peace talks.In addition to announcing an energy emergency situation in the U.S. to enhance gas and oil output, Trump got in touch with members of OPEC, a Saudi-led alliance of oil manufacturers, to help reduce the price.Right now the rate is high enough that war will continue, you got ta lower the oil price and end the war, Trump said on Jan. 24. One method to stop it [the war] quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much cash, he included. So, OPEC should get on the ball and drop the cost of oil. And that war will stop best away.In its first conference after Trump's comments, OPEC+ which includes the Saudi-led alliance and other oil-producing nations such as Russia stayed with its previously concurred oil supply plans on Monday.The current OPEC plan is to continue with oil supply curbs this quarter before slowly increasing output from April.This indicates that although Trump's pressure has actually not been followed so far, things might alter in the future.How crucial are oil profits to Russia?Energy is Russias essential export and the source of most of its hard currency, which it receives from abroad.Western sanctions have developed hurdles for Russian gas exports by creating pipeline bottlenecks that made it difficult for Moscow to replace volumes it utilized to offer to Europe with exports to other countries, namely China.At the very same time, Russian oil exports, the majority of which are carried by sea, remain stable and represent over 60 %of the country's energy shipments.The Kremlin has had the ability to reroute oil exports from Europe to India and China, although this path is more costly due to longer trips and the cost of the so-called shadow fleet of vessels used to skirt sanctions.So far, the West's sanctions strategy has actually concentrated on increasing Russia's costs and minimizing its oil profits rather than cutting off products completely.For example, Russia can still legally sell its oil on world markets under certain conditions, unlike Iran, which deals with a blanket restriction on all of its oil exports.The problem is that Russia's influence in the energy market is big enough that if all of its oil were approved at once, this could cause panic and send out worldwide prices soaring.If there is there is no one to backfill [Russias oil volumes], then the balance is tightened, the rate increases, which the specific reverse of what Trump is attempting to achieve, which is considerably lower energy rates, Natasha Kaneva, JPMorgan's head of global products technique, informed Bloomberg TV.What is the current oil outlook for 2025? As things stand, the cost of the benchmark Brent crude mix is expected to average$74 per barrel in 2025, down from$81 in 2024, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration( EIA ). The EIA released its forecast on Jan. 21 that is, after Trumps election and his push for higher oil and gas production.The $70 mark suffices for Russia to make a profit on its oil sales, despite the fact that Russias Urals brand name of oil typically trades at a discount rate to Brent.The Russian government anticipates to offer oil at an average of $69.7 per barrel in 2025. A drop in oil prices is unlikely to bring the Russian economy to a halt, but it will put a dent in the budget. Every$ 10-a-barrel modification in the export rate of Russian oil translates to about$17 billion a year in lost earnings. This is about 4%of Russias total exports in 2023, which totaled up to $425.1 billion.What can sink Russia's oil revenues?The U.S. alone doesn't have much room to increase oil production, at least in the short-term, according to analysts consisting of Sergei Vakulenko and Paul Sankey.OPEC members, mainly Saudi Arabia, have over 2 million barrels per day of short-order spare capacity, or oil they can quickly release into the market to affect prices.Theoretically, OPEC can help the U.S. create adequate oil supply to lower oil prices and possibly crowd out a considerable portion of Russian oil from the market. Whether the U.S. has enough levers to pull this off and whether this move serves Washington's interests is another matter.First, the U.S.s equilibrium cost for continuing its oil drilling has to do with$60 per barrel, according to JP Morgan expert Natasha Kaneva.We quote that at the$ 60 price level, U.S. production is flat. At $50, U.S. production is absolutely declining, Kaneva said.Gazprom Neft's oil shipment at the Arctic Gate oil terminal.Gazprom NeftShe added that Trump's most likely plan is to alleviate guidelines on the oil industry so that the U.S. can inexpensively increase its production even when prices are low. The results of such a policy would not be seen right away, but in years to come, she noted.Second, it might be troublesome for OPEC manufacturers, particularly Saudi Arabia, to decrease rates even to protect greater market share due to the fact that they need high oil costs to balance their budgets.For example, Saudi Arabia needs an oil price of about $90 per barrel to satisfy its anticipated spending plan spending requirements without running a deficit.Despite Trump's push for lower oil, OPEC is unlikely to do much in the near term and may instead wait to see if any actual scarcities appear on the market from the scramble to change Iranian and Russian supplies, analyst Rachel Ziemba said.Ultimately, OPEC will likely focus on its long-term interests, and that consists of keeping Russia involved in any OPEC +offer, Ziemba added.There is also a political part to why the Gulf states are hesitant to offer in to Trump's demands.OPEC nations may be hesitant to set a precedent of a significant oil manufacturer, in this case Russia, being forced to offer its oil for cheap on Western terms, Vakulenko noted.If that takes place, a comparable mechanism could be applied to the Persian Gulf states, for example, through the U.S. adoption of the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act(NOPEC)legislation, he said.
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Russian scientists have detected dangerously high levels of a carcinogen in soil samples taken from beaches contaminated by the Black Sea oil spill, with one expert comparing the pollution to the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

Soil samples collected during cleanup efforts in the resort town of Anapa contained

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