December 26, 2023 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Ukraine has received $1.34 billion as the sixth additional financing to partially compensate for Ukraine’s state budget expenditures within the framework of the World Bank's Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance (PEACE in Ukraine) project.

James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, has made a holiday appeal for more assistance to Ukraine. He pointed out that he was concerned about the situation and called Ukraine’s cause a just one.

Latvia has sent a total of 271 cars confiscated from drunk drivers to Ukraine, the total value of the cars is almost EUR 1 million.

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Due to US sanctions, foreign shareholders of the russian gas project arctic lng-2 – the French company TotalEnergies, the Chinese CNPC and CNOOC and the consortium of Japanese Mitsui and JOGMEC – have suspended their participation in this project. Such a collective decision may result in arctic lng-2 losing long-term contracts for the export of liquefied natural gas, and the russian company Novatek losing all investors.

More than $ 3 billion investments of russians in foreign securities have been frozen under the sanctions imposed by the United States on November 2 against the st. petersburg stock exchange.

Nabiullina, the head of the central bank of the rf, has said that the freezing of the assets of private russian investors is a “very sore subject”. She also stressed that the disconnection of the russian banking system from the international SWIFT and the freezing of russian assets have become the most painful problems for the rf.

Politico has named nabiullina “destroyer of the year”.

At the moscow stock exchange, the selling rate of one euro against the ruble has exceeded 102 rubles for the first time since October 20.

According to the professional services “aktion meditsina” and “vrachi.rf”, 26% of russian doctors (mostly physicians and anesthesiologists-resuscitators) chronically work long hours, which is why they want to leave medicine: excessive workload leads to professional burnout, psycho-emotional and physical fatigue. 75% of russian doctors and nurses have to work more than one rate.

The russian national welfare fund has run out of reserved money (300 billion rubles) for the purchase of aircrafts from foreign lessors.

Over the year, accommodation in russian hotels has risen in price by 14-20%, depending on the region.

Cleaning companies of the rf have announced an increase in the cost of their services by 25% at the beginning of 2024.

Due to the constant mobilization of prisoners for the war against Ukraine, putin postponed the start of the state system of legal statistics from 2024 to 2027. Previously, they planned to begin the accounting on January 1, 2023, then it was postponed to January 1, 2024.

In the russian city of murmansk, the only nuclear container ship in the aggressor country, the sevmorput, built back in 1988, caught fire.

russia's largest network of rolf car dealerships, on putin's instructions, has been transferred to temporary state management.

In March 2024, belarusian officials are scheduled to update the database of dependents. Citizens of belarus who do not document that they work by January 21, 2024, will be included in the “parasites” database. They will pay five times more for gas, heating and hot water in their own homes.

According to the ministry of agriculture and food of belarus, the grain harvest (corn included) gathered in 2023, is by 9.3% less than in 2022.