October 10, 2022 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Bills have been submitted to the US Congress to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and to recognize russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide.

Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nagy has announced the provision of two Zuzana 2 self-propelled gun howitzer to Ukraine.

Germany has prepared an assistance package for Ukraine worth 11 million euros – warm uniforms, tents and equipment for combat operations in winter.

The EU will deploy two operational headquarters in Poland and Germany to organize a training mission for the Ukrainian military.

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In the 2023 budget, the russian government laid expenses in the amount of 29.055 trillion rubles for the income of 26.13 trillion rubles. The deficit will be 2.925 trillion rubles, or 10% of the budget.

There are not enough doctors in russia. After the start of mobilization, the number of announcements with job offers for doctors, medical staff, pharmacists increased 2.5 times compared to the average summer months. Medical institutions say that the problem is not only the lack of the required number of medical workers, but above all – the highly qualified and experienced doctors’ leaving the rf en masse, which will take years to replace them.

The russians’ demand for psychologists, according to the online service for finding professionals from January to September increased by 11 %.

“The third chechen war is getting closer. We thank the putin administration, which turned chechens into the highest caste of the rf, enjoying impunity”, said aleksandr lapin, colonel-general of rosarmia, in response to kadyrov's accusations of having lost the occupied Ukrainian Lyman.

Moldova has strengthened control of the state border to prevent people from russia from entering with “evil intentions”, said President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Igor Grosu.

Finnish cryptocurrency exchange LocalBitcoins has notified russian citizens of the suspension of service due to European sanctions against russia.

Bonava, a Swedish developer of housing and one of the leaders in this segment in Northern Europe, has announced it has sold its business in russia.

In belarus, the first criminal cases were opened for exceeding prices. Stores raised prices too high compared to October 6. The department of financial investigations of the state control committee informs that in one of the cases on sale there were four types of sausages with an unreasonably inflated price. The difference reached almost two rubles.

In September, the trend of behavior of the population of belarus suddenly changed. They bought 114.1 million dollars (equivalent) more than sold. According to experts, against the background of high inflation all year round, belarusians were pure sellers of foreign currency. For example, in August they sold 54.6 million dollars more than bought. This meant that the population was eating its foreign exchange reserves. In total, since the beginning of the year, belarusians have sold $ 385 million more than they bought.