The Panama-flagged tanker Eventin has lost control and is drifting in the Baltic Sea off the German island of Rügen. Norddeutscher Rundfunk reports this. As t-online writes , the ship was built in 2006 and is included in the list of ships of the Russian “shadow fleet” compiled by the Greenpeace organization.

The Russian ro-ro cruiser Sparta, which is apparently trying to remove equipment from the Russian Navy base in Tartus, has been cruising in circles off the coast of Syria for the past five days. The ship left the Kaliningrad port of Baltiysk on December 11 - two days after Syrian rebels captured Tartus - and entered the Mediterranean on December 26, before approaching the shores of Syria on January 5. Since then, “Sparta”, as shown by the MarineTraffic service, has been drifting.

Russian authorities have limited the collection of data on government procurement since January 1, 2025, Vedomosti newspaper reports . The government procurement website now prohibits uploading information and documents in a format that allows data to be analyzed using software.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has introduced a comprehensive sanctions package aimed at curbing Russia’s revenues from oil exports. The sanctions cover 183 oil tankers, several companies insuring them, multiple government officials, and CEOs of various oil refining enterprises. They also target Russia’s largest oil producers, including Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz, RusGazAlliance, and Gazprom Shelf Project. The Insider has obtained access to the relevant documentation.

The Japanese authorities removed eight people from the sanctions lists, including Violetta Prigozhina, the mother of the founder of the Wagner PMC, according to a press release from the Japanese Foreign Ministry. In particular, Russian servicemen Oleg Tsokov and Georgy Shuvaev, as well as a number of Russian-appointed officials from the occupied territories, were posthumously excluded from the sanctions lists by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.

News The Insider January 10, 2025 The list of missing persons in the Kursk region includes the names of those killed, as well as those already evacuated and relatives of wanted people. The document was published the day before by Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova. Locals called the list “a slap in the face” and accused the compilers of negligence.

Contents 1. Oil and the shadow fleet 2. Companies 3. Government officials and CEOs The U.S. Department of the Treasury has introduced a comprehensive sanctions package aimed at curbing Russia’s revenues from oil exports. The sanctions cover 183 oil tankers, several companies insuring them, multiple government officials, and CEOs of various oil refining enterprises. They also target Russia’s largest oil producers, including Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz, RusGazAlliance, and Gazprom Shelf Project.

The Economist has declared Spain the “best economy of 2024.” The secret of its impressive growth involves a robust labor market that features a high share of migrants. Recent reforms have rendered the immigration process even more accessible, which should give the economy an extra boost. However, some Spaniards blame migrants for an increase in crime and the slump in wages for unskilled labor.

2024 was the first calendar year in which average temperatures exceeded the average climate threshold of 1.5°C - the level of acceptable global warming that countries that have signed the Paris climate accords try to avoid. This made last year the hottest on record since the 1850s, the BBC writes , citing data from the European climate service Copernicus.

The United States has imposed sanctions against the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) company, one of the largest companies in Southeast Europe and one of the most profitable companies in the country. Now 50% of the shares of the Serbian NIS belong to Gazprom Neft, 6.15% to Gazprom. Serbia owns 29.87% of the company's shares. Earlier, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic said that if these sanctions are imposed, Belgrade will be ready to buy out the share of the Russian Gazprom Neft and Gazprom.

News The Insider January 10, 2025 #Military report In today's summary: Russian troops advanced in the north-west of the Ukrainian bridgehead in the Kursk region towards Malaya Loknya “Voenkor” Yuri Kotenok talks about the destruction of dozens of Canadian and Colombian “mercenaries” north of Kurakhov DeepState - in the Kupyansk direction the Russian bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River is increasing UAV drone raids on chemical industry enterprises in the Leningrad and Rostov regions

Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case of terrorism (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) due to the arson on January 9 in Vyborg of the office of the Vyborg Frontier Foundation, which collected assistance to war participants in Ukraine. Fontanka and 47news.ru write about this. According to the publications, a 48-year-old unemployed man and a 15-year-old eighth-grader who filmed the arson were detained in connection with the incident.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has refused a request to remove the name of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who died last February in Russia’s Polar Wolf penal colony, from its list of “terrorists and extremists.” Yulia Navalnaya, the late politician's widow, published the agency’s response on Telegram.

ECONOMICS Mila Yuma 10 January 2025 The Economist has declared Spain the “best economy of 2024.” The secret of its impressive growth involves a robust labor market that features a high share of migrants. Recent reforms have rendered the immigration process even more accessible, which should give the economy an extra boost. However, some Spaniards blame migrants for an increase in crime and the slump in wages for unskilled labor.

According to a foreign ministry press release , Japanese authorities have removed eight Russians from their sanctions lists. Those exempted include Violetta Prigozhina, whose late son, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, led a revolt against the Russian Ministry of Defense in June 2023.