The National Bank of Switzerland has announced ( .pdf ) the merger of two of the country's largest and oldest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse. The deal is valued at three billion Swiss francs ($3.23 billion), Reuters reports. It is expected to close by the end of 2023. “Today, UBS announced the takeover of Credit Suisse.

This exacerbates the "shell hunger" of the Armed Forces and interferes with the future counter -offset John Moore / Getty images, the Ukrainian military in the Donbass unloads the truck with shells to the Gaustic D-30. The shells, judging by the marking, were made in one of the countries of Eastern Europe. March 2, 2023 The countries of the European Union, which promised to increase the supply of shells for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, experience great difficulties with increasing production.

In Grodno, Belarus, employees of the country’s state security service (which uses the acronym KGB) shot and killed a foreign national. The person in question allegedly put up armed resistance to KGB officers, “using automatic weapons and detonating grenades.” The KGB of Belarus has not released the name or nationality of the victim.

Police officers attended a presentation of comics by artist Sasha Skochilenko, who is accused in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army , which took place at the Moscow site "Open Space". This was reported by "Agentstvo", whose correspondent followed the online broadcast of the event. About an hour and a half after the presentation, which was attended by about 30 people, eight masked police officers arrived at the Open Space.

Putin visits Mariupol for the first time since Russia destroyed and then annexed the city AP / Scanpix / LETA Screenshot of President of Russia Vladimir Putin with Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin visiting Mariupol, March 19 Late at night on March 18–19, Russian president Vladimir Putin paid an unplanned visit to Mariupol. The city was almost completely destroyed during a two-and-a-half-month siege by Russian troops in spring 2022, and was annexed by Russia in fall 2022.

Photos The French government has increased the retirement age from 62 to 64 years, using a special procedure that allows you to not pour in parliament (parliament in response can endure a vote of mistrust to the government). The decision caused mass protests and strikes throughout the country. Including among Parisian municipal enterprises that are engaged in garbage collection. As a result, garbage in Paris has not been taken out for about 10 days.

Despite the ban, the ceremony took place The funeral of Wagner PMC fighters took place at the cemetery in the village of Bakinskaya, near the resort town of Goryachiy Klyuch in Krasnodar Krai, despite the fact that local authorities opposed it. Video footage of the funeral was published by the Telegram channel Goryachiy Klyuch News, which claims that “hundreds” of local residents and visitors attended the ceremony.

International Investment Bank Headquarters of the International Investment Bank in Budapest The International Investment Bank (MIB), which in the West is called the Russian “Spy Bank”, after the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine and the introduction of sanctions against Russia faced the threat of ruin. From the bank, whose headquarters is located in Budapest, the shareholders began to leave-Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria announced this. Why is he "spy"?

Due to the departure of Western musical labels from Russia, Medusa stopped conducting playlists in streaming services. So far they are only available on our site and in the application. Some videos cannot be watched in Russia without VPN.

Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commented on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to the annexed city of Mariupol: “The criminal is always drawn to the scene of the crime. While the countries of the civilized world announce that they’ll arrest the ‘director of war’ (Putin) if he crosses their borders, the organizer of the murder of thousands of Mariupol families has come to admire the ruins of the city and the mass graves.

In Grodno, officers of the special unit of the State Security Committee of Belarus shot dead a foreign citizen. He allegedly offered armed resistance "using automatic weapons and by detonating combat grenades." The KGB did not report the name and citizenship of the deceased. It was only specified that he died on Kurchatov Street. Belarusian Telegram channels, writes Zerkalo, reported that detentions took place on this street on March 19, preceded by shooting and explosions.

In the Odoevsky district of the Tula region, a drone “without identification marks and departmental affiliation” fell, the regional committee for regional security said. According to local authorities, the fallen drone was found on March 19 between the settlements of Petrivske and Malovel. The drone crashed in a field away from residential buildings. Emergency services have been dispatched to the scene. It is argued that there is no threat to the security of the population and infrastructure.

Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak commented on the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to annexed Mariupol on social networks. "A criminal is always drawn to the scene of the crime. While the countries of the civilized world announce the arrest of the "director of war" (V.V. Putin) if he crosses the border, the organizer of the murders of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins of the city and mass graves.

NATO is discussing the possibility of further strengthening its own grouping of troops and military equipment near the borders with Russia, writes Politico. Thus, the alliance, the newspaper notes, expects to stop the possible expansion of hostilities outside of Ukraine. According to Politico, NATO officials are pushing the idea of ​​stationing 300,000 troops on the eastern borders.

This is how this neural network works Gabby Jones / Bloomberg / Getty images On March 14, the American company Openai introduced GPT-4, a new version of the language model-generative artificial intelligence, which forms the basis of ChatGPT . The GPT-4 noticeably exceeds previous generations in all criteria, and even more important-much more safe for the user.