Roskomnadzor has re-included at least three previously blocked independent publications into the register of blocked media outlets: Meduza, Bumaga, and TJournal. Previously, access to all three publications was restricted in Russia at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office on February 24 under Article 15.3 of the Federal Law "On Information".

Automaker Renault announced the suspension of production activities in Russia. In particular, since March 23, work has been stopped at an assembly plant in Moscow. “With regard to the stake in AvtoVAZ, Renault Group is evaluating the options available given the current situation, acting responsibly towards its 45,000 employees in Russia,” the company said in a press release.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg until April 16 arrested a local resident suspected of vandalism motivated by political and ethnic hatred ( Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code , punishable by forced labor or imprisonment for up to three years). According to the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, the suspect painted two howitzers of the Military Historical Artillery Museum from aerosol cans in blue and yellow.

Grains of residential buildings in Mariupol, a knight on the outskirts of Kyiv and firefighters who extinguish one house after another The war in Ukraine has been going on for twenty -eight days. Tonight and early in the morning, Kiev was again fired: the blows were on residential buildings, four people were injured. In Mariupol, the building of the Art Museum named after Arkhip Kuindzhi was destroyed , in which the canvases of Ivan Aivazovsky were stored.

Roskomnadzor announced the blocking of the Google News service in Russia due to the fact that it gives access to materials with fakes about a “military special operation” in Ukraine. “The aforementioned American online news resource provided access to numerous publications and materials containing unreliable socially significant information about the course of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine,” Interfax quotes the agency’s message.

Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State of the United States in 1997-2001, who became the first woman in this post-died at the age of 84. This was written by NBC News with reference to the application of the Albright family. Zach Gibson / AP / Scanpix / Leta Madeleine Albright (birth name - Maria Yana Korbelova) was born in Czechoslovakia. After coming to power in the country of communists, her family moved to the United States. Albright began the political career in the 1970s.

The Russian government will have to resolve the issue of repurchasing more than 500 aircraft leased from foreign companies. This was announced during a speech in the Federation Council by the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev, Interfax and RIA Novosti report . “First, we need to decide with the government what to do with the airlines, which we, in general, encouraged to leave the planes. That is, the repurchase of aircraft should be or should not be.

Journalist The Insider Oksana Baulina died under fire in Kiev. Oksana Baulina page on Facebook According to the publication, Baulina on the editorial assignment removed destruction after shelling by the Russian troops of the Podolsky district of Kyiv and fell under a new missile shelling. Another civilian died with her, two people accompanying her were also injured and hospitalized. Before coming to The Insider, Oksana worked in the Corruption Fund.

The French authorities have arrested two yachts belonging to the Russian billionaire, one of the founders of the Alfa Group and LetterOne investment consortiums, Aleksey Kuzmichev. According to Liberation, we are talking about the 26-meter yacht "La Grande Urs", which was under repair at the shipyard in Antibes, and the 17-meter yacht "La Petite Urs", moored in Cannes. The total cost of the yachts is estimated at 70 million euros.

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, asked to resign, but Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected her request, Bloomberg reported, citing four sources. According to them, leaving office now would be regarded by the Russian president as a betrayal. The Central Bank and the Kremlin did not respond to Bloomberg's request for comment on Nabiullina's alleged attempt to leave her post.

A photographer captures life in Kharkiv’s subway station bomb shelters as shelling continues Before the war came to Kharkiv, Pavel Dorogoy specialized in documentary and archival photography, and captured his hometown’s architecture. Today, Pavel mainly works as a volunteer, but he continues to document life in the city during the war.

The International Committee of Auschwitz, which unites former prisoners of German concentration camps, issued a statement regarding the death in Kharkov of 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, who survived imprisonment in Buchenwald during the Great Patriotic War.

Amid war against Ukraine, Russia’s defense minister hasn’t been seen in public for 12 days Alexey Nikolsky / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu It’s been 28 days since Russia went to war against Ukraine. And it’s been 12 days since the public has laid eyes on Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Indeed, as first pointed out by Mediazona journalist Dmitry Treshchanin, Shoigu hasn’t appeared in public or in the press since March 11.

95,865 Russian workers are currently on idle . This was stated at a meeting of the Federation Council by the vice-speaker of the upper house of parliament Galina Karelova, Interfax reports. The largest number of workers on idle status are in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara and Kaluga regions. 36,765 organizations, where a total of 8.4 million Russians work, announced changes to their employment regime, Karelova added.

Thousands of Russians have already moved to Yerevan. This is how they change the city. Report "Medusa" Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / Leta Fence along the Street Grandan, Yerevan, Capital of Armenia After the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, Yerevan accepted tens of thousands of emigrants from Russia. More than 30 flights from Russia arrive daily at the city airport of Zvartnot. Armenia remains one of the few countries where Russian airlines continue to fly.