Moscow Exchange down a third, Gazprom down 43.07%, Rosneft down 40.7 % Lukoil down 24 % Sberbank down 47.0%, (board directors quitting) Russian ruble all time low against dollar. Ukraine Envoy in UK calls for Russian Central Bank to be hit and Russia excluded from SWIFT system.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny published a list of 35 kleptocrats that allegedly prop up Putin's regime.
Abramovich is listed, but so are others with a UK presence or assets: Usmanov, Deripaska, Shuvalov & more.
They must be in the Govt's sanctions package.
Starmer calls for RT/RussiaToday to be banned in the UK.
The previous Labour leader recommended people watch it. What a difference a couple of years makes.
BREAKING: The UK is sanctioning 5 Russian banks (Rossiya Bank, IS bank, General Bank, Promsviazbank, Black Sea bank) and 3 oligarchs: Igor and Boris Rotenberg, and Gennadiy Timchenko. Pretty tepid if you ask me. The oligarchs have been on the US sanctions list since 2018
If Keir Starmer wanted to "slaughter sacred cows of Corbynism", he probably should have said that in the Labour leadership contest, rather than pretending to be a more competent version of Jeremy Corbyn.
This kind of dishonesty is killing our democracy.
@Thoma_xh Unless it’s an issue of great importance to them all politicians say things to get elected. Jones acting like Starmer doing something wrong is childish shite.
@Thoma_xh Corbyn wore a poppy on remembrance day for the first time in his life and said he wouldn’t get rid of the monarchy. You clearly share Jones’ bias.
Last-minute prep for my speech to the @Heritage Foundation this morning in Washington D.C.
Register to watch online at 4pm GMT via the link below 👇
https://t.co/byohAtY4sA
Labour has too often been on the wrong side of international issues. Young Labour calls on the leadership to stop backing NATO aggression, call wholeheartedly for peace, commit to constructive engagement with activists and deliver international policy around peace and cooperation
Excellent. Now announce the names and addresses of Russian oligarchs in London who will be sanctioned - and whose sources of income, donations to the Tory party, and Mayfair/Knightsbridge/Surrey properties are all under investigation.