内容摘要：Instead, it is currently stuck in limbo, ping-ponging between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

Instead, it is currently stuck in limbo, ping-ponging between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

According to Mr Raghunandan from CREA, it would be relatively easy for the EU to give up Russian LNG imports."Fifty percent of their LNG exports are directed towards the European Union, and only 5% of the EU's total [LNG] gas consumption in 2024 was from Russia. So if the EU decides to completely cut off Russian gas, it's going to hurt Russia way more then it's going to hurt consumers in the European Union," he told the BBC.

Experts interviewed by the BBC have dismissedthat the war with Ukraine will end if Opec brings oil prices down."People in Moscow are laughing at this idea, because the party which will suffer the most… is the American shale oil industry, the least cost-competitive oil industry in the world," Mr Milov told the BBC.

Mr Raghunandan says that Russia's cost of producing crude is also lower than in Opec countries like Saudi Arabia, so they would be hurt by lower oil prices before Russia."There is no way that Saudi Arabia is going to agree to that. This has been tried before. This has led to conflict between Saudi Arabia and the US," he says.

Ms Rosner says there are both moral and practical issues with the West buying Russian hydrocarbons while supporting Ukraine.

"We now have a situation in which we are funding the aggressor in a war that we're condemning and also funding the resistance to the war," she says. "This dependence on fossil fuels means that we are really at the whims of energy markets, global energy producers and hostile dictators."on his return to Kenya.

Ngũgĩ began self-imposed exile in the UK and then the US. He did not return to Kenya for 22 years.When he finally did return, he received a hero's welcome - thousands of Kenyans turned out to greet him.

But the homecoming was marred when assailants broke into Ngũgĩ's apartment, brutally attacking the author and raping his wife.He returned to the US, where he had held professorships at universities including Yale, New York and California Irvine.