In first place (according to data for 2020), China is far behind, where almost a third (32.8%) of Russian oil goes, in 2020 it was $ 23.77 billion
Next come mainly European countries, and their total share is noticeably higher than that of China: 13% for the Netherlands, 8.7% for Germany, 5.8% for Poland, 5.2% for Italy. Only 1.4% of all exports went to Hungary, which does not want to give up our oil
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The largest plant in the world was found off the coast of Australia. The vast kelp meadows in Shark Bay on the west coast of Australia are actually the shoots of a single plant. This was shown by his genetic analysis. For 4.5 thousand years, the Posidonia australis algae has captured an area of 200 square kilometers and has become home to many fish, crabs, turtles and other animals.
Posidonia australis grew at a rate of 35 centimeters per year. In some places, the length of her ribbons is only 10 centimeters, in others — a whole meter. The algae was able to survive in difficult conditions — at 15-30 ° C in the saltiest parts of Shark Bay. Posidonia australis has become the largest plant on Earth. It is several hundred times the size of a Pando Poplar colony in Utah with a common root system.
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The Syktyvkar city court confiscated real estate purchased with unconfirmed income from Viktor Polovnikov, former Komi interior minister convicted of corruption crimes, the press service of the republican prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
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Taiwan banned the supply of a chip with a clock frequency above 25 MHz to Russia and Belarus. In addition, deliveries of microcircuits with more than 144 contacts and equipment for optical and X-ray lithography, which are used for the production of microcircuits, are prohibited in Russia and Belarus. Banned and Scanners, Scanning Electron Microscopes for Automatic Checking of Microchips According to Templates
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Spanish Inditex (brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Bershka, Stradivarius and others) is preparing to abandon part of the stores in Russia. The company notified the owners of the shopping center about this, two sources in the retail real estate market told Izvestia. As the interlocutors of Izvestia clarified, the holding tells its partners that they intend to optimize their business in Russia
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The Turkish newspaper Sabah published information about the detention of six people who allegedly arrived from Russia to eliminate certain persons. According to the newspaper, the target of the alleged killers were three people who had previously committed large-scale embezzlement of budget money or were associated with some kind of fraudulent activities in Russia.
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All Russian universities have been ordered to refuse to participate in the Erasmus + program. This is the European system for the exchange of students and teachers. The Ministry of Education and Science explains the recommendation by the fact that the EU Council has banned support for organizations controlled by the Russian state.
The Erasmus+ program was launched in 2014, and during this time more than 13,000 Russian students from Moscow State University, the Higher School of Economics, the Russian State Humanitarian University and other universities have participated in it.
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Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dmitry Muratov has put his medal up for auction at Heritage Auctions, an American auction house. All proceeds will go to support UNICEF’s humanitarian mission.
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The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate at a meeting on Wednesday by 50 basis points (bp) — up to 1.5% — and announced its readiness to «act more decisively» to curb inflation.
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The DDT group postponed their concert in Moscow for a year. In a video message, Yuri Shevchuk said that the performance on June 10, 2022 was postponed to an open date, because the Moscow regional security department did not agree on the holding of the event.
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Philip Kirkorov’s anniversary show, which was supposed to take place on June 19 at the Kamerton concert hall in Pyatigorsk, was canceled due to the «recommendation of the Ministry of Culture», the appeal of the Pyatigorsk administration and the townspeople, as well as the «opinion of the Russian Orthodox Church».
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In St. Petersburg, the concert «Brother 2. Live Soundtrack», which was supposed to take place on June 17, was postponed to March next year. The NCA company, the organizer of the event, explains this by the desire to preserve the composition of the participants.
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The head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry appealed to the UN Secretary General with a request to change the name of Turkey in international documents from the former Turkey to Türkiye. The application was approved, the changes come into force on June 1
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The administration of US President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions on flights to Cuba imposed under former President Donald Trump.
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Tunisian President Cais Said signed an order dismissing 57 judges who are accused of corruption, aiding and defending defendants in terrorism cases, reports Agence Tunis-Afrique-Presse.
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The Fiji High Court has upheld a US request to confiscate the Amadea yacht, which authorities have linked to Russian billionaire and senator Suleiman Kerimov, Newsweek writes.
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Saudi Arabia is ready to increase oil production if production in Russia drops significantly due to Western sanctions imposed on it. This is with reference to five sources familiar with the discussion, according to the newspaper Financial Times.
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The deputy head of the general contractor for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome took kickbacks when paying for the construction of a residential complex and other infrastructure, the court considered. He was sentenced to 9 years in a strict regime colony
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Automaker General Motors Co. (GM) intends to electrify the entire range of Buick vehicles sold in North America by 2030. By 2024, GM plans to launch a new Buick SUV on the market, which will be the brand’s first all-electric model in the US, writes The Wall Street Journal.
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The leader of the Labor Party of Belgium (PTB, PTB) Raul Hedebou announced that he and his associates have collected and submitted to the government 100,000 signatures demanding a freeze on petrol prices at 1.4 euros per liter.
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Rosstat in the week from May 21 to May 27, 2022 recorded zero inflation (0.00%) in the Russian Federation after deflation of 0.02% from May 13 to 20, inflation of 0.05% from May 7 to 13, 0.12% from April 30 to May 6, 0.21% from April 23 to 29, Rosstat said on Wednesday
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The growth of real (inflation-adjusted) wages in Russia in March 2022 amounted to 3.6% in annual terms, after increasing by 2.6% in February and by 1.9% in January, Rosstat said on Wednesday.
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The Bank of Russia notes an increase in overdue debts from microfinance organizations (MFIs) in the first quarter of this year, and also observes a trend towards an increase in the debt load of borrowers, according to the report of the Central Bank on the main trends in the microfinance market.
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Investments in fixed assets in the Russian Federation in the first quarter of 2022 increased by 12.8% compared to the first quarter of 2021, Rosstat said on Wednesday
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Unemployment in Russia in April 2022 continued to decline, dropping to 4% and thereby updating the historical minimum for the period of observation of the indicator since 1991, follows from the data of Rosstat published on Wednesday
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In Russia, in April, the production of passenger cars fell by 6.8 times (by 85.4%) compared to April last year to a record low of 19.9 thousand cars, follows from Rosstat data.
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The balanced profit of retail organizations in Russia in the first quarter of 2022 increased by 1.6 times (by 61.2%) compared to the same period last year, to 161.9 billion rubles, Rosstat reported
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In the first quarter of 2022, Russian enterprises received a balanced profit (profit minus loss) in the amount of 7 trillion 120.6 billion rubles, which is 31.8% more than in the same period in 2021, Rosstat said in a statement.
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In April, the cargo turnover of transport in Russia decreased in annual terms by 5.9%, to 447.5 billion t-km, according to the materials of Rosstat.
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In April 2022, Russia’s GDP decreased by 3% year-on-year after growing by 1.3% in March, by 4.1% in February and 5.6% in January, according to the Ministry of Economic Development’s review «On the Current Situation in the Economy».
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The Netherlands will increase its defense budget by 5 billion euros, AP reports citing the country’s Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren.
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The selection of generation projects based on renewable energy sources (RES) will not take place this year, follows from a government decree published on the official Internet portal of legal acts.
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Croatian electric sports car maker Rimac has raised 500 million euros in its latest investment round, raising a valuation of more than 2 billion euros.
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The Danish manufacturer of system solutions for intelligent energy and water metering Kamstrup ceases operations in the markets of Russia and Belarus, company representatives told Berlingske newspaper.
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The Russian economy shrank by 3% year-on-year in April, the Economic Development Ministry said. Since the beginning of the year, GDP growth has been positive: 5.6% in January, 4.1% in February and 1.3% in March.
The Ministry of Economic Development attributed the decline to “unprecedented sanctions pressure.” One of the main factors was transport and logistics restrictions, the agency said. Wholesale trade in April collapsed by 11.9% in annual terms after falling by 0.3% in March. Freight traffic fell 5.9% after rising 3.6%. Industrial output fell 1.6% after rising 3% in March. The decline in the manufacturing industry intensified to 2.1% after 0.3% a month earlier.
Another factor in the decline in GDP was the reduction in consumer demand. The total turnover of retail trade, public catering and paid services, according to the Ministry of Economic Development, decreased by 6.7% in April after growing by 3.3% in March. The main contribution was made by the drop in retail trade turnover: according to Rosstat, it fell by 9.7% in annual terms.
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Wine in Russia has risen in price by an average of 11% over the year, RIA Novosti was told in Roskachestvo.
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The German developer of industrial software SAP announced the complete cessation of its work in Russia and Belarus, representatives of the company told Kommersant. The personnel restructuring program will begin in June and end by the end of 2022.
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The Netherlands and Germany will jointly develop a gas field in the North Sea, according to the government of the Netherlands. The production platform will be located 19 km north of the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and the German island of Borkum. A pipeline will be laid from it to deliver gas to land. It is expected that the fuel will begin to be produced by the end of 2024. The volume of deposits in the message is not given.
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The Danes voted in a referendum to join the common defense of the EU, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Previously, Denmark had autonomy in such matters, did not pay dues and did not participate in the union’s military projects.
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The American supercomputer Frontier achieved a performance of 1.1 exaflops and took first place in the ranking of the most powerful in the world. In terms of speed, it outperforms the next seven supercomputers combined.
Frontier has 9.4 thousand 64-core AMD EPYC 7A53 processors and 37.6 thousand AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. The storage volume is about 700 petabytes. Frontier occupies a space of 372 square meters. Components are installed in 74 modules, each of which weighs almost 3.6 tons. It took 145 km of cables to connect in total.
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Pixabay Free Stock Photos Bank has announced the termination of work with Russian users
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Russian experts insist on the continuation of the work of the E-ROSITA telescope, the Russian-German orbital observatory Spektr-RG, although the German side demanded that it be turned off. This was announced in Telegram by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
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The Indian energy holding Tata Power is liquidating Far Eastern Natural Resources LLC (FINR), which was working on a project to develop the Krutogorovskoye coal deposit in the Kamchatka Territory, the project was suspended back in 2021.
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The Smolninsky Court of St. Petersburg granted the petition for the detention of a psychologist from Belarus, Andrei Russkikh, follows from the file of the court. As lawyer Maria Belyaeva clarified to Interfax, the preventive measure against the Russians was chosen to ensure possible extradition to Belarusian law enforcement agencies and is valid until July 6.
According to the lawyer, at home, the man is accused of publicly insulting President Alexander Lukashenko (part 1 of article 368 of the Criminal Code of Belarus) and inciting social hatred (part 1 of article 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus). These cases involve comments on social media.
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Freelance exchange Upwork closed access for users from Russia and Belarus.
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The European Commission has announced that Croatia is ready to adopt the euro from January 1, 2023, according to Euronews. According to the EC, the country has fulfilled all the conditions for this. The Council of the European Union will make a final decision on Croatia’s entry into the Eurozone in the first half of July.
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The International Confederation of Consumer Societies (ConfOP) sent a number of proposals to the Central Bank and the government to improve the terms of credit holidays for Russians against the backdrop of sanctions, Izvestia reports. The Central Bank confirmed to the newspaper that they were conducting a dialogue with ConfOP and promised to study the proposals received.
The authors of the initiative explained their proposal by the fact that at the moment more than 7 million Russians are experiencing difficulties with debt servicing.
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The Russian government has excluded exports of several fertilizers from quotas: diammonium phosphate (DAP), sodium nitrate, and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate, Interfax reports citing the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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HP has officially announced its withdrawal from Belarus and Russia. Previously, it suspended its activities in these countries. The company justifies a complete withdrawal from the market by the inexpediency of further doing business in the Russian Federation and Belarus.
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According to the analytical resource GlobalStats, Apple’s proprietary Safari browser not only became the second in the world in terms of the number of installations, but also, after Chrome, surpassed the milestone of one billion users.
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China on Thursday launched a constellation of nine commercial satellites into orbit to test various technologies for providing Internet connectivity to vehicles, CGTN reported.
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The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia plans to change recommendations for the digitalization of companies with state participation, increasing the share of total spending on Russian software from 70% to 80%, Maxim Parshin, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said at the CIPR-2022 conference.
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In April, deliveries of laptops from China to Russia decreased by 7 times. This was reported by the Chinese Customs Service. In April 2021, China shipped more than 2 million smartphones, and now there are about 830,000. 43 thousand laptops instead of 350 thousand.
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The Swiss engineering company Oerlikon, whose stake is owned by Russian entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg, has decided to sell its business to «local management», according to a statement on its website.
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Prosecutors seize documents from the office of a Moldovan opposition party. Investigative actions are being carried out in the office of the Party of Socialists of Moldova, which until December 2021 was headed by the country’s former president Igor Dodon. He is now under house arrest on a number of charges, including treason.
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Norway has resumed LNG production at its Hammerfest LNG plant, which was shut down after a fire in September 2020, Equinor said.
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AvtoVAZ will introduce downtime from June 6 to 10 inclusive at the subdivisions engaged in the production of cars of the family on the B0 and Niva platforms.
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Spain’s Repsol will invest 105 million euros to build the first plant in the Iberian Peninsula capable of producing ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), the company said in a press release.
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In Russia, they will create a new system for verifying the data of owners of mobile phone numbers, which security officials and collectors will be able to access. The system will be something like a gateway through which the users admitted to it will be able to submit requests to telecom operators. Those, in turn, will have to provide them with data on the subscriber number, full name of its owner, series and passport number
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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill blessed deputy Leonid Slutsky for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party during a public ceremony in one of the Moscow churches, noting his modesty and sincerity in good deeds. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church did not list all the «virtues» of the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, noting only that they «refer to his activities both as a deputy and as just a kind person who helped, always remaining in the shadows, never emphasizing his participation in many good deeds.»
In 2018, several journalists accused Slutsky of harassment. However, the Duma commission then did not see any «behavioral violations» and did not begin to understand the case. As a protest, a number of media outlets announced the recall of their employees from the Duma.
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Roskomnadzor confirmed that it blocked a number of VPN services, including Proton, as part of the isolated RuNet law. All due to the fact that the services helped to bypass the blocking of «prohibited content».
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A structural shift has begun in the Russian economy: in the absence of technological imports, companies will replace technology with people, Alfa-Bank predicted. Including this process, he explains the fall in unemployment in April to a new historical low of 4%
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The special steel plant in Targovishte, the only full-cycle precast concrete manufacturer in Romania, closed down nine years ago due to being unprofitable. Now, after the emergence of problems with supplies, there is a need for its revival, according to the portal observatornews.ro.
The European leader in the production of special steels, the Italian group Beltrame, is investing more than 250 million euros in the plant. Production is planned to be launched at the end of June and at the first stage to produce 10,000 tons of construction steel per month. In 2024, when the new plant is ready, production capacity will increase to 70,000 tons.
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Divnogorsk plant «SKAD» suspended production: employees were sent on vacation and downtime. The plant manufactures cast aluminum wheels. Production had to be stopped due to a decrease in demand for them, writes NGS24. About 650 employees work at the plant.
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OPEC+ committee recommends alliance to increase production by 648,000 barrels per day — RIA source in one of the delegations
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Russians spend almost half of their salary on renting an apartment. In some regions, this figure exceeds 70%. The average apartment rental rate in 2021 was 19 thousand rubles, the median salary in Russia was 40.2 thousand rubles. Thus, the average share of rental costs was 47.2%, according to a study by BusinesStat.
The highest share of costs in the Crimea is 75.8%. The most affordable housing in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. They spend about 24% of the salary there. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the ratio is 63.7% and 55.2%, respectively.
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