Roscongress has published a list of SPIEF 2025 participants More than 600 speakers will speak at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) this year. Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Moscow because of it, this year there will again be significantly more Russian participants than foreign ones. The event will take place from June 18 to 21.

This is contrary to international law Russia offered to exchange Ukrainian children taken from territories not controlled by Kiev for captured Russian military personnel, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. “We don’t change children. This is madness, which, by the way, the Russians proposed - we give them military personnel, and they give us children.

They plan to make the monument in the form of a two-meter sculpture of a military man in full equipment. The authorities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug allocated more than 5.1 million rubles for the installation of a monument to “participants of local conflicts and northwestern military districts” in the remote village of Berezovo, which has no roads. “Vorstka” found the corresponding tender on the government procurement portal.

Kyiv announced the completion of the “repatriation part of the Istanbul agreements” Russia on Monday, June 16, handed over to Ukraine the bodies of another 1,245 dead military personnel. This was reported by the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. This was the final stage of the transfer of bodies within the framework of the agreements reached in Istanbul on June 2.

Volunteers donate not only drones and thermal imagers to the front, but also body bags For the fourth year now, money has been raised on social networks, schools and state-owned enterprises for the needs of the Russian military. In recent months, volunteers organizing the fundraisers have begun to complain about a drop in donations. “Verstka” analyzed thousands of messages in dozens of Telegram channels and became convinced that collecting money for the war has become more difficult.