A light-engine plane crashed in Kolomna, Moscow region, on the afternoon of March 20, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on its telegram channel. According to rescuers, the plane crashed near the Oka River. As a result of the fall, two people on board the plane were killed. As telegram channel “112” reported , the plane was performing a scheduled flight from the Torbeevo-Start airfield in the city of Stupino.

At the capital show “Field of Miracles” on March 20, the head of the vocal studio “Comilfo” from Volgograd, Anastasia Serebryakova, performed, and together with the children she sang a song about turning off the Internet. “Layout” drew attention to this.

For the first time since the start of the war in the Middle East, France allowed American strategic bombers to fly through its territory on the way to Iran. Itamilradar was one of the first to report this on March 20. The information was confirmed by OSINT analyst OSINTtechnical and the Flightradar24 service. According to Itamilradar, two B-52Hs and two B-1s flew through France. All aircraft took off from the British airbase at Fairford in the English county of Gloucestershire.

This is data from an independent Internet censorship research project. The international research project OONI recorded that on March 20, telegram blocking was sharply increased in Russia. The project graph shows that in 72% of cases the tests showed anomalies, and the messenger was available only in every third case (28%). The number of anomalies began to increase in the last week, but there were not so many of them on any of the previous days.

Everyone is afraid of an environmental disaster - but no one does anything Miguela Xuereb / ​​Newsbook Malta / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The Russian tanker Arctic Metagas has been drifting in the Mediterranean Sea for the third week with a huge hole - probably caused by a drone attack (Russia claims that it was attacked by Ukrainian unmanned boats, but there is no independent confirmation of this version). There are more than 60 thousand tons of liquefied natural gas on board the vessel.

Before this, Roskomnadzor demanded that journalists remove text about the torture of Ukrainians in the occupied territories German hosting provider Hetzner blocked the website of the Ukrainian publication Zaborona and deleted all site data over the past seven years. The publication reported that this happened in November 2025. The provider cited the reason for blocking as overdue payment of 174 euros for two months of site hosting.

Russian officials have offered Washington a deal under which Moscow would stop sharing intelligence information with Iran, such as the coordinates of U.S. military installations in the Middle East, if the United States stopped sharing intelligence about Russia with Ukraine. Politico reported this on March 20, citing sources.

Zelensky - about blocking Telegram in Russia This is a brief retelling of the statement by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about blocking Telegram in Russia. Of course, Russia, the special services, they worked through telegram in Ukraine and are working. We know this, we identify it, we fight it. Frankly speaking, we also work through telegram in Russia. Limiting its operation will make it more difficult to transmit signals to society in Russia.

US President Donald Trump received Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the White House on March 19. The main topic of their conversation was the war between the United States and Israel with Iran, primarily Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the resulting increase in world energy prices. At a meeting with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why the United States did not warn its allies about its strikes on Iran. Trump responded that surprise is the key to success.

The Ryazan District Court sentenced Aleksey Poltavets, a defendant in the Network case, in absentia to nine and a half years in prison on charges of murdering 21-year-old Artem Dorofeev and complicity in the murder of 19-year-old Ekaterina Levchenko in 2017. The mother of the murdered woman, Tatyana Levchenko, reported this to Mediazona on March 20. The trial has been held behind closed doors since November 2025. The decision was made on February 10, but this was not previously reported.

The Guardian's sources in Ukraine stated that Hungarian intelligence services “forcedly injected” a former SBU employee during the detention of Oschadbank collectors Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Two armored cash-in-transit vehicles of Oschadbank, which Hungary returned to Ukraine, March 12, 2026 Sources of the British newspaper The Guardian in Kiev claim that employees of the Hungarian Center for Combating Terrorism (Terrorelhárítási Központ) “forcedly injected a Ukrainian” after a

The average number of views of posts in Russian independent telegram channels against the background of Roskomnadzor blocking decreased by 10%, the data department of Novaya Gazeta Europe calculated. Journalists analyzed posts in Telegram for March 16 - on that day, another failure occurred in the messenger, and Kommersant, citing IT experts, reported that the blocking of Telegram, promised by April 1, had actually already begun.

The Russian Ministry of Justice declared sociologist Konstantin Gaaze a “foreign agent,” the department’s website reported on March 20. Also included in the register is Dozhd journalist Anna Nemzer. In addition, journalist and blogger Alex Moore, former director of the Mordovia Procurement Center Ivan Mysenko and the Media Partisans project were declared “foreign agents.” The Meduza publishing house published the book “Where Are Dictatorships Drifting?

Chuck Norris has died at the age of 86, Variety reports. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images Earlier it became known that Chuck Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii on March 19. Chuck Norris's family released a statement on March 20, saying the actor died earlier that morning. “While we would like to keep the circumstances of his death private, please understand that he passed away surrounded by his loved ones and in peace,” his family said in a statement. Chuck Norris is a martial artist.

Blogger Lerchek (Valeria Chekalina) appealed to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with a request to check the actions of an investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who allegedly refused to release her from house arrest to see a doctor.