Chips from Nvidia and Intel, which are used in Moscow's facial recognition systems, continued to be shipped to Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine and despite the sanctions imposed after that. Reuters writes about this in its investigation. Details.

The share of Russian oil in the EU market by the end of 2022 decreased to 4% compared to 24-33% in the pre-war months. Now the main supplier for the European Union has become the United States, follows from the Eurostat data. Details. In December 2022, the largest suppliers of raw oil in the EU became the United States (18% of the total imports) and Norway (17%).

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which the Russian Orthodox Church considers part of, is scheduled to leave the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, its main monastery complex in Ukraine, on Wednesday. After that, the UOC will also lose other important objects in Ukraine, church experts told the Agency. Details.

Former videographer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Pavel Zelensky, who received two years in prison for incitement to extremism, at the trial in the case of the former head of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Lilia Chanysheva, gave evidence that can be used in sentencing the activist. Zelensky's testimony was published on Tuesday by FBK director Ivan Zhdanov. Details .

The official account of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs deleted a video in which the Ukrainian military allegedly offends a woman for Russian speech, the founder of Bellingcat Elliot Higgins drew attention on his twitter. This video turned out to be a Russian fake, they found out Osint analysts. Details. The video on the official twitter of the Russian Foreign Ministry was available on the morning of March 28. By 11:30 Moscow time, judging by the Higgins post, the recording was deleted.

At the end of December 2022, during a gala dinner attended by high-ranking officials, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the war would continue for a long time, The Guardian writes , citing several guests that evening. Quote. “I think you expect me to say something. Everything will become much harder. This is a very, very long time,” Peskov said to the audience as a toast. His words were independently retold to the publication by two dinner guests.

The court in Efremov sentenced Aleksey Moskalev to two years in prison under the article on repeated “discrediting” of the army. The court reported that on the eve of the verdict, the man fled. His daughter remains in an orphanage, and the man may soon be deprived of parental rights. This is the first case since Soviet times when a child is taken away from a single parent because of his political position. Details. According to Mediazona, Moskalev was not brought to the verdict.

The main threat to the security of Russia's fuel and energy facilities comes from drone attacks, said Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov . According to him, the security guards who will be able to use “means of counteracting illegal UAVs” should help in solving the problem. Quote. “The key threat now is acts of unlawful interference using UAVs. We are closely cooperating on this issue with the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Transport,” Shulginov said.

The Russian authorities have classified a third of the federal budget expenditures for the period from the beginning of 2023 to March 24. This is a record figure, writes Bloomberg. Unknown are the costs of a total of 2.4 trillion rubles. At the same time, it follows from the open part of the budget that expenditures on national defense are now second only to expenditures under the “social policy” item. Details.

Approximately 2,000 companies have applied to withdraw from Russian business, a source close to one of the firms told the Financial Times. On the eve of the Ministry of Finance announced that companies leaving Russia from "unfriendly countries" will be required to pay at least 5% of the value of Russian assets to the budget. Details. To sell a business now, Western companies need to get permission for the deal from the Foreign Investment Commission of the Ministry of Finance.