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Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Investing   来源:Opinion  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:"It was a painful sight for me. The children cried for help, but no one could do anything. As their cries got louder, their building sunk and flowed away."

"It was a painful sight for me. The children cried for help, but no one could do anything. As their cries got louder, their building sunk and flowed away."

In addition to direct sales, some of the oil exported by Russia ends up in the West after being processed into fuel products in third countries via what is known as "the refining loophole". Sometimes it gets diluted with crude from other countries, too.CREA says it has identified three "laundromat refineries" in Turkey and three in India processing Russian crude and selling the resulting fuel on to sanctioning countries. It says they have used €6.1bn worth of Russian crude to make products for sanctioning countries.

Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

India's petroleum ministryas "a deceptive effort to tarnish India's image"."[These countries] know that sanctioning countries are willing to accept this. This is a loophole. It's entirely legal. Everyone's aware of it, but nobody is doing much to actually tackle it in a big way," says Vaibhav Raghunandan, an analyst at CREA.

Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

Campaigners and experts argue that Western governments have the tools and means available to stem the flow of oil and gas revenue into the Kremlin's coffers.According to former Russian deputy energy minister Vladimir Milov, who is now a diehard opponent of Vladimir Putin, sanctions imposed on trade in Russian hydrocarbons should be better enforced - particularly the oil price cap adopted by the G7 group of nations, which Mr Milov says "

Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

He is fearful, though, that the US government shake-up launched by President Donald Trump will hamper agencies such as the US Treasury or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which are key for sanctions enforcement.

Another avenue is continued pressure on Russia's "It would also emphasise the importance of the arts sector in south Oxfordshire "for businesses and the health and wellbeing of our residents," she added.

But for some arts groups, it can be a struggle to find affordable arts spaces to use.Alison Jerred is in two amateur performance groups - Buttercross in Witney, and Kidlington Amateur Operatic Society.

Both have struggled to find places to put on their shows."The cost of hiring places to rehearse is increasing and it is hard to find those cost effective locations," she said.

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