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Sacked Russian Minister Flees To US Amid Corruption Probe In First Of Ukraine War
05.05.2026, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sacked Russian Minister Flees To US Amid Corruption Probe In First Of Ukraine War A Russian minister has become the first known high-ranking official to flee Russia and seek asylum in the United States since the Ukraine war began over four years ago, amid a fraud probe. Denis Butsayev, a senior Russian official recently dismissed from the Natural Resources...
Russia's Oil Revenues Surge As The World Scrambles For Supply
04.05.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Oil Revenues Surge As The World Scrambles For Supply Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several major world powers introduced strict sanctions on trade with Moscow. Europe and the United States have been gradually decreasing their dependence on Russian gas and other energy products...
The US Spends More On 'Defense' Than The Next 8 Countries Combined
03.05.2026, 03:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Spends More On 'Defense' Than The Next 8 Countries Combined For the first time on record, the top 15 military spenders allocated more than $2 trillion to defense in 2025. Total global defense spending also reached a record $2.6 trillion, signaling a major shift in geopolitical priorities. Using data from the International Institute for Strategic...
Russia Now Main Supplier Of Oil To Post-Assad Syria, Despite Pivot To West
02.05.2026, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Now Main Supplier Of Oil To Post-Assad Syria, Despite Pivot To West Via The Cradle Russia has become Syria's leading supplier of oil since the collapse of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government and the rise to power of former Al-Qaeda chief Ahmad al-Sharaa, according to Reuters. Shipments of Russian oil have risen by 75 percent...
Berlin And Hamburg Spend At Least €4 Billion On Housing Asylum Seekers Since 2022
30.04.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berlin And Hamburg Spend At Least €4 Billion On Housing Asylum Seekers Since 2022 Via Remix News, Two German cities, Berlin and Hamburg, have spent at least €4 billion to house migrants since 2022, with the cost of hotels proving to be especially high. In Hamburg, the cost to house asylum seekers alone has amounted to €597 million. In 2025 alone...
Russia’s War Boom Masks an Economic Implosion
28.04.2026, 14:31 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Record-low unemployment is the result of millions of missing workers....
Israel Just Became Germany's Largest Arms Partner
28.04.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Just Became Germany's Largest Arms Partner Authored by Andrew Korybko, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which is regarded as the top authority on the international arms trade, released its latest report about related trends from 2021-2025 last month. The top takeaway is that “Europe was the region with the largest...
NATO Minus US: European Militaries Won't Add Up To Deter Russia
28.04.2026, 09:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Minus US: European Militaries Won't Add Up To Deter Russia Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s European nations would need to bolster standing militaries by at least 300,000 troops and significantly boost defense spending beyond 3.5 percent of gross domestic product - at least...
Kim Jong Un Opens Museum Commemorating Troops Killed Fighting For Russia, Blasts US 'Hegemony'
28.04.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kim Jong Un Opens Museum Commemorating Troops Killed Fighting For Russia, Blasts US 'Hegemony' North Korea has continued its surprising level of public acknowledgement of troop deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war, where it has maintained some 10,000 or more troops in support of Moscow. Starting last summer North Korea began issuing footage of coffins of...
The Petroyuan Myth: War Failed To Shake The Dollar
26.04.2026, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Petroyuan Myth: War Failed To Shake The Dollar Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, Despite sanctions and two wars, the yuan is losing ground, with much of its earlier rise tied to Russia and now reversing. The Kremlin drafted a memo this year outlining seven areas of potential economic convergence with Washington, including a proposed...
Russia To Stop Kazakh Oil Flows To Germany Via Druzhba Pipeline
23.04.2026, 11:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia To Stop Kazakh Oil Flows To Germany Via Druzhba Pipeline After several weeks of the main oil artery into Europe being halted - perhaps as Ukraine awaited the outcome of the Hungary election and the greenlighting of Europe's €90 billion loan to Kiev - Zelenskyy stated the Druzhba oil pipeline will be ready to ship Russian oil again. There is...
Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million For World's Most Expensive Apartment In Monte Carlo
22.04.2026, 06:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million For World's Most Expensive Apartment In Monte Carlo It makes sense that a nation which has consistently ranked at the top in all global corruption rankings, produces some of the most extravagant demonstrations of stolen wealth. Take billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, among many other assets owner of the Azovstal...
World's Biggest Physical Oil Trader Warns Of Months Of Price Volatility
21.04.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Biggest Physical Oil Trader Warns Of Months Of Price Volatility By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Seasonally lower demand ahead of the peak summer driving season and the continued turbulence in the Middle East could extend the violent oil price swings for months ahead, the top executive of oil trader Gunvor has told the Financial Times. “It...
Washington's Renewed Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Will Help Their Shared Indian Partner
20.04.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Renewed Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Will Help Their Shared Indian Partner Authored by Andrew Korybko, Both benefit from this since the US wants to avoid India sliding into turmoil amidst the global energy crisis and possibly offsetting its envisaged role as a counterweight of sorts to China while more energy revenue from India preemptively...
Ukraine Urges Israel To Act Against Russian Ship Carrying 'Stolen' Grain To Haifa Port
18.04.2026, 13:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Urges Israel To Act Against Russian Ship Carrying 'Stolen' Grain To Haifa Port Ukraine is pushing Israel to seize a grain shipment it says was looted from Russian-occupied territory as the war persists in the east. At the moment it does not appear that Israel complied with any interdict of the vessel, also as reports say the cargo is already...
Goldman Highlights Global Nuclear Progress Across SMRs And The Fuel Chain
15.04.2026, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Highlights Global Nuclear Progress Across SMRs And The Fuel Chain March saw the submission of multiple construction permits for new reactors, while new designs like India's thorium reactor, obtained their first criticality. Microreactors in the US also progressed through DOE regulatory pathways as they approach a criticality deadline in July...
Is The EU's €90 Billion Loan To Ukraine Meant To Buy Time For The Return Of Democrats
15.04.2026, 09:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The EU's €90 Billion Loan To Ukraine Meant To Buy Time For The Return Of Democrats Authored by Andrew Korybko, Orban’s “democratic ouster” is expected to remove Hungary’s procedural opposition to the EU’s planned €90 billion loan to Ukraine that’ll be financed by members raising common debt. RT published a detailed article about...
More Than Just Iran
12.04.2026, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Than Just Iran By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Without a doubt, trading at the start of the week will hinge on developments in the ongoing ceasefire negotiations. As Spider, Bret, and I discussed on Friday’s podcast the range of possible outcomes has not narrowed significantly. Anything from a serious deal, to walking away and restarting...
Orban Warns "We Could Now Lose Everything": Sunday's Hungarian Elections Have Profound Implications For Europe
11.04.2026, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Orban Warns "We Could Now Lose Everything": Sunday's Hungarian Elections Have Profound Implications For Europe As Hungarians head to the polls on Sunday, April 12, 2026, the country stands at a historic inflection point. For the first time since Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party swept back into power in 2010, a credible challenger - Péter Magyar and his...
Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets
08.04.2026, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Justice Department and FBI on Tuesday revealed they have conducted a court-approved technical operation to neutralize part of a network of small office and home office routers in the United States that...
Russia Ferries 175 Russian Nuclear Scientists Out Of Iran Via Land Border With Armenia
08.04.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Ferries 175 Russian Nuclear Scientists Out Of Iran Via Land Border With Armenia Russia has announced that it has successfully evacuated a last main group of Russian workers from Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which has been hit several times by US-Israeli strikes throughout the over one-month long war. A group of 175 Russian employees...
Time For Europe To Defend Itself
05.04.2026, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Time For Europe To Defend Itself Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Americans shouldn’t fight for a suicidal continent. Four years ago, the Biden administration was working with the United Kingdom and the European Commission to pay for diminutive comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s war with the Russian Federation over territories where supermajorities...
Russia’s River of Consciousness
03.04.2026, 21:23 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin....
Germany's Economy Minister Urges Nuclear Rethink As Energy Prices Surge, Growth Forecasts Slide
03.04.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Economy Minister Urges Nuclear Rethink As Energy Prices Surge, Growth Forecasts Slide Germany’s Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has openly called for a fundamental reassessment of the country’s long-standing rejection of nuclear power, warning that heavy dependence on gas has left Europe’s largest economy dangerously exposed to repeated...
Kremlin Asks US For Ceasefire At Bushehr Nuclear Plant To Get Remaining Russian Staff Out
02.04.2026, 19:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kremlin Asks US For Ceasefire At Bushehr Nuclear Plant To Get Remaining Russian Staff Out Russia is seeking approval from the US and Israel for a ceasefire for the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, RIA news agency reported Thursday. Airstrikes across the country have reportedly been on the uptick in the past some 48 hours. "The travel routes...
29 Killed In One Of Worst Russian Military Air Disasters Of Ukraine War
01.04.2026, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 29 Killed In One Of Worst Russian Military Air Disasters Of Ukraine War Russia has suffered one of its worst aerial disasters of the Ukraine war, as an An-26 Military Transport aircraft went down in Crimea with no survivors reported. The aerial disaster happened Tuesday, with state media reporting that the aircraft slammed into a cliff during what...
Markets Have Returned To Taking Headlines As Gospel
01.04.2026, 16:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Have Returned To Taking Headlines As Gospel By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank US Treasury yields have been falling for the past two days. On Monday, we saw US rates grind lower after Powell gave a speech at Harvard University where he seemed to hint that hikes were not part of the Fed’s plan for the immediate future...
Trump To Address Nation With 'Important Update' On Iran War: What Will He Say?
01.04.2026, 14:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump To Address Nation With 'Important Update' On Iran War: What Will He Say? Update (0845ET): Minutes after we prepared this post, President Trump posted on his social media feed that Iran has asked for a ceasefire: "Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States...
European Inflation Jumps Most Since 2022 On Soaring Energy Prices Even As Core CPI Unexpectedly Shrinks
31.03.2026, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Inflation Jumps Most Since 2022 On Soaring Energy Prices Even As Core CPI Unexpectedly Shrinks In an early preview of the coming inflation spike, the euro area saw its steepest jump in inflation since 2022 as the Iran war pushed energy costs sharply higher, backing expectations that the ECB will have to raise interest rates. In March, European...
Russia’s Sanctions-Busting Cryptocurrency Empire
31.03.2026, 12:40 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - A Kremlin-backed fintech company is linked to massive trade in dual-use goods....
US Should Start Removing Its Troops From Germany, Proposes AfD Co-Leader Chrupalla
31.03.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Should Start Removing Its Troops From Germany, Proposes AfD Co-Leader Chrupalla Via Remix News, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-chair Tino Chrupalla spoke out in favor of withdrawing American troops from Germany. During a party congress in Saxony, he stressed that, if AfD comes to power, this should be the first step in implementing the party’s...
US Senators Seek To Sanction Hungary Over Obstructing Ukraine Aid
30.03.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Senators Seek To Sanction Hungary Over Obstructing Ukraine Aid Because US Congress is perfectly functional, and all domestic issues have been resolved (one would very ironically think), the FT reports that a bipartisan pair of US senators are set to introduce legislation calling for sanctions to be imposed on senior Hungarian officials involved in...
The European Union Hates Hungary, Loves Ukraine
28.03.2026, 13:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The European Union Hates Hungary, Loves Ukraine Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, What’s in a name? These days…not much. The European Union does not include Ukraine; nevertheless and notwithstanding the objections of E.U. members Hungary and Slovakia... ...the European supra-state insists on paying the salaries of Ukraine’s government...
$100 Oil Is Solving Russia's Budget Problem
28.03.2026, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $100 Oil Is Solving Russia's Budget Problem Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Russia is getting an unexpected windfall from the war in the Middle East. The Kremlin’s oil revenues this month hit a four-year high as oil prices jumped to $100 per barrel amid the Iran war and the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz. Moscow expects so much additional...
Escalation On All Fronts As Mediators Say Iran Hasn't Requested Pause On US Energy Strikes
27.03.2026, 13:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escalation On All Fronts As Mediators Say Iran Hasn't Requested Pause On US Energy Strikes Summary No pause from Tehran, war footing deepens: Iran denies requesting Donald Trump’s 10-day halt Escalation on all fronts: IRGC HQ targeted by US-Israsel; Iran signals expansion by naming UAE targets, hitting Kuwait ports and sending drones on Riyadh Israel...
Key Russian Baltic Oil Port Of Primorsk Resumes Loading After Ukraine Attack
27.03.2026, 07:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Russian Baltic Oil Port Of Primorsk Resumes Loading After Ukraine Attack Russia’s top oil port in the Baltic Sea, Primorsk, resumed loading days after it came under attack from Ukrainian drones, although Bloomberg notes that the company that pipes crude there said it is trying to divert barrels elsewhere because of the incidents. Ukraine attacked...
Chevron Warns California Facing Historic Fuel Crisis As Diesel Hits Record $7
26.03.2026, 03:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chevron Warns California Facing Historic Fuel Crisis As Diesel Hits Record $7 The world's biggest energy execs are currently at the annual CERAWeek conclave in Houston where, understandably, they are dropping bulletin bombs reeking of fire and brimstone, and warning the already critical oil/gas situation will only get worse if the pre-war status quo...
Stock Futures Surge, Oil Tumbles On Iran Ceasefire Optimism
25.03.2026, 13:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stock Futures Surge, Oil Tumbles On Iran Ceasefire Optimism US futures are sharply higher and oil tumbles as the US reportedly offered a15-point plan to help bring the conflict to a close triggering a global rally; Meanwhile Iran is said to have rejected the plan and kept up missile and drone attacks on Israel and Arab Gulf states in response to attacks...
Israel Seeks To Disrupt Russian-Iranian Arms Transfer Route In The Caspian Sea
25.03.2026, 07:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Seeks To Disrupt Russian-Iranian Arms Transfer Route In The Caspian Sea Russia and Iran have long had positive bilateral relations, which deepened in the context of the Ukraine war, and now in the midst of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, where Moscow is said to be sharing vital intelligence and targeting information with Tehran. Fresh reporting...
Putin Again Tells Energy Giants To Use Iran War Windfall To Pay Off Bank Loans: 'Wise Decision'
23.03.2026, 18:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Again Tells Energy Giants To Use Iran War Windfall To Pay Off Bank Loans: 'Wise Decision' In yet more unintended blowback from Washington's Iran war gambit, now in its fourth week, President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian oil and gas companies must use windfall profits from the Iran war to reduce debt. It's been no secret that higher...
Crewless Russian Fuel Tanker A 'Ticking Time Bomb' In Mediterranean After Likely Ukrainian Attack
18.03.2026, 09:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crewless Russian Fuel Tanker A 'Ticking Time Bomb' In Mediterranean After Likely Ukrainian Attack A damaged Russian LNG tanker is drifting uncontrolled in the Mediterranean after what Moscow says was a Ukrainian drone attack, triggering alarm across Europe over a potential ecological disaster in the heart of EU waters, as the stricken tanker is somewhere...
Futures Rebound From Overnight Selling To Trade At Session Highs Amid Constant Iran Newsflow
17.03.2026, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound From Overnight Selling To Trade At Session Highs Amid Constant Iran Newsflow Stock futures have reversed overnight losses and traded at session high, just above the flatline, despite diesel topping $5 a gallon - the highest since 2022 - with Iran expanding attacks on energy infrastructure around the Middle East and Israel targeting military...
Russia's Rumored Telegram Block Appears Underway As Outage Reports Surge
17.03.2026, 00:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Rumored Telegram Block Appears Underway As Outage Reports Surge Reports are flooding in from across Russia that Telegram is suddenly going dark, fueling speculation that the Kremlin may already be testing a nationwide block ahead of a rumored planned crackdown next month. "Over the last 24 hours, Telegram has effectively stopped working through...
In Putin’s Russia, Resistance Is Lonely
13.03.2026, 20:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - An Oscar-nominated documentary offers an intimate view of Russia’s descent into fascism....