Canada will send winter military uniforms worth 30 million Canadian dollars to Ukraine and will contribute another 12 million dollars to the joint fund of the Drone Coalition. Our country will also receive components for AIM-7 missiles, LAU-7A missile launchers, M113 armored personnel carriers, and spare parts for them.

The EU is actively working on a decision to train Ukrainian military servicemen on Ukrainian territory and expand other forms of support.

Special Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Jon Kyst has announced that his country has provided Ukraine with approximately 300 billion hryvnias in aid, supporting state bodies, civil society, and the media.

The European External Action Service has proposed expanding the powers of EU member states to inspect ships belonging to russia’s so-called “shadow fleet”. The proposal is based on an agreement between flag states and the EU on preliminary sanctions inspections.

Only at the end of 2025 did it become known that in 2024, moscow’s central universal store (TsUM) reported revenue of 3.18 billion rubles (in 2023 – 9.58 billion rubles). A decline of 66.8 % was recorded. The cost of sales on an annualized basis fell by 96.1 % – from 2.82 billion rubles to 110.6 million rubles.

From December 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, russia will conduct an experiment on collecting biometric data from foreigners. The experiment does not apply to citizens of belarus, heads and employees of diplomatic missions and consular offices in the rf, children under six years of age, and some other categories of foreigners. The collection of biometric data is necessary to create a digital profile of migrants in order to track their stay in russia in the future.

russian titanium producer VSMPO-Avisma Corporation plans to introduce part-time employment for a limited number of employees, mainly those in management positions, starting December 1. This involves a transition to a four-day work week.

On the eve of the winter holidays, consumers should prepare for an increase in the cost of mandarins in russia by almost 20 % compared to last year.

In St. Petersburg, damage to pipeline networks was recorded in the first weeks of the heating season. The city also identified areas with an increased risk of pipe breaks. Pipelines that have been in operation for more than 25 years are at the greatest risk. About a third of the city’s pipeline networks have exceeded this period.

The turnover of clothing manufacturing companies in St. Petersburg for the first eight months of 2025 amounted to 34.7 billion rubles, which is by 55.7 % less than in the same period of 2024.

In 2025, 12,500 russians living abroad applied for participation in the program of voluntary resettlement to russia – tree times fewer than last year.

belarus has added 23 more people to its “list of extremists”. Among them is a former deputy principal at a minsk gymnasium who had been teaching mathematics for about 40 years. In July 2021, the woman was sentenced to 15 days in prison. Her home was searched, she was taken to the kgb, and then charged with “insubordination”. It is unknown when exactly she was fired  from the school.