Rwanda announced the breakdown of diplomatic relations with Belgium against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the M23 rebel group went on the offensive and captured several cities. The UN accused Rwand of supporting the armed group, and Brussels advocates the introduction of sanctions.

The administration of the city of Krasnoyarsk banned the holding of a promotion against the ban on rallies under the pretext of "maintenance of the own". A copy of the response to a request for a rally was published by the deputy of the local Legislative Assembly from the LDPR Alexei Boykov. This is the first time that the authorities prohibit public events in Russia because of the war.

Lithuanian prosecutors have accused Russian intelligence services of organizing a May 2024 arson attack on an IKEA warehouse in Vilnius, according to a report by Delfi . Artūras Urbelis, chief prosecutor of the Organized Crime Investigation Department of Lithuania’s General Prosecutor’s Office, said the fire was set by two Ukrainian nationals under the age of 20. “One of them, whom we are transferring for judicial examination, is a minor,” Urbelis explained.

Society Diana Fishman 17 march 2025 Exactly ten years ago, The Insider published material with anxious data: anti-Semitic sentiments are growing in Europe, in a number of countries (for example, in the UK and France), the number of incidents on the basis of hatred for Jews increased sharply, which is why many Jewish families chose to emigrate. Now, against the backdrop of the war in the gas sector, a wave of anti -Semitism swept Europe, which it has not seen since the Second World War.

On Sunday, the US presidential administration Donald Trump announced the deportation of the alleged members of the Venezuelan gang, using the law adopted in the 18th century, which is applied in wartime, despite the judicial decision that temporarily prohibits such actions. About this writes The Wall Street Journal. District Judge James Bosberg on Saturday evening blocked the use by the president of the law on hostile foreigners to deport foreign citizens in custody in the United States.

The police in North Macedonia detained 15 people in the case of a fire in a night club in the city of Kochani, BBC reports . The victims of the fire, which occurred on the night of March 16 at the Pulse club, became 59 people. Another 155 people were injured. According to eyewitnesses, the spare exit in the rear of the club was closed and, when the fire began, everyone had to escape through the only door.

The news The Insider March 17, 2025 After the US presidential administration Donald Trump allowed the expiration of licenses for calculations in the energy sector through Russian banks on sanctions, all oil calculations were threatened. Companies conducting transactions through suction banks themselves run the risk of being under secondary sanctions.

The Dalnegorsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory decided to transfer to the state income 100% of the shares of the Dalpolmetal Mining and Metallurgical Complex-a strategic enterprise for the extraction of lead and zinc ores used in military industry. The shares belonged to MS-groups (67%), Mimoro Constructions LTD (16.5%) and Wanester Management Limited (16.5%). It is reported by Interfax.

The US prosecutors received the right to sell the Amadea yacht, owned by Senator Suleiman Kerimov, the Financial Times reported. Its cost is estimated at more than $ 300 million, the yacht was confiscated back in 2022. At least until Friday, March 14, the yacht remained in the port of San Diego, where it was towed after the detention in May 2022. Despite the allegations of the prosecutor's office that Kerimov was the owner of the yacht, he denied this.

RU Maria Ponomarenko, a journalist sentenced in February 2023 to six years in prison under Russia’s wartime censorship laws, is now on the verge of suicide, her lawyer has told independent human rights project OVD-Info . Ponomarenko’s employer, RusNews , also reports that she is currently on a dry hunger strike.

The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly informed European officials of its withdrawal from an international group established to investigate figures responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including Vladimir Putin himself, The New York Times reported earlier today.

US President Donald Trump said that he was planning to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday on March 18 to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine after negotiations between the officials of the United States and Russia in Moscow. “On Tuesday, I will talk with President Putin. A lot of work has been done over the weekend. (...) We want to see if we can put an end to this war. Maybe we can, maybe not, but I think that we have very good chances, ”Trump said.

In spring 2023, Svetlana Golubeva, the former governor’s daughter, acquired two apartments in Bluewaters Bay, each measuring 122 m² — one in March and another in May. That April, her husband, Pyotr Kobyakov, also purchased an apartment in the same building.

A Tbilisi court has sentenced former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to 4 years and 6 months in prison for illegally crossing the country’s border, according to a report by Mtavari TV . With the latest verdict added to last week’s sentence for “embezzlement,” the judge determined that Saakashvili will serve a total of 12 years and 6 months in prison.

Controlled burning of dry grass, when arson is carried out and controlled by forest or fire protection workers, is used quite widely, and theoretically this measure should prevent uncontrolled fires. However, in reality, according to experts, the grass fell only dries trees and shrubs. Instead of preventing disaster, people turn forests into an ideal environment for spreading fire. In 2019, the authorities of the Amur Region abandoned spring preventive burning of grass and brushwood.