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Tags: Russia-Ukraine International News
The Russian Government has agreed to allow the United Nations officials to visit and inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex located in South-Eastern Ukraine. The site has been under Russian occupation since early March but Ukrainian technicians still operate it under Russian direction.
The Kremlin made the announcement after a call between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron. The Kremlin is a place in Moscow which symbolically refers to the Russian government.
Ukrainian officials said Russia had turned the complex into an army base - deploying military equipment, weapons and about 500 troops who were using the site as a shield to attack towns across the Dnieper River.
Risk at the Zaporizhzhia site
Tags: Russia-Ukraine International News
The first grain ship to depart from Ukraine after the Russian attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, has arrived at Turkey's Bosphorus strait.
The commencement of the grain shipment started after a landmark agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkiye on 22 July 2022in Istanbul, Turkiye to unblock Ukraine’s grain exports from its black sea ports.
Under the terms of a deal, Russia and Ukraine have agreed that shipments can resume from Ukraine’s Odessa port.
The Razoni cargo ship registered in Sierra Leone set sail from Odessa port of Ukraine on 1 August 2022 with 26,000 tonnes of corn.
The ship will go to Lebanon and it has docked in Turkiye for quality inspection.
Ukraine in a statement said that its naval vessels will guide cargo ships through waters which have been mined.
Tags: Russia-Ukraine International News
In a blow to the grain accord signed by Russia, Ukraine, Turkiye and the United Nation on 22 July 2022, Russian missiles hit the infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine on 23 July 2022.
This has raised the uncertainty over the implementation of the grain accord which seeks to resume grain export from the Black sea port including Odesa.
According to the Ukrainian military, the Odesa sea trade port was hit with the Russian Kalibr cruise missiles on 23 July.
Grain accord
Background to the issue
Tags: Russia-Ukraine Summits
European Union Energy Ministers gathered in the Belgium capital of Brussels on 2 May 2022, for an emergency meeting to discuss energy imports from Russia and seek a common response to Moscow cutting gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.
Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland last week after they refused to meet its demand to effectively pay in Russian currency roubles.
In the biggest shift, Germany announced it would no longer oppose an immediate ban on Russian oil imports.
Russia supplies the EU with 26 percent of its oil imports and 40% of its gas imports . Several countries including Germany, are heavily reliant on Russia for their energy requirement .
European Union
The European Union is an international Organisation of 27 European countries.
The United Kingdom which was the founding member of the European Union has left the organisation.
It was founded on 1 November 1993
Headquarters :Brussels, Belgium
Tags: Russia-Ukraine
The United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin hosted an emergency meeting at Ramstein Air Base, in Germany that sought to speed and synchronise the delivery of arms to Ukraine.
This meeting of 40 countries was hosted by the United States after States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine on 25 April 2022 along with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Ukraine where he pledged additional military support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's war effort.
Western countries do not want to directly intervene in the war between Russia and Ukraine but they want to arm Ukrainian forces with weapons so that the Ukrainian force can defeat Russia .
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Russia says the "special military operation" in Ukraine is necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia and Ukraine was guilty of the genocide of Russian-speaking people.
Ukraine says it is fighting a land grab by Russia and that Putin's accusations of genocide are nonsense.
Tags: Russia-Ukraine Economics/Business
India’s largest steel company by revenue ,Tata Steel has announced that it will stop doing business with Russia .
Tata Steel does not have any business or operation in Russia but it imports coal from Russia for its steel plants in India .
Tata Steel has manufacturing plants in the Netherlands and United Kingdom and they will also stop their Russian operations .
A number of Western countries have imposed harsh economic sanctions on Russia and its companies for its invasion of Ukraine.
Though the Government of India has not imposed any sanctions on Russia, few Indian companies like Infosys have announced closure of their Russian operations .
TATA Steel
It is an Indian multinational steel company operating in 26 countries
It was founded by JRD Tata in 1907 as Tata Steel as Tata Iron and Steel Companies (TISCO) which was later renamed as Tata Steel.
It set up its first steel plant in Jamshedpur , Jharkhand.
Headquarter of Tata Steel : Mumbai, Maharashtra
Chairperson : N. Chandrasekaran
Tags: Russia-Ukraine Summits
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Canadian and European counterparts led a walkout of a meeting of Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors held in Washington D.C , when the Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov started speaking .
The United States and its allies took this step to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine .
The United States wants Russia to be expelled from G-20 but it can be done only when there is unanimous support of the member countries . China and India and other non-European countries are not in favour of this U.S move.
The G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor meeting was held under the chairmanship of the Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Indonesia is the current chairman of G-20.
The Indian side was led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das also participated in the meeting .
G-20 Group
Group of 20 or G-20 is a multilateral organisation which was set up in 1999.
It consists of the world's major developed and developing countries.
It consists of 19 countries and the European Union. The member countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
The presidency of the G20 rotates every year among its members, with the country that holds the presidency working together with its predecessor and successor, also known as Troika, to ensure the continuity of the agenda. Currently Italy, Indonesia, and India are the Troika countries.
Italy was the President of the G-20 in 2021. Indonesia is the President for 2022 and India will be the President in 2023.
The first Summit meeting of the leaders of the G-20 was held in 2008 at Washington, United States.
The G20 has no permanent secretariat.
G-20 members constitute 60% of the world population, 80% of World economy and 75% of world trade.
Tags: Russia-Ukraine Sports
The All England Lawn Tennis Club's which organises the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tennis tournament has announced that the Russian and the Belarussian tennis players will not be allowed to play at this year's events due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Belarus support to Russia on this .
It is for the first time the two countries' players have been banned in any tennis tournament .
It means that men's world number two Daniil Medvedev from Russia and women's fourth-ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus will not be able to participate in the tournament ,to be held from June 27-July 10 ,2022.
The All England club move has been criticized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women Tennis Professionals (WTP).
Wimbledon
It is the world’s oldest tennis tournament which started in 1877. It is held every year in London and played on grass courts.
Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments of tennis . The others are the Australian Open , French Open and U.S open
Current Champions (2021)
Female singles titles : Ashleigh Barty of Australia
Tags: Russia-Ukraine International Relations
The United Nations General Assembly on 7 April 2022, suspended Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" in Ukraine.
The United States moved this resolution after Ukraine accused Russian troops of killing dozens of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
In Retaliation Russia announced that it was quitting the United Nation Human Rights Council.
The United States led resolution in the United Nations General Assembly needed two-thirds majority of voting members in the 193-member General Assembly. The resolution was passed with 93 Votes in favour, 24 countries voted against the resolution and 58 countries including India abstained.
The United Nation Human Rights Council has 47 members and Russia was in its second year of a three-year term. The United Nation General Assembly has the power to end the suspension but that cannot happen now as Russia has quit the council.
In 2018 the United States also quit the Human Rights Council alleging that the council was biased against Israel and a lack of reform. It was later re-elected to the council last year.
Libya was suspended in 2011 because of violence against protesters by forces loyal to then-leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The Human Rights Council does not have the power to make legally binding decisions . It can at best authorize investigation into cases of alleged Human Rights violation in the member countries .
In the month of February 2022, it opened an investigation into allegations of rights violations including possible war crimes, in Ukraine.
The Russian government has warned that countries which voted in favour of the resolution or abstained will be seen as an unfriendly gesture" with consequences for bilateral ties.
What is United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council was set up by the United Nation General Assembly in 2006. It replaced the United Nations Commission Human Rights which was set up in 1946.
Main Functions
As it names suggest it was set up to ;
Strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe;
for addressing situations of human rights violations and makes recommendations on them.;
It discusses human rights issues and situations around the world .
Members
It has 47 members who are elected for three years by the United National General Assembly. The membership is distributed among regions. 13 members come from Asia and 13 from Africa , 6 come from East Europe, 7 from Western Europe and other groups and 8 from South America and Caribbean countries.
Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
President : Federico Villegras of Argentina.
Tags: Russia-Ukraine International News
The Russian foreign minister and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin met top Indian leadership including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, foreign minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval during his two day visit ( 31 March, 1 April 2022) to India.
The Russian foreign minister came to India after visiting China where he participated in the Extended Troika in Afghanistan meeting (See 1 April 2022 post).
Sergei Lavrov visited India to seek Indian support and strengthen close ties with traditional ally India after U.S. and British officials pressed India to avoid undermining the dollar-based financial system and sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.(Kindly see 1 April 2022 post).
Russia is the biggest supplier of defence equipment to India and Lavrov said the two countries would use a rupee-rouble mechanism to trade oil, military hardware and other goods.
The US deputy national security adviser, Daleep Singh who visited India recently had warned that there will be consequences for countries that attempt to circumvent the Western sanctions imposed on Russia.
Lavrov offered to sell premium grade Russian Ural oil to India at a discount of $35 per barrel.
India has bought millions of barrels of crude oil from Russia at a discount since the war erupted and has also bought sunflower oil from Russia at a record high price after supplies from Ukraine stopped. (Also see 29 March 2022 post).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his meeting with Lavrov called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and expressed willingness to contribute in any way to peace efforts.
Lavrov said Russia would be open to India mediating between Ukraine and Russia.
Important for Exam
Currency of Russia : Rouble
Capital :Moscow
President : Vladimir Putin
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