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Due to the sanctions imposed by the West, the situation of the Russian economy is much worse than officially presented by the Kremlin, according to a secret report prepared for the Russian authorities. Bloomberg's agency reached the document. According to the report, Russia is facing a long and deep recession, export slumps and a brain drain.more

Although the new British prime minister, Liz Truss, is to be a kind of continuation of Boris Johnson, the composition of her government differs significantly from that of his predecessor. And what the media is paying attention to, it is almost entirely made up of people who supported Truss in the fight for leadership.more

Saying that Liz Truss is taking power in a difficult situation does not reflect the magnitude of the challenges facing her. For decades, no British prime minister has had to deal simultaneously with so many different pressing crises from day one.more

Russian authorities have announced the severance of an agreement with Japan allowing former residents visa-free visits to Moscow-controlled disputed islands. The government in Tokyo has issued a protest, Kyodo news agency reported, setting this in tensions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.more

The whiskey giant, which employs over 800 people in its Cork, Dublin, and Belfast operations, sold 10 million cases of Jameson over the 2021/2022 Fiscal Year more

The leader of the ruling Conservative Party, Liz Truss, became the new UK prime minister on Tuesday early afternoon. She replaced Boris Johnson, who resigned less than an hour earlier, as announced in July.more

Despite requests from Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to hand over heavy armaments to Kiev, especially Leopard 2 tanks. The authorities in Berlin do not see this as a possibility, although one armaments concern is ready to support Ukraine, the weekly "Spiegel" reported.more

This is not a good result for either PiS or Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, writes today's "Super Express". The newspaper asked under which leader they lived better, the current one or Donald Tusk. The PO president emerged victorious, the newspaper reports.more

Today will mark the end of the two-month transition period in which the UK finds itself following Boris Johnson's announced resignation. Before noon, he will be replaced as Prime Minister by newly elected Conservative Party leader Liz Truss.more

Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest. It was a closer result than many pundits expected, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast.more

Clemens Fuest, head of the Munich-based economic research institute (Ifo), in an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, predicts a sharp economic slowdown.more

The United States is not hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end the war in Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated in an interview with the independent Russian TV channel 'Dodzhd', excerpts of which are quoted by the Ukrainska Pravda portal.more

Hundreds of users backed the 15-year-old tabby as he announced his campaign for prime minister on #Larry4Leader billboards.more

The threat posed by the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler, outweighs the costs associated with rising energy prices, argues Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview for the British newspaper The Sunday Times.more

The economic consequences of the war in Ukraine are hard on its allies, but while the British count every penny, Ukrainians are counting the dead, said Olena Zelenska in an interview with the BBC.more

The last leader of the USSR and the creator of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, rested yesterday at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. The politician, who died at the age of 91, was buried in the family grave next to his wife - Raisa.more

Tory frontrunner Liz Truss is expected to thrash the party into shape for an autumn poll on October 5, 2023 against Keir Starmer and block his path to forming a 'coalition of chaos'.more

Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss would have to raise taxes or make cuts elsewhere to meet her spending pledges on defence, a think tank has said.more

Voting finished in the Conservative Party leadership election, with Liz Truss widely expected to be named the winner next week and succeed Boris Johnson as the United Kingdom’s next prime minister.more

The case of reparations for Poland has been closed - a spokesman for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in Berlin, commenting on the report of losses caused by Germany during World War II published by the Polish government. PiS politicians summed up the value of losses and damages at PLN 6.2 trillion and announced efforts to obtain reparations from Germany.more

British oil giant Shell has informed Russia that it will not participate in the new Sakhalin 2 energy project.more

Barnardos has warned that families hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis may end up in homelessness unless they immediately get adequate support services. However, the charity says it is struggling to provide the assistance needed due to growing waiting lists. more

The president of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, trusted by 42 percent of politicians. respondents; President Andrzej Duda came second with 41.5 percent, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki came third, trusted by 39.4 percent - results from the IBRiS survey for Onet.more

Exactly 83 years after the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland has summed up and presented the losses, caused to it by Germany, at more than 1.3 trillion euros (more than 6 trillion zlotys). The amount of compensation is to be negotiated with Berlin, the leading German media, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Welt and the tabloid Bild, describe today.more

The five EU countries bordering Russia - Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - have threatened in a joint statement to adopt "national measures" to reduce the number of Russian entries if the EU does not agree a common approach, the Financial Times reported yesterday.more