The Legal Committee of the Georgian Parliament supported the bill on “foreign agents,” reports Mtavari TV channel. The first reading will take place on April 16. After this, protests began in Tbilisi near the parliament building.

Israel is considering options for responding to an Iranian attack that will “send a signal” but will not lead to casualties, The Washington Post writes, citing an Israeli source familiar with the discussions in the country’s military cabinet. According to The Washington Post, the options Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for include a potential strike on a Tehran facility or a cyber attack. “Everyone agrees that Israel must respond.

Why Russia’s economy appears to be booming in the face of sanctions Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A tank farm at Transneft. December 13, 2023. Last week, Russia’s Finance Ministry released its preliminary report on the federal budget indicators for the first quarter of 2024, revealing results that surpassed expectations . Government earnings are soaring above last year’s figures, a surprisingly positive outcome partially attributed to high oil prices and increased consumer spending.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Western allies to show the same unity in defending Ukraine from shelling as they did in defending Israel during the Iranian attack. Zelensky noted that a fairly effective air defense system can protect critical facilities of the Ukrainian energy structure from attacks, but the intensity of Russian attacks requires greater unity.

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev, defrocked in Russia, published a decree of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on his acceptance into the ministry.

In South Korea, a day before the premiere, a ballet show with the participation of soloists of the Bolshoi Theater was canceled, writes Reuters. The tour was scheduled to take place April 16-18 at the Sejong Center concert hall in Seoul. It was originally planned that 12 leading ballet dancers of the Bolshoi Theater would take part in the performances.

As part of the “Let’s” project, which was launched by the “Support Service” together with Meduza and the Dozhd TV channel, by the end of March 2024, 52,701 euros of donations were collected for peaceful Ukrainians. The new financial report has been published on the collection website. This amount was distributed among several Ukrainian charitable organizations, and part of the reserve fund was sent to targeted assistance to affected families.

Russia was able to restore the capacity of key oil refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks, reducing the drop in refining from 14% in March to 10%, Reuters writes , citing its own calculations. According to the agency's calculations, the previous reduction in total Russian primary oil refining capacity was 123.8 thousand tons per day (907 thousand barrels per day). Now it is less - 90.5 thousand metric tons per day (660 thousand barrels per day).

On the website of the women's volleyball club Dynamo, after losing to Lokomotiv in the semi-finals of the Russian Super League, an article appeared in which the volleyball players of the winning team were accused of “LGBT propaganda” due to their actions on the court.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Putin's performances and State Duma meetings turned into a mixture from Soviet congresses with “Awesla”. Is Cringe now the basis of Russian political culture? Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in early April reported in the State Duma about the work of the government. This event, at first glance completely routine, attracted the special attention of the leading podcast “View of the Kremlin” -Aleksandra Prokopenko and Andrei Pertsev.

Iran's attack has forced Israel to postpone a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah that was planned for this week, CNN reports , citing two Israeli sources. The Israeli military planned to drop leaflets from the air in parts of Rafah on Monday, one of the CNN sources said. Another official said Israel remained "determined" to carry out a ground operation in Rafah, although the timing of the offensive and the evacuation of civilians remained unclear.

Representatives of the St. Petersburg city election commission told Fontanka that during an inspection of the video from the polling station in which two women were throwing ballots into a ballot box during voting in the presidential election, they did not find evidence of any violations. Observers published a video from polling station No. 5 in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg three days after the Russian presidential elections.

Rosfinmonitoring added director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to the list of “terrorists and extremists,” accused of “justifying terrorism” because of the play “Finist the Bright Falcon.” The Russian Volunteer Corps has also been added to the list. According to Russian laws, the accounts of individuals and organizations included in the Rosfinmonitoring register are subject to freezing.

The son of Vasily Kozupitsa, the mayor of the city of Orsk, which was flooded as a result of the flood, bought an apartment in an elite residential complex in Dubai, associates of politician Alexei Navalny found out. The deal happened a month ago. According to investigators, Nikolai Kozupitsa’s property with an area of ​​91 square meters is located in a new residential complex and costs about 33 million rubles.

10 best songs and videos of the week. The section is back! Meduza resumes its weekly column, in which it talks about the most notable musical news. Due to the departure of Western music labels from Russia, we now do this without playlists on streaming. In this issue: the potential hit of the upcoming summer parties Fred again and several singles at once on the eve of the release of new albums by Dua Lipa, Sia and Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons.