Minister of Economics Maxim Oreshkin and economist Kirill Tremasov, who was in the Ministry of Forecasting during the time of Alexei Ulyukaev, publicly argued about Russian macroeconomic statistics. The reason was the next abnormally optimistic data of the subordinate to the Ministry of Economy of the Federal State Statistics Service, which allowed the Ministry of Economy to increase GDP for 2018 by 0.2 percentage points.

The government of Nicolás Maduro failed to take out of Venezuela and sell 20 tons of gold worth $850 million to replenish its budget. The plan fell through due to publicity and the threat of sanctions on potential buyers and carriers. The Russian plane, which, according to media reports, was supposed to take the gold to Dubai, returned to Moscow on Saturday morning. More.

In response to the US suspension of the treaty on the elimination of short and medium-range missiles, Vladimir Putin announced "mirror measures". Russia will also suspend its obligations under the treaty and begin developing weapons that the treaty prohibited — a ground-based version of the Kalibr complex and medium-range hypersonic missiles. More. the Russian response Putin announced on Saturday morning at a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is suspended. There is no chance of its renewal. What will happen next? One of the most important nuclear deterrence agreements, the Russian-American Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), has effectively been terminated . Experts believe that the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe is not to be expected in the near future.