OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control), the U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions enforcement arm, says Evrofinance Mosnarbank has been sanctioned for its association with Venezuela's state oil corporation PDVSA, itself recently listed on the SDN List. According to the results of 2018, the Russian-Venezuelan bank is in 78th place in terms of assets in the Interfax-100 rating.

Russia's share in the arms market in 2014-2018 decreased by 17% compared to 2009-2013. This was partly due to a reduction in arms imports by India and Venezuela, according to a report by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Kommersant reports . In total, over the past five years, Russia has supplied weapons to 48 countries. 55% of the total came from India, China and Algeria.

In April, Visa will increase the amount limit for purchases without a PIN. It will be possible to spend 3 thousand rubles. Now the code must be entered if the amount exceeds 1 thousand rubles. Letters with new rules were sent to banks, writes RBC . As Denis Khrenov, head of acquiring development at Alfa-Bank, told RBC, the innovation will come into force in mid-April. The requirements of the payment system apply to all banks participating in the Visa system.

The White House has published a draft US budget for fiscal year 2020, according to which the expected deficit will be $1.1 trillion.

On March 11, Ivan Kolpakov was appointed editor-in-chief of Meduza. Tatyana Ershova, who acted as editor-in-chief, will become editorial director. This was reported in the appeal of the general director of the publication Galina Timchenko to readers. Kolpakov resigned on November 9, 2018, despite the fact that the company's board of directors found no reason to remove him and unanimously confirmed his authority, Timchenko notes.

The head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, spoke about the amounts received from foreign sources by Russian non-profit organizations, "which go to certain degrees of destructiveness." “Foreign funding continues to come here, and not all for good purposes. We track somewhere around 80 billion <…> We work closely with the FSB on each.

Former commander of Donbass militias Igor Strelkov (Girkin) put up for sale a medal for the capture of Crimea. This event was interested in publicist Ivan Davydov Ivan Davydov. A very medium -sized thing: 79,23 g. True, gold. 750 sample. On the Avers there is a profile of Vladimir Putin in a laurel wreath, as if specially made for a reconstant who loved at the time of the pre -wars to dress up with a Roman legionnaire. And the inscription in Latin: “Deo ducente virtuti Putini Crimea Recepta”.

$1 trillion has already moved from the UK to other EU countries, our correspondent reports from London Foreign business began to leave the UK amid lack of clarity on the terms of the country's exit from the European Union on March 29, with the possible postponement of exit and the prospect of leaving without concluding an agreement with the EU as such.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, amid mass street protests in the country, said he would not run for a fifth term. According to El Khabar newspaper , the April 18 elections have been postponed. In a message to the people, Bouteflika also announced "significant changes" in the composition of the government.

I will not impose my point of view on this matter, but simply, based on my life experience, I will express several hypotheses in response to the questions that I receive The story of journalistic investigations into the foul-smelling operations of the Russian investment bank Troika Dialog (no longer existing) continues to gain momentum.

Putin has been speaking to the people in hate speech for many years, and I do not think that this has brought Russia at least some benefit. Therefore, it seems to me that the democratic opposition needs a completely different political language. The rally against the new laws of "United Russia" on the isolation of the Internet was worthy, despite all the difficulties. The police staged several provocations.

Five years have passed since the annexation of Russia of the Ukrainian peninsula. Some results of that event are summarized by political analyst Alexander Morozov Alexander Morozov For Russia as a whole - that is, for domestic politics, economics, for social self -awareness of large contingents, regardless of what you call the events of 2014 - annexation, “Russian spring”, “Putin’s turn”, joining, “returning home”, “historical choice”, etc.

The Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation sent to the Federation Council expert opinions criticizing the bills adopted by the State Duma on punishments for fake news and disrespect for the authorities. The HRC asks the upper house of parliament to reject the bills and send them for revision within the framework of the Conciliation Commission.

On March 12, the British Parliament is due to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's proposal for an updated treaty on the conditions for the country's exit from the EU. If the deputies vote against, then there will be two ways left - a withdrawal without concluding a treaty or an extension of the "transitional period". According to The Times , a number of parliamentarians proposed to postpone the vote.

The traffic police proposed to equip passenger buses with airbags and strengthen the frame and fastening of the seats in order to avoid serious consequences in case of an accident. According to the head of the technical supervision department of the State traffic inspectorate, Sergei Chipurin, the updated state standard containing these proposals may come into force in early 2020, TASS reports .