The US plans to introduce new financial sanctions against Venezuela. This was stated by US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, reports RIA Novosti. “There will be more sanctions against financial institutions that follow the orders of [incumbent President Nicolás] Maduro’s regime to steal funds from Venezuela and hide them around the world,” he told the Senate.

Sberbank has reduced rates on deposits in dollars and euros for all lines, TASS reports with reference to the bank's press service. The decrease occurred on March 7, it ranged from 0.04 percentage points (p.p.) to 0.5 p.p. In particular, the rates on the line of dollar deposits decreased from 0.04 to 0.15 p.p.

Mikhail Rubin, deputy editor-in-chief of the Proekt publication and host of the Dozhd TV channel, said that unknown people came to his parents and asked: “Isn’t your son ashamed to sell his homeland?” They were with video cameras. this He announced on Facebook. Rubin said that, according to his mother, the door was opened to unknown persons, as they were waiting for a courier.

Great Britain announced the tightening of the rules for issuing visas for investors of the first level (Tier 1 Investor), the relevant documents are published on the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country. It is planned that the new rules will come into force on March 29.

State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and his deputy Alexander Zhukov introduced a bill to the lower house of parliament that would allow the Accounts Chamber to exercise financial control over subsidiaries of state-owned companies. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. In addition, the document proposes to empower the Accounts Chamber with external control over legal entities.

On February 28, the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug adopted amendments to the regional law on the work of its anti-corruption commission, in which it allowed deputies not to report on the income of relatives for “objective reasons”. This drew the attention of the local edition of "SIA-Press". According to the document, if the deputies of the Ugra Duma fail to submit declarations of their relatives in time, they will have to provide explanations to the commission.

Film distribution company Volga has decided to obtain permission to show the Belgian cartoon The Royal Corgi on March 21. The decision to postpone was made after it failed to agree on release dates with the distributor of the Russian cartoon Gurvinek. The Magic Game.

The Ministry of the Interior included shepherds and Sharpees on a list of 69 breeds, which were proposed to consider “potentially dangerous” dogs. The document was published on the website of the draft regulatory acts. According to the Law on the responsible attitude to animals, they will be obliged to walk in muzzles. It will be possible to remove them only on the private section of the owner, if at the entrance to it it is indicated that there is a dangerous dog.

Correspondents of Channel One, as an experiment, tried to recruit teenagers to work as drug couriers. The plot of the TV channel was released on March 5, but the media paid attention to it only now. The authors of the story offered young people to work 5-6 hours a week. Earn, according to "some employers", could be from 80 to 100 thousand rubles a month. At the same time, teenagers were not supposed to know that they were delivering.

The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia for Dagestan opened a criminal case after the poisoning of kindergarten students in the village of Sovetskoye (p “b” part 2 of article 238 of the Criminal Code), according to the agency ’s website. According to preliminary data, 22 children aged two to four years were admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of food poisoning. According to the Ministry of Health, were hospitalized two more educators with poisoning.

the Krasnoflotsky District Court of Khabarovsk On March 1, sentenced four members of the local branch of the “Men’s State” group on VKontakte, which advocates “national patriarchy,” to real terms. the TASS agency about this The representative of the court informed .

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has arrested for two months the deputy director of one of the departments of the Kharkiv City Council on suspicion of collaborating with Russian special services, UNIAN reports citing SBU representative Volodymyr Nastyuk.

The Krasnodar regional court upheld the decision of the court in Novorossiysk on the expulsion from Russia of two US citizens Kolya Devich Brodovsky and Udo David Gaag, an Interfax correspondent reports from the courtroom. Previously, they were found guilty of violating the border regime in the border zone (part 2 of article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Anapa, police officers summoned chemist Vladimir Uglev, who is considered one of the developers of the Novichok nerve agent, for questioning as a suspect in the theft case. about this . He told the BBC Russian Service He had not yet received a summons for interrogation, he was told about the interrogation by phone - they called from a number that belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department itself declined to comment to journalists.

VTB Capital bought a 20% stake in Channel One from ORT-KB, owned by businessman Roman Abramovich, the . bank said Commercial information about the terms of the deal is not disclosed. “Channel One has a colossal position in the market. The digital transformation of the mass media that has taken place opens up new opportunities for the TV channel.