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• The institution has purchased over 20 tons of gold this year • Emerging markets have made the most of the purchases as geopolitical risk increases • Russia and Turkey are among the biggest gold sellers, amid fiscal and currency pressures 

Russian billionaires increased their wealth by 11% over the past year, to a record $696.5 billion, despite the war in Ukraine and the toughest Western sanctions ever imposed on a major economy, Reuters reports, according to Agerpres.

The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) organization proposes an unusual but pragmatic solution to protect marine ecosystems in Greece: the consumption of invasive fish. WWF representatives point out that, especially in southern Greece and the Dodecanese archipelago, non-native species are becoming increasingly present on the market.

Romania's Minister of Education and Research, Mihai Dimian, and the president of the National Trade Union Federation "Alma Mater,” Anton Hadăr, have signed a collective labor agreement for higher education, applicable at the level of institutions affiliated with the union federation.

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen warned in an interview with Euronews that even if the Middle East conflict is resolved, energy prices will not return to pre-war levels in the coming years.

The Romanian state is willing to deliberately inflate an order of almost one billion euros, through the SAFE mechanism, so that a private investor can be convinced to swallow a 180 million euro hole at the Mangalia Shipyard, officially valued at only 87 million, according to statements made by Radu Miruţă, Minister of National Defense, in a podcast published at the end of last week on the explicativ.com website, statements that went unnoticed by the mainstream media in our country.