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#Russia
Russian banks issued a record number of credit cards in April — their number for the first time exceeded 50 million
It's clear that all these loans are irrevocable - the population of Russia is looking forward to the default of their own country.

Russian stocks are "essentially worthless after Russia's invasion of Ukraine", according to MSCI

In RF began to test the total blocking of VPN
From trying to block access to individual VPN clients, the authorities have moved on to blocking the protocols that a VPN provider uses to connect to servers.

#Taiwan
The developer of Elbrus processors is trying to negotiate with Mikron to transfer their production from Taiwan to Zelenograd, since the factory in Taiwan has become unavailable due to sanctions. But the level of technology development in Russia is an order of magnitude lower.

#NATO
NATO's new strategic concept will be adopted at the Madrid summit, which will be held from 28 to 30 June. The attitude towards Russia, which was considered a "partner" in the previous document, will be adjusted, and #China will be added, which has not yet been.