Journalists have discovered an increase in military activity along the borders of Northern Europe Russia is expanding its military infrastructure along its borders with the Nordic and Baltic countries, according to a joint investigation by the Danish broadcaster DR , the Norwegian broadcaster NRK , the Swedish television channel SVT and the Estonian publication Delfi .

Those around Zelensky called the open letter to Putin a “military-diplomatic campaign of pressure on Moscow” Ukraine has launched a new military-diplomatic campaign, the purpose of which is to increase pressure on Russia and create conditions for possible negotiations in the fall. Ukrayinska Pravda (UP) writes about this, citing sources close to President Vladimir Zelensky.

Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin met in Moscow with the ambassadors of Germany, France and Great Britain The ambassadors of Germany, France and Great Britain visited the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet with the deputy head of the department, Mikhail Galuzin. Following the negotiations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that diplomats were presented with “objective assessments of the destructive policies” of their countries regarding the Ukrainian conflict.

The German Chancellor proposed granting Kyiv associate membership in the EU German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Ukraine in the distant future will become part of the European Union. He said this on June 11 during a speech in the Bundestag. “Ukraine is part of Europe. In the long term, it will become part of the European Union,” Merz emphasized. According to him, since 2022, Kyiv has made noticeable progress in carrying out reforms.

Validity periods, delivery rules, age limit for being in reserve Russians say on social networks that they have mobilization instructions pasted into their military ID cards. The document is issued at the military registration and enlistment office, where reservists are summoned to clarify data, including electronic ones. Requests for the document received the status of “super popular” in Google Trends, and they also began to be searched more often in Yandex.

The share of Russian authors in the publishing house portfolio reached 76% In 2025, circulations of translated literature in Russia decreased by 31% compared to 2022. This is stated in the report of the Ministry of Digital Development on the state of the book market, noted Vorstka. In 2022, circulations of foreign literature translated into Russian amounted to 84.1 million copies, in 2024 they dropped to 65.1 million, and in 2025 they fell to 58 million copies.

The restrictions are lobbied by security forces, but the system of prohibitions is maintained by ordinary officials and administrators Restrictions on the Russian Internet during the war years have reached unprecedented proportions. Even in the cities farthest from the front, residents spend weeks without a mobile network, the largest social networks and dozens of media are blocked, and VPN has become an almost mandatory application on any device.