The United States and the EU have decided on four possible options for sanctions against Russia in the event of an escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Friday, March 14, citing Western diplomatic sources. The first option, according to the majority of Western diplomats interviewed by the newspaper, is “the least likely”: it involves postponing the Crimean referendum and Russia accepting the conditions put forward by the United States and the EU.

The editor-in-chief of the website of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Vitaly Ruvinsky wrote a request to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia asking for clarification of which materials on the blog of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, previously posted on the radio station's website, contain illegal information. A copy of the request is posted on the Echo of Moscow website. According to Ruvinsky, 793 entries were posted on Navalny’s blog on the Ekho Moskvy website.

An American reconnaissance and attack drone was intercepted in the sky above Crimea at an altitude of 4,000 meters, the website of the Rostec state corporation reported on Friday with reference to Military Observer. The information was later removed from the Rostec website, but it can still be found in the cache of search engines. “The MQ-5B drone, judging by the on-board markings, was part of the 66th American Military Intelligence Brigade with its main location in Bavaria,” the website says.

The legal dispute between members of the family of the late businessman Badri Patarkatsishvil and Vasily Anisimov (No. 663 in the Forbes global ranking of billionaires, net worth $2.6 billion) over a stake in the Metalloinvest company has been settled, RAPSI reported on Friday, citing a press release from the law firm Signature Litigation LLP, which represents the family. “I am pleased to confirm that an agreement has been reached between my clients and Mr.

The online publication EUobserver, citing sources, published the names of Russian officials who face sanctions from the West due to the situation in Crimea. As the publication notes, citing diplomats, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are “not yet” on the list. At the same time, the names of high-ranking officials appear in it.

The court of the Austrian federal state of Vienna on Friday opened a case on the extradition to the United States of Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash (No. 14 in the Ukrainian Forbes ranking, net worth $673 million), detained on the evening of March 12 in Austria, and set him bail at €125 million, RIA Novosti reported. with reference to the press service of the court. “The extradition case is open.

The online publication Grani.ru filed a complaint with the Tagansky District Court of Moscow about the inclusion of its website grani.ru in the register of prohibited resources by Roskomnadzor, according to a press release from the interregional human rights association Agora, which represents the interests of the publication.

During clashes between participants in two rallies that took place on March 13 on Lenin Square in Donetsk, a 22-year-old local resident died, according to the website of the Donetsk Regional State Administration. According to the regional health department, he died from a stab wound in an ambulance. In total, 17 people consulted doctors, 15 of them were hospitalized. The Donbass News portal reports that at least 50 people were injured.

Russia has no plans to invade southeast Ukraine, but Crimea is a “special case” for Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday following talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in London. “Russia does not and cannot have plans to invade the southeast of Ukraine,” the Interfax agency quotes him as saying.

Ukraine filed a complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), reports the court’s press service . The application was made on Thursday, March 13, under Article 33 (International Affairs) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Photo by RIA Novosti Perhaps the FBI's actions were dictated by a desire to put pressure on Moscow It is immediately necessary to make a reservation that speculation about the reasons for the arrest of Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash in Vienna still remains speculation - there is still little information for qualitative conclusions.

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Russian investigators have opened a criminal case against the leader of the Ukrainian Svoboda party Oleg Tyagnibok and several other people suspected of creating an armed gang, said on Friday.

In the Canadian capital of Ottawa on Friday morning, a Russian diplomat was attacked and was stabbed, the local newspaper Ottawa Sun reported . The incident happened at half past eight in the morning local time in the foyer of a residential building located a block from the Russian Embassy on Stewart Street in the Sandy Hill area. According to the publication, the 44-year-old diplomat was slashed with a knife during an argument.

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov offered jobs to resigned employees of the Lenta.ru online publication, according to an appeal published on Friday on the newspaper’s website. “Novaya Gazeta offers the team that left Lenta.ru its portal to continue their professional activities on a fee basis,” the appeal says. In it, Muratov, on behalf of the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta, said that he has great respect for the work and actions of the Lenta.ru team.