The founder of Alfa-Bank, Mikhail Friedman, said that he was blocked by a bank card, and expenses can limit the amount of about $ 3300 per month. A businessman with a fortune of $ 15.5 billion, according to Forbes, gave the first interview after the sanction of Great Britain and the EU. Friedman complained to Bloomberg that he will now have to receive permission to spend money from the British government, which should determine whether his request is “reasonable”.

Russia continued to purchase weapons in the EU at least until 2020. According to the public data analyzed by Investigate Europe, the EU member states exported military equipment, despite the continuing embargo. Some of these weapons can now be used against Ukraine. According to the official working group of the Council for the Export of Conventional Weapons (Coarm), analyzed by Investigate Europe, from 2015 to 2020, at least 10 EU member countries exported a total of 346 million euros to Russia.

News Yachts, villas, 140 paintings. That the Russian oligarchs lost after the start of the war with Ukraine. Photo 17 march 2022 Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the power of the European Union and the United States imposed personal sanctions against Russian billionaires. This was followed by the arrests of accounts and property. Alisher Usmanov, Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Friedman and other oligarchs fell under the sanctions.

The city council said that the Russian military dumps from 50 to 100 air bombs to the city per day. According to preliminary estimates, about 80% of houses in the city are destroyed, of which almost 30% are not subject to restoration. On March 16, as a result of the bombing, the Drama Theater and the Neptune basin building were destroyed. In these places from shelling, hundreds of people, mainly women, children and elderly people were hidden.

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In an interview with Ukrainian Forbes, Deputy Mayor of Mariupol spoke about how the city almost completely destroyed by the Russian army lives. According to him, 80–90% of the city was destroyed, not a single building was left without damage. At the time of the blockade, from 350 thousand to 400 thousand people remained in the city, of which more than two thousand were killed. “We must understand that these are the bodies located on the street.

Chernigov was on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the attack of Russian troops. As the mayor of the city, Vladislav Atroshenko, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, there are no warmth, electricity and water, few foods and medicines there for several days. “The city does not have enough food, medicines, dressing materials, painkillers, antiseptics, and chlorine.

And it would be possible to control from there only a square near the theater building. But more importantly, the very version of the Russian military looks complete absurd. According to their logic, the “battalion” (in fact, the regiment as part of the National Guard) “Azov” first used the building as a firing point, hiding behind civilians driven there, and then for some reason decided to blow it up, and so that the theater was destroyed almost completely.

Journalist Ivan Safronov from the pre -trial detention center in correspondence with the human rights activist and columnist for Novaya Gazeta Zoe, Zoey Light, said that on the eve of the court he does not feed any illusions, but did not lose heart. “I’m not just sure now, and I know a hundred percent that there is no corpus delicti in my actions, unless, of course, to consider the journalism itself from a crime. Although, judging by what is happening in the country, I don’t know what to think.

The war with Ukraine did not go according to plan, and now Russian propaganda literally has to come up with explanations for why it was necessary to get involved in a military adventure, which has already led to unprecedented pressure from sanctions and de facto isolation from the West, and threatens a severe socio-economic crisis in the near future.

The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, sent a letter to employees of the company in which he described the current events as “a fierce struggle for our feelings and minds, for our attitude to the homeland” and called for rally around Russian President Vladimir Putin. The agency was told about this by two employees of the Gazprom-Media holding channels. They received a letter on March 5, then it was published on the website of Neftegazstroyprofsoyuz.

News In Russia, there has been a stir for sugar in stores. The regions have already begun to record prices and create reserves 17 march 2022 Personnel appeared in social networks, on which customers in a hurry are taken from the shelves of packaging stores with sugar. Some load entire carts. In the video from the city of Gus-Khrustalny and entries from the city of Kasimov, which was published by the Baza Telegram channel, the old-age people push each other to grab the goods.

Rodnyansky told The Insider that he did not know about this letter: “I did not know anything about it. If this information is confirmed, this will not affect my activity. Under no circumstances, I am not going to use the money of the Russian state. ” Alexander Rodnyansky is one of the founders of the Ukrainian television channel “1+1”, with which the studio of Vladimir Zelensky “Quarter 95” collaborates. In Russia, he is known as the producer of Andrei Zvyagintsev films.

In the city of Merefa, the Kharkov region, as a result of Russian shelling in the morning of March 17, 21 people died, 25 were injured, 10 of them in serious condition. It is reported by Gordon.ua with reference to the Kharkov Regional Prosecutor's Office. The head of the community, Veniamin Sitov, said that the school and the house of culture were destroyed as a result of shelling, as well as the nearest residential buildings were damaged. The city was fired at 3:30 am.

The authorities of Kazakhstan were deported to Russia by the office manager of the Rain TV channel, whose name is not disclosed. This was announced in her Telegram channel by the host of Rain Anna Mongait. “Our colleague, an office manager of the rain, was sent from Kazakhstan along with the eight of the Russians who lived with her in the same hotel. Calculated "undesirable". Deported to Russia. For her, this is dramatic, but not very dangerous.