#NEWS | In 2024, EU imported +19% more Russian LNG compared to 2023. From Jan to Nov 2024, the Union paid Russia EUR 6.3 billion for that, according to DW.
Main end recipients of the Russian gas in Europe are France, Spain, and Belgium.
In the past year, in total, the EU imported Russian gas and oil worth EUR 21.9 billion. While the combined European financial aid to Ukraine amounted to EUR 18.7 billion in 2024.
#NEWS | In 2024, EU imported +19% more Russian LNG compared to 2023. From Jan to Nov 2024, the Union paid Russia EUR 6.3 billion for that, according to DW.
Main end recipients of the Russian gas in Europe are France, Spain, and Belgium.
In the past year, in total, the EU imported Russian gas and oil worth EUR 21.9 billion. While the combined European financial aid to Ukraine amounted to EUR 18.7 billion in 2024.
Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis."
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