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The EU Council on Friday, June 19, has decided to extend sanctions for another six months against Russia - until 23 June 2021, according to the website of the Council.

The TV channel "Russia 1" was shown another fragment of the film "Russia. The Kremlin. Putin," which is entirely the audience will be able to see on 21 June at 22:00. In it the President of Russia is responsible for including questions of a personal nature – in particular, the gifts to grandchildren.

On Friday, June 19, for a meeting with President of Belarus arrived in Minsk the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. Alexander Lukashenko assured the diplomat that in the relations of the two countries will be able to solve the existing "not catastrophic" problems.

Russia's economy is gradually recovering, said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in mode of videoconference with the representatives of industries affected by the pandemic, which was broadcast channel "Russia 24".

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin believes that as head of state he is obliged to stay connected around the clock. He told about it in the film "Russia. The Kremlin. Putin", a fragment of which was published by the journalist of VGTRK Pavel Zarubin on his page in Instagram.

The article of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin "the Actual lessons of the 75th anniversary of the Second world war," commented political scientists and historians. President of RAS Alexander Sergeev believes that Putin's article not only journalistic and political, but largely academic

Oil prices on the global markets quickly rises after the successful results of the past Thursday a meeting of the Ministerial monitoring Committee of OPEC+. Per day barrel of oil has risen more than a dollar.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia at the meeting on Friday, 19 June, lowered its key rate to 4.5%, according to a statement the regulator. Such a low level is reached for the first time since then, as the key rate introduced by the Bank of Russia 13 September 2013 as the main indicator of monetary policy.

Russia took note of the expert opinion of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe regarding amendments to the Constitution. This was announced by the co-chair of the working group on consideration of amendments, the head of the Federation Council Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction Andrey Klishas.

In the Kremlin commented on the statements of former adviser to the US President for homeland security John Bolton about Donald trump, which Vladimir Putin allegedly can easily manipulate.