Despite the obligations to pay the debt in dollars, the Ministry of Finance will pay on March 16 rubles. The Ministry of Finance says that, since Russia was frozen currency reserves, he cannot pay in dollars. From the point of view of the relationship of the Ministry of Finance with its creditors, bond holders, this is a violation of the debt contract. This means default. And not technical, but real.

During the anti -war action, detainees in Moscow, on March 6, told that they were beaten and wrapped in the police department. This happened in the Academic police department, writes New Gazeta with reference to the victims and municipal deputy Levon Smirnov, who, within the framework of his authority, came to the department with an audit. According to them, they beat, threatened and mocked three men in civilian clothes.

From the meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Ukraine in Antaly, few expected great progress. Ukrainian Minister Dmitry Kuleba came to Turkey with three requirements: reduce the intensity of shelling, open humanitarian corridors for residents of surrounded cities and begin negotiations on a meeting of the presidents of Zelensky and Putin. Kuleba agreed to discuss any issue except the “list of surrender” posed by the Kremlin, consisting of three points: 1.

The Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrei Turchak advocated to “dismiss the head of the Skolkovo head of the former deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich because of his statements as the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) from the post of head of the Skolkovo. Previously, Dvorkovich said that he opposed hostilities in Ukraine: “War is the worst that a person may encounter in life. Any war. Anywhere. Including this war.

Western sanctions imposed against Russia do not yet prevent it from serving sovereign debt in dollars. This situation will not change until the end of May, Bloomberg reports with reference to the representative of the US Department of Finance. This week, Russia should pay coupons in the amount of over $ 117 million for two releases of Eurobonds.

The court fined 45 thousand rubles of a resident of Tomsk Stanislav Karmaksky, who was present at shares against the war in Ukraine. Tomich did not shout the slogans and did not hold the poster in his hands, but the court also considered his silence a form of protest, writes OVD-Info.

The Spanish authorities detained a yacht called Crescent (“crescent”), which is supposed to belong to the sanctions to the executive director of Rosneft Igor Sichin, Reuters reports with reference to the police source. According to Marine Traffic, a 135-meter yacht, which specialized publications call one of the largest in the world, arrived in Spain from Italy in November 2021. Its approximate cost is about $ 600 million.

The financial guard of Italy froze six companies related to the assets of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who fell under the sanctions of the EU. The total cost of frozen assets is 66 million euros, RIA Novosti reports with reference to sources in the power department. “These companies are a link between the owner and the object of ownership. The volume includes real estate and cars.

The new head of the Kyiv military administration Nikolai Zhirnov explained the introduction of a commandant in the capital with the need to combat sabotage and intelligence groups. “This information is closed and is not subject to commenting. The only thing I can say that serious measures are planned to destroy the enemy DRGs and other forces of the invaders who want to master Kiev. We are ahead of the lead, ”he said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.

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E.On the largest German energy circle announced the abandonment of new gas purchases from the Russian Gazprom trading companies in Europe. This was stated by the chief executive director of E.on Leonard Burnbaum. “We buy our gas in wholesale markets in Europe. E.on does not have long -term contracts for delivery directly with manufacturers. However, a small amount of natural gas in our portfolio was purchased from Gazprom trading companies in Europe ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with the government on March 16, compared the attitude towards Russians in the West with Jewish pogroms who were satisfied with the Nazis in Germany in the 30s. In addition, according to him, right now, “an unprecedented information campaign is unleashed against Russia” with the participation of social networks and Western media, which “stuff people with a huge number of fakes of propaganda fakes”.

Kostyuchenko called on Skadovskin to gather in the central squares for a rally. The emerging people chant "Russian soldier - fascist and occupier", "Return our mayor!", "Mayor!", "We chose it - this is our mayor." As the Ukrainian Pravda recalls, on March 11, the Russian military abducted the city head of the captured Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. March 13 - Evgenia Matveeva - mayor of the Dnieper, which is in the Zaporizhzhya region.

Vladimir Putin, as part of a meeting on regions support measures, said that Russians should prepare for an increase in unemployment. “In new realities, deep structural changes in our economy will be required. And I will not hide, they will not be simple, they will lead to a temporary increase in inflation and unemployment, ”Putin said.

The sites of the Arbitration Courts of Russia underwent a hacker attack and were temporarily inaccessible. This was confirmed by Interfax, the representative of the Arbitration Court of the Amur Region Elena Gorlova. According to her, the capital pages of sites were hacked, this did not affect the court’s workflow. The file cabinet is in working condition, said an employee of the press service.