"Let's keep Europe warm!" - Lukashenko chopping wood with concern for neighbors

The most unexpected and resonant news of the day. Being aware of the forthcoming intense international agenda of the head of state, we did not expect any bright events today. But we were wrong. It was either a joke or trolling from the President that broke into the information top Wednesday and literally, as they say, "broke the Internet". On his way to the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the President stopped for half a day in his native village and used the chance to do some physical labor. This morning he was chopping wood, as is his habit. And not just for fun, but with a sense of purpose, worrying about freezing Europeans.

500, 400, 300 % appreciation is not even the ceiling price for Europe. After all, the spot market on which the entire EU energy system sits operates like a stock exchange. This is not according to the rules of long-term contracts: "We negotiate, set a price and take it. On the market, what costs $200 today could be three times as expensive tomorrow. The European energy system came to this style of purchasing only 18 years ago, not too long ago, for political reasons, which, in the long run, led to Europeans returning to the wood-fired classic.