Iran's parliamentary security commission has approved a plan that would impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This was stated by one of the commission members, as reported by Iran's state television and radio company IRIB on March 30. The plan stipulates that ships associated with the United States or Israel will not be able to pass through the strait. Duties will be charged in Iranian rials.

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed a law providing for the death penalty for those convicted of terrorism, Yedioth Ahronot reported on March 30. In the third reading, 62 deputies voted for the controversial law, 48 were against. The bill was developed by the far-right Otzma Yehudit party of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported this initiative. The debate on this issue continued in parliament for about 12 hours.

Russian mobile operators MTS and Beeline recommended their clients to top up their Apple ID balance from their mobile phone account in advance for a long period of time. Operators sent such notifications on March 30 amid media reports that the ability to pay for Apple services from a mobile account may be prohibited from April 1.

Traffic fees when using VPN services in Russia will average 150 rubles per gigabyte over the established limit of 15 gigabytes, the BBC Russian Service reported on March 30. A source close to Rostelecom told the publication about this. Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development asked telecom operators to introduce fees for traffic using VPN services by May 1.

The garrison courts of Russia, which hear cases against the military, received 116 criminal cases under article on rape in 2025 (131 Criminal Code), which is 8.9 times more than in 2021, when the courts received 13 such cases. This is stated in the material of the publication “That’s So”, which studied judicial statistics since 2018. The number of cases of sexual assault has increased more than fivefold (132 criminal cases). In 2025, the courts received 132 such cases, and in pre-war 2021 - 24.

He is “winning the energy war,” writes The Economist CFOTO / Future Publishing / Getty Images Plant of the Chinese petrochemical company Shandong Petrochemical Co., Ltd. in Longkou city. Shandong Province, China. November 14, 2025 Because of the war, all Gulf countries are cutting oil production and facing a sharp drop in export revenues. At the same time, Iran earns almost twice as much oil per day as it did before the US and Israeli strikes, according to an article in The Economist.

The US Embassy in Venezuela is officially reopening, the United States Department of State announced. Reopening the U.S. Embassy in Caracas will strengthen the U.S. ability to “directly engage with the Venezuelan interim government, civil society and the private sector,” it said. Since March 2019, U.S. diplomatic engagement with Venezuela has been conducted through the Office of Venezuela Affairs.

The editors of Beware News received a notice from Roskomnadzor demanding that they remove a post in the publication’s Telegram channel, which retold a Forbes article about how the agency was having difficulties blocking sites. The article “Bypass to the server: It is becoming harder for Roskomnadzor to block Internet resources” was published on the Forbes website on March 19.

They need Ukrainian anti-drone technology - but they are still trying not to quarrel with Russia Press service of the President of Ukraine / AFP / Scanpix / LETA President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman. March 27, 2026 President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky made a tour of the countries of the Middle East on March 26–29.

In just one day, several new prohibitive measures were invented Charge for mobile traffic when using a VPN . The Ministry of Digital Development believes that telecom operators should charge money for using more than 15 gigabytes of international traffic per month. Access to Russian platforms under VPN is prohibited . The Ministry of Digital Development requires VK, Ozon, Avito, Wildberries, and Yandex to limit access to services for people using VPNs.

Director of the Safe Internet League Ekaterina Mizulina refused to disclose the financial indicators of her organization in the report for 2025, writes the publication “We Can Explain”. Journalists noticed that the final financial statements of the Safe Internet League do not contain data on revenue, profit, expenses for maintaining management and cash flow.

The Ministry of Digital Development, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, asked telecom operators to charge customers for traffic when using VPN services. Forbes writes about this with reference to sources. According to the publication, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, made such a request at a closed meeting with major telecom operators on March 28. The official proposed to charge the use of more than 15 gigabytes of international traffic per month in mobile networks.

Users of social networks said that in recent days they have received other people’s video messages in the Max messenger, writes NeMoskva Speaks on March 30. One user sent her husband a video of their children playing outside, but he received a completely different message. Another user said that she recorded a circle for a friend, and when she decided to watch it again, she discovered that it was someone else’s video.

Oleg Deripaska thinks so. Last week he promised Putin to finance the war Billionaire Oleg Deripaska said Russia was in a deep crisis and called on Russians to work “from eight to eight, including Saturday” so that the country could emerge from it. The corresponding post appeared on his Telegram channel. According to Deripaska, the economic crisis in Russia began a long time ago.

What questions do we have for him? Let's try to ask them to him (once again...) Pavel Durov Russian authorities have been blocking Telegram for two weeks now. In fact, the messenger only works with a VPN (here's how to install it). During these two weeks, the creator of the telegram, Pavel Durov, never publicly commented on these events. In such cases, journalists should contact the hero - however, Durov extremely rarely answers their requests. Nevertheless, we have something to ask him.