The Great Power That Can't Use SWIFT
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Trump announces Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire; Kharkiv power plant struck hours later
President Trump announced an immediate Russia-Ukraine "energy ceasefire" on Sunday, October 11, but Ukrainian officials said Russia…
1 post ·Russian strikes kill at least nine in Ukraine days after announced energy ceasefire
Russian air attacks killed at least nine people across Ukraine and left more than half a million without…
1 post ·Siberia Plague Death: What We Know, What's Disputed, What Would Change the Picture
…Russian media claim a second person has died at the Irkutsk hospital (Unidentified, no lab confirmation, and Russian…
Article ·The Institute Built to Prevent This Had the Accident
…Public domain.* A laboratory worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute was hospitalized September 29 with severe…
Article ·The Rundown — October 8, 2026
…change-the-picture) [↗](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-says-no-plague-found-contacts-siberian-lab-worker…
Article ·The Rundown — September 19, 2026
…Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law, authorizing tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest…
Article ·The Rundown — September 20, 2026
…turns an item into its own entry. ## World - Russia's State Duma elections reach their third and final…
Article ·Nearly Two Million Barrels to Fix One Shortage
…Ukrainian strikes on Russian refining infrastructure have knocked out enough capacity that Russia extended its own diesel export…
Article ·The Rundown — October 3, 2026
…and Luke Delaney, Canada's Josh Kutryk and Russia's Sergey Teteryatnikov into Expedition 75 for a roughly…
Article ·The Rundown — October 5, 2026
…world - About 200 people are under observation in Russia's Irkutsk region after an Anti-Plague Institute lab…
Article ·The Rundown — October 12, 2026
…that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," but Ukraine's Zelensky said Russia had already…
Article ·The Rundown — October 7, 2026
…it becomes a full entry here. ## The world - Russia told the WHO on October 6 that medical observation…
Article ·The Rundown — October 10, 2026
…nano-banana-21-image-model-c6ac3b89) ## Health & medicine - Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said October 8 that contact…
Article ·The Global Oil Crisis: Where Things Stand
…Ukraine's long-range campaign against Russian oil infrastructure has hit refineries, terminals and tankers; the Sochi fire…
Article ·The Escape Valve
…India's imports of Russian crude have set records two months running; Russian fuel oil going to Singapore…
Article ·The Rundown — October 11, 2026
…8-2026) - President Trump announced October 9 that Russia will supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel…
Article ·The Rundown — September 29, 2026
…once it becomes a full entry here. ## World - Russia launches more than 120 drones — about 90 of them…
Article ·The Rundown — September 25, 2026
…a technical-level, three-way meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the US in the United Arab Emirates, with…
Article ·Reserved for Future Use
…the United States is falling behind on digital-asset rules — Russia, the EU, Japan, Dubai and parts of…
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Reserves (excl. gold) — Money Worldwide
…Saudi Arabia $488,250,548,913 2026-07-01 🇷🇺 Russia $423,209,726,707 2025-11-01 🇰🇷 South Korea $421…
Gold Reserves — Money Worldwide
…177 🇨🇳 China 2,313 tons $305,222,372,548 🇷🇺 Russia 2,299 tons $303,374,939,251 🇨🇭 Switzerland 1,040…
Incommunicado
…The guards who shot Fechter were East German, not Russian; Al's "Russians" is how a nineteen-year-old private…
Global Debt & GDP — Money Worldwide
…000,000 118.5% $4,211,673,675,000 🇷🇺 Russia $2,861,156,000,000 19.3% $552,203,108…
Numbers 15
…for the ethnographical part of the Turkestan Album, a Russian imperial survey of Central Asia. It is here because it…
