The Baikal search and rescue detachment (BPSO) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry refutes the information that appeared in the media about the death of the youngest son of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych as a result of the incident on Lake Baikal. According to TASS , citing a representative of BPSO, on March 20, the Volkswagen minibus with six people really failed under the ice in the Cape Hoba area, however, there was no man named Yanukovych among the dead and injured.

In Moscow, the satirist and playwright Arkady Arkanov died. A message about this appeared this morning on the website of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater, with which the writer collaborated. A little later, the information about the death of Arkanov was confirmed by TASS in the reference central clinical hospital. Arkady Arkanov was hospitalized on March 14 with complaints of chest pain and difficulty breathing, recalls Interfax .

Today in St. Petersburg there is a so-called international Russian conservative forum organized by the Homeland party.