The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that at about 18:00 Moscow time on March 31, contact with the An-26 military transport aircraft, which was making a scheduled flight over Crimea, was lost. The fate of the crew and passengers on board is unknown. Search and rescue teams headed to the suspected area of ​​the incident. “There was no damaging effect on the aircraft,” the Ministry of Defense said (quoted by Interfax). It is unknown how many people were on board.

The Russian authorities have threatened to deprive the IT accreditation of the Ministry of Digital Development of those Russian developers whose services will continue to work when users have VPN enabled. The Kommersant newspaper reported this on March 31, citing sources. Accreditation provides businesses with tax benefits: developers are exempt from paying VAT, the income tax rate for them is 5% instead of 25%, and reduced insurance premiums apply.

The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill on criminal penalties for illegal cryptocurrency mining. The authors of the document proposed adding a new article 171.6 “Illegal mining of digital currency and activities of the mining infrastructure operator” to the Criminal Code. The article implies punishment for those who are not included in the register of miners or the register of mining infrastructure operators.

The Shiite militant group Kataib Hezbollah kidnapped CNN journalist Shelley Kittleson in Baghdad, her colleague Alex Plitsas reported on social media X on March 31. Kittleson's whereabouts are unknown and her condition is unclear, he said. The Iraqi Interior Ministry reported earlier on March 31 that criminals had kidnapped a foreign journalist. The Emirati publication The National and other media stated that the person in question was Kittleson.

Meduza formulated the main questions about the new restrictions announced by the authorities Sources report that the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation plans to tighten control over VPN - the main and most powerful tool for bypassing blocking. The authorities allegedly want to set a limit on VPN traffic. In addition, they are going to prohibit replenishing Apple ID balance from a mobile phone account; This measure will also make it more difficult to pay for VPN services.

The US Treasury Department has removed three vessels associated with Russia from sanctions lists, according to a March 31 publication by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). One of them, the cargo ship Svyatoy Nikolay (Sv Nikolay) flying the Russian flag, was under sanctions due to connections with Alfa Bank. Now the cargo ship belongs to the Russian shipping company Riversea Plus, writes Important Stories.

Some components that could be used for the synthesis of epibatidine , the poison that was used to poison Alexei Navalny, were imported into Russia by a subsidiary of the German company abcr Chemie GmbH . The Insider writes about this in its investigation. First, the publication compiled a list of Russian companies that imported into the country the reagents necessary for the synthesis of epibatidine.

The main thing from the publication of The New York Times Ina Fassbender / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Nuuk, capital of Greenland Several people from US President Donald Trump's circle are investing heavily in Greenland and building networks of influence there. These activities attracted the attention of Danish intelligence services and journalists, who initially regarded them as covert subversive operations.

On March 30, the Russian government introduced a bill to the State Duma that would tighten banking controls for Russians. The proposed amendments to the Tax Code of Russia have been published in the database of the lower house of parliament. Among other things, the draft law suggests that the Bank of Russia will transfer data on citizens to the tax service if there is a suspicion that they receive income from unregistered business activities.

Nikita Zhuravel, convicted in cases of burning the Koran and “treason,” is in a colony in the Ulyanovsk region, said Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation. According to the human rights activist, Zhuravel’s mother received a “touching letter” from him. “He writes that he wrote a paper letter home about a month ago and hopes that they received it (they didn’t). I wrote the date in the letter as 03/26/2026,” Merkacheva said.

The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine sent an official request to Israel for the extradition of businessman Timur Mindich, the main defendant in the case of embezzlement at Energoatom, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, citing the department’s press service. Together with Mindich, Kyiv asked to extradite his business partner Alexander Tsukerman.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, no longer considers his 18-year-old son Adam as the main successor, writes Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Russia has not yet found its own way to combat domestic violence that would receive support from different sectors of society, Andrei Klishas, ​​head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, said in an interview with RBC. According to him, the issue related to domestic violence is complex. “When a man beat a woman and received a huge fine, and then the fine was taken from the family budget and given to the state, how did this help the woman?

This is because cemeteries are too expensive. Costfoto / Future Publishing / Getty Images Zhangjiakou City In China, new rules for organizing funerals came into force on March 30, 2026, which prohibit the use of residential premises solely for storing the ashes of the deceased. The ban was necessary because columbarium apartments began to appear in China in the last decade.

As part of the negotiations, Russia demands that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the Donetsk region within two months, threatening that otherwise its demands will change. This was stated by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. “They tell the American side: now there are new deadlines - in two months they will seize the east of our state, they will seize Donbass. And so Ukraine has two months to leave. And then the war will end.