In Riga, artists and amateurs create mosaics from Muranian smalt based on paintings by Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko (1908–1997), whose house was destroyed by Russian troops on the second day of the war. This charity project is called an "open workshop". Its initiator, mosaic artist and head of the Mosaic Art Studio in Riga studio Vadim Vernik hopes thus "at least a little praise" a wound in the soul of the Ukrainian people, inflicted by the Russian rocket.

Eleanor Mitrofanov The Ambassador of Russia to Bulgaria Eleanor Mitrofanova said on Friday that she would raise the issue of closing the embassy in Sofia before the Russian leadership - after the decision of the Bulgarian authorities about the expulsion of 70 Russian diplomats and dimensions. The deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Grushko, in an interview with journalists in Moscow on Friday, called the situation with the functioning of the embassy in Bulgaria seriously.

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