The first president of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, has died at the age of 83. At the time of the declaration of independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, Mutalibov was the president of the Azerbaijan SSR and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Republican Communist Party. In the first presidential elections in Azerbaijan, he was the only candidate and won 98.5% of the vote.

The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, where tensions have worsened in recent days, has been “stabilized” by Russian peacekeepers. “As a result of the negotiations, the Azerbaijani side withdrew its units from the area of ​​the settlement of Furuh ,” the statement said. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said the Russian military's claim was not true.

The creator of the cartoon “Masyanya” Oleg Kuvaev announced that he had received a notification about the blocking of his website mult.ru. As follows from his post on Facebook, Roskomnadzor will restrict access to the site based on the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. “In short, mult.ru is now banned in Russia.

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered “to establish all the circumstances of the cruel treatment of captured servicemen by Ukrainian nationalists” after the publication of a video in which, presumably, Ukrainian servicemen shoot at the legs of captured Russian soldiers. “According to some information, illegal actions took place at one of the bases of Ukrainian nationalists in the Kharkiv region,” the Investigative Committee’s press release states.

Retelling of the article in Bloomberg Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin examines the exposition of the Victory Museum in the 77-year anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad. January 27, 2021 The Bloomberg publication has published an article by the Scottish historian Neil Ferguson that the US strategy against Ukraine is repeating the outdated logic of the Cold War and, most likely, will not lead to the fall of the Putin regime.

Valery Sharifulolin / TASS Shusha, a strategic important city in Nagorno -Karabakh. After 2020, is under the control of Azerbaijan On March 26, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno -Karabakh entered the “zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping mission” and attacked the units of the army of an unrecognized republic.

“Everyone in the family will have a loss. Everyone will have some kind of grief in the family. Hello, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT this is Meduza's newsletter, where we usually briefly talk about the main events related to the war in Ukraine that took place during the day.

Interview with Vladimir Zelensky Ivan Kolpakov, Mikhail Zygarya, Tikhon Dzyadko and Vladimir Solovyov from Kommersant Vladimir Zelensky gave the first large interview to Russian journalists.

Roskomnadzor has stated that Russian media outlets that interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must refuse to publish it. “An investigation has been launched into the media outlets that conducted the interview to determine the extent of their responsibility and the measures they will take to respond,” the statement said. Roskomnadzor did not explain on what grounds journalists should refuse to publish the material.

After the outbreak of war, the Russian authorities introduced the real, although not declared by military censorship and defeated the entire Russian media market. A week after the start of the Russian invasion, the Echo of Moscow radio station and the Rain TV channel - after 32 and 12 years of work on the air, respectively, stopped at the same time. Many of their journalists have already left Russia.

Vladimir Medinsky, who heads the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, announced a new face-to-face round on March 29-30. In turn, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, said that the negotiations would be held on March 28-30. According to Arakhamia, the talks will be held in Turkey. Earlier the parties met in Belarus. The first rounds of talks between Russia and Ukraine were held in person, but then they switched to the video link format.

In the Ukrainian Energodar, which was occupied by Russian troops in the first days of the war, city council deputy Andriy Shevchik announced that he had headed the "public council for self-organization of the city" created on March 27. According to Shevchik, the “council” will deal with pricing issues, coordinating utilities, providing the city with medicines, and so on. The council is allegedly supported by local Cossacks and veterans of the war in Afghanistan.

Demand for some medicines in Russia has increased 10 times, said the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko. “For some drugs [the demand has increased] 10 times. Moreover, the most surprising thing is that there is an expiration date for those drugs. Moreover, a number of them are very short, up to two years,” the minister said in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” on TV channel “Russia 1” (quote from Interfax).

The version of Michael Hanek. Austrian director - 80 years Francois Durand / Getty images Michael Haneke The Austrian director Michael Hanek was 80 years old on March 23. One of the central topics of his filmography is violence on the screen and how quickly the viewer ceases to see something special in it (Haneke even contrasts himself with Quentin Tarantino, in whose films blood pours often for laughter).

Against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the British government announced the introduction of restrictions in the field of scientific cooperation with universities and companies in Russia, according to the website of the British Cabinet.