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The US S&P 500 fluctuations in June were three times the level of volatility before the pandemic, and the NASDAQ Composite has fallen by almost 30% since the beginning of the year. The Economist explains, Market analysts and investors often find the times in which they live unique. History has at least four "black Mondays" (a sharp one-day stock market fall. -). They got their name by analogy with...

Maria Zakharova Estonia, after the ban on performances in the country by the Russian group "Hands Up", turned into a repressive state that forgot about democracy. This was announced on Sputnik radio by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. According to her, the Estonian authorities forgot that they proclaimed democracy as their main idea, for the sake of whi...

Earlier, Gazprom announced that from July 27 it will decommission another turbine at the Portovaya CS of the Nord Stream pipeline. According to the German operator Gascade, The flow of gas through Nord Stream 1 has decreased from 65 million cubic meters. m per day up to 35 million cubic meters. m, or 2......

Russian oil. The Chinese Foreign Ministry protested and indicated Beijing opposes illegal unilateral sanctions and strongly protests US attempts to impose restrictions on Russian oil and LNG supplies to China . This was stated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, Sina reports. Earlier, Republican Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill that would impose sanctions on any organization th...

23% of respondents were in favor of the re-introduction of the mask regime, 48 were against.Most supporters of wearing masks in public places are among women and Russians under 34 Every fourth Russian polled expressed support for the re-introduction of the mask regime in Russia. Such data is provided by the SuperJob service with reference to the results of the study (available from RBC). The intro...

Peskov called the possible cessation of the issuance of Schengen visas to Russians "very bad" and assured that in this case Russia would react. At the same time, he pointed out Stopping the issuance of Schengen visas to Russians cannot be ruled out, but if such measures of an “emotional nature” are approved, Russia will accept “variations” in response, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian pr...

Pobeda Airlines, part of the Aeroflot Group, reached the pre-crisis occupancy rate of 95.3% in the second quarter of 2022. For the Aeroflot group itself, this figure is only 83, The seat occupancy of the Pobeda low-cost airline increased from 93.8% to 95.3% in the second quarter of 2022, the Aeroflot group said in a statement received by RBC. The last time the company reached this level was in Jul...

According to Bloomberg sources, Russiais using supply disruptions to encourage European countries to “rethink painful sanctions.” The Kremlin has repeatedly stressed Russia is likely to keep gas supplies to the European Union at a minimum, increasing pressure on it due to sanctions, sources told Bloomberg. As the agency writes, officially the Russian authorities called the reasons for the reductio...

Sanctions against Russia can have very serious consequences for the already unbalanced global agricultural market, jeopardizing the food security of countries and regions. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergei Levin said this at a meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the SCO countries, TASS reports. The recent economic quantitative easing programs carried out by a number of countries have le...

US President Joe Biden, who has contracted the coronavirus, has a sore throat as the main manifestation of the disease, according to his attending physician, Kevin O'Connor. His conclusion is published on the website of the White House. The doctor notes that a sore throat is a good sign, because this is how the respiratory tract reacts to the body's fight against the virus. According to O'Connor, ...

Sergey Lavrov and Samekh Shukri Moscow hopes that the UN will be able to achieve the lifting of sanctions that prevented the export of grain from Russia, as part of a "product deal". This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri, broadcast was on YouTube. Lavrov explained that these are restrictions that have become an obstacle to grain ...

may also face it. The country has already experienced something similar during the pandemic. The Economist figured out whether the authorities of China managed to learn from the past crisis Air conditioners in central China are running at full capacity this year. Nearly 900 million Chinese have experienced record temperatures in recent weeks, and more than 8......

The third day the incidence in the country is at a level above 6 thousand cases. Since spring, the number of infections has been falling, Over the past day, 6,953 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia, according to the operational headquarters for the fight against the disease. For the third day in the country, more than 6 thousand infected people have been recorded per d...

The UN hopes that the signed documents will help stabilize food prices and prevent starvation in the poorest countries.Grain exports previously stopped due to the blocking of Ukrainian ports after the outbreak of hostilities On Friday, July 22, Russia , Ukraine, Turkey and the UN signed an agreement on grain exports in Istanbul. The agreements provide for the creation of a corridor for the export ...

According to the port, until February 24, the port's trade with Russia was about 13% of the total.The suspension of container traffic with Moscow was associated with logistical difficulties due to Western sanctions Port of Rotterdam Container traffic from Russia via the Dutch port of Rotterdam has been suspended indefinitely, according to a posting on its website. The reasons for the suspension of...

The EU Council approved a new package of sanctions against Russia - the “sixth and a half”, as it mainly included measures to clarify the sanctions and bring them in line with the American and British ones.RBC brings the most important of it Whom did the EU put on the sanctions list? 48 individuals and nine legal entities (companies and organizations) have been added to the EU sanctions list for R...

According to the Finnish electricity grid company Fingrid, the need for rolling blackouts is associated with a shortage of energy resources.In early May, the supply of electricity to Finland was suspended by the Russian Inter RAO due to non-payment of Vida Helsinki The Finnish authorities are considering moving to rolling blackouts due to energy shortages, but this would be a "last resort". This w...

The FAO Meat Price Index shows that in June this year, the price of chicken meat reached its highest level since records began in 1990. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the poultry meat index is 130.39 points, up 28.9% from June 2021. It was also up 4.5% last month at 124.74, in contrast to the FAO General Food Price Index, which fell slightly from 157.9 in May to 154.2 i....

by the Russians Transfers to Turkey, the UAE and China fall into their field of vision As part of monitoring the implementation of sanctions, the British authorities are paying attention to operations in cryptocurrencies and the actions of intermediaries of Russians in London, follows from a joint bulletin of UK government forensics members of the Joint Money Laundering Data Collection Task Force ...

Inflation in Western countries has reached its highest levels in decades. This is largely due to military operations in Ukraine. RBC shows, The new risks stemming from the Russian military operation in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed by the West in response have led to the fact that inflationary pressure on the global economy, which has not yet recovered from the covid crisis, has increased dram...

The country has seen an increase in the incidence of COVID-19 , Russians, especially the elderly and those suffering from chronic diseases, should undergo revaccination against coronavirus six months after the previous vaccination. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Health Andrey Plutnitsky, TASS reports. “There is no way to relax. We urge our citizens to undergo revaccination within six mon...

imports - only 11%. The European Commission explained to RBC, In terms of imports of high-tech products, “Russia depends on Europe by more than 45%, from the United States by 21% and from China by only 11%,” EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell wrote over the weekend in a blog post. blog. “Of course, Russia may try to limit the effect of sanctions by substit...

The new package of sanctions should be approved on July 21. It included a ban on the import of Russian gold, including jewelry, The permanent representatives of the EU countries approved the seventh package of sanctions against Russia, including a ban on the import of Russian gold, Lithuania's permanent representative to the EU Arnoldas Pranckevicius said on Twitter. “At the Committee of Permanent...

Due to Western restrictions against the Russian banking sector, tens of thousands of immigrants receiving Russian pensions cannot use them in Israel.Israeli banks refuse to approve transfers due to sanctions The Israeli Ministry of Finance is looking for ways to enable immigrants from Russia to transfer money to Israel from their accounts in Russian banks, Israeli Calcalist and Reuters write, citi...

Oleg Kobyakov, head of the FAO Moscow office, in an interview with RBC spoke about the causes and features of the food crisis,on the importance of the export of Ukrainian grain and the overall impact of military conflicts on the situation with hunger in the world Oleg Kobyakov “The consequences will be felt for quite a long time” - Now representatives of different countries are declaring an impend...

The head of state noted that in the modern world "it is impossible to circle everything with a compass and put up a huge fence like that." According to him, Russiawill look for new solutions and use existing technological reserves video Russia, due to the restrictions imposed against it, is not going to retreat decades ago and will not develop in isolation, the president said at a meeting of the C...

European Union intends to support Ukraine as long as the country needs this assistance, Scholz promised. The chancellor said: “In Europe, we are ready for the fact that the sanctionswill stay for a long timethey will not be removed at the conclusion of a peace agreement on Russia's terms" Olaf Scholz The European Union was initially preparing to maintain sanctions for a long time, not a single res...

The Bank of Russia is not ready to provide the market with liquidity to replace the one that was frozen in the National Settlement Depository due to EU sanctions. We can talk about the balance of €4, The Bank of Russia did not see the need to compensate banks for losses from the sanctioned freezing of their money in the National Settlement Depository (NSD). This is stated in the regulator's respon...

The United States did not impose sanctions on the production, sale and transportation of agricultural-related goods and medicines from Russia, recalled the US Treasury Department. “The United States has not imposed sanctions on the production, manufacture, sale or transportation of agricultural products (including fertilizers), agricultural equipment and medicines associated with Russia,” the mess...

Tehran imposes sanctionsvs Mike PompeoJohn Bolton and Rudolph Giuliani for "supporting an Iranian group of dissidents and militants" Mike Pompeo Iran is imposing sanctions on 61 Americans, including former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This is reported by Eghtesad News with reference to the list of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. According to the report, the sanctions were imposed for "support ...