Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the spring conscription campaign for mandatory military service. The draft will run from April 1 to July 15. The authorities plan to call up 147 thousand people for service — 12.5 thousand more people than during the spring conscription drive in 2022. The spring 2023 draft will call up men between the ages of 18 and 27. The Russian authorities plan to raise the draft age in 2024.

Russian troops attacked Kharkiv late in the evening on March 30, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the region, . According to him, at least six missiles were launched from the territory of the Belgorod region. The shelling, according to Sinegubov, was carried out by Russian troops from S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems. In one of the districts of Kharkov, as a result of shelling, a private residential building and two cars were damaged.

Masha Moskaleva, the Russian middle-schooler whose anti-war drawing provoked a police backlash that landed her in an orphanage, wrote a letter to her father on the day of his prison sentencing The Moskalev family has been in trouble with the Russian authorities since April 2022, when then sixth-grader Masha Moskaleva drew an anti-war picture in her school art class. Federal Security Service agents interrogated Masha multiple times.

Masha Moskaleva’s mother Olga Sitchikhina is going to pick up her daughter from the shelter where she ended up after her father Alexei Moskalev was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the army. On March 28, the court sentenced Moskalev to two years in prison. Olga Sitchikhina, writes “7×7 - Horizontal Russia”, lives with her husband and 17-year-old daughter in the Tambov region, works as a security guard and travels to Moscow to work.

A criminal case was opened against Viktor Moskalev, an employee of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, under the article on the dissemination of “fake news” about the Russian army “motivated by hatred or enmity” (clause “d” part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), OVD-Info reports with reference to lawyer Yulia Tregubova. The reason for the case was two comments by Moskalev on the website e-xecutive.ru, published on April 9.

A Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict Donald Trump on criminal charges, The New York Times reported, citing four sources. Hours later, the prosecutor's office officially confirmed the information. Prosecutors said they had contacted the former president's lawyers to agree on a time to detain the politician, which his defense team said could happen as early as Tuesday. Trump is expected to be detained, photographed and fingerprinted before a judge decides on a restraining order.

Ksenia Parfenova, who headed the editorial office of Politika Segodnya, which is part of the Patriot media group of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of PMC Wagner, left for Spain, writes Rotunda. Parfenova took over as editor-in-chief of Politika Segodnya in the fall of 2022 (according to sources, the previous editor-in-chief urgently left for Kazakhstan amid announced mobilization, according to Rotunda).

The General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament ratified the protocol on Finland's accession to NATO on the evening of March 30, Anadolu reports. A few days ago, Finland's entry into NATO was supported by the Hungarian parliament. After this, Türkiye remained the only country - a member of the North Atlantic Alliance, which had to approve Finland's entry into it. Finland and Sweden announced they planned to join NATO in May 2022, shortly after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on spring conscription for military service. The call will run from April 1 to July 15. It is planned to send 147,000 people to military service — 12,500 more than in the spring draft of 2022. In the spring conscription of 2023, they will still be conscripted from 18 to 27 years old. It is planned to raise the limits of the draft age from the spring draft of 2024.

The main thing from the study "BBC" Vadim Ghirda / AP / Scanpix / Leta destroyed AN-225 Mriya aircraft at GOSTOL Airport. Kyiv region, April 2, 2022 Before the start of a full -scale war, Russia and Ukraine were large trading partners. In 2021, Ukraine occupied a 15-month in the list of main external trading partners of Russia, its share was almost 2%, and the trade turnover between the countries exceeded $ 12 billion. But during the year of the war, these indicators were minimized.

The little-known Russian IT company Vulkan is developing software for surveillance, cyberattacks, managing a troll factory, and isolating the Internet on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, and the SVR, according to a joint investigation by Vazhnye Istorii and Süddeutsche Zeitung. An anonymous source provided the journalists with documents about Vulkan.

A Moscow district court sentenced 63-year-old Mikhail Simonov to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by political hatred. According to the legal aid group Net Freedoms Project, the basis of the case against Simonov are two posts he made on Russian social network VKontakte about the bombing of Kyiv and the Mariupol Drama Theater.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It's time to talk about tarologists. How did it happen that they became so popular (and even fashionable) - in Russia, Ukraine and around the world? After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, Russians sharply grew interest in esotericism, Vedomosti and Kommersant reported. In particular, in 2023, the audience of online fortune-telling, tarot and astrology grew by almost twenty times, journalists write with reference to analysts counting.

63-year-old Mikhail Simonov was sentenced to seven years in colony for two posts about the war. "Mediazona" published his last word in court "Jellyfish" On March 30, the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced 63-year-old Mikhail Simonov to seven years in colony, finding him guilty of spreading the "fakes" about the Russian army.

The founders of NtechLab, Alexander Kabakov and Artem Kukharenko, which develops facial recognition technologies, have left the company due to disagreements with management and investors. The entrepreneurs themselves told Reuters about this. According to them, the main disagreement was that they wanted NtechLab to stop all operations in Russia and move its employees out of the country. The company's management wanted to continue operating in Russia.