The day before, Vladimir Putin for the first time commented in detail on both the fuel crisis and the current prospects for negotiations on Ukraine. He had to admit that the gasoline shortage would have to be filled with imports (although it was not critical) and that there were no agreements on Ukraine in Alaska. Russia will not accept new proposals from Ukraine Getty Images

European aluminum producers are demanding that Brussels close the loophole through which sanctioned Russian metal enters the EU market through third countries, reports the Financial Times. Several EU member states, including Lithuania, also expressed concern to the European Commission, two European diplomats said. The European Union limited imports of primary aluminum from Russia as part of the 16th package of sanctions in February last year.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on providing fuel to the domestic market with the heads of oil and gas companies and members of the government and admitted that consumers do not have enough gasoline. According to him, the authorities have begun to use reserves.

Vladimir Putin called on United Russia members to “sit less in offices and in messengers” and “go out into the field more often, meet people,” delving into their problems. Since the beginning of the year, Putin himself has come out to people only once - accompanied by soldiers in camouflage, the Agency wrote .

The topic of the issue is how the musical neuroslop has captivated Russian streaming services After the start of the war, the Russian music market was almost completely cut off from the world market: Spotify left the country, Western services turned off monetization and subscriptions, and the majors took their catalogs, leaving Russian streaming services without the lion’s share of world new releases.

Two G20 countries at once - Great Britain and Argentina - are discussing programs to attract wealthy investors, the Financial Times has found out. And if the British government is thinking about returning the special visas for investors with a fast track to citizenship, abolished four years ago, then the cabinet of Javier Miley is preparing to immediately sell passports. Argentine approach Argentine officials expect to launch the program this year.

The Iranian war gave the Russian budget something it had not seen for years: oil at almost $120 per barrel, weakened sanctions restrictions and a temporary redistribution of Asian demand in its favor. For almost four months, the Kremlin could count on windfall profits. It was not possible to take full advantage of them, and now the pause is ending - what does this mean for Russian public finances?

In May, Russia imported 5.17 thousand tons of aviation kerosene from Belarus - almost four times more than in May 2025, RBC calculated , citing data from the Center for Price Indexes (CPI). In the first ten days of June, supplies already amounted to 2.6 thousand tons. Russia is a net exporter of jet fuel, but there are no official statistics on production, domestic consumption and exports of the fuel.

The former head of the presidential administration, former Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov died at the age of 73, reported the VTB United League, of which Ivanov was the honorary president. The reasons are not specified in the message. This is the first death in the circle of long-time and close friends of Vladimir Putin, who played an important role in governing the country. In 2007, Ivanov, along with Dmitry Medvedev, was seen as a potential successor to Putin.

The first half of 2026 will be remembered for strong growth in corporate profits, record investments in AI infrastructure, the energy shock from conflict in the Middle East, and continued high inflation. The markets turned out to be unexpectedly stable against the backdrop of these contradictory factors, but behind the external stability are hidden serious structural changes that will determine the dynamics of assets until the end of the year.

The markets of South Korea and Taiwan have grown by tens of percent this year due to the hype around artificial intelligence, while the Chinese market has lost more than 10%. The leaders of the fall are Alibaba and Tencent, which have long become synonymous with the Chinese market for global investors. But beyond the tech giants, there are companies in China that are benefiting from other trends, from electrification to data center construction.

The former head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, has died at the age of 73, according to the VTB United League, of which he was honorary president. Ivanov is a career intelligence officer who has known Putin since the 1970s from his work in the Leningrad KGB.

Telega, an alternative Telegram client, announced it will close on July 1. It is interesting that the creators refer simultaneously to internal (impossibility of full localization with compliance with all requirements) and external reasons (removal from the App Store). “Telega showed a working business model, gathered an audience of millions and came a long way in very difficult conditions,” writes the official account.

Trust in Vladimir Putin fell from 74% to 69% over the week, according to a survey by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), conducted June 19–21. This is the minimum for the entire war: even during the days of mobilization in September 2022, after the retreat from Kherson in November 2022 and during the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin in June 2023, the figure did not go below 74–76%.

OpenAI consultants advise delaying the IPO until 2027 to maintain a valuation of at least $1 trillion, The New York Times has learned. The alternative is to lower the assessment for placement in the current year. There are two reasons. The first is the dynamics of SpaceX shares, which in two weeks dropped to the opening price of the first day of trading. In other words, the only winners now are the shareholders who entered into the placement of Musk’s company itself.