The European Union imposed the first antimonopoly penalty for Apple for violating the EU laws on competition, reports Marketwatch. The company was fined 1.8 billion euros for providing advantages to its own streaming music to competitors. Apple forbade the application developers to inform iOS users about alternative and cheaper subscription services to music, in which the European Commission saw violation of European legislation.

Economy Separate grain from the war. Why Polish farmers took up arms against Ukraine 4 march 2024 Polish farmers are actively rebelled against the import of Ukrainian grain - they arrange protests, pour Ukrainian grain from trucks and trains. Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with them and agreed that, perhaps, he would have to be completely temporarily closed. In Ukraine, they suspect that the protests are directed by Russia.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the project “We can explain”. As the project itself notes , the department did not indicate the reason for the blocking. Earlier, RKN demanded that the editorial office of MO delete absolutely all texts from the PointMedia.io website. The RKN referred to a certain requirement of the “Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation or his deputy on the adoption of measures to restrict access to information resources dated 02.26.2024 No. 27-31-2024/Treb172-24”.

The Chita District Court sentenced a native of the village of Alkhanay, who returned from the war with Ukraine, Tsyren-Dorzhi Tsyrenzapov, to 14 years in a strict regime, in the case of the murder of a 22-year-old resident, writes the Chita.ru portal. He strangled the victim during a quarrel in September 2023.

The Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court (Armed Forces) of Russia rejected Boris Nadezhdin’s complaint about the refusal to satisfy the last, third, lawsuit against the Central Election Commission, in which the politician disputed the refusal to register as a candidate in the Russian President. According to RIA Novosti, now the decision to refuse registration has entered into force.

News The Chinese auto industry intends to seize the budget segment of the Russian market, which occupies AvtoVAZ - Kitaists The Insider March 4, 2024 The Chinese HAVAL car manufacturer, according to the head of the external relations of his Russian structure Ivan Dushkin, is going to open the engines factory in the Tula region. Dushkin says that the company will produce 100 thousand engines per year, which will provide them with 90% of this brand’s cars in the Russian market.

By the end of 2021, Elon Musk was increasingly adamant that free speech was in retreat around the world.

In the Bryansk region, on suspicion of committing a sabotage on the railway, a participant in the war in Ukraine was detained. According to the BAZA Telegram channel, the detainee admitted that he participated in the arson of the relay cabinet and the transformer substation on the Chernets-Polpinskaya distances. The arson was committed on February 25. The next day, the police, combing the surroundings, found a winter jacket with burned sleeves.

News Putin promised to make air twice as cleaner. “Enterprises have no resources for such large -scale environmental investments” - expert The Insider March 4, 2024 Vladimir Putin in the message to the Federal Assembly stated that the problem of dirty air is gradually being resolved - he should become twice the cleaner in the next six years. Now half of the country's urban population breathes air with high or very high pollution, according to official Russian statistics.

The Soviet District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced a citizen of Tajikistan Khushnud Khamroev by 15 years 6 months in prison in a colony of maximum regime in a criminal case of a brutal murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl. The court also satisfied the civil lawsuit of the victims and collected material damage in the amount of 400 thousand rubles and compensation for moral damage in the amount of 2.5 million rubles from the accused, the press service of the court said .

The latest Russian tank T-14 Armata is much more powerful than all existing tanks, but it will hardly be applied in hostilities in Ukraine. This was the General Director of Rostec State Corporation Sergei Chemezov informed RIA Novosti agency. The head of Rostec explained this decision by the high cost of this technique: ““ Armata ”, she, in general, is expensive. By its functionality, it, of course, is far superior to existing tanks, but too expensive, so its army is unlikely to use it now.

The mayor of Tulun Yuri Karikh, arrested almost six months ago for fraud with housing payments, was deprived of the authority. This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. The reason was a violation of the Federal Law "On Combating Corruption". Karich provided a plot of more than 2 thousand square meters. m of a close relative did not notify the possible conflict of interests.

A former employee of the 102nd intelligence unit of the US Air Force in the US National Guard in Massachusetts, Jack Teisheir, pleaded guilty to the leakage of the Pentagon secret documents. According to the BBC, he, as part of the transaction, agreed with the investigation to a 16-year conclusion in exchange for the removal of more serious accusations of espionage.

US Vice-President Kamalla Harris demanded that Hamas have an immediate ceasefire for a period of six weeks. At the same time, she urged Israel to increase the supply of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, where, according to her, innocent people suffer from a humanitarian disaster. Reuters quotes Harris, noting that today it is one of the most sharp comments from a senior US representative to Israel. “Hamas must agree to this deal. Let's make a deal to cease fire.

The first few months of the full-scale war came as a massive shock for Ukrainians, causing the unemployment rate to soar to almost 30% and nearly half of Ukrainian businesses to close down or reduce operations significantly , as the exchange value of the hryvnia plummeted. The national bank initially fixed the hryvnia to dollar rate at 29.25 hryvnias but had to devalue it to 36.57 in July 2022.