Ekaterina Kozinchenko, oil and gas consulting specialist, former head of Accenture From the personal archive of Ekaterina Kozinchenko After falling in early February, the Brent price recovered most of its losses. But something else is more important for Russia: the discount is growing, and the industry lacks investment and technology. Oil remains a key commodity for the Russian and global economies. We devoted the last Republic-Weekly entirely to energy resources.

Soldiers of the 18th Slavic Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. Photo by TETIANA DZHAFAROVA / AFP Two weeks of negotiations to end the war disappeared. Again attacks on infrastructure, retaliatory attacks and attempts to put pressure on Moscow through oil and sanctions, between all this - a failed “energy truce”.

Konstantin Shavlovsky Emigrants do not have the right to speak out about people living in Russia - they are prohibited from writing about anti-war films and plays, about the abolitions and torture, unless those who are being abolished and tortured voluntarily consent to these publications in uncensored media. Of course, it is forbidden to write about censorship and self-censorship in Russian culture.