The total voter turnout in the Belarusian parliamentary and local elections on a single voting day reached 72.98% by the time of polling stations closing, Belarusian Central Election Commission Chairman Igor Karpenko said.
Belarusians voted on Sunday to elect 12,514 deputies of local councils and 110 members of the parliament's lower house for a period of five years. As many as 263 candidates applied for deputy seats in the lower house and 18,800 for seats in local councils. All four parties registered in the country nominated their candidates. A member of the Russian lower house delegation that observed the elections, Artem Turov, said that Minsk held the elections in full accordance with its national legislation, with no violations potentially influencing the results observed.
The turnout for the 2019 parliamentary elections in Belarus was 77.4%, while in 2016 it was 74.7%. In the 2020 presidential election, the turnout was 84.3%.
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"All polling stations have closed and the counting of votes has begun ... According to the turnout as of 8 p.m. [17:00 GMT], the turnout in the republic amounted to 72.98%," Karpenko told a briefing.
Belarusians voted on Sunday to elect 12,514 deputies of local councils and 110 members of the parliament's lower house for a period of five years. As many as 263 candidates applied for deputy seats in the lower house and 18,800 for seats in local councils. All four parties registered in the country nominated their candidates. A member of the Russian lower house delegation that observed the elections, Artem Turov, said that Minsk held the elections in full accordance with its national legislation, with no violations potentially influencing the results observed.
The turnout for the 2019 parliamentary elections in Belarus was 77.4%, while in 2016 it was 74.7%. In the 2020 presidential election, the turnout was 84.3%.
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🇷🇺🇸🇦 A parliamentary delegation from the Russian State Duma led by Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has arrived in Saudi Arabia. This is the first visit on the level of Chairman of the State Duma to the kingdom, according to the lawmaking body's website.
Volodin will meet with the chairman of the kingdom's Advisory Council Abdullah Al al-Sheikh in Riyadh, the site added.
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Volodin will meet with the chairman of the kingdom's Advisory Council Abdullah Al al-Sheikh in Riyadh, the site added.
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🇳🇱A demonstration for peace and against arms supplies to Ukraine took place in Amsterdam, Sputnik correspondent reports.
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Russian fighters have taken control of the southern part of Rabotino while fierce fighting for the village continues said Vladimir Rogov, the head of the regional public movement "We Are Together with Russia."
Rogov said the Russian military is now carrying out the most difficult task of breaching multilayered Ukrainian defenses, liberating Rabotino inch by inch.
Rabotino is a village on the front line in the Zaporozhye region. The Kiev regime portrays its conquest as the primary achievement of the so-called counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye area since last June. Ukraine tapped Western-trained brigades from strategic reserves to ensure its capture.
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"Our fighters have control over the southern outskirts of Rabotino village, carrying out attacks towards the center and driving the enemy out. Fierce fighting continues for the village. The enemy is entrenched in the northern part of Rabotino," Rogov said.
Rogov said the Russian military is now carrying out the most difficult task of breaching multilayered Ukrainian defenses, liberating Rabotino inch by inch.
Rabotino is a village on the front line in the Zaporozhye region. The Kiev regime portrays its conquest as the primary achievement of the so-called counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye area since last June. Ukraine tapped Western-trained brigades from strategic reserves to ensure its capture.
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The total voter turnout in the Belarusian parliamentary and local elections on a single voting day reached 72.98% by the time of polling stations closing, Belarusian Central Election Commission Chairman Igor Karpenko said. "All polling stations have closed…
According to confirmed data, turnout in parliamentary and local elections in Belarus stood at 73.09%, said Igor Karpenko, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
All local councils of deputies in the country have been fully formed and all 110 deputies of the lower house of the Belarusian parliament have been elected according to the results of the vote, the CEC said.
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"We have clarified preliminary data on turnout, which amounted to 73.09%," Karpenko announced at a briefing.
All local councils of deputies in the country have been fully formed and all 110 deputies of the lower house of the Belarusian parliament have been elected according to the results of the vote, the CEC said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk literally laughed off the prospect of Chinese competition in electric vehicle manufacturing during a 2011 interview, claiming he didn’t view Xi'an-based BYD Auto as a genuine threat.
Some 13 years later one of every three EVs sold across the globe is made by the Chinese company, with US trade barriers remaining the primary obstacle to BYD’s preeminence in the American market as well.
What are the reasons for BYD’s success and the dominance of Chinese manufacturing in everything from smartphones to solar panels? The answer lies in the country’s unique economic system that blends the advantages of both state-led and free-market models.
Enjoy Sputnik’s in-depth look at the forces behind China’s rise and why US leaders increasingly see war as the only way to stop it.
“Have you seen their car?” Musk asked derisively, adding he didn’t see the upstart manufacturer as a competitor at all.
Some 13 years later one of every three EVs sold across the globe is made by the Chinese company, with US trade barriers remaining the primary obstacle to BYD’s preeminence in the American market as well.
What are the reasons for BYD’s success and the dominance of Chinese manufacturing in everything from smartphones to solar panels? The answer lies in the country’s unique economic system that blends the advantages of both state-led and free-market models.
Enjoy Sputnik’s in-depth look at the forces behind China’s rise and why US leaders increasingly see war as the only way to stop it.
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Berlin caught backing Islamist extremist group in Russia that’s banned in Germany
German government-sponsored NGOs, it turns out, are not so secretly supporting individuals tied to an Islamist terrorist group seeking to establish a global caliphate in Russia while banning it from functioning inside Germany.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist Salafist group recognized as a terrorist organization by a Russian court in 2003, and banned in Germany the same year for spreading violence and anti-Semitic hate, has been getting sympathetic coverage from German taxpayer-sponsored NGOs for members of the extremist group operating in Crimea.
One such NGO, ‘Ukraine verstehen’ (lit. ‘Understanding Ukraine’) has published a series of articles lauding the extremists on its website, characterizing Crimean Tatars serving prison sentences for association with Hizb ut-Tahrir as “political prisoners” and calling on the international community to “immediately increase pressure on Russia to ensure the immediate release of the detainees.”
Another NGO-run project known as ‘European solidarity. Crimea’ receives money from Germany’s Foreign Ministry, and runs a Facebook page called Berlin Info-Point Krim, which has posted dozens of stories protesting the prosecution of Russian individuals affiliated with HuT. A piece published in March 2023 reported on the difficulties faced by an “illegally convicted” HuT-connected “political prisoner” in a Russian penal colony, with dozens more HuT-linked pieces to be found on the platform in German, English and Russian.
In November, German media sounded the alarm about Hizb ut-Tahrir’s involvement in demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine amid Israel’s war in Gaza, expressing concerns about the group’s efforts to radicalize young people, including through the use of social media campaigns organized by front groups.
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German government-sponsored NGOs, it turns out, are not so secretly supporting individuals tied to an Islamist terrorist group seeking to establish a global caliphate in Russia while banning it from functioning inside Germany.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist Salafist group recognized as a terrorist organization by a Russian court in 2003, and banned in Germany the same year for spreading violence and anti-Semitic hate, has been getting sympathetic coverage from German taxpayer-sponsored NGOs for members of the extremist group operating in Crimea.
One such NGO, ‘Ukraine verstehen’ (lit. ‘Understanding Ukraine’) has published a series of articles lauding the extremists on its website, characterizing Crimean Tatars serving prison sentences for association with Hizb ut-Tahrir as “political prisoners” and calling on the international community to “immediately increase pressure on Russia to ensure the immediate release of the detainees.”
Another NGO-run project known as ‘European solidarity. Crimea’ receives money from Germany’s Foreign Ministry, and runs a Facebook page called Berlin Info-Point Krim, which has posted dozens of stories protesting the prosecution of Russian individuals affiliated with HuT. A piece published in March 2023 reported on the difficulties faced by an “illegally convicted” HuT-connected “political prisoner” in a Russian penal colony, with dozens more HuT-linked pieces to be found on the platform in German, English and Russian.
In November, German media sounded the alarm about Hizb ut-Tahrir’s involvement in demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine amid Israel’s war in Gaza, expressing concerns about the group’s efforts to radicalize young people, including through the use of social media campaigns organized by front groups.
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Russia is ready to test payments in digital currencies with China, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and the Gulf countries, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told Sputnik.
Siluanov noted that financial technologies are actively developing and provide a wide range of tools, including for the formation of an innovative payment and settlement infrastructure.
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"The agenda that we will promote within the framework of our chairmanship is the improvement of the financial, settlement and payment system, which, in the current conditions of fragmentation, would be convenient and safe for trade participants within the BRICS. The system [that will be] outside of politics, independent of Western unfriendly infrastructure," Siluanov said.
Siluanov noted that financial technologies are actively developing and provide a wide range of tools, including for the formation of an innovative payment and settlement infrastructure.
It is proposed to create a platform that would connect the financial systems of its participants. For example, technological gateways for settlements in digital currencies of central banks are already in operation. We propose creating a BRICS Bridge system, which, based on the BRICS institutions, would be available to our countries and would ensure the proper level of equality and would contribute to the development of trade relations...
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The global economy is shifting and the potential of developing economies already outstrips the G7, but such transformation is not straightforward, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Sputnik.
The minister noted that economist Ray Dalio, with whom he met in 2011, claimed in his research that an economic reformation has happened many times in world history, when countries that are "slowing down" leave and new ones take their place. Political tensions have always risen during such crossroads.
Everyone suffers from the sanctions, says Siluanov. "But it is obvious that our economy has held up; last year, it grew by 3.6%. Industrial production is growing (by 3.5%), as well as the income of citizens (real disposable income increased 5.4%)," he pointed out.
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The minister noted that economist Ray Dalio, with whom he met in 2011, claimed in his research that an economic reformation has happened many times in world history, when countries that are "slowing down" leave and new ones take their place. Political tensions have always risen during such crossroads.
"Precisely the same situation is unfolding right now – a really critical moment – when the emerging economies have already overtaken the G7 countries in terms of potential. This transformation is not painless. We see what restrictions and sanctions are trying to restrain China and Russia – these are the consequences of the paradigm shift," the finance minister stressed.
Everyone suffers from the sanctions, says Siluanov. "But it is obvious that our economy has held up; last year, it grew by 3.6%. Industrial production is growing (by 3.5%), as well as the income of citizens (real disposable income increased 5.4%)," he pointed out.
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German citizens are now paying 41% more for electricity, heating, and fuel than in February 2021, the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported, citing a study from the Verivox portal.
The report said that the portal used an average model according to which a family of three annually consumes 20,000 kWh of energy for heating, 4,000 kWh of electricity and travels 13,300 kilometers. In February 2021, such a family paid 3,772 euros ($4,081) for energy and fuel, while now they would pay 5,306 euros.
The European Union has been facing inflation and a massive energy crisis as part of the post-pandemic global economic recession. The situation has further exacerbated against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis as hostilities and Western sanctions against Moscow have led to disruptions to supply chains and resulted in a spike in energy prices worldwide.
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The report said that the portal used an average model according to which a family of three annually consumes 20,000 kWh of energy for heating, 4,000 kWh of electricity and travels 13,300 kilometers. In February 2021, such a family paid 3,772 euros ($4,081) for energy and fuel, while now they would pay 5,306 euros.
The European Union has been facing inflation and a massive energy crisis as part of the post-pandemic global economic recession. The situation has further exacerbated against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis as hostilities and Western sanctions against Moscow have led to disruptions to supply chains and resulted in a spike in energy prices worldwide.
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Ukraine continues to attack Russia's territories despite Zelensky's claims
💬 "Zelensky's statements take into account the needs of NATO and the communication strategy of the leaders of the EU member countries," Tiberio Graziani, Chairman at Vision & Global Trends - International Institute for Global Analyses, told Sputnik.
He was commenting on the Ukrainian president's claim that NATO-grade long-range weapons "will never be used in territories other than Ukrainian temporarily occupied territory." The territories claimed to be "temporarily occupied" by Zelensky include Crimea, which voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia in 2014, as well as the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions which re-unified with Russia in referendums in 2022.
Ukraine used Czech-supplied rocket artillery to hit Belgorod, a Russian city close to Ukraine's northern border, over the Christmas season. The strike claimed the lives of 21 people, including children, with over 100 more injured.
NATO allies routinely overlook those incidents, insisting that Ukraine must win at any cost. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed earlier this week that the Kiev regime has a right to hit Russian military targets outside Ukraine, calling it an act of self-defense. Russia has warned that arms supplies to Ukraine are preventing a negotiated end to the conflict and make NATO countries participants in it.
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He was commenting on the Ukrainian president's claim that NATO-grade long-range weapons "will never be used in territories other than Ukrainian temporarily occupied territory." The territories claimed to be "temporarily occupied" by Zelensky include Crimea, which voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia in 2014, as well as the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions which re-unified with Russia in referendums in 2022.
Ukraine used Czech-supplied rocket artillery to hit Belgorod, a Russian city close to Ukraine's northern border, over the Christmas season. The strike claimed the lives of 21 people, including children, with over 100 more injured.
NATO allies routinely overlook those incidents, insisting that Ukraine must win at any cost. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed earlier this week that the Kiev regime has a right to hit Russian military targets outside Ukraine, calling it an act of self-defense. Russia has warned that arms supplies to Ukraine are preventing a negotiated end to the conflict and make NATO countries participants in it.
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🇶🇦 Qatar announced a multibillion dollar expansion of its liquified natural gas (LNG) production, marking the most recent attempt to expand global supply after Western sanctions on Russian gas sent shockwaves through Europe’s economy.
Qatar is one of the world’s top exporters of LNG, along with Russia, Australia, and the United States. The US recently announced a pause in expansion of exports amidst concerns global sales drive up domestic energy costs. US President Joe Biden also faces pressure from environmental activists opposed to increased fossil fuel production.
Al-Kaabi expressed willingness to help make up the difference, but criticized US policy.
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“We still think there's a big future for gas for at least 50 years forward and whenever we can technically do more, we'll do more,” said QatarEnergy chief Saad al-Kaabi.
Qatar is one of the world’s top exporters of LNG, along with Russia, Australia, and the United States. The US recently announced a pause in expansion of exports amidst concerns global sales drive up domestic energy costs. US President Joe Biden also faces pressure from environmental activists opposed to increased fossil fuel production.
Al-Kaabi expressed willingness to help make up the difference, but criticized US policy.
“Buyers will not go for these [American] sellers if every day the government could stop the process,” he said. “It’s very difficult to have long-term planning when you have that,” al-Kaabi stressed.
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The global economy is shifting and the potential of developing economies already outstrips the G7, but such transformation is not straightforward, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Sputnik. The minister noted that economist…
❗️ Any confiscation of Russian assets abroad will see a symmetrical response with no less Western funds frozen in Russia, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Sputnik.
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