June 16, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

US President Donald Trump has told putin that russia’s war against Ukraine “must end”.

Ukraine will be one of the priority topics at the G7 Summit in Canada.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has handed over 22 special vehicles to the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.

Germany has donated special equipment to the Beryslav community in Kherson region.

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In the first five months of this year, revenues to the federal budget of the rf from oil and gas sales decreased by 14.4 %. In May, the decline in russia’s oil and gas revenues accelerated: in January-April, it amounted to 10.3 %. The main reason for the decline is low hydrocarbon prices: while in 2024 the average price of a barrel was above $80, in 2025 the barrel mainly fluctuates in the range of $65-$70.

The increase in utility and housing tariffs in russia since July 1 by almost 12 % is due to higher prices for metal, equipment, fuel and services for resource supply organizations, high degree of wear and tear on networks, and a personnel crisis in the utility and housing sector: salaries in the industry are by 30 % lower than the average in the rf, which requires an increase in personnel costs and annual indexation to inflation. Therefore, for some regions, tariffs will reach not even the announced 21 %, but much higher: the Perm Krai – 25.3 %, Arkhangelsk region – 24.8 %, Chelyabinsk region – 22.8 %, Republic of Mordovia – 22.8 %, Kemerovo region – 21.9 %, North Ossetia-Alania – 21.4 %.

There are more than 10 million debtors in russia: in the first five months of this year, they paid 51.9 billion rubles in debts, of which only 675.5 million rubles are alimony payments. So now they are complaining that they cannot fly abroad this summer because of the debt proceedings against them.

The debts of russians in car loans increased by 14 billion rubles, from 79 to 93 billion rubles, and their share increased by 0.5 % over three months (by 3.6 % as of April 1).

Not surviving: as of April 1, 2025, the number of pensioners in russia was 40.961 million people. As of January 1, their number exceeded 41.169 million, which is by 208 thousand more. 33 million pensioners do not work. The share of pensioners is over 28 % of the population of the rf.

Controlling not only people but also bees: the rosselkhoznadzor has obliged apiary owners to register their bee colonies and enter them into the accounting system by September 1. Each bee colony that occupies one hive in an apiary is subject to registration. The hives themselves should be marked with tags or chips with information about the bee family and its owner. Professionals explain the actions of the rosselkhoznadzor as a desire to control everything: “But the bee has been living on the earth for several million years, and it cares nothing for the wishes of domestic agencies. “

Free education in russian schools for children of migrants should be canceled, and even the number of attempts to pass the russian language test should be limited, said the chairman of the state duma committee on labor, social policy and veterans’ affairs nilov.

putin has said that naivety and willingness to trust everyone is a feature of russian people, and he is sorry about this.

Former flight attendant maria makhmutova, who posted a video on Instagram criticizing russia’s day, was detained in Irkutsk region. She called the holiday a “circus of freaks” and the participants in the war against Ukraine – murderers, and said that their children would “suffer”. “What are you proud of? That you are living – eating your last s**t without salt? That you have to kill people to buy cars, flats... and that you drink like for the last time,” makhmutova said. After that, she was denounced for “extremism and incitement to hatred”.

Due to Western sanctions and debt obligations, belarus’ largest pellet plant has suspended production several times and now has to be happy only with domestic supplies.

The ministry of antimonopoly regulation and trade of the rb has ordered business entities to stop selling non-alcoholic beer online.

Residents of Gomel are offered to feel nostalgic for the late ussr, while watching at street screenings in gromyko square propaganda soviet films such as “Timur and His Team”.