In Minsk, police officers (probably the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ) detained Pussy Riot member Rita Flores and forced her to record a video in support of Alexander Lukashenko. Flores herself told Mediazona about this. According to the girl, she arrived in Minsk on March 26 and checked into a hotel. On March 30, people in civilian clothes detained her near her room.

What is happening in Ukraine - in the reports of Elena Kostyuchenko. Now on Medusa 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 mailing list, where we briefly talk about the main events related to the war in Ukraine that took place during the day.

To ease the sanctions imposed by the European Union, Russia needs to conclude a peace treaty with Ukraine that will respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. This was stated by Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, his words are given on the website of the government of the country. “Let me make one thing clear: a peace agreement at gunpoint, with the loss of Ukrainian territory and sovereignty, is not the way to return to normal life.

The Russian side is ready to declare a “silence regime” for the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol. This was announced by the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev, Interfax reports.

All RBC editorial staff, except for the news department, will go on vacation for two weeks, two Meduza sources in the editorial office said. Two other employees of RBC's political bloc confirmed the fact of going on vacation, but did not specify whether this applies to the entire editorial office. Another employee said that he knew nothing about the vacation. The vacation will begin on Monday, April 4, one of the sources said.

Russian military personnel began to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This was reported by AFP, citing an unnamed American military official, France 24 reports. “Chernobyl is one of those places where [the Russians] begin to move some of their troops, [they] leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and go to Belarus. We think they are leaving. But I can’t say that they have all left,” the source told AFP.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said that European companies will be able to continue paying for Russian natural gas in euros. This was stated by German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, writes Der Spiegel. During the phone call, Putin explained that Russia would accept payments for gas in rubles from April 1, Hebestreit said.

EU authorities have raided the offices of Gazprom's divisions in Germany, Bloomberg reports citing sources. about the searches in the offices of Gazprom in the European Union A Reuters source also spoke . The searches were carried out by EU antitrust regulators. They were held, among other things, in the offices of Gazprom Germania GmbH and Wingas GmbH, which account for about 20% of gas supplies to the German market.

Bruce Willis' family has announced that he has "paused his acting career" due to a diagnosis of aphasia, a speech disorder that makes it difficult for a person to understand speech and choose words, as well as read and write. The appeal on behalf of the actor's family was published by the daughter of Bruce Willis Rumer. “We wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and was recently diagnosed with aphasia which affects his cognitive abilities.

The New Gazeta until the last tried to cover the war in conditions of censorship-but in the end she nevertheless suspended the work. This is what her employees say Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Last Number of Novaya Gazeta in a newspaper kiosk The suspension of work after almost 30 years of existence was announced by the “New Gazeta” - the most famous opposition publication in Russia.

South Ossetia will soon take "legal steps" to join Russia. This was stated by the president of the partially recognized republic, Anatoly Bibilov, whose appeal was published on the United Russia website. “I believe that unification with Russia is our strategic goal. Our way. The aspirations of the people. And we will move along this path. We will take appropriate legal steps in the near future. The Republic of South Ossetia will be part of its historical homeland - Russia," Bibilov said.

The Slovak authorities demanded that Russia reduce the staff of the embassy in Bratislava by 35 people, Reuters reports citing the republic's Foreign Ministry. Such a decision, said a representative of the Slovak Foreign Ministry, was made due to "inappropriate activities of one of the Russian diplomats." What exactly is at stake, the Foreign Ministry did not explain. According to Slovak media, the Foreign Ministry's demand means that the staff of the Russian embassy will be reduced by half.

A planned regrouping of Russian troops is underway in the Kiev and Chernigov directions, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov. The video of his briefing was published by TASS. According to Konashenkov, at the first stage of the “special operation”, Russia planned to force Ukraine to concentrate forces to hold Kiev and other large settlements in the Kiev and Chernigov directions and defeat without storming the cities (to avoid civilian losses).

A fragment of the book “All the Stronger and Strange” - about how the war of the 20th century changed the Western world. Society got rid of dictators to never fight again Hulton Archive / Getty images, residents of New York celebrate the end of the First World War. On a stretcher-a stuffed ex-boxer Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany, who renounced the throne In the publishing house Individuum was published the book “ Everything Stronger and Strange.

From March 31, 2022, state customers are prohibited from purchasing foreign software for critical information infrastructure and services for its maintenance "without the consent of the federal executive body authorized by the government." The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. An exception is made for organizations with municipal participation.