Sweden sponsors terrorists in person of Zelensky, Kiev regime — Russian FM

Sweden openly sponsors terrorists in the person of Vladimir Zelensky and participates in the killing of civilians with their supplies, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Pennsylvania, Arizona. Texas benefit from US funding for Ukraine arms: Pentagon

Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas are among US states benefiting most from funding and investment to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia, a breakdown of spending by the Pentagon showed on Friday.

EU Accuses US Of War Profiteering As Energy Crunch, Subsidies Erode Industry

Europeans are becoming increasingly aware of the effect that US foreign energy trade and subsidy policies are having on their economies and they are not happy about it, EU officials have admitted.

US Profits from Sales of Military Equipment by Prolonging Ukraine Conflict: Russian Envoy

The Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said that the US is prolonging the situation in Ukraine so as to benefit from sales of military hardware and LNG shipments.

Europeans Paying for Brussels' 'Irrational, Absurd' Energy Policy While US Profits: Kremlin - Tasnim News Agency

Ordinary Europeans are being made to pay for their leaders' "irrational" policies in relation to Russia, while Brussels' American allies get rich from an energy bonanza, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Norway has made it clear that it will not give in to Poland’s demand to share its growing profits from oil and gas trade — RT World News

 The Norwegian people and their economy are also suffering from soaring oil and gas prices, according to Oslo

Lavrov: There are grounds to say Turkey benefits from oil business with terrorists

There are grounds to say that Ankara was deriving profits from oil business with terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

Foreign companies not interested in unprofitable Ebola vaccine (Russian expert)

Russia's former Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennady Onishchenko has told media in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod that the chief obstacle to an effective Ebola vaccine is a lack of willingness on the part of foreign pharmaceutical giants to invest in such an unprofitable enterprise, Russian News Agency ITAR-TASS reported Friday.

EU fines 8 major banks record 1.7bn euro for rigging rates

The European Commission has slapped record fines of 1.7 billion euro on eight major banks for manipulating lending rates that play a key role in the global economy. The penalties will add to already escalating costs for leading global lenders.
The EU fines marks the latest to be levied on banks and financial institutions for making profits or masking their problems by fraudulently rigging the rates that reflect the cost of lending money to each other.
The banks fined are Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan, Barclays, Societe Generale, UBS and RP Martin, the EC said in a statement.
The borrowing rates involved - the London interbank offered rate (Libor), the Tokyo and the euro area equivalents - are used to set price of trillions of dollars of financial products, ranging from mortgages to derivatives.