✴️🇷🇺 Russia's first budget payment in digital rubles was made in Chuvashia

✴️🇷🇺 Russia's Supreme Court has added digital rubles, digital rights, and cryptocurrencies to the list of items subject to theft.

🛢️ Brent < $80

⚠️🇺🇦 Zelensky said he will not go to Moscow. He proposed meeting with Putin in Turkey, Switzerland, or somewhere in the Middle East.

⚠️🇪🇺 European defense ministers have begun discussing scenarios for conducting military operations without full-scale U.S. support — BBG

🔥🇺🇸 US — Housing Starts (May) = -15.4% m/m (exp. -2% / prev. -2.8%)

🔥⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺 TRUMP: WE WILL SOON BE ABLE TO TIGHTEN SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

TRUMP: THE US WILL SOON HAVE THE OPTION TO WALK BACK THE EASING OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN OIL

⚠️🇺🇦 Ukraine is ready to end the war today — Zelensky

Russia is ready to end the war today — Kremlin

❌🇷🇺 Raspadskaya shareholders approved non-payment of dividends for 2025.

🇷🇺📊 June 17 — Russia's Ministry of Finance will hold auctions to place OFZ 26252 and 26254

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Polyus plans to place a new quasi-currency bond issue in yuan with a tenor to put option of 5 years — the longest maturity among corporate yuan issues in the Russian market.

Issue volume: from CNY 1 billion.

Initial coupon guidance: no higher than 8.0% p.a. (yield: no higher than 8.3%).

Bookbuilding: June 18.

Settlement available in either yuan or rubles at investor's choice.

🔥🛢️🇶🇦 QatarEnergy is ready to resume LNG production very quickly and reach full capacity within one month. The main issue lies in delivery, not production — it all comes down to logistics — sources RTRS

⚠️✴️🇺🇸 Robinhood's crypto business volume has halved since the start of the year, company is laying off staff

⚠️🇪🇺 The Netherlands has begun preparing prisoner-of-war camps in case of conflict with Russia — AD

⚠️✴️🇪🇺 Binance may lose permission to serve EU customers. Greece is set to deny the exchange a license — RTRS

🇷🇺📉 SOLLERS GROUP MAY 2026 SALES DOWN 10.4%, TO 2.84K VEHICLES — COMPANY — TASS

SOLLERS GROUP FORECASTS RUSSIAN AUTO MARKET REVIVAL IN H2 2026 — CEO

🔥🇺🇸 SpaceX has surpassed Amazon to become the fifth largest company in the world by market capitalization.

✴️₿ Trading of BlackRock's new spot BTC ETF with additional yield income has launched on Nasdaq

iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF

Ticker: BITA

🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia has issued recommendations on the safe use of AI in the financial sector

— Bank of Russia

⚠️🇷🇺 "SPIRIT OF ANCHORAGE" EXITS RUSSIAN STOCKS — Monitoring

🔥🇺🇦🇺🇸 Timeline of the new phase toward ending the Ukraine conflict:

1) Vladimir Putin called and was the first world leader to congratulate Trump on his birthday

2) Trump was moved and hastened to wrap up the conflict with Iran in order to fully focus on Ukraine

3) Trump spoke with Zelensky, urged Russia to make a deal, and stated that the US could soon tighten sanctions against Russia

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