At its latest meeting, the US Federal Reserve raised the base rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.75-5% per annum. The decision to raise was unanimous and met the expectations of most analysts. In its statement, the Fed emphasized that it continues to strive for 2% inflation in the long term. The agency also cited the recent failure of several major banks, noting that while the extent of the impact is "unclear," the U.S.

South African authorities will hold consultations with Russia in connection with the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin. About this, writes TASS, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor. The consultations will be held on the eve of the BRICS summit, which is due to be held in South Africa in August and to which the leaders of all countries of the group, including Putin, are invited.

While keeping the Russian forces at bay in Bakhmut and Avdiivka, the Ukrainian army is gathering strength for a counteroffensive. Our updated combat map tracks the evidence of incipient new developments. Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding Russia responsible for its military aggression and atrocities.

Valve's game developer officially announced the Counter-Strike 2 shooter. The new game will be released in the summer of 2023 and will spread as a free improvement in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve The game was designed on the Source 2 engine. Valve noted that the old cards were redone from scratch using the tools of the new engine, but they retained their main structure and features.

Why Wagner Group is more effective on the battlefield than the Russian military Concord press service Explainer by Meduza . Translation by Sam Breazeale . Russian forces, led by the Wagner mercenary group, have been waging an offensive to gain control of Bakhmut for more than seven months now. As of March 21, Wagner Group claims to have captured 70 percent of the city, and it increasingly appears likely to gain control of the rest.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a law according to which the state language in all legislative acts will henceforth be called not Moldovan, but Romanian. This was reported on Sandu's Facebook page. “I want the Romanian language to unite all of us who live here and love this land. Together with more than 27 million people around the world, we speak Romanian, one of the official languages ​​of the European Union,” Sandu said.

How Vladimir Churov made the Kremlin branch the Central Election Commission. Says Andrey Pertsev Denis Sinyakov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Churov holds a “master class for photojournalists”-about how to remove polling stations. 7 February 2012 The former head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov died on March 22, 2023 - after an extensive heart attack. He was 70 years old.

The United Kingdom has excluded from the sanctions list the entry about the presence of FSB director Sergei Korolev there. This is reported in a document on the website of the government of the country. Authorities clarified that Korolev was listed twice, first in April 2022, then in February 2023, and that only one of the two duplicate entries was removed. Korolev himself remained under British sanctions. Sergei Korolev became the first deputy director of the FSB in March 2021.

Businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin announced that he was withdrawing his signature from a letter to the European Commission for lifting sanctions against German Khan, a shareholder of Alfa Group. this Chichvarkin said on the air of Khodorkovsky Live.

The VimpelCom company, the owner of the Beeline brand, has registered a trademark in Rospatent in the form of the letter “b” with a dot next to the company logo. Registration was completed on March 13, and Sostav drew attention to this on March 22. The company applied for trademark registration in July 2022, the exclusive right to it will be valid for ten years.

The Russian military is offering sign-up incentives to those willing to join as contract servicemen. Over the last week, contract service was advertised all across the local media and city websites around Russia. An active campaign to promote contract service has been launched in the Yaroslavl region, where towns, villages, and districts have posted recruitment calls on social media.

Open-source intelligence researchers at the Conflict Intelligence Team report that the Russian military has started removing from storage Soviet-era T-54 and T-55 tanks. CIT has tracked a convoy of the ancient war machines moving westward from the Primorsky Territory in Russia’s Far East. CIT previously monitored satellite imagery showing the transfer of Soviet-era T-62 tanks from the same storage reserve.

In St. Petersburg, 20 bars were sealed on Dumskaya and Lomonosov streets. It is reported by "Fontanka". The photographs published by the publication show that the establishments are sealed with a tape with the abbreviation of the St. Petersburg Department of the Investigative Committee. According to Fontanka, the establishments were sealed as part of a criminal case on “involving minors in committing antisocial acts” (Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In Yekaterinburg, on the night of March 22, a fire broke out at the office of the local branch of Memorial. According to Ekaterinburg Online, a Porsche car parked near the building caught fire. Its owner stated that someone "purposefully approached, doused and set fire" to the car. From the car, the fire spread to the facade of the building.

Maria Pevchikh has been appointed the new chairwoman of the board of directors of the international Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), according to a series of posts on Alexey Navalny’s social media accounts. Navalny wrote, “Her public work over the past two years has made her a bright political leader.