Moscow will receive no more than two billion dollars in additional income from easing sanctions on Russian oil, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with NBC News. According to Bessent, Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil will allow countries other than China - including Japan and South Korea - to buy that oil, while preventing prices from rising to $150 a barrel and reducing the overall revenues that Iran and Russia will receive.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan argued in the Yerevan metro with a passenger who accused him of surrendering Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. According to eyewitnesses, the conversation began with the woman accusing Pashinyan of losing Karabakh. He responded by telling her that the Armenian government had “spent billions” so that people could stay in Karabakh, and asked why she didn’t stay there.

Iran, in response to Trump's ultimatum, stated that it was ready to close the Strait of Hormuz and completely destroy all US economic interests in the region.

The cause of the explosion in Bahrain on March 9 was probably an interceptor missile from the American Patriot system, analysts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies concluded. Researchers who reviewed photos and videos, as well as commercial satellite imagery, determined with "moderate to high confidence" that the missile was fired from a US Patriot battery located about seven kilometers southwest of the Mahazza area.

Cuba experienced a complete shutdown of the national power grid, the Ministry of Energy and Mines reported . “Recovery protocols are currently in place,” the statement said. Without electricity, as the BBC writes, more than 10 million people were left in their homes and businesses. Grid operator UNE said power was gradually being restored, with priority given to vital facilities including hospitals and water supplies.

One thousand four hundred and eighty eighth day. Ukraine and the United States have resumed meetings - but peace talks are stalled, and this began even before the war in the Middle East Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

In St. Petersburg on the afternoon of March 22, the number of complaints about the operation of the mobile Internet sharply increased, according to data from the Downdetector website. City residents note that in some areas (in particular, in the center) only resources from the “white list” work, write Fontanka and Rotunda . At the same time, according to St. Petersburg residents, they did not receive SMS alerts about the threat of drones. Read what you want, not the authorities.

Concerts of German musician Dieter Bohlen in Klaipeda and Kaunas, Lithuania, have been cancelled. The former member of the Modern Talking duo was scheduled to perform with his band Blue System at the Švyturys Arena in Klaipeda on November 20, 2026, at a concert dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the arena. The next day he was scheduled to perform at the Zalgiris Arena in Kaunas.

We tell you how prediction markets work and what’s wrong with them Adam Gray / Bloomberg / Getty Images Advertising in Times Square in New York. 2025 On February 28, 2026, on the Polymarket website, a user with the nickname Magamyman bet 87 thousand dollars that the United States was about to strike Iran. This, of course, happened - just a few hours later. Magamyman earned more than half a million dollars from the forecast. Polymarket is a so-called prediction market.

Donald Trump's administration has begun preliminary discussions about what peace talks with Iran might look like, Axios reports, citing two sources familiar with the discussions. According to one American official, the United States is demanding that Iran make six commitments, including a complete halt to uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons development, a significant reduction in its missile program and an end to funding for armed groups such as Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis.

Farmer Pyotr Polezhaev from Chernokurye, Karasuksky district, Novosibirsk region, doused himself with gasoline, trying to stop the destruction of his livestock, write “Caution, News” and “7×7” . Pyotr Polezhaev recorded a video that was published by the daughter of residents of the village of Kozikha, Daria Mironenko. In the video, the farmer says that the day before, special equipment arrived to destroy his livestock. “I doused myself with gasoline, the equipment turned around and left.

Let's talk briefly about each (spoiler: there are not only books from the Meduza publishing house) At the end of 2023, the first books appeared in the Meduza app: “My Favorite Country” by journalist Elena Kostyuchenko and “War and Punishment” by journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar. Today there is already a whole library there, in which you can find not only Meduza’s hits, but also books from other independent publishers (Babel Books Berlin, Freedom Letters, BAbook, Fresh Verlag, Vidim Books).

The Russian tanker Arctic Metagaz, which has been drifting in the Mediterranean Sea for the third week without a crew and with a cargo of liquefied natural gas on board, will be towed to one of the Libyan ports, the National Oil Corporation of Libya (NOC) reported. NOC has entered into an emergency contract with an international specialist company involved in the response to marine accidents that may lead to the release of petroleum products.

A meeting of the Ukrainian and American delegations took place in Florida - the first after a long pause associated with the outbreak of war in the Middle East. “We continued to discuss key issues and further steps within the framework of the negotiation track. Special attention was paid to coordinating approaches for further progress towards practical results,” wrote the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov.

In the Israeli cities of Arad and Dimona, located in the south of the country, more than 170 people were injured as a result of rocket fire from Iran. In Arad, at least 115 people were injured as a result of a direct ballistic missile hit between houses, nine of them are in serious condition. Another 19 people were hospitalized with moderate injuries, 55 people with minor injuries. According to journalists, the most severe injuries were suffered by people who were not in shelters.