The logo of the audit and consulting company Ernst & Young (EY) on the top floor of a high-rise building in the spastrayek area on Friedrichstrasse, Berlin Soeren stache / Zb / Global Look Press When foreign firms began to massively leave the Russian market in the spring of 2022, the Russians were surprised twice. At first from surprise, and after some time - already from the number of representatives of international business who announced the departure.

In the week, peaceful negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine finally went beyond the short -term planning horizon, and the Russian establishment, meanwhile, enthusiastically practiced in warlike rhetoric.

The summer of 1990, I am incomplete thirteen years old, my mother and I have been going on the Moscow -Vladivostok train, visit her relatives in Transbaikalia - “from Europe”, as our lands call it. There, on the Chinese border, the older brother, a graduate of the "elite" military school, serves. The guide of the train-under my disapproving look-chastely, in advance, flirts with my mother, brings tea and jokes. Where there!

Ministry of Finance of Russia. Photo: Global look Press On the night of Sunday to Monday, a monthly preferential period has expired, during which Russia was supposed to pay $ 100 million for two releases of its Eurobonds. According to Bloomberg, this is the first default of Russia for external obligations, which the country made more than a hundred years - in 1918 the Bolsheviks refused to pay royal debts.

Ukraine is a candidate for joining the EU, now officially, and Moldova too. This evening of June 23 announced the chairman of the European Council Charles Michelle, calling this decision historical. In accordance with the requirements of the regulations, the leaders of all 27 countries voted for him.

Dad would not have experienced it. Russia was a house for him: every morning he got up at about seven in the morning and went into the forest, wrote notes, walked, breathed, lay under the trees. Probably remembered something. For example, about how he and his brother Sasha rode a boat and collected bulls near the railway tracks, then to smoke behind the garages.

The ban on transit transportation in the Kaliningrad region of sanctions cargo announced by Lithuania quite expectedly caused a stream of formidable statements by Russian chiefs. Thus, the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev promised that Moscow will soon respond to the decision of Vilnius to declare the transport blockade of the Kaliningrad region and residents of Lithuania will seriously feel the consequences of these measures.

Tatyana and Valentin Yumashevs, 2017 Komsomolskaya Pravda / Global Look Press The Elcin-Center became interested in the Ekaterinburne “Yeltsin-Center”-does this mean that the clouds of the Kremlin’s main confidenter, the Clouds thickened over the founder of the museum, Valentin Yumashev, Kremlin’s son-in-law?

Sofya Sapga asked President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for pardon. About this writes the "Russian BBC service". The Russian woman is serving a six-year term in IK-4 in Gomel for maintaining the opposition telegram channel “Black Book of Belarus”. Sophia Sapga Photo: social networks In the appeal to Lukashenko, Sofya Sapega asks to free her or replace a six -year term with a milder punishment.

The key point in the Chinese strategy of Blinken, published a month ago personally by the US Secretary of State, is to contain the technological development of the PRC. But in order to ensure the electoral technological blockade of the Middle Kingdom, the Americans will have to limit the framework of freedom in their country. In space in the XXI century, the Chinese went largely due to technological assistance to Russia.