US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on the phone regarding the arrest of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich. on this conversation reported Both sides . “Today I spoke with <…> Sergei Lavrov to convey our deep concern about the unacceptable arrest of an American journalist. “I have called for his release, as well as the wrongfully convicted American Paul Whelan,” Blinken tweeted.

The Wall Street Journal has opened free access to publications by its Moscow bureau correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia on espionage charges. Gershkovich has published in the WSJ since February 2022. His last article there, Russia's Economy Is Starting to Come Undone , was published on March 28, the day before his arrest by the FSB. Previously, the journalist collaborated with Agence France-Presse, The Moscow Times and The New York Times.

The Academic Council of the Free University announced the suspension of activities in Russia due to the fact that the Prosecutor General's Office recognized them as an “undesirable organization” on March 31. “Our lawyers came to the conclusion that the Prosecutor General’s Office declares undesirable not a specific organization, but the very name of the Free University.

The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow suspended for 90 days the work of the Anglo-American School , where children of diplomats and foreign businessmen study. The decision was published on the court's website. In total, on March 31, the court considered two protocols against the school under the article on violation of the requirements for educational activities (parts 1 and 3 of Article 19.20 of the Administrative Code). A resolution was posted on only one of the cases.

The Chita garrison military court sentenced mobilized Ivan Karataev, who beat a colleague, to a year in a penal colony. The decision was made in February, . Taiga.info noted According to the text of the verdict, Karataev was drinking in the barracks with another mobilized person on the evening of November 28, 2022. They quarreled, and then Karataev grabbed him, hit him on the head with his fist and a bedside stool, causing him to fall.