Gasoline production in Russia fell by more than 14% after a series of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries (refineries) and other fuel industry facilities. “Important Stories” write about this, citing official data from Rosstat. Thus, according to the department, from March 18 to 24, gasoline production in Russia decreased by 14.3% in annual terms, and compared to the previous week, the decrease was 7.4%.

Two years ago, Dubai became one of the most popular destinations for Russians who emigrated after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Now its attractiveness for Russian emigrants is decreasing, writes Bloomberg. The reasons are the rising cost of living and increased attention from local banks, fearing secondary sanctions from the United States. The drop in demand from Russian clients was noticed by local bankers and investment specialists, the agency notes.

The terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall in Moscow on March 22 were under the influence of narcotic or psychotropic substances. The TASS agency reports this, citing an unnamed source in law enforcement agencies. “Four were under the influence of drugs. What kind of drug or psychotropic they used is determined by the examination,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the alleged terrorists may have taken prohibited substances before the attack on Crocus.

On Thursday, March 28, 2024, Georgian border guards did not allow the co-founder of the Emigration for Action project to help Ukrainian refugees, Igor Myglan, into the country. Another compiler of the project, Evgeniy Lyamin, told Kholod about this. Igor Myglan moved to Georgia in 2022 immediately after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In less than a week since the terrorist attack in Moscow's Crocus City Hall, Russians have handed over about 100 thousand tickets to public events. RBC writes about this, citing the organizer of the Colisium International Forum of the Music Industry, Sergei Babich. According to him, at the moment, Russians still have 6-7 million previously purchased tickets for various events. The total cost of these tickets is 13–15 billion rubles.

A Manhattan federal court sentenced 32-year-old crypto businessman and ex-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison. Judge Lewis Kaplan found him guilty of fraud and conspiracy to launder money, The Guardian reports . The businessman was also accused of perjury and falsification of testimony. In addition to the prison term, the court ordered the confiscation of $11.2 billion from him. Prosecutors had requested 40 to 50 years in prison for Bankman-Fried.

Ukraine is actively building a line of fortifications with a length of two thousand kilometers, which should contain a possible offensive by Russian troops. The Financial Times newspaper writes about this. In recent months, Russian troops have been consistently advancing along almost the entire front line, the publication notes, taking advantage of the lack of ammunition among Ukrainian troops and the uncertainty regarding the issue of future military support for Kyiv by its Western allies.

In Moscow, security forces beat up RusNews journalist Konstantin Zharov, who was working near the house of his colleague Antonina Favorskaya, whose house was being searched. “We think that [the security forces] attacked because of the filming that we were doing on site near Antonina [Favorskaya’s] house, and the police officers may not have liked it.

Students of the Pediatric University of St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University were sent messages that from April 1 they will have to pay money for missing classes. The students reported this to Fontanka , Rotunda and the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina . The regulation on the introduction of fees for absences from classes was adopted by the Academic Council of St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University on March 25, Fontanka claims.

The police in Yekaterinburg refused to initiate a criminal case based on the statement of one of the girls who suffered from the actions of a man who attacked her after she refused to meet him. A photo of the relevant resolution was published by the local telegram channel “Svet”. The document states that an unknown young man approached the victim and said, “Hi, you’re beautiful, can I hug you?” Without waiting for an answer, he grabbed the girl from the front to hug her and didn’t let go.

27-year-old Katya Mineeva wanted to change Russia for the better and died after Navalny’s funeral. Here is her story On February 17, Ekaterina Mineeva, a 27-year-old programmer and civilian activist, laid flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny in Moscow, and then called her friends to visit to remember the policy. Two weeks later, Mineeva died in the hospital-and the news dispersed on social networks and telegram channels that the activist committed suicide because of Navalny's death.

The story of a man who was shot instead of Chikatilo After the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, the Russian authorities returned to talk about the removal of the moratorium on the death penalty. If this will happen, people found guilty of murder with aggravating circumstances, genocide, and also encroached on the living of judges, politicians, officials and security forces can be sentenced to execution.

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby compared Russian officials who talk about Ukraine's involvement in the Crocus attack to manure sellers. He is quoted by The Hill. According to Kirby, contrary to public statements by Putin and others who are trying to shift the blame for the attack to Ukraine, the United States and other countries, the involvement of the Islamic State in the incident is “absolutely obvious.” “ISIS bears full responsibility for the attack,” he said.

Climate change, caused in part by melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, is slowing the Earth's rotation. The Financial Times writes about this, citing a study from the journal Nature. Scientists came to this conclusion by measuring changes in the Earth's gravitational field since 1976. This must be done, among other things, to accurately calculate time.

The United States did not provide Russia with detailed information about the impending terrorist attack at Crocus due to fears of revealing its sources and intelligence methods. The New York Times writes about this. According to the publication, the CIA warned Russian intelligence agencies about the impending terrorist attack on March 7, the day before the American embassy issued a warning warning about the threat of “imminent” terrorist attacks in the next 48 hours.