In the United States, off the coast of South Carolina, the US military shot down a Chinese balloon that had been flying over the country for several days. Beijing called Washington's reaction "excessive" and said it reserves the right to retaliate. “China expresses strong dissatisfaction and protest due to the use of force by the United States to attack a civilian unmanned balloon.

Authorities in the Indian state of Assam have launched a massive campaign against child marriage. In three days, police arrested more than 2,200 men who married underage girls. Police have contacted a number of villages and communities to investigate reports of child marriages in the state over the past three years, police said. In total, in two days, the security forces became aware of four thousand such cases.

Translator and publicist Dmitry Simanovsky - about the colonial formula of Russian literature In the Russian Facebook, the Elif Batuman’s essay “ re -reading Russian classics in the shadow of the Ukrainian War ”, published in The New Yorker, is warmly arguing. Journalist Batuman writes how, admiring Russian literature for many years, she did not notice her colonial character, but falling in love with Karenin and Vronsky - that they are imperialists.

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Channel 12 that Russian President Vladimir Putin promised him not to kill Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. According to Bennett, Putin made such a promise in a conversation during the Israeli prime minister's visit to Moscow in early March last year. “I knew that Zelensky was under threat, in a bunker… I asked [Putin]: “Are you going to kill Zelensky?” He replied: “I will not kill Zelensky,” Bennett says.

In Moscow, a report was drawn up against a subscriber of the public “Real Lentach” about “discrediting” the Russian army due to the repost of a video with the detention of an elderly woman with an anti-war poster. This is reported in the public itself. “The repost was made in February 2022, but the case was opened only now. The denunciation was written by the subscriber's colleagues who want to fire him,” writes Real Lentach.

A well-known Russian neo-Nazi who fought in the ranks of the Russian army in Ukraine, Igor Mangushev, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head in one of the hospitals in the city of Stakhanov in the annexed Luhansk People's Republic. According to his wife, Tatyana Azarevich, the nature of her husband's injury indicates that he was probably executed. “According to the doctors, this is a blind gunshot wound, the bullet stuck in the brain.

The mayor of the city of Kotovsk, Tambov region, United Russia Alexei Plakhotnikov posted a video on his VKontakte page in which he and his children sing an anti-Ukrainian song. “Alexander Vanyushkin visited the Kotov School of Arts, who, together with the Kotovites, performed, I’m not afraid of big words, the anthem of our time - the song “333”, ”Plakhotnikov signed the video. “A swastika is in the car, a dill is driving. Across the field, across the field, a coffin on wheels.