On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced major successes in the main confrontation in the Donbass - in the Lugansk region. The Ukrainian side recognizes them only partially, but it does not argue with the fact that the promotion of the RF Armed Forces threatens to take surrounding the entire Ukrainian group in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.

The risk of a debt crisis again hung over Europe. The prospect of the first in more than 10 years of raising bets by the European Central Bank (ECB) caused an increase in profitability through sovereign bonds of South European countries to a “dangerous level”. We tell you what is happening with a sovereign debt in the eurozone, how the ECB plans to cope with the crisis and how it can affect the value of assets. This article was written specifically for Bell. Investments. Subscribe !

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed women the right to abortion across the country. Now the states will be able to independently decide whether to allow or prohibit abortions. And, according to The Washington Post, most Republican states will ban abortion soon. In 13 states, this will happen within 30 days after the entry into force of the relevant laws. Exceptions there will be cases where the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother.

From July 4, Tinkoff Investments introduces a commission for storing currency on brokerage accounts and IIS. The storage fee for amounts in excess of $10,000, EUR or British Pounds will be 0.033% per day or 1% per month. The new conditions apply to all Tinkoff Investments tariffs. The announcement emphasizes that the fee is charged solely on amounts held in the specified currencies and does not apply to clients' securities in brokerage accounts.

European leaders are preparing for a further reduction in gas supplies from Russia and are looking for ways to mitigate the effects of an unprecedented energy crisis, writes Bloomberg. The energy crisis was one of the topics at the EU leaders' meeting on Friday. On the eve of the meeting, Germany, the EU's largest economy, raised the risk of gas shortages. This has become an alarming sign for the other states of the bloc, the agency notes.

The times when Roskomnadzor tried to block Telegram, and the Pavel Durov team heroically repelled the attacks for a long time in the past. Now Telegram is one of the few social networks that has not yet been blocked and not recognized as extremist in Russia. TEELGRAM coexist in the channels of the media blocked in Russia and hundreds of channels created to support the “special operation”.

Coronavirus vaccines saved the lives of 20 million people in 2021, but more than 12 million of them in high- and middle-income countries, Bloomberg cites the first omnibus study of its kind, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In total, 3.5 million deaths from coronavirus have been recorded worldwide since the start of mass vaccination in December 2020.

Less than a quarter of Russian borrowers are confident that they will be able to service loans already taken. For banks, this portends a reduction in lending, an increase in bad debts and a share of fee and commission income. The results of a large survey conducted in April-May by Kept (former KPMG) are published by Kommersant. The main figure is only 23% who are confident in their ability to service current debts.