The unemployment level in Russia plunged to a new all-time low of 3.2% in May, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Tatyana Golikova said on Friday. According to the official, the number of jobless people recorded last month was 516,000, which is a 48,000 decline from the beginning of the year.
The bloc is considering using interest generated from the funds to help rebuild Ukraine, Bloomberg reports European Union leaders have been discussing plans to impose a windfall tax on profits generated by more than €200 billion ($217 billion) of frozen Russian central bank assets to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction, according to Bloomberg.
Judges have accused the ex-leader of spreading lies about last year’s presidential race Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from seeking public office for eight years, after a federal court said he made baseless claims about the country’s voting system and abused the power of the presidency.