At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which started on Wednesday, there will not be a single serious Western investor, according to the program published on the forum's website. Of the Russian billionaires, only six people were announced at the event. Earlier, Washington called for a boycott of the event. Details.

Investigation of how the Chekists privatized the national treasure ** Mikhail Maglov, Roman Badanin, Maria singers The team of Alexei Navalny × , Dmitry Sukharev, with the participation of Ivan Vasiliev **, June 16, 2022 For more than 15 years, a group of officers of the Russian special services has been performing secret business companies: from the division of Yukos property to the acquisition of shares in the most promising assets of Gazprom.

Attempts by Western countries and companies to deprive the Kremlin of oil revenues after the start of the war in Ukraine have not yet led to the desired result. On the contrary, in May, revenues from the sale of Russian oil increased by 11% compared to April and reached $20 billion, according to the International Energy Agency. Russia received the same amount from oil exports in January of this year. Details. Oil revenues were affected by rising global fuel prices.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck called Gazprom's decision to cut gas through the Nord Stream pipeline "politically motivated". Details. “I have the impression that what happened yesterday is a political decision, and not a decision that can be justified from a technical point of view,” Habek commented on the reduction in supplies. On Tuesday, Germany received 40% less gas, and on Wednesday this figure reached 60%.

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Washington has increased support for VPN services that could allow Russians to bypass internet censorship. About it writes Reuters, citing five informed sources. Details. According to the agency, the White House supports three companies that provide services to Russian users - nthLink, Psiphon and Lantern. Funding for these services has grown significantly in 2022.

Igor Denisov, a former Zenit, Dynamo and Lokomotiv football player and ex-captain of the Russian national football team, supported the removal of Russian athletes from international competitions due to the invasion of Ukraine. He said this in an interview with journalist Nobel Arustamyan. Quote. “I think it's right. This is my opinion, you, I, we are all involved in what is happening. We, I would like to believe, choose power, and all this is happening.

The head of VTB Andrey Kostin said that the Russian banking sector is already "to a certain extent" isolated from the world market and is unlikely to be able to return to it "within the next five years at least." Details. In an interview with Kommersant, the banker said that sanctions would now become a new form of existence for Russian business as a whole.

Cyber ​​attacks on the supply line of the Russian army in Belarus since January of this year have been organized by a group of 60 Belarusian hackers. This was told to Bloomberg by one of the hackers of the Cyber ​​Partisans group. Details. The hacker agreed to give a video interview to the agency, but on the condition that his face would not be shown and his voice would be distorted.

Russia continues to encircle Ukrainian forces in Severodonetsk, the Ministry of Defense demands that the Ukrainian defenders of Azot surrender, and in the Kherson region, on the contrary, the initiative belongs to the Ukrainian army, which counterattacks. Fights for the territory of "Azot" and the ultimatum of the Ministry of Defense. After more than a month of fierce fighting, most of Severodonetsk came under the control of Russian forces, writes British intelligence .

The war in Ukraine has reached a critical stage, and in the near future there will be a moment when one of the parties will succeed, which will determine the outcome of the conflict, CNN writes, citing senior NATO and Western intelligence sources. Details : The interlocutors of the publication see three possible scenarios for the further development of events in Ukraine: Russia will continue to make progress in two key eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng has been appointed deputy head of the State Administration of Broadcasting and Television of the People's Republic of China, the reported People's Daily of China . This means that a high-ranking diplomat known for his pro-Russian stance has dropped out of the list of contenders for the post of head of the foreign minister, reports Bloomberg .