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The News: Short Weekly World Tour
Vita gazette – From the USA to NATO and the EU, from Russia to China and the Pacific… From energy to armament and hunger… From culture to story and art… From natural disasters to new discoveries and technology. History important notes recorded. (June 13 – June 20, 2022)
International relations and strategies
EU – Russia: President of France Emmanuel Macron stated that France and Europe have entered a period of the war economy and announced that countries will organize accordingly for a long time. June 13
Lithuania – Belarus: Lithuania took measures against Belarus. Nearly 200 warning sirens will be placed in the 100-kilometer potential impact area of the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus. June 13
Armament – Lithuania – Ukraine: Lithuania will send 6 reconnaissance drones to Ukraine. June 13
Israel – Lebanon: Israel announced that they have determined “thousands of targets to be destroyed in Lebanon”. June 13
Russia – England: The Russian Foreign Ministry put 49 people, including British journalists, defense industry executives and members of the army, on the sanction list. June 14
NATO – Japan: A first at the NATO Leaders Summit: Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio announced that he will attend the NATO Leaders Summit to be held in Madrid on 29-30 June. Australia, New Zealand and South Korea are among those invited to the NATO Summit as “partner countries” from the Asia-Pacific region. June 15
Russia – Ukraine – Pope: Pope Francesco criticized NATO in the Russia-Ukraine War, saying “Russia was provoked in some way”. June 15
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Clashes resumed between KDC soldiers and the March 23 Movement. 25 thousand people left their homes in 3 days due to conflicts in KDC. June 15
Armament – Germany – Slovakia – Ukraine: Both countries will send MLRA systems and helicopters to Ukraine. Germany has announced that it will send a multi-barreled rocket launcher system “Mars 2” to Ukraine. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht stated that Ukraine especially needs weapons used by artillery units and said, “As Germany, we have decided to supply 3 Mars 2 multi-barrel rocket launcher systems and hundreds of rockets in our army inventory. We will train the Mars 2 system together with our partners, the USA and the UK,” he said.
Slovakia also reported that they donated thousands of 122 millimetre Grad rockets to Ukraine, as well as 5 Mi series helicopters. Slovakia had previously donated S-300 systems to Ukraine.
The USA announced that it will send 4 M142 High-Motion Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and GMLRS Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, while the UK will send 3 M270 MLRS launchers to Ukraine. June 16
United Kingdom – Russia-Ukraine: the United Kingdom has announced the receipt that Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, Deputy Moscow City Duma Sergey Savostyanov, President of Russian shipping company Volga-Dnepr Group Alexey Isaykin and 4 Russian soldiers. June 16
EU – Tunisia: The European Union has announced that it has provided 162 billion Euros of financial aid to Tunisia, which is in political and economic crisis for a while. 16 June
Ukraine – Russia: Ukraine has decided to apply for visas for Russian citizens. 17 June
EU – Ukraine: The European Commission has announced its decision on Ukraine’s membership. The Commission recommended that Ukraine could become a candidate country. Whether Ukraine will have the status of a candidate country will be determined at the EU Summit, which will take place on 23-24 June. 17 June
Energy – Russia – France: Russia has stopped the flow of natural gas to France. Russian energy company Gazprom recently announced that gas shipments via Nord Stream had dropped from 167 million cubic meters per day to 67 million cubic meters. The reason for the outage was stated that some technical equipment sent to the German Siemens company for maintenance had not yet returned. 17 June
Energy – Germany: Germany has announced that the country will need to reduce gas consumption and use more coal plants for electricity generation to help fill natural gas storage facilities for next winter. 19 June
NATO – USA – EU: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the German media, “We must prepare for the fact that the war may last for years”. June 19
Border issues – Canada – Denmark: 35 years of tension over who owns Hans Island, a small piece of land in Greenland, has come to an end. The two countries reached an agreement to share the uninhabited Arctic island. The island was divided in the middle on a north-south axis, and the conflict came to an end. Hans Island is the size of a football field and there are no living things apart from the occasional arctic bird. June 19
EU – Egypt: The EU will provide 100 million euros to Egypt for food security. June 19
Ukraine – Russia: The Ukrainian parliament has banned the playing or performance of some Russian music on television, radio, schools, public transport, hotels, restaurants, cinemas and other public places. The ban will not apply to all Russian music, but rather to music composed or performed by Russian citizens after 1991.
Artists who condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine will be able to apply for an exemption from the ban. The import of books from Russia and Belarus will also be prohibited according to the legislation. In line with the law affecting music, the printing and distribution of books written by Russian citizens will also be prohibited, but this will not apply to books already published in Ukraine. June 20
Elections
France: The second round of parliamentary elections was held in the country. French President Emmanuel Macron lost an absolute majority in parliament. The alliance, led by Macron’s party, cannot reach the number of deputies to form a government alone. The political crisis appeared. June 19
Colombia: Left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro won the presidential election. Petro’s deputy, Francia Marquez, will become the first female Afro-Colombian Vice President in the country’s history. June 20
Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced in a joint statement that they agreed to dissolve the parliament and hold early elections, and stated that Lapid will serve as the interim prime minister until the new government is formed. June 20
Climate change – Global Warming
EU: Sales of new petrol and diesel cars in European Union (EU) countries will be banned from 2035. Accordingly, new cars and light commercial vehicles to be sold from 2035 will have zero emissions. June 13
USA: In the state of Kansas, thousands of cattle perished due to the extreme heat and humidity. June 17
Health
Corona – China: Two hundred new cases of coronavirus were detected in the country. It has been announced that millions of people will be involved in a mass vaccination campaign to contain the coronavirus wave. It was announced that the last two hundred new cases detected were spread by a single person who went to various bars in Beijing. June 13
Air pollution – India: A study conducted by the University of Chicago showed that air pollution shortens life expectancy by up to 10 years in the capital city of India, New Delhi. June 14
Monkey Blossom – EU: The European Union signed an agreement with the biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic for the supply of 110 thousand doses of vaccine against the virus. June 14
Monkey Pox – Italy: Italian scientists announced that monkeypox disease appeared in sperm samples. Experts explained that for this reason, the probability of sexual transmission of the disease is high. Since the beginning of May, more than 1300 cases have emerged in around 30 countries, mostly in Europe. June 14
Monkeypox – Belgium: There were 52 cases of monkeypox in Belgium. According to the statement made by the World Health Organization, Europe has the distinction of being the epicentre of the world in monkeypox. June 16
Corona – Spain: It has been announced that the country will start to apply the 4th dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in autumn. June 16
Art and culture
Eurovision – Ukraine: The European Broadcasting Union (EUB) announced that the UK will host Eurovision in 2023, not Ukraine. He showed the reason for the ongoing war in Ukraine. June 17
Ukraine – Russia: Ukraine has banned the playing or performance of some Russian music on television, radio, schools, public transport, hotels, restaurants, cinemas and other public places. The ban will specifically relate to music composed or performed by those who became Russian citizens after 1991.
Artists who condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine will be able to apply for an exemption from the ban. Book imports from Russia and Belarus will also be banned according to the legislation. In line with the law affecting music, the printing and distribution of books written by Russian citizens will also be prohibited, but this will not apply to books already published in Ukraine. June 20
Research – Discovery
Air pollution – India: A study conducted by the University of Chicago showed that air pollution shortens life expectancy by up to 10 years in the capital city of India, New Delhi. June 14
Plague – Kyrgyzstan: According to a study by a research team from the University of Stirling in Scotland and the University of Tubingen and the Max Plank Institute in Germany, the plague originated in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan in the 1330s. June 16
Life style
Sri Lanka: Friday has been declared a holiday in the country. June 14
Law
Japan: Porn images The Japanese Parliament passed a law to prevent youth from being forced to take part in pornographic films and pornographic photo shoots. According to the law, whose full name is “Adult Video Prevention and Victim Assistance Act”, even if a person has given consent for any reason at the time, he can later withdraw this consent and prevent the film from being published, distributed and his or her name being passed among the actors. June 16