Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Saturday that it has stopped deliveries to Latvia due to “violations of the terms of gas extraction.” This week, Aigars Kalvitis, chairman of gas company Latvijas Gaze, told the media that his country continued to buy Russian natural gas even after refusing to comply …
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The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has temporarily halted Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog,” CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet on Monday. Zhao tried to reassure users that their funds were safe and the problem was only impacting the Bitcoin network. The Binance team …
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The Netherlands has become the fourth country to stop receiving Russian natural gas, following its decision not to pay for deliveries in rubles. Russia’s energy giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it had “completely stopped gas supplies” to the Dutch state energy wholesaler GasTerra. “As of the end of the …
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Warsaw has stopped free fuel supplies to Ukraine, the Polish minister of climate and environment said in an interview with the BiznesAlert website on Monday. “At the beginning of the war and after the bombing of the refinery, we sent fuel free of charge. Currently, these are commercial supplies from …
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Russia has stopped supplying power to Lithuania, the country’s electricity transmission system operator Litgrid announced on Sunday. Inter RAO, which was the only importer of electricity from Russia to Lithuania, confirmed the suspension of deliveries. Earlier this month, Inter RAO’s Nordic branch also stopped supplying electricity to Finland. Lithuania’s Energy …
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Russia has halted natural gas deliveries to Finland after state energy wholesaler Gasum failed to make a required payment in rubles, the Finnish gas system operator Gasgrid Finland said on Saturday. “Gas imports through Imatra entry point have been stopped,” the statement read. Gasum also confirmed on Saturday that the deliveries had stopped. Earlier …
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Electricity supplies from Russia to Finland were halted on Saturday, RAO Nordic said in a statement, explaining that it had received no payment for power provided to the country in May. “Unfortunately, we are forced to note that for the volumes which have been sold on the Nord Pool exchange …
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Denmark has declared an end to its Covid-19 vaccination drive for now, becoming the first country to formally halt inoculations as officials point to increasingly strong immunity among residents. The Danish Health Authority announced the decision earlier this week, saying that due to vaccinations and infections, “total immunity of the …
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Gazprom, Russia’s main natural gas supplier, has announced a complete halt in gas exports to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday after the two countries refused to make payments in rubles. According to a company statement, supplies will not resume until Sofia and Warsaw comply with the new terms. The Russian …
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Austria’s energy giant OMV says it has suspended all imports of Russian oil ahead of the possible EU embargo on them. “The purchase of oil from Russia was always very low … we replaced it with other oil from the market,” an OMV spokesman said, as quoted by newspaper Kronen …
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