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Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry published a list of more than 50 categories of goods that will be available for parallel imports. It included a variety of items: from plants to medicines, from soap to weapons. In terms of technology and electronics, the list includes products from such brands as Siemens, Panasonic, Apple, Intel, Samsung, Dyson, Electolux, GoPro, Asus, JBL, Logitech and many others. The largest Russian marketplaces - Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex.Market - announced that they are ready to work with goods imported under the parallel import pattern.
NATO plans to enhance its battlegroups in its eastern parts and to look at issues of military supplies, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 27. "At the Summit, we will strengthen our forward defences. We will enhance our battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance up to brigade-levels. We will transform the NATO Response Force. And increase the number of our high readiness forces. To well over 300,000," he said at a news conference ahead of the alliance’s summit in Madrid.
UK Defense Secretary meets Zelensky, Reznikov in Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the U.K. for its continued support and said that the country is “showing its leadership in supporting Ukraine” when it comes to weapons, finances and sanctions. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that the U.K. and Ukraine have a lot in common, and compared Ukraine’s fight against the fascist regime today with the U.K. fight during the World War II.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law the bills on non-compliance with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Russia, according to the corresponding documents published on the official portal of legal information on June 10. Thus, the ECHR rulings against Russia adopted after March 15, 2022 (the date when Russia announced its exit from the Council of Europe - TASS) will not be implemented, while compensation payments according to the ECHR’s rulings will be made only in rubles and only to accounts in Russian banks. That said, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office will be able to make payments according to the ECHR decisions until January 1, 2023.
Central Bank employees were strongly advised not to travel to Europe, the United States and other “unfriendly countries,” The Bell learned. “Given the current geopolitical situation in the world, the possible realization of a security threat to Russian citizens when they are abroad, as well as the presence of potential risks associated with their return, we strongly recommend that Bank of Russia employees refrain from traveling to countries included in the list of unfriendly countries until further notice. ", - says the letter signed by deputy chairmen Ruslan Vesterovsky (supervises personnel) and German Zubarev (security service). There is no talk of a direct ban - the document is advisory in nature. But the employees of the Central Bank are allowed to get acquainted with it against signature. In total, almost 50 thousand
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