blackmail

Kremlin responds to ‘gas blackmail’ claims by EU

Russia has denied using natural gas exports as a tool to “blackmail” Europe, a claim voiced by the European Commission…

2 years ago

EU accuses Russia of gas ‘blackmail’

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has accused Russia of using natural gas supplies as an…

2 years ago

EU policy toward Belarus all ‘bribery & blackmail,’ Minsk claims

There are only two components left in the EU's Belarus policies, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei lamented, during an interview…

2 years ago

Brussels’ ‘blackmail’ of holding EU recovery funds hostage threatens Poland’s climate goals, Warsaw warns

Speaking on the sidelines of the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Monday, Morawiecki insisted that the heavily coal-dependent…

3 years ago

France won’t accept ‘financial blackmail’ & anything that breaks the law, minister says amid migrant row with the UK

The French minister said on Thursday that “the friendship between our two countries deserves better than postures which undermine cooperation…

3 years ago

Polish minister suggests country could quit EU due to ‘blackmail’ over judicial reforms

Speaking to Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, Ziobro slammed the EU ahead of an August 16 ruling to obey a decision…

3 years ago

‘Blackmail & ultimatums’: Russian FM Lavrov says it’s now up to Western countries to put an end to their Covid-19 ‘vaccine wars’

Speaking to Moscow’s TASS news service on Wednesday, the veteran diplomat was asked whether 2021 would see a “vaccine war” between Russia…

3 years ago

‘Blackmail’ fails? Twitter makes about-face & unfreezes New York Post account suspended over Hunter Biden story

The company said on Friday that it would overturn a prior move to lock the Post out of its handle,…

4 years ago

‘Blackmail Americans into voting’: Biden condemns riots & violence in language Trump supporters say amounts to extortion

“Rioting is not protesting,” Biden said during a speech in Pennsylvania on Monday. “It’s lawlessness, plain and simple... Violence will…

4 years ago

Russia relies on nuclear blackmail

In the Kremlin ceased to hide the actual number of occasions on which they are ready to press the "red…

4 years ago