April 20, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

On April 14–18, Ukraine received 11 shipments of humanitarian aid for energy workers from Lithuania, Poland and Belgium.

Lithuania will build a second transportation route to bring in arms from Poland to ensure the security of the Suwałki Corridor for defence against russia’s possible attack.

The central bank of the rf has declared the collapse of mortgages without benefits after rates rose by almost 30 %.

Stock exchange prices in the rf for AI-95 and AI-92 petrol increased by almost 5 % over the week.

The project of the sovereign electric car “lada” failed: in six months, avtovaz sold one car.

russia has offered passports to stateless people in exchange for participation in the war against Ukraine.

The russian airline’s “superjet” broke down in the air, – the seventh since the beginning of the year.

At the New York Auto Show, an international jury of 96 journalists representing three dozen countries decided on the best cars of the year. Not a single model shortlisted for the World Car Awards is officially represented in russia.

The number of operating media outlets in russia continues to decline. Last year, 2,970 media outlets were closed, more than half of which were print publications.

russian regions have stopped purchasing medicines for cancer patients.

russian regional hospitals are employing under-trained medical students – after two years of studying.

russia demonstrates a final break with regional security mechanisms – the rf’s government has decided to stop participating in international agreements with Norway, Finland, and Sweden on cooperation in the Barents/Euro-Arctic region.

Daria Kozyreva, 19, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for sticking Taras Shevchenko’s poem on a monument to the poet. This was recognized as “discrediting” the army.

The authorities of Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region) first allowed but then banned turning the pedestal of the monument to lenin into a skateboard ramp.

In Buryatia, an organization was created to study juche ideas, and for that matter, celebrated the anniversary of the birth of the first leader of the dprk, Kim Il-sung, who invented juche, an ideology that advocates complete isolationism and self-reliance. putin's party announced with pathos that the “young guards” and komsomol members of the dprk “will hold joint events and exchange delegations to strengthen ties.”

Citizens of the rf and the rb with a Schengen category D visa, which allows them to stay in the EU for 90 to 365 days, have been banned from using money on their accounts with the Lithuanian online bank Paysera.

The Latvian State Security Service strongly recommends that Latvian residents refrain from traveling to russia or belarus over the Easter weekend, again warning of high risks of intelligence activities, recruitment and provocations in those countries.

Minister of the Interior and Administration of Poland Tomasz Siemoniak rules out opening the checkpoints on the border with belarus until minsk changes its policy and migration pressure ceases.

The UN Human Rights Committee has recognized that belarus massively violates the citizens’ rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.

belarus is one of the top ten most drinking countries with annual use of 11.6 liters of alcohol per capita over the age of 15.

Price control in manual mode in belarus creates big problems for retail chains. According to official statistics alone, from 2023 to 2024, trade credit arrears increased from 8 to 12 billion rubles (by 50 %), while suppliers’ debts to retailers doubled.