For the second day in a row, protests against the new law on "foreign agents" continue in Georgia. In total, according to various sources, from 30 to 40 thousand people gathered at the rally. Giorgi Vashadze, leader of the opposition Strategy Agmashenebeli party, demanded that parliament reject the bill on "foreign agents" and release all those detained at the March 7 protest. The Georgian authorities were given an hour to fulfill these demands. The protesters received no response.

The governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, published a video on his Telegram channel in which local volunteers said that they had visited those mobilized at the front line in the “DPR”. “We just left the front line, from the red zone. We talked with them, found out their needs, difficulties, what is wrong.

At the age of 90, the artist of the avant-garde artist Boris Zhutovsky died. This was announced by political analyst Arkady Dubnov on his Facebook page. Boris Zhutovsky. Photo: Valery Ledenev Zhutovsky was one of the participants in the exhibition “30 years of the Moscow Region” in the Manege in December 1962, which was visited by the leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev. The head of state sharply criticized the work of avant -garde, calling it “shit”, “shit” and “daub”. “What are these faces?

The US Treasury has removed four former subsidiaries of Sberbank in Kazakhstan from the sanctions list. This is stated in the list update message. We are talking about the structures of the bank, formerly known as "Texacabank". In 1993, the organization was established as a joint Kazakh-American bank, but in 2006 it was bought out by Sberbank. A year later, "Texakabank" was renamed "Subsidiary Bank Joint Stock Company "Sberbank of Russia"".

“Terrorists” and “extremists” have long roamed the back streets of Lukashenko’s consciousness. He drives away all enemies obscenities. Now the turn has come to Zelensky Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: Era Alexander Lukashenko loves two things very much: lies and sub -vocabulary. And when he is in a state of exaltation, he always unites them. And you get performances that then experts are examining and trying to analyze from all sides: what will follow? Does this mean a war announcement?

The German concern Continental has decided to gradually withdraw from Russia. This was announced by the company's CEO Nikolai Setzer, his quote was published in a press release. “2022 has been a particularly challenging year for us in several ways. The war in Ukraine has led to higher prices for raw materials, semi-finished products, energy and logistics. This is also the reason why we continue to strive for a controlled exit from the Russian market,” said Setzer.

Georgian law enforcement officers have detained a suspect in a criminal case on attacking a police officer during yesterday’s protest rally against the “foreign agents” law, as per the website of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is claimed that the detainee was born in 2001. He faces from four to seven years of imprisonment.

Georgian security forces detained the first suspect in the case of assault on a policeman (Article 353 of the Criminal Code of Georgia) during a protest against the law on “foreign agents”. A press release about this was published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. It is alleged that the detainee was born in 2001. He faces four to seven years in prison.

World IT giants are in a hurry to take places in the future, where chat bots rule. But is the noise around this technology justified? Photo: Silas Stein/Picture Alliance Via Getty Images In the technological market, in recent months, a real battle has unfolded - Microsoft, Google and Meta have announced plans to introduce large language models (LLM) into their products.

Special issue of the podcast "What is new?" March 8 is the day of the solidarity of women in the struggle for female rights and emancipation. 2022 was difficult for the entire feminist community. The war caused a huge number of cases of sexualized violence, a new wave of repression and discrimination. What are the scale of military sexualized violence in Ukraine? How are women self -organizing to help others? And how ideally should the holiday of March 8 look like?

Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova has posted a list of Ukrainian POWs on her Telegram channel, claiming that Ukraine allegedly refused to swap them “at the last moment” before a prisoner exchange on 7 March. The list is all men. The youngest person on the list is 22 years old, the oldest 58, media outlet RBC notes .

Tatyana Moskalkova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, published on her Telegram channel a list of Ukrainian military prisoners of war, whom Ukraine allegedly refused to exchange “at the last moment” on March 7. The list contains only men. The youngest of them is 22 years old, the oldest is 58 years old, notes .

As an action movie from the St. Petersburg gangs of the 90s became a deputy-and then lost everything. The story of Denis Volchek as a mirror of modern Russia Denis Volchek. Photo from social networks In the biography of the ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the LDPR Denis Volchek, all the political and economic processes that have taken place in Russia from the beginning of the 90s to the present day have been displayed.

Sixty-six people were detained during a protest against the law on “foreign agents” that took place in the centre of Tbilisi on 7 March, Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . The protesters are being charged with disorderly conduct and failing to comply with police officers’ orders. The ministry has also initiated an investigation into “violent incidents” under the articles of Georgia’s Criminal Code on attacking a police officer and damaging or destroying property.

The Parliament of Georgia adopted in the first reading the Russian Law on foreign agents and provoked a folk riot. Report from Tbilisi streets Protest in Tbilisi, March 7, 2023. Photo: Era The ruling team of the Georgian Dream had difficulties with Russian experience in the transfer of civil society into the status of “agents of foreign influence”.