Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has said that in its long-term budget for 2028-2034, the European Union has planned EUR 100 billion to support Ukraine.

US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Alexus Grynkewich has announced that he has been ordered to transfer the Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine as soon as possible.

“Their speed of innovation and ability to recover are impressive. Our defense industry should pay attention to this and adapt,” US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg visited some Ukrainian defense companies and urged the USA to pay attention to Ukrainian innovations.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Baiba Braže has urged US President Donald Trump not to delay putting pressure on putin and to impose secondary sanctions on russia sooner than in 50 days.

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India is confident that it will be able to meet its oil needs from alternative sources if supplies from russia are affected by secondary sanctions, – said India’s Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. India will be able to cope with any problems related to imports from the rf and seeking supplies from other countries, he said. The Minister emphasized the emergence of many new suppliers in the market, such as Guyana, as well as the available supply from existing producers, including Brazil and Canada.

Lithuania intends to close the Mere retail chain shops because of its owners’ ties to russia.

447 fencers from 40 countries have signed an open letter calling on the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to refuse to simplify the procedure for allowing russians to participate in tournaments in neutral status.

The electric vehicle market in russia will shrink by 40 % by the end of the year.

The “Kvant” plant, one of the key suppliers of TV sets for russian brands, has not paid salaries to employees since December 2024. The total debt to staff has reached RUB 61 million.

As of July 11, russia’s international reserves amounted to $685.3 billion. As of July 4, international reserves were equal to $690.6 billion, so they decreased by $5.3 billion over the week.

For russians, life is literally no longer honey – due to bad weather, honey harvests may decrease by 20-30 % compared to last year. Therefore, this product in russia will increase in price by 5–7 %.

Every tenth employee of St. Petersburg plants is a migrant worker. In particular, 45.5 thousand foreigners were employed in the industry of St. Petersburg in 2024.

russian schoolchildren who insult teachers should be expelled from educational institutions. This was stated by Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Fadeev.

A draft law has been introduced in the state duma, according to which ninth–formers who have not passed the Unified State Exam will be able to receive free training in a working profession.

According to governor of Belgorod region Gladkov, armored vehicles, ATVs, and mopeds used to be purchased for the heads of border settlements. Now electric scooters will be bought for them.

The “communists of russia” party is going to address the government with a proposal to introduce an additional tax on cafes and restaurants that offer foreign cuisine. The party’s leader Malinkovich believes that the tax should not apply to all establishments, but only to those that serve food from countries that are opposed to russia. According to his idea, restaurants serving Italian, French, South Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and German cuisine should be “discredited” first. Besides, Malinkovich suggested discussing the possibility of taxing cafes serving Azerbaijani and Turkish dishes. He also stated that traditional russian cuisine is supposedly healthier and better absorbed by a russian body.

In the first six months of 2025, russian casinos received 943,607 visitors. This is by 1.7 % more than in the same period last year. In addition to good luck, russians started to believe more in magicians and fortune tellers. Thus, 43 % of respondents believe in foretellers, paranormalists and magicians. In 2024, russians spent as much as 2.4 trillion rubles (half of moscow’s budget) on various kinds of magicians, tarot cards, and fortune tellers.

Using the data from the russian border base, investigators found out which countries are most often visited by more than 70 well-known russian propagandists and top managers of pro-government media. The top countries are France (“Channel One” propagandist Anatoly Kuzichev, “Channel One” First Deputy Director General Aleksandr Faifman, REN TV Deputy Director General Sergey Burigin, and others), Spain (top manager of Gazprom Media Holding Mikhail Demin, deputy head of the creative and production association of “Rossiya-1” TV channel Svetlana Anokhina, chief cameraman of RT Aleksey Dementiev, and others), Italy (head of Gazprom-Media Holding Aleksandr Zharov, CEO of “Krasny Kvadrat” media group Ilya Krivitsky, deputy CEO of Channel 5 Marina Belova, and others).

Minsk “takes into consideration” Warsaw’s statements “accusing belarus of involvement in the incidents at the border”, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the rb. “Attempts to shift the responsibility for the migration crisis in the EU to belarus are misleading and unproductive,” the statement said. Since the beginning of 2025, border services of EU countries neighboring belarus have prevented 24.3 thousand attempts by migrants to illegally cross the border from belarusian territory (including 16.3 thousand attempts prevented by Poland).

lukashenko expressed gratitude for the assistance during the “presidential elections” of 2025 when receiving the head of the Federation of Trade Unions of the rb with a report. After the events of 2020, belarusian authorities crushed the independent trade union movement. In April 2022, a wave of searches and detentions of activists swept across the country. A number of trade union leaders are still behind bars. Human rights activists have recognized representatives of independent trade unions who have come under repression as political prisoners.

About 560 thousand rubles will be allocated from the belarusian budget to support gifted pupils and students. Scholarships will be awarded to 185 university students. Among others, the list includes Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lukashenko, a third-year student of the Belarusian State University, the “gifted” youngest son of the dictator of belarus.