The council of the English county of Wiltshire has decided to buy the house of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in Salisbury in 2018, BBC News reports. Wiltshire Council has announced it has decided to buy the house on Christie Miller Road in Salisbury after consulting with local residents who live nearby. The council will refurbish and renovate the property before putting it up for sale. A new bathroom and two living rooms have already been built, the Mirror reports .

The US Congress approved a $1.9 trillion plan to support the American economy, which provides direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, reports Reuters. The House of Representatives, which had previously approved the bill, met again on March 10 to approve the amendments made by the Senate (the senators approved the document on March 7). 220 members of the House of Representatives voted for the adoption of the law, 211 parliamentarians opposed.

Twitter commented on the decision of Roskomnadzor to restrict the work of the social network in Russia due to non-deletion of prohibited information. [We] are deeply concerned by the increasing attempts to block and restrict public communication on the Internet. We know that Twitter is slowing down dramatically and indiscriminately in Russia due to concerns about content being taken down. On March 10, Roskomnadzor began to slow down the work of Twitter in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the amount of cash payments for children aged three to seven years will depend on family income and may be 50%, 75% or 100% of the regional subsistence minimum. The document is published on the portal of legal information. Putin left in the decree the previous provision that the amount of the payment is half the regional subsistence minimum for a child (slightly more than 5,500 rubles).

Russia’s 2021 pick for Eurovision Song Contest provokes a stream of xenophobic comments online Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant On International Women’s Day (March 8), singer Manizha won the Russian ticket to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. She’s now set to perform her song “Russian Woman” in Rotterdam in May. While many celebrated the selection, Manizha becoming Russia’s pick led to a torrent of hateful comments online over her Tajik roots and outspoken support for LGBTQ+ people.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Twitter stating that it had slowed down the speed of its website in Russia because the social network was not removing prohibited information, RIA Novosti reported, citing the agency's press service. The letter also contained information that if the Internet service continues to ignore legal requirements to remove prohibited information, access to it may be completely restricted until such prohibited information is removed.

Football player Artem Dziuba will be called to the upcoming matches of the Russian national football team, which will be held in March. This was announced in an interview with RB-Sport by the head coach of the national team Stanislav Cherchesov. The journalist asked Cherchesov if Dziuba would be called up for the next matches. "Will. And he will be the captain, ”the national team coach answered briefly.

The National Guard proposes to determine in advance the lists of journalists who will cover the protests. Oleg Plokhoy, deputy director of the department, made such a proposal at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, dedicated to ensuring the safety of journalists during public events.

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Facebook has released a light version of the Instagram application - Instagram Lite - for devices running on Android. The application is available in the Google Play store for residents of more than 170 countries around the world. Instagram Lite takes up two megabytes of disk space on the phone, while the full version of the application weighs about 30 megabytes, Facebook said in a statement.

The Russian State Duma has adopted in the first reading two draft laws exempting government officials, judges, lawmakers, and employees of state-owned companies from punishment in the event that they violate anti-corruption laws “accidentally.” The first bill says that government officials can avoid being held accountable for non-compliance with anti-corruption restrictions, prohibitions, and requirements, if the violation was “the result of circumstances beyond their control.” This is defined

Google has paid a fine of three million rubles for not removing prohibited information from search results. It is reported by Roskomnadzor. The department noted that this is the third fine imposed on Google for this violation. In 2019, the company was fined 700 thousand rubles, in the spring of 2020 - 1.5 million rubles. Both of these penalties were also paid by Google.

Russia’s state-controlled television network RT intends to take legal action against the German tabloid Bild over allegations that journalists working for RT Deutsch ( RT German ) were instructed to spy on Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny while he was recovering from chemical nerve agent poisoning in Germany. Bild published an article with the headline “I had to spy on Navalny!” on Tuesday, March 9.

We answer briefly, but not in one word In Russia, the coronavirus vaccine seems to be available now, if not to everyone, then to an increasing number of them. Including those who have recovered from the disease - which, judging by the excess mortality in the country , may now be up to half of the population. The question arises: should such people be vaccinated - or is natural immunity enough for them not to get infected?

Roskomnadzor (RKN) announced that from March 10 it will begin to slow down the speed of access to Twitter in Russia. This is explained by the fact that the social network does not respond to the regulator’s requests to remove “illegal content”: calls for suicide, extremist materials, child pornography, information about drugs, etc. Roskomnadzor claims that Twitter has been ignoring their demands for many years, namely since 2017.