Belarusian oil company Belorusneft has canceled its 2022 export plans to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline following new European Union sanctions on the company, three traders familiar with the matter Continue Reading
Highlights As standoff continues with EU over border crisis Lukashenko first raised prospect of blocking transit Nov 11 Gazprom agrees 2022 price protocol with Minsk Russia on Dec. 1 played Continue Reading
As if the energy sector needed any more volatility than it’s already experiencing, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has thrown his hat in the ring by commenting this week that he Continue Reading
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Sunday that the NATO military alliance needed to adjust its stance towards Belarus, whose military, he said, was becoming more integrated with Russian armed Continue Reading
Belarus does not want confrontation with Poland but wants the European Union to take in 2,000 migrants stranded on its border, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday after Warsaw warned Continue Reading
Poland accused Belarus on Friday of trucking hundreds of migrants back to the border and pushing them to attempt to cross illegally, only hours after clearing camps at a frontier Continue Reading
Thousands of migrants have been crowded into a warehouse near the border between Poland and Belarus, after Belarusian authorities coaxed them into abandoning the freezing camps they occupied for weeks Continue Reading
Hundreds of Iraqis returned home Thursday from Belarus after abandoning their hopes of reaching the European Union — a repatriation that came after tensions at Poland’s eastern border, where thousands Continue Reading
Camps on Polish border now empty First repatriation flight to Iraq since August Belarus wants EU corridor for 2,000 migrants Germany rejects proposal EU says Belarus orchestrated the crisis BRUZGI, Continue Reading
Merkel speaks to Lukashenko, second time this week Germany reports higher arrivals from Belarus via Poland At least eight migrants dead in tug-of-war between East and West New crisis at Continue Reading
Hundreds of migrants who were camped in the cold on the Poland-Belarus border have been moved to a nearby warehouse in Belarusian territory, reports said Wednesday, with some still harboring Continue Reading
Belarus is reducing the flow of oil via the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to Poland for three days due to “unplanned maintenance” while the migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border Continue Reading
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, whom the E.U. accuses of engineering a migrant crisis on the border with Poland, could face a serious headache if asylum seekers try to Continue Reading
A crowd of migrants trying to cross a border has come to seem appallingly familiar in recent years. We have seen masses of desperate people seek refuge in strange lands: Continue Reading
Polish security forces turned water cannon on migrants who threw rocks across the Belarusian border, where thousands have gathered in a chaotic attempt to reach the European Union, video footage Continue Reading
He has spent 28 nights, each colder than the one before, choking on campfire smoke and despair on Europe’s doorstep. He made it across the razor wire into Poland three Continue Reading
Dubai on Sunday began banning travelers from Iraq from passing through the emirate on their way to Belarus, cutting off the last major air route from the Middle East to Continue Reading
The threat of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to cut off transit gas supply from Russia to Europe has not been coordinated with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Continue Reading
The European Union will toughen sanctions on Belarus on Monday and may extend them to include airlines and others involved in transporting migrants, the EU’s top diplomat said, as the Continue Reading
For years, thousands of U.S. and NATO troops have stood guard in Poland—a presence designed to deter an invasion by Russian troops and tanks. This week, the Western alliance faced Continue Reading
In one sense, the border crisis between Poland and Belarus is a tit-for-tat geopolitical conflict in which refugees and migrants just happen to be the weapons. Belarus, in May, forced Continue Reading
President Vladimir Putin said that he’ll talk to Alexander Lukashenko about gas flows to the Europe Union after the Belarusian leader threatened to interrupt supplies to the energy-strapped continent in Continue Reading
The threat of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to cut off transit gas supply from Russia to Europe has not been coordinated with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Continue Reading
Russia will continue to meet its contractual gas supply obligations with its European customers, the Kremlin said Nov. 12, after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hinted Nov. 11 that Minsk could Continue Reading
Alexander Lukashenko has threatened to cut the transit of gas and goods through Belarus to Europe if the EU imposes further sanctions on his regime over the migrant crisis on Continue Reading
The escalating standoff over the migrants bivouacked in Belarus and blocked from entering Poland and Lithuania spilled into the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, as the council’s Western members Continue Reading
Thousands of migrants, unwilling weapons in a geopolitical struggle, in peril in a freezing border zone. Far-right nationalists marching on the streets of Warsaw, calling for harsh action against asylum Continue Reading
Nowadays it is not very frequent that one would hear of a new nuclear project coming onstream in Europe. Perhaps unsurprisingly the Old Continent’s forthcoming nuclear launch takes place in Continue Reading
Belarus’ Naftan refinery started unloading first ever barrels of US crude, operator Belneftekhim spokesman Alexander Tishchenko was quoted as saying June 11 by the Belta news agency. Receive daily email Continue Reading
The United States has dispatched a shipment of oil to Belarus, which is seeking to diversify its supplies after a price dispute with Russia, the Belarusian government said Friday. The Continue Reading
Officials in Minsk say a nuclear power plant being constructed in western Belarus will be launched during the summer and start producing electricity in the autumn. Energy Minister Viktar Karankevich Continue Reading
Mike Pompeo said that the US was ready to provide all of Belarus’s oil needs, as he became the first American secretary of state to visit the former Soviet state Continue Reading
Belarus has just bought two cargoes of Johan Sverdrup , the recently commissioned Norwegian oilfield and is in talks with several oil-producing countries from the Soviet Union to ramp up Continue Reading
Belarusian operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba said Tuesday that it has begun repair work on sections of the Druzhba oil pipeline network between Mozyr and Brest, after a large number of defects Continue Reading
Belarus’ state oil company Belorusneft has suspended supplies of its own oil to Germany this month as Minsk needs to compensate for shortages of Russia-sourced oil amid a contract dispute Continue Reading
Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus amid a disagreement over tariffs, according to officials at a Belarusian oil refinery in the northern city of Navapolatsak. The officials told RFE/RL Continue Reading
Russian crude deliveries to Belarusian refineries have been suspended since January 1, a spokesman for Russian pipeline operator Transneft said Friday, after the former Soviet republic failed to agree on Continue Reading
“Under the documents signed, the contracted volumes for delivery and transit in 2020 will remain at the same level as in 2019,” Gazprom said in a statement. The agreements come Continue Reading
Belarus began pumping contaminated oil towards Russia on Friday and by the end of Sunday it had pumped out 80,000 tonnes of it, Belarus state energy company Belneftekhim said on Continue Reading
The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday the cost of damages from contaminated oil received via the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline was ‘enormous’ and Belarus expects compensation from Continue Reading
A woman queues at an ATM in central Minsk on Friday Belarus has imposed a 30 per cent tax on buying foreign currency and more than doubled interest rates to 50 per cent as the ripples of this week’s Russian market turmoil began to be felt in other former Soviet countries. The Belarusian central bank said the move to impose a tax on foreign currency purchases was taken “due to the increased demand for foreign currency on the domestic market”. It comes as countries around the former Soviet Union feel the fallout from the wild gyrations in the Russian rouble. In Kyrgyzstan, the central bank announced it would close down private exchange offices after a Kyrgyz som’s de facto peg to the US dollar briefly broke down on Wednesday. Armenia’s dram has fallen 17 per cent against the dollar since mid-November in a move the head of the country’s […]
