The American holding PPG Industries and the Finnish manufacturer of paints and varnishes Tikkurila, which is part of it, are curtailing their business in Russia due to the war in Ukraine. “We are currently producing a minimum volume of sales [in Russia] sufficient to generate the required amount of local currency to pay our employees,” the Tikkurila website said in a statement.

Release of famous Ukrainian paramedic Yulia Paevska leaves pro-Kremlin blogosphere confused Yulia Paevska’s Facebook page On the evening of June 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian paramedic Yulia “Taira” Paevska had been released from Russian captivity. Paevska has long been hailed as a hero in Ukraine, known for saving hundreds of lives as a volunteer medic in the Donbas.

The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the creation of a national application store. As conceived by officials, it will be mandatory pre-installed on gadgets.

Interview of the "Methodologist" of Peter Shchedrovitsky Mikhail Zygarya - about the war, the "Russian world" and the discrepancy in views with Sergey Kiriyenko Ostwest In early June, Medusa told the story of “methodologists”, a movement that formulated the idea of ​​the “Russian world”. It - already in a changed form - was picked up by their followers, who were responsible for the creation of a new state ideology during the invasion of Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden has urged Congress to suspend the nation's federal fuel tax for three months due to skyrocketing gasoline prices. The head of state also asked the states to cancel their fuel taxes and provide any other additional support to the Americans. The White House press release says that the price of gasoline in the country has risen by almost 40% and reached about five dollars per gallon (3.785 liters).

In Russia’s capital, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin tries to distance himself — and his city — from the war against Ukraine Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has precious little to say about Russia’s war against Ukraine. Over the past four months of the full-scale invasion, he has hardly made any public statements about the progress and consequences of the so-called “special operation.” Meanwhile, his counterparts in other regions (like St.

The Azovstal metallurgical plant, destroyed as a result of a long siege in Mariupol, will continue its work in a different capacity in the future, announced the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, Marat Khusnullin. “This zone can continue to work as an industrial park or a place of rest, but of course not as a metallurgical complex,” he wrote in his telegram channel. In an interview with Russia 24, he also spoke about the prospects for the restoration of Mariupol.

In the largest parliamentary party in Italy, there was a split due to the supply of weapons to Kyiv Cosimo Martemucci / Sopa Images / Lightroquet / Getty images Giuseppe Comte and Luigi di Mayo In the largest party in Italy, the “Movement of the Five Stars”, which is part of the ruling coalition, on June 21 there was a split directly related to the question of the supply of weapons to Ukraine (at least in words).

The font of the campaign in support of Ukraine, developed by Kyiv designers by Oles Gergun and Evgeny Anfalov, was used to design the DPR area near the US Embassy in Moscow. According to Mediazona , Gergaun himself drew attention to this. “Ruzzic fascists used our KTF Jermilov for their dull propaganda without moral and legal rights to this,” he wrote to Storis Instagram.

The US authorities refused to accept a special aircraft for the removal of Russian diplomats and their families who were ordered to leave American territory, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “Washington marked yet another step hostile to our country,” she said in a comment on the Foreign Ministry website.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the temporary procedure for fulfilling obligations on Russia's external debt in foreign currency. According to the document, obligations on government Eurobonds will be recognized as fulfilled after payment in rubles at the rate on the domestic market on the day of payment. The government must within ten days choose the banks that will attract for payments to holders of government bonds.

The UK denied visas to members of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) due to the fact that they are all on the country's sanctions list.

The international peer-reviewed scientific journal Vaccines published a study on the EpiVacCorona vaccine conducted by American biologist Olga Matveeva and Meduza science journalist Alexander Ershov. At the end of January, the results of this study were described in an article on Meduza and in a separate manuscript ; now the study has undergone a full scientific peer review and has been accepted for publication.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Russia and Ukraine finally switched to the war for exhaustion. At the same time, one lacks soldiers, the other - weapons. It is already clear what the outcome will be? The offensive of Russian troops in Lisichansk from the south is being successfully advanced, the institute of war studies based in Washington said in Washington.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has declared St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested for an anti-war action under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army, a prisoner of conscience . Human rights activists demanded that the criminal prosecution of Skochilenko be stopped and that the “repressive” Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation be repealed.