In a referendum held on Sunday, Italians were to vote on five proposed judicial reforms. Including expressing attitudes towards the abolition of the Severino law, which deprives politicians convicted of a number of serious crimes, including corruption, of the passive electoral right.
According to it, for example, after former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted in a tax fraud case, he was banned from holding any elective office for six years.
Less than 20% of voters took part in the voting, while the law requires a quorum of 50%, according to Euronews.
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The American broker Interactive Brokers banned clients from Russia and Belarus from opening new positions with EU securities.
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Drivers in South Korea are on strike against changes in wage conditions and rising fuel prices, which together have hit Korean truckers extremely painfully.
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The volume of Russian exports to Germany in April increased by 41.9% — up to 3.7 billion euros, — DW with reference to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany
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President Emmanuel Macron, during a speech at the international defense show Eurosatory, which opened near Paris, said that France was entering «a period of war economy» and would build up its weapons, writes Ouest France
Macron plans to revise the law on military spending for 2019-2025. In 2022, the budget of the French Ministry of Defense amounted to €40.9 billion. According to the previously adopted budget, this amount is planned to increase to €50 billion by 2025.
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Poland has built a 140-kilometer wall on the border with Belarus. This was announced on Twitter by the Border Guard Service of the country. The construction of the barrier due to the large influx of migrants, the Minister of National Defense of the Republic, Mariusz Blaszczak, announced last summer.
In addition, the fence should help in the fight against smuggling, it will be equipped with cameras and motion detectors. And in the coming days, the installation of electronic equipment will begin on the fence.
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Finland will launch the fastest supercomputer in Europe. Lumi is called the computer with the third speed in the world. Today it was presented in Kajaani, and in September it will become available to users from Europe, according to the website of the European Commission.
The supercomputer was created by the joint efforts of the European Joint Venture for High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) and a consortium of ten European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Estonia.
Its peak power will be 550 petaflops or 550 million billion calculations per second. Lumi will complement existing EuroHPC supercomputers: Discoverer in Bulgaria, MeluXina in Luxembourg, Vega in Slovenia and Karolina in the Czech Republic.
It is planned that it will be able to help breakthroughs in science, for example, in medical and climate research, as well as in the field of cancer diagnosis.
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A team at the Harvard Wyss Institute has developed a method to 3D print cardiac macrofilaments, muscle filaments that can potentially mimic the complex alignment of the contracting elements of the human heart. According to scientists, the technology has every chance to gain a foothold in regenerative cardiology.
So far, only a small piece of heart tissue has turned out, but the technology has proven its promise. And while it’s still too early to talk about creating a full-fledged organic heart, the development can already be used to replace scars after heart attacks or even to correct the hearts of newborns affected by congenital malformation.
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The European Union will not revise the protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, concluded with the UK under the agreement on its withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), and is protesting against the British bill, which contradicts this document.
The protocol ensures the transparency of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. He, on the one hand, respects the constitutional status of Northern Ireland as part of the UK, on the other hand, protects the integrity of the EU single market (the customs border runs along the Irish Sea).
In particular, the protocol gives business operators in Northern Ireland access to the EU single market for goods. The bill prepared by the UK government threatens this access and the opportunities associated with it.
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US President Joe Biden extended the sanctions regime against the authorities of Belarus. US sanctions against Belarus were introduced by President George W. Bush in 2006.
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Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have suspended operations on Russia’s public debt. According to the publication’s source, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs were still trading Russian debt earlier this month, but after instructions from the US Treasury, they suspended all operations.
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Erdogan announced the start of laying a gas pipeline along the bottom of the Black Sea. The Sakarya field, from which gas will be supplied, was discovered by Turkey in 2020, it is considered the largest in the region. The authorities estimate its gas reserves at 540 billion cubic meters. m
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The American authorities, together with the governments of other G7 states (G7: Great Britain, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the United States), are developing new restrictive measures against Russia. This was stated by Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Derek Hogan at the discussion platform Wilson Center.
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Sanctions against three large Russian banks come into force today — Sberbank, Rosselkhozbank and Moscow Credit Bank. They will be disconnected from the SWIFT system.
It also became known that the world’s largest banks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs suspended operations to service Russia’s debt obligations. Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources.
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US President Joe Biden is running for a second term.
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The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia will extend the possibility of using radio frequencies 175-230 MHz and 470-790 MHz for analog TV for another year, although it was preparing to allocate them to mobile operators for the development of a new 5G communication standard.
These frequencies are also in demand for the development of 4G, as well as for providing communications for federal and regional highways, operators say. They expect that the extension of frequencies for analogue TV will lead to a delay in obligations to cover regional highways.
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Private jets and helicopters of Russian businessmen continue to fly over the territory of the European Union (EU) despite the sanctions, writes the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. According to the publication, in total, since the introduction of EU sanctions over the territory of Europe, about 30 aircraft, allegedly belonging to the Russians, have flown.
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South Korea, the US and Japan are planning joint exercises to bolster their readiness to counter North Korea’s «evolving missile threats», Yonhap reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
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A shootout took place on the Kyrgyz-Tajik section of the state border, the Tajik side used grenade launchers and mortars, the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan said on Tuesday.
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As a result of another skirmish on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border, a conscript soldier of Tajikistan was killed, Asia-Plus reported on Tuesday morning in its telegram channel
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The FESCO transport group (the parent company is PJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company, FESCO) has begun seasonal transportation of goods to the ports of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (CHAO) under the northern delivery program.
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Turkish intelligence officials have identified a group of Iranian intelligence officers in Istanbul who were planning attacks on Israeli tourists, Yedioth Ahronoth reports.
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The foreign trade turnover of Belarus against the backdrop of Western sanctions began to decline and in January-April amounted to $26.64 billion, which is 3.3% less compared to the same period last year, according to the materials of the National Bank of the country.
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Ukraine in May this year increased the export of grain cargo by rail by 20.4% compared to April, to 807 thousand tons, reaching the limit of export volumes for the existing railway infrastructure. This was announced by the head of JSC «Ukrzaliznytsia» (UZ) Alexander Kamyshin in a commentary to Forbes.
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The volume of foreign direct investment (FDI, FDI) in the economy of mainland China increased by 17.3% in January-May and amounted to 564.2 billion yuan.
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Belarus has prepared an application for membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Bakhtiyor Khakimov, special representative of the Russian president for SCO affairs, said on Tuesday.
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Russia does not comply with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in particular, it will not comply with the court’s decision on complaints from NPO-foreign agents, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
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Exports of goods from Germany to Russia and Belarus fell by 60% in April, according to the Eastern Committee of the German Economy. Deliveries of German goods to the Russian Federation decreased by almost 1.5 billion euros. At the same time, total imports from Russia to Germany grew in monetary terms by 42% compared to last year due to high energy prices.
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The Japanese company Kawasaki has created an industrial goat robot that will help elderly farmers carry heavy loads. The goat robot carries loads weighing up to 100 kilograms. It can be controlled remotely or programmed to move independently
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Russia cuts gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream gas pipeline by 40 percent. Gazprom referred to the delay in repair work at the compressor station due to a shortage of components not supplied by the German concern Siemens.
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The five hundred richest people in the world have lost $1.4 trillion since the beginning of 2022, including $206 billion on Monday, June 13, Bloomberg calculated.
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The Moscow Exchange decided to suspend trading in the Swiss franc due to the restrictive measures taken by Switzerland. Earlier, the country announced new sanctions against Russia in accordance with the sixth EU sanctions package.
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The US Treasury allowed until December 5 operations with the Bank of Russia, VEB, Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB and Alfa-Bank on energy resources
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Following the Federal Customs Service, which hid statistics on exports and imports, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which ceased to publish most indicators of the banking system, the secrecy regime was turned on for the Russian Ministry of Finance, which monthly reports on the state of the federal budget.
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The German regulator launched an antitrust investigation against Apple. The claims are related to the company’s requirement to request permission to collect user data, which applies to all applications, except for Apple services.
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The State Duma of Russia adopted in the first reading a bill that prohibits the use of digital financial assets as a means of payment in Russia. Now the legislation does not directly prohibit the use of digital financial assets for payments for goods and services, the author of the document noted.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has included 49 British citizens on the sanctions list: 29 journalists and 20 British citizens associated with the defense complex. According to RIA Novosti, employees of the BBC and The Guardian were also subject to sanctions.
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Germany will open a hotline for whistleblowers to increase the effectiveness of sanctions against oligarchs. This was announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
According to him, a second law on the application of sanctions will be adopted in Germany in the near future. It provides, inter alia, for the creation of a national registry of assets that are subject to sanctions or whose origin is unclear.
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