Skoltech and the Radio Research Institute (FSBI NIIR) are preparing a joint project to develop domestic 6G communication equipment. According to Kommersant, citing a source, they are requesting more than 30 billion rubles from the budget for these purposes. According to him, it is assumed that the equipment under the project can be created by 2025.

What the Black Sea grain deal means for Ukraine, Russia, and the wider world Dmytro Smolyenko / Ukrinform / SIPA / Scanpix / LETA A wheat field on fire in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region following Russian shelling. July 17, 2022. On July 22, Ukraine and Russia signed agreements with Turkey and the United Nations designed to restore the export of grain from Ukrainian ports. The deal stipulates that Kyiv can export grain from the Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Yuzhne ports on the Black Sea.

Former UK Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who are running for the Conservative Party leadership, held a debate on Talk TV on the evening of July 26. The debate was planned to last about an hour, but about half an hour after the start, they had to be stopped, as the host, Kate McCann, fainted. The moment when McCann lost consciousness was not captured in the frame - the camera was directed to Truss, who spoke about the war in Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him about his desire to cooperate with Baykar, the manufacturer of Bayraktar drones. According to CNN Turk, Erdogan made such a statement at a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the party. According to Erdogan, the United Arab Emirates also showed interest in Bayraktar, offering to build a plant for the production of drones on its territory.

In colony No. 19 in the city of Krasny Luch, located in the territory controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed LPR, there are at least 14 Russian soldiers who have decided to stop fighting and resign from the army.

The International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for global GDP growth for the second time this year due to the war in Ukraine and high inflation - from 3.6% to 3.2%. At the same time, the fund improved its estimate of the decline in the Russian economy in 2022 - from 8.5% to 6%, but increased the level of the expected decline in Russia's GDP in 2023 from 2.3% to 3.5%.

From August 30 to September 5, the strategic command and staff exercise Vostok-2022 will be held in the Eastern Military District, the Russian Defense Ministry announced. The exercise will be led by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, "military contingents of other states" will take part in the maneuvers. During the exercise, questions will be worked out on the use of groupings of troops (forces) in ensuring military security in the Eastern Region.

Katrin Nenasheva on trying to build a safe environment for forcibly deported Ukrainian children Natalia Budantseva Katrin Nenasheva Over the last seven years, Russian artist and activist Katrin Nenasheva has accomplished an impressive amount: in addition to her numerous public protest pieces, she founded PsychoActive, a support group for people living with mental illness, as well as Teens and Cats, a similar group for teenagers.

Exchange gas prices in Europe continued to grow due to a reduction in supplies via Nord Stream 1. On the evening of July 26, on the ICE stock exchange, August gas futures were trading at $2,244 per thousand cubic meters. A day earlier, trading closed at $1,852 per thousand cubic meters. As RBC notes , the exchange price for gas rose above the $2,200 mark the previous time on European trading floors on March 9, 2022.

Novosibirsk opposition politician Helga Pirogova on openly supporting Ukraine and being forced to flee Russia Rostislav Netisov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA In mid-June, Helga Pirogova, an opposition municipal councillor from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, wrote a critical tweet in response to a news article about Russian volunteer soldiers killed in Ukraine. Pirogova had been openly supporting Ukraine for months, but apparently this comment was the final straw.

Employees of the Moscow office of Sokhnut, which helps the repatriation of Jews to Israel, complained about wiretapping by Russian special services. It is reported by The Jerusalem Post.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Once in international isolation, Russia began rapprochement with Iran and Turkey. That is, Putin nevertheless found allies for the fight against the West? On July 19, Vladimir Putin visited Tehran. There was a summit of countries - the guarantors of the Syrian settlement: Russia, Iran and Turkey. For Putin, this is the first visit to Ukraine after the outbreak of war in Ukraine outside the countries of the former USSR.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia proposes to refuse to disclose data on the founders of companies in the form of limited liability companies (LLC) in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRLE). Interfax writes about this, citing a source familiar with the initiative of the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance proposes to transfer accounting for shares in LLC to registrars.

WSJ told the details of the megaproject in Saudi Arabia - a mirror city of two skyscrapers 120 kilometers long Neom / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad ibn Salman in the fall of 2017 announced a megaproject called Neom, which is designed to diversify the economy of the kingdom dependent on oil.

Yuri Borisov, who was appointed head of Roskosmos on July 15, said that Russia would withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024, Interfax reports . “Of course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision and the withdrawal from this station after 2024 have been made,” Borisov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I think that by this time we will begin to form the Russian orbital station,” Borisov said.