Moldova's pro-Russia breakaway area of Transnistria is facing an energy crisis after Russia cut off gas shipments to the country at the New Year, leaving citizens without trustworthy gas and electricity in the middle of winter.For citizens like Raisa, a 60-year-old teacher at a Romanian language school in the Transnistrian capital
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Washington on Fridayimposed some of its most sweeping sanctions on Russia's oil industry because the full-blown intrusion of Ukraine, targeting two Russian oil majors, as well as Russian oil executives, traders, oilfield provider and insurers.Oil pricessoared to more than $80 per barrel ahead of the news on Friday, as rumors swirled that the
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The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria called on Russia for assistance Friday as it faces an energy crisis after Moscow halted gas shipments last week.

The self-proclaimed republic, which borders Ukraine, has been unable to provide residents with heating or hot water since Jan. 1, when Gazprom cut off gas deliveries to Moldova.

"Over these

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Oil has begun leaking again from an oil tanker that ran aground at the Taman port in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region last month, regional authorities said Friday.

The Volgoneft-239 and Volgoneft-212 were carrying a combined 9,200 metric tons of heavy fuel oil when they were struck by a storm on Dec. 15 in the Kerch Strait, a vital waterway

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Ukraine struck a Russian ammo depot and drone storage facility in a drone and missile attack early Friday, a source in Ukraine’s security services said.

The source in the SBU, Ukraine’s internal security service, said it had launched the joint operation with the navy.

Russian officials earlier reported an industrial facility near the village of

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The Kremlin on Fridayaccused Lithuania of provoking a territorial dispute over the Kaliningrad region after the Lithuanian president criticized a local museum's decision to rename among its places committed to an 18th-century Lithuanian poet.The Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Artsrenamed itsKristijonas Donelaitis Memorial Museum to
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