Filaret in 1987 Patriarch Filaret, a Ukrainian church leader who for many years headed the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate), fought for the independence of the Ukrainian church from Moscow, has died. He was 97 years old. The Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy, wrote about the death of Filaret (in the world Mikhail Denisenko). Mikhail Denisenko was born in 1929 in the Donetsk region.

The most interesting thing from our common past. An unfinished story. Unhealed wounds. Hopes still alive. Could Russia have taken a different path? Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy selects from our broadcast what is still relevant and has turned out to be eternal.

Former math professor Daniel Biss won the Democratic primary in Illinois' 9th District and is all but guaranteed a seat in the House of Representatives in November's election.

Judge's chairs, illustrative photo A court in Ryazan sentenced Alexey Poltavets in absentia to 9.5 years in prison in the case of the terrorist community "Network", finding him guilty of the murder of 21-year-old Artem Dorofeev and complicity in the murder of 19-year-old Ekaterina Levchenko in 2017. Mediazona reported this on Friday with reference to information from the mother of the murdered woman, Tatyana Levchenko. The publication notes that the verdict was handed down on February 10.

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Kirill Dmitriev The Kremlin has offered Washington a deal under which Russia would stop providing Iran with intelligence information about US troops in the Middle East if the United States stopped providing intelligence about Russia to Ukraine. Politico writes about this, citing two sources familiar with the course of US-Russian negotiations. The publication said the White House rejected the proposal.

Tanker "Volgoneft-256" with the "friendly" Iranian flag raised in the port of Amirabad, photo taken from the stern of another Russian vessel of the "Volgoneft" class, tanker "Volga". On Wednesday, March 19, Israel struck Iranian ports and a warship in the Caspian Sea for the first time during a joint operation with the United States against Iran. Since its inception, Russian ships have continued to supply fuel and other goods to Iran through the Caspian Sea. Will this continue to be the case?

Chuck Norris American film actor and martial artist Chuck Norris has died. He was 86 years old. The actor's death was announced by his family on Friday. "It is with deep sadness that our family announces the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. To the world, he was a martial artist, an actor, and a symbol of strength.

The General Staff of Ukrainian forces said on Friday that an A-50 airborne early warning aircraft was damaged in a strike on a Russian aircraft repair plant in Staraya Russa in the Novgorod region. “It was on the territory of the enterprise for maintenance and, possibly, was awaiting modernization,” the text says . There is no independent confirmation of this statement.

Collage: Nabiullina, Siluanov, Deripaska The war is driving the Russian economy into recession As experts from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, close to the Russian Presidential Administration, note, indicators for the fourth month in a row have been signaling the risk of a protracted recession, which could last more than a year and, among other things, cause a banking crisis.

A convoy of vehicles, including paddy wagons and riot police, arrived in the village of Kozikha, Novosibirsk Region: the Vodoley peasant farm is located here. The owner said that in February his animals were vaccinated in accordance with the requirements of the veterinary services, after which the condition of 17 cows worsened. Officials said there was some problem with the vaccine.

Vladimir Osipov, convicted for posts on Odnoklassniki On March 18, 56-year-old political prisoner Vladimir Osipov died in the 1st city hospital of Ukhta. For several posts on Odnoklassniki, the court of first instance sentenced him to 6.5 years in prison (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, so-called “military fakes”).