Category: News Desk

Daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 07 April 2022:  Latest sanctions target Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova as US accuses them of hiding their father’s wealth. The latest round of sanctions by the United States on Russia has drawn renewed scrutiny to the family life of Russian President […]

Wed 06 April 2022: The United States has targeted Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev in the latest round of “full blocking sanctions,” the White House announced on Wednesday. “Full blocking sanctions on Russian elites and their family members, including sanctions on: President Putin’s adult children, Foreign Minister Lavrov’s […]

Wed 06 April 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the images emerging from Bucha this week do not “look far short of genocide”. “I’m afraid when you look at what’s happening in Bucha, the revelations that we are seeing from what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has done in Ukraine, which doesn’t look far […]

Tue 05 April 2022: The UN’s undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs says the world body has received “credible” allegations that Russian forces have used indiscriminate cluster munitions at least 24 times in populated parts of Ukraine. Rosemary DiCarlo told the UNSC the global body was “gravely concerned by the persistent use of explosive weapons […]

Tue 05 April 2022: The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday the fifth package of sanctions against Moscow that includes a ban on coal imports from Russia, among other things. “This fifth package has six pillars. First, we will impose an import ban on coal from Russia, worth 4 billion Euros […]