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• Oil prices are surging again – and that's making Russia a lot richer.
• The Kremlin's crude export revenues jumped $1.8 billion last month, according to the International Energy Agency.
• The surge comes with key benchmarks close to 10-month highs on recent OPEC+ production cuts.

The Russian president said the West needs to facilitate Moscow’s own agricultural exports before he will join a pact that guaranteed security for Kyiv’s Black Sea exports.

Observers say divisions over Ukraine, climate change make join G20 communique unlikely

• Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed. 
• In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. 
• BBC Russian asks former Western diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.