In 2022, a number of Chinese companies sent shipments of weapons to Russia, including assault rifles, drone parts and body armor that could be used for military purposes. Politico writes about this, referring to the customs data of the ImportGenius aggregator. The arms deliveries took place from June to December 2022.

The Russian government has committed numerous war crimes, crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian law during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Violations in Ukraine, established under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council. The report was released to coincide with the anniversary of the Russian attack on the Mariupol drama theater .

The American MQ-9 reaper drone, which was shot down over the Black Sea, has been found near Sevastopol, at a depth of 850–900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet). Sevastopol publication ForPost reported the news, citing a source close to Russia’s Defense Ministry who is familiar with the details of the operation. There has been no official confirmation of this information.

The Parliament of Moldova adopted in the second, final reading a bill that provides for a change in all legislative acts, including the Constitution of the country, the name of the state language from Moldovan to Romanian. It is reported by Interfax. The deputies of the President's Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), which has a majority in Parliament, voted for the adoption of the law. The faction of communists and socialists opposed.

The military lawyer answers Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / Leta In mid -March, in more than forty regions of Russia, the military enlistment office began to send the summons “to clarify military accounting documents” and invitation to military training. The authorities said that this was a “common practice”, and they assured that they have no “no discussions” about the new wave of mobilization .

According to the preliminary version, the baby died of exhaustion. In Sochi, the parents of a baby who died in early March were detained - according to preliminary data from the Investigative Committee, after "a long refusal to eat." As they write in the media and telegram channels, the father of the child is blogger Maxim Lyuty, who promotes a raw food diet.

Germany refused to host the Fencing World Cup stage due to the admission of athletes from Russia and Belarus to the competition. This was announced by the German Fencing Federation. The women's foil fencing stage was to be held in May in the city of Tauberbischofsheim.

The Russian branch of Transparency International, an international organization combatting corruption, has announced that it will end its operations in the country. The decision was made by the Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International Russia, the Russian affiliate of the international organization.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Western media write about the weakening of the Ukrainian army, then (on the contrary) about its readiness to go on the offensive soon. What do we know exactly about the state of the Armed Forces? According to The Washington Post, during the year of a full -scale war in Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine could lose up to 120 thousand people killed and wounded.

An American MQ-9 Reaper drone that crashed in the Black Sea was found near Sevastopol at a depth of 850-900 meters. This is reported by the Sevastopol edition of ForPost, citing a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry and familiar with the details of the operation. According to the publication, specialists from the Ministry of Defense discovered the drone on the day of its fall on March 14 at the bottom of the sea, 60 kilometers from Sevastopol.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has declared a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, known as the Freedom of Russia Legion, a “terrorist organization.” Interfax reports that the court agreed with a suit brought by the Prosecutor General, and banned the legion’s activities on Russian territory. The Freedom of Russia Legion is a branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine comprised, allegedly, of volunteers from Russia. Its numbers are unknown.

Can Central Asia reap the rewards of Russia’s IT exodus? Story by Katie Marie Davies for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine and subsequent mobilization drive spurred an “IT exodus” in 2022: according to official statistics, 10 percent of the country’s tech workforce (more than 100,000 people) fled abroad and did not return.

The Investigative Committee has opened a new criminal case against blogger Valeria Chekalina (ler_chek) and her husband Artem. This was reported on the website of the department's Moscow office. According to investigators, Chekalina and her husband laundered criminally obtained funds worth more than 130 million rubles in April 2021.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born has announced that a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 has been passed without a vote in parliament, reports . AFP Earlier on March 16, the French Senate approved a controversial pension reform bill, but the vote in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, scheduled for the same day, did not take place. The media suggested that the law might not be supported there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed introducing annual non-financial reporting for large companies, which would contain information about their participation in social projects. He said this during his speech at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Interfax reports.