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Germany is searching far and wide for gas supplies to use this winter, but also looking more strategically into the future to ensure it minimises its reliance on Russia, and it sees Canada as an important partner.

'"As Germany is moving away from Russian energy at warp speed, Canada is our partner of choice," said Scholz at a German-Canadian economic conference in Toronto. "For now, this means increasing our LNG imports. We hope that Canadian LNG will play a major role in this."'
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/canadian-lng-could-play-major-role-germanys-shift-russian-gas-scholz-2022-08-23/

While there are no LNG terminals in Canada at the moment, and those planned are only on the west coast, it would seem safe to assume that potentially high demand from Europe would make building them both economic and highly desirable.

It's also looking to take green hydrogen (in the form of ammonia) from Canada from 2025 or so, and use this as an energy source, something both countries see has huge potential as a clean fuel.

Once the war is over it seems unlikely that Russia will find the reception for it gas and oil as welcoming as before the war from Europe (except perhaps Hungary!), and it will be more at the mercy of some large, ultra-powerful, superficially (they probably despise you as an old colonial power) friendly customers, such as China.

And that's what happens when you systematically and repeatedly abuse your most important customers; there's rarely anyway back, and you've likely lost them forever. These customers may still need to buy from you in the short term out of necessity, but their commitment to find alternative suppliers in the medium/long term is immutable. A valuable lesson for Russia, perhaps.

Wales is about 20,800 sq km, and the Kremlin (Moscow) wall encloses an area of about 275, 000 square metres, if that helps you decide on the area and the units of measurement that Russia is gaining every 10 days.

With such progress, perhaps they need to try a bit harder, or call it a day, and go home.

Let's hope Goldmoney's predictions are a bit better than the performance of its shares.
TSE:XAU was about 7.61 CAD in 2017, and is now about 1.52, a fall of about 80.0%.

And the "Alasdair has been a celebrated stockbroker . .." text is copied directly from their own website.

BUYSELLREPEAT - "@jotom and @easiwynns. I don't think you two know what you are talking about. You sound like you are told what to think by the BBC and Dailymail. So I won't even bother with you lot."

Every morning, without fail, the first thing I do is look at BBC News and view Dailymail.com to know what to think for the rest of the day - without them I'd be totally, tragically lost, my thoughts swirling and shifting in a chaotic and wholly confused manner.

You're so very lucky that you think the war will be over by September (next month), but I need to wait to be informed by the BBC or DailyMail before even daring to think such a fanciful thought.

... But Zelensky also said earlier that he wants the war over by September ..."

He also said before winter, but didn't mean surrendering to Russia, rather encouraging those who support Ukraine to help drive out the illegal invaders by then. I can't fathom out how people can't understand something so simple, unless they deliberately misconstrue what is being said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan throws Turkey’s support behind Ukraine and warns of the danger of “another Chernobyl” disaster erupting at a nuclear power plant held by invading Russian forces.

“While continuing our efforts to find a solution [to the conflict], we remain on the side of our Ukraine friends,” Erdogan says after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, adding: “We are worried. We don’t want another Chernobyl.”

Turkey's tricky balancing act, or the act of a double agent - who can tell.

".. have i lost my shares ..."

You certainly haven't lost your shares - HL will be on Evraz's share register, and your holding will be part of these holding.

Some Russian cars are now being produced without airbags, anti-lock brakes, stability control or seatbelt pretensioners. While some have speakers fitted but they are not connected to anything, being described as "multi-media" ready.

In 2019, deaths per 100,000 motor vehicles per year for the UK was 5.7, whereas it was 50 for Russia.

No airbags/anti-lock brakes/stability control/seatbelt pretensioners will result in even more Russian deaths and injuries - but that may not have been as a result of them being distracted by fiddling with the multi-media player.

A Russian company at the recent Army-2022 military convention in Moscow was displaying its new advanced technology, the M-81 robotic dog with a grenade rocket launcher on its back which could be remotely be fired? Scary stuff.

It was covered in a black Ninja-style fabric suit, presumably to hide the fact that it was thought to be a Chinese "home helper" robot that the Chinese manufacturer has since said is for civilian use only and can't carry much payload.

And even the Moscow Times reported what it actually was, adding it could be bought on AliExpress for $420 (a true competitor to Boston Dynamics' Spot, then). Let's hope all of Russia's other new military technology is this advanced.

"... Rus needs the leverage of cold weather and low gas stocks/blackouts, .."

Germany hit 75% gas storage capacity last Friday, ahead of schedule, and is aiming for 95% by the beginning of November.

Computershare are experts in this, so I imagine that Evraz wanted to encourage all who would like to move to certificated form to do so prior to the Computershare contract ending.

Evraz hasn't taken over the maintenance of the share register yet - see below from Evraz:

"On 18 July 2022 EVRAZ plc (the “EVRAZ” or the “Company”) informed the investment community that Computershare Investor Services PLC (“Computershare”) notified the Company of termination of registry and associated services on 19 August 2022 (“Termination Date”). After the Termination Date, the register will be maintained by EVRAZ."

Polymetal is a company registered in Jersey, and therefore it's registered office must be in Jersey. Similarly, UK registered companies must have a registered address only in the UK.

katenip - "Basic economics. Demand will remain inelastic until alternative streams of supply are available ... Inelastic means rigid, why is this difficult to understand?"

Apologies, thanks for the confirmation.

katenip - "Basic economics. Demand will remain inelastic until alternative streams of supply are available."

I thought that in relation to the price elasticity of demand "inelastic" meant that changes in prices (e.g. falls resulting from, say, increases in supply) had little or no effect on demand?
So how does an increase in supply that results in lower prices then result in its elasticity of demand changing?
Should it read "Basic economics. Prices will remain high until supply increases because demand is inelastic"?

MCATEE - "... took assets from people just for being Russian ..."

Not taken for being Russian, but taken for being suspected - and in many cases verifiably close - associates of Putin.
So simple in fact, I would have thought that even you could understand this.

"... you are reliant on your nominee making your details transparent to EVR ..."

That would probably be a breach of the UK/EU Data Protection Act.
Evraz would pay the nominee (the one on Evraz's share register) teh dividend, and the nominee would share out the dividend in proportion to each person's holding - there's no need for them to inform Evraz at all.

Why would Ukraine want the sanctions removed?
Surely they (and everyone in the west) need to ensure that Russia doesn't attempt something similar there or elsewhere for a generation or more, want to encourage Russia to compensate (at least to some degree) for the tens or hundreds of billions dollars of damage they've inflicted on Ukraine (not to mention Ukrainian deaths and suffering), and to have some leverage for handing over any war criminals from the 25,000+ or so cases being investigated by the Ukrainian police.
Or it may all be over by November when it starts getting a bit cold in Germany - as some here seem to be suggesting.

The best example of sanctions might be those that were placed on Russia immediately following their illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. As for when these were ended, they weren't, only materially enhanced following Russia illegal invasion of (more of) Ukraine.
One source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#:~:text=Overall%2C%20three%20types%20of%20sanctions,in%20the%20annexation%20of%20Crimea.