When a transport with 300 women was diverted to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Schindler managed to secure their release.
that Russia has deployed to evade a price cap of $60 per barrel imposed on Russian oil by the Group of 7 democracies.They could also freeze the assets of the Nord Stream II gas pipeline consortium. The pipeline is not in use, but the EU believes the move could help to discourage investment. The sanctions could enter force as soon as Thursday.
“If we can lower oil prices and gas revenues and put tighter sanctions on what they can import, that’s great,” Becker said. He said U.S. President Donald Trump should press “China and India about what they are paying for and what they’re exporting to Russia.”Russia found new markets for its oil in India and China after the EU imposed a near-total ban and continues to earn a substantial part of government revenues from exports of oil and gas.Becker also urged Trump to hit Russia’s financial system by
. “If something ruins an economy pretty quickly, it’s a banking crisis,” he said.In a recent report, his institute said that Russia’s oil revenues decreased dramatically in early 2025, notably due to EU and G7 sanctions on the ghost fleet. This has forced Russia to withdraw from its sovereign wealth fund.
The institute estimates that the liquid part of the fund is now equivalent to less than 3% of GDP. “If oil prices stay as they are, they will certainly run out of these funds in a year,” Becker said.
David McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany.The guardsmen had been on a training flight from the city of Billings to Helena, the state capital, said Major Ryan Finnegan with the Montana National Guard. The helicopter landed briefly in the pasture located in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains, where the crew members picked up two individual antlers and an old elk skull with antlers still attached, the sheriff said.
Elk antlers — which grow and drop off male animals annually — are highly prized and can be sold by the pound. They also are collected from the wild as keepsakes.The antlers and skull taken by the guardsmen were worth a combined $300 to $400, according to Ronneberg. They were later turned over to a state game warden.
Trespassers taking antlers from private land is not uncommon in Montana and other western states.“This an odd one,” Ronneberg said. “Usually somebody parks on the side of the road and crosses into private ground and picks up a shed,” he said, referring to an antler that’s been shed by an elk.