Russia-Ukraine peace talks, gold extraction, and Black Sea tanker incident reported
Reports indicate details of a peace agreement proposed by India for Ukraine and Russia, while a Russian national returned by Lithuania received a six-year sentence for anti-war publications. Russia's annual gold extraction has been between 430-480 tons in the last five years, with reserves increasing by 700-800 tons, according to Oleg Kazanov, head of Rosnedra.
Additionally, the acting minister of housing and energy of Kalmykia, Konstantin Klimentyev, was arrested. The governor of Kurgan, Shumkov, has begun lecturing at Moscow's Orthodox universities. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri Kagan and Kanso Soai. Dmitry Peskov stated that India is ready to contribute to resolving the situation around Ukraine. Separately, a student attacked people with a knife in a Polish school, injuring at least seven. Fire after an attack on a tanker in the Black Sea has been extinguished with no oil spill.
