January 12, 2023 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau have declared their readiness to defend common values, including support for Ukraine in the confrontation with russia.

Minister of National Defence of Canada Anita Anand has announced that Ottawa will buy NASAMS air defense complex from the United States and transfer it to Ukraine.

Poland will hand over to Ukraine a company of Leopard 2 tanks.

Marie-Agnes Strak-Zimmerman, Head of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag, believes that it would be worthwhile to start teaching the Ukrainian military to use Leopard tanks in advance.

The Government of the United Kingdom for the first time confirmed that it plans to provide Ukraine with tanks.

Norway has donated more than 100 generators to Ukrainian border guards. Ukraine also received from Norway 10 bridges that will be installed in the liberated territories.

All Ukrainian NPPs are preparing for IAEA permanent monitoring missions’ deployment at them.

Estonia notified the eussian ambassador of the decision, according to which russia should reduce the number of staff of the embassy in Tallinn by almost half by February 1, 2023.

Sweden, after the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression, has significantly increased the provision of material, humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine, the amount of which has already exceeded 900 million euros.

Lithuania will strengthen Ukraine's air defense with L70 anti-aircraft guns. The guns will arrive soon along with ammunition for them.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis has called for providing Ukraine with ATACMS long-range missiles and Leopard tanks.

The Warsaw underground railway will transfer 60 carriages to Kyiv.

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At the end of 2022, the expenditures of the russian budget increased from the planned 23.69 trillion rubles to 31.11 trillion rubles. The government of the rf classified information about what exactly the additional 7.42 trillion rubles were spent on.

putin submitted to the state duma a bill to denounce the Convention on Criminal Liability for Corruption. As stated in the explanatory note, this is “due to russia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe”. At the same time, starting in 2023, russian officials are allowed not to publish their income declarations.

According to the results of 2022, the volume of overdue bank debts put up for online auctions of the rf for sale amounted to 219 billion rubles, which is almost by 60% more than in 2021.

At the end of last year, the total area of new buildings being built in moscow region amounted to 8.3 million square meters, which is by 13.5% less than in 2021; in st. petersburg – 7.9 million square meters, which is by 16% less. These two regions are among the five largest regional housing markets, in which 47% of all housing in russia is built.

According to the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), the introduced price ceiling for russian oil leads to the rf’s daily losses in the amount of $172 million. In February, after restrictions are spread not just to oil, but also petroleum products, the amount of losses may double.

In 2022, passenger cars in the rf were produced only by the avtovaz plant, the Chinese Haval and moskvich, which at the end of November began to assemble Chinese JACs with the emblem – “moskvich” at the facilities of the former Renault plant.

In January, the average vacation cost in Egypt for russians increased by 40%compared to December last year; tour operators also canceled all the traditional post- new year sales. The average cost of flight from moscow to Egypt went up by 54%.

In the pharmacies of the rf there is almost no hormonal agent “tamoxifen”, which is used for treatment of cancer.

On January 11, roszdravnadzor announced a high probability of delays in the supply of many types of medicines to pharmacies in the country. On the same day, minister of health care of the rf murashko stated that russia sent medicines worth 7.5 billion rubles to the new temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

The Swedish company IKEA has announced that it will sell its factories in russia by July 2023.

Telecommunications market experts have warned the russians about the deterioration of mobile communications, as it has become difficult to import high-tech equipment due to international sanctions.

According to belstat, inflation in belarus from December 2021 to December 2022 was 12.8%, although it was planned at 6%. Food products became most noticeably more expansive - by 13.8%. The prices of non-food products have risen by 13.7%, and paid services – by 10%. During the year, sugar has become most expansive, consumer price index (CPI) increased by 50.17%. The CPI for citrus fruits has grown by 47.03%, for shampoo – by 42.99%, for engine oil – by 41.44%, for deodorants – by 39.12%, for diapers and hygienic bags – by 37.92%, for car detergents - by 37.5%. In total, consumer price indices had increased by 500 positions over the last year.