Daily Memo: Russia and Japan Spar Over Energy

Meanwhile, Germany recorded its first monthly trade deficit in decades.

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Japan pushes back. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned on Sunday that the price cap for Russian oil, agreed at the latest G-7 summit, would be about half of current prices. The deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council responded on Tuesday that Japan would not get any oil or gas from Russia, nor would it […]

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