Editor-in-chief of the publication “Protocol” Matvey Kurdyukov and editor of the correspondent point “Protocol. Samara" Sergei Podsytnik said that they noticed that they were being followed in Germany. According to journalists, the surveillance may be related to an investigation into the production of Iranian drones in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. American sanctions were introduced against Alabuga and its subsidiaries in February 2024, and before that, EU sanctions .

In 2024, we updated the format of our regular reports on the main events at the front. Each new summary is now available at a separate link. The archive of materials from the beginning of the war and until January 10, 2024 can be studied here . The previous update of the summary is here .

The American companies Microsoft and Amazon will close access to their cloud products to Russian companies from March 20, 2024. This was reported by the Russian company Softline, which received relevant notifications. A RBC source in the IT market confirmed to RBC that its customer had received such a letter from Microsoft.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Is Europe preparing for a wider Russian invasion? For decades, NATO’s European members have depended on the U.S. to bolster their defense. Perhaps nowhere is this reliance more acutely felt than in the Baltic countries, which joined the alliance 20 years ago this month, and experienced occupation in living memory. With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine entering its third year and the future of U.S.

The Ministry of Digital Development sent a request to the largest Russian operators to limit the mass sale of SIM cards to individuals and business clients from March 12 to 20. this RBC reports with reference to three sources in the telecom market. According to the publication, MTS, Megafon, T2 RTK Holding (Tele2 brand) and VimpelCom (Beeline) sent letters to their partners describing the measures that need to be taken.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, adding seven people to it.

Former general director of Inter RAO Boris Kovalchuk has been appointed deputy head of the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation. RBC reports this with reference to two sources. Telegram channel Brief was the first to write about Kovalchuk’s appointment. Kovalchuk left the post of CEO of Inter RAO on March 14. He headed the energy company since 2009, his powers expired in 2025. Update.

The Russian Social Fund has corrected data on the record number of men with disabilities for 2023, writes Mediazona. On March 14, Verstka, citing these data, reported that in 2023, 2.17 million men aged 31 to 59 had disabilities. This is 30% more than in 2022, when 1.67 million men in this age group had disabilities in Russia. Over the year, the figure increased by 507 thousand, which was a record increase over the past eight years, the publication noted.

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In Moscow, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Shirvindt died. This was reported by TASS with reference to actor Sergei Gazarov. Oleg Nikishin / Getty images Shirvindt was 89 years old. “Misha called me, the son of Alexander Anatolyevich, he died in the hospital half an hour ago. How and what we will do, I do not know yet, ”said Gazarov. Alexander Shirvindt since 1970 has played at the Satire Theater. Since 2000 - he was his artistic director, from 2021 - the president.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said he held military meetings during which Russia's "most vulnerable places" were identified, where Ukrainian forces could cause the "most damage." “And we will apply it. The more the Russian state loses and the greater the price of its aggression, the closer the just end to this war will be,” Zelensky said. It is not specified which places we are talking about.

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On the first day of voting in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, 100% of voters voted at more than 400 polling stations in the Far East, writes “Verstka” with reference to data from the election commissions of Primorye, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Sakhalin and the Magadan region. The total number of voters who voted at these polling stations is about 17 thousand people.

"Mediazona" told how a prisoner from Novosibirsk went to war and then became a "regular of patriotic events" in schools Archive of Nikita Famyanov In March 2024, a resident of Novosibirsk Ulyana Gorbacheva published on social networks x the thread, in which she spoke about her friend Nikita Familyanov. Shortly before that, he returned from the war and became a “nozzle of military-patriotic events” in schools.

The Finnish Ministry of Internal Affairs has sent for public discussion a draft law on temporary measures to combat “directed migration”. This is reported on the department's website.