Notes today:

  

Why is this regime still a member of the United Nations "Security" council with veto rights?

 

• AP: Lithuania says it has cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia, apparently becoming the first of the European Union's 27 nations using Russian gas to break dependence from Moscow. In 2015, it was almost entirely dependent on Russian gas imports.

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  It is high time, for ALL Europeans to stop all oil and gas purchases from Russia.