Smoke from the fires has also left an estimated 22 million Americans under air quality alerts this weekend.
Russian gas is still piped to Europe in increasing quantities via Turkey: CREA's data shows that its volume rose by 26.77% in January and February 2025 over the same period in 2024.Hungary and Slovakia are also still receiving Russian pipeline gas via Turkey.
Despite the West's efforts, in 2024 Russian revenues from fossil fuels fell by a mere 5% compared with 2023, along with a similar 6% drop in the volumes of exports,. Last year also saw a 6% increase in Russian revenues from crude oil exports, and a 9% year-on-year increase in revenues from pipeline gas.Russian estimates say gas exports to Europe
in 2024, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports reaching record levels. Currently, half of Russia's LNG exports go the EU, CREA says.The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, says the alliance has not imposed "the strongest sanctions" on Russian oil and gas because some member states fear an escalation in the conflict and because buying them is "cheaper in the short term".
LNG imports have not been included in the latest, 17th package of sanctions on Russia approved by the EU, but
towards ending all Russian gas imports by the end of 2027."I certainly wasn't expecting a shrine to be erected, and maintained for 20 years after. On one hand, it's a bit bonkers, but on the other it's a monument to the impact Ianto, and his relationship with Jack, had on the queer community, and one that I'm really proud of."
He added: "I remember being moved to tears quite a number of times by fans saying how Ianto's relationship with Jack has helped them."Sci-fi, certainly for me when I was younger, was always about escaping to a better place, a better world where technology is evolved, politics is evolved, people are evolved.
"I think if accepting people's identities, who they are, is part of that better world, then that could be quite powerful."A museum store room may have been lost to a fire had its alarm not been working, a fire service said.