The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation fears a shortage of lithium raw materials in the country after the largest suppliers - Chile and Argentina - stopped its supplies to Russia. About this, according to " Interfax ", said the deputy head of the department of metallurgy and materials department Vladislav Demidov during a round table in the Federation Council. In addition to Argentina and Chile, lithium raw materials come to Russia from Bolivia and China.

Eduard Kornienko / Ura.ru / TASS Ukrainian refugees in Novoazovsk (territory, controlled by the DPR). March 8, 2022 On March 18, TV presenter Dmitry Gordon published a video message to Ukrainians who are in the territories occupied or blocked by Russian troops. He stated that there are “two types of humanitarian corridors” - organized by Ukraine and organized by Russia, and called not to use the second.

Andrey Panov, former deputy general director of Aeroflot, who left Russia in March, called on Russian businessmen and top managers to sabotage deals related to the war in Ukraine. He wrote about this in his column for the Financial Times. In Russia, it is impossible to be a top manager and oppose the political regime, Panov noted. According to him, he does not encourage colleagues to "become martyrs or political prisoners." But you can quit or retire...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on his social networks about the arrest of the head of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk. The Ukrainian leader published a photo of the politician sitting in military uniform and handcuffs. "A special operation was carried out thanks to the SBU. Well done," the Ukrainian president wrote, promising to reveal details later. The SBU also published a photo of the detainee.

The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavel Kirilenko, said that, according to preliminary data, up to 22,000 people died in Mariupol. He told CNN about it. “Now we are talking about 20-22 thousand dead in Mariupol,” Kirilenko said. He added that the difficult situation in the city, which is under siege and blockade, makes it difficult to "comment" on the number of victims. There are no independent estimates of the death toll in Mariupol, CNN notes.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier planned to visit Ukraine in the coming days, but the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to receive him, sources told the German newspaper Bild. The reason for the refusal was the “close ties” between Steinmeier and Russia in recent years, including his support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. "We all know about Steinmeier's close ties with Russia, which were also formed in the Steinmeier formula .

The Belarusian government has imposed restrictions on the export of sugar, salt, buckwheat and a number of other grocery products due to increased demand in border areas, Belta reports.

The attack on the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov, was carried out by "psychologist-polygraph examiner" Ilya Markovets and "pseudo-paratrooper" Nikolai Trifonov. This is stated in the investigation of Novaya Gazeta. On April 8, Baza named the suspects. According to it, the attackers were former military personnel. Baza reported that Markovets was detained, and Trifonov was put on the wanted list.

There was a shooting at the 36th Street station in the New York subway during the morning rush hour. report on it CNN and The New York Times . Police said they received reports of gunfire and smoke at the station around 8:30 am (3:30 pm Moscow time). The city's fire department said at least 13 people were injured. The agency also said that "several unexploded devices" were found at the station. At the same time, a police spokesman said no active explosive devices were found at the scene.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Because of the war, everyone forgot about Covid, but the pandemic has not gone anywhere. Moreover, she enters a new threatening stage. And everything starts again with China Shanghai authorities introduced the citywide Lockdown due to the outbreak of Covid. 25 million people live in the city, and they are forced to sit on quarantine for up to three weeks.

The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow sentenced four former editors of the student publication Doxa, Vladimir Metelkin, Alla Gutnikova, Armen Aramyan and Natalya Tyshkevich, to two years of hard labor each in connection with the involvement of teenagers in protests. The prosecutor asked the defendants to appoint the same terms. In addition, by a court decision, journalists are prohibited from administering websites for three years.

Many DPR residents have been hiding from forced mobilization for war for 50 days. Here is the story of one of them Sergei Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Russian military and resident of Gorlovka, DPR, March 26, 2022 In the self -proclaimed LPR and DPR, general mobilization was announced a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It still continues.

What the President of Russia said at a press conference after negotiations with Lukashenka. Short The "special operation" is going according to plan. We must not hide anything from the public, but the work of the military must be covered objectively. Our task is to achieve all the intended goals, minimizing losses. Our logic is simple. Ukrainians are simply being used against Russia.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 15 days of administrative arrest on charges of disobeying a police officer (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). The court's press service told Interfax about this. The politician's lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said that the court's decision would be appealed. Kara-Murza did not plead guilty.

Hiroyuki Ito / Getty images The Politics team of Alexei Navalny discovered in eight cities of Italy dozens of real estate, which belong to the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, conductor Valery Gergiev or his companies. The total value of real estate in Italy, according to the authors of the investigation, exceeds 100 million euros. The Navalny team discovered that since 2016, Gergiev has owed a villa located near Rome in a closed village.