In the first week after the introduction of the price ceiling for Russian oil, its exports fell by 54%, Bloomberg reports, citing its own calculations based on data on the movement of tankers. According to the agency, exports fell by almost 1.86 million bpd over the week to 1.6 million bpd. Part of the drop was due to maintenance work at the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, but traffic volumes also fell at other ports.

Ukraine has become the country of the year according to the British edition of The Economist. The editors of the publication said that it is usually not easy to choose the country of the year, but this year for the first time since the establishment of this title, "the choice is obvious", and "it can only be Ukraine." “This honor usually goes to the country that, in our opinion, has made the most improvement in the previous 12 months.

An up-close look at the devastation wrought by the Russian army in Ukraine’s Kherson and Kharkiv regions This fall, the Ukrainian military succeeded in liberating the country’s Kharkiv and Kherson regions from the occupying Russian forces.

Tomas Cuesta / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on December 20 in the capital of Argentina Buenos Aires met a national football team returning from Qatar, where the World Cup was held. Argentina won the World Cup - for the first time in 36 years. The day of returning the national team in the country was declared a weekend, and more than four million people went to the streets of Buenos Aires to welcome football players.

A working group for interaction between authorities and organizations on issues of mobilization, social support for combatants and their families has been created in Russia. The corresponding order of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published on the official legal information portal. The group was headed by First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Andrei Turchak.

The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, commented on the information that Vladimir Putin allegedly visited the combat zone for the first time. On December 20, State Duma deputy from United Russia, retired lieutenant general Andrei Gurulev posted a fragment of Vladimir Solovyov's program "Full Contact" on his Telegram channel.

The State Duma has passed in first reading a draft of the amendments to the law on “ Countering Extremist Activity .” The projected amendments specify that “cartographic and other documents and images meant for dissemination and public demonstration and disputing Russia’s territorial integrity” will be classified as extremist materials.

She spent hundreds of thousands of euros on vacation, jewelry and outfits. And her bills were paid by firms related to construction sites in Mariupol Compositions of the opposition policy Alexei Navalny issued a new investigation . It is dedicated to the lifestyle of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov, who oversees the department of construction, and his family.

We talked with her executive director Svetlana Astrakantseva ITAR-TASS/ Mikhail Fomichev Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseev during a conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the ICG. Moscow, May 12, 2016 The Ministry of Justice of Russia filed a lawsuit against the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG) - the oldest of the current human rights organizations of Russia.

Its issuing is one of the conditions for Sweden entry into NATO Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Turkish journalist Bulet Kenesh, who fled to Sweden due to conflict with the Turkish authorities. Stockholm, November 10, 2022 After the start of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, neutral Sweden and Finland decided to join NATO.

Deputies of the State Duma in the first reading adopted amendments to the law "On counteracting extremist activity" . According to the draft law , "cartographic and other documents and images intended for distribution and public demonstration that dispute the territorial integrity of Russia" will be additionally classified as extremist materials. Violation will face administrative liability: for individuals - arrest for up to 15 days, for legal entities - a fine of up to one million rubles.

Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On Tuesday, December 19, the ruble fell sharply at auction on the Moscow Exchange: for the first time since May, the dollar rose above 69 rubles, and the euro above 74. The Russian currency was stable for a long time - just above 60 rubles per dollar, but over the past month the euro has risen by almost ten rubles and the dollar - almost eight.

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who is currently serving a nine-year sentence at Correctional Colony No. 6 in Russia’s Vladimir region, reported Tuesday that a prisoner with poor hygiene was put in his cell for the second time , presumably as a way to punish Navalny himself. Navalny wrote on Instagram : Remember when I wrote about the poor guy who was made out to be a malicious offender just so they could stick him in my punitive isolation cell and make my life more difficult?

The authors of the bestseller "Summer in the Pioneer Tie"-in Yetyub show Galina Yuzefovich The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich published a new release of her Utuub show, who did not go out for several months. His heroines were writers Katerina Silvanova and Elena Malisova, authors of the Bestseller novel “Summer in the Pioneer Tie”, describing the romantic relationship of the pioneer and counselor.

The “Twin Hearts” installation, celebrating St. Petersburg’s “brotherhood” with Mariupol, the Ukrainian city razed to the ground by the Russian military, has been returned to the Palace Square in St. Petersburg. Earlier, the decorative display was removed, after a local teenager scrawled a message of protest across the installation. “Murderers, you bombed it to rubble. Judases,” the high-school senior wrote in black paint. The display was promptly dismantled for cleaning.