The District Court of Warsaw allowed the extradition of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin to Ukraine, reports a Vot Tak correspondent. The defense intends to appeal this decision. Lawyer Adam Domanski said that the scientist, who is being held in a pre-trial detention center, maintains contact with Russian diplomats, and can only communicate with his family by telephone.

The Lithuanian government has approved a draft law on the creation of a military training ground in the Kapčiamestis region - in the south of the country, near the border with Poland and approximately 10-11 km from the junction of the borders of Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. The final decision must be made by the Sejm, while the Ministry of Defense requests that the initiative be considered urgently. It is planned that the landfill will occupy about 14.4 thousand hectares.

The Standing Commission of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation on international cooperation sent appeals to the Oscar organizing committee and UNESCO Secretary General Khaled al-Anani. The reason was the use of footage of Russian schoolchildren in the documentary film Mr. Nobody Against Putin (“Mr. Nobody against Putin”), which received the award for best documentary film.

Russian women who do not plan to give birth may be referred to a psychologist “in order to form positive attitudes toward having children.” This is stated in the document approved by the Ministry of Health, writes TASS.

Iran is ready to listen to proposals from mediating countries for a ceasefire if Tehran is compensated for the damage, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “Many countries friendly to us have offered ideas and expressed their willingness to play a role in achieving peace.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, opened a criminal case against three retired judges from the Stavropol Territory. According to investigators, this is a corruption network.

Argentina has officially terminated its membership in the World Health Organization (WHO). The country's Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced this on Twitter. “Our country will continue to promote international cooperation in the field of health through bilateral agreements and regional forums, while fully protecting its sovereignty and right to make decisions on health policy issues,” Kirno wrote.

Researchers at PromptArmor have identified a critical vulnerability in the Snowflake Cortex Code CLI command AI agent, which allowed an attacker to bypass security mechanisms by introducing malicious instructions into third-party code, go beyond the isolated environment (sandbox) and run arbitrary code on the victim’s computer. A patch for the vulnerability was released in February 2026, and its public disclosure took place on March 16.

The Kremlin “strongly condemned” the murder of Iran’s de facto leader Ali Larijani, Dmitry Peskov said : “Of course, we strongly condemn actions aimed at causing harm to health, or even more so killing and eliminating representatives of the leadership of a sovereign and independent Iran, as well as other countries.” Iran confirmed Larijani's death the day before. His son and his guards were killed along with him. A day earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced his murder.

A court in Warsaw has approved the extradition to Ukraine of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin, according to a report by the independent outlet Vot Tak . Butyagin’s legal defense plans to appeal the decision, with his lawyer, Adam Domański, saying the scholar, who is being held in pretrial detention, remains in contact with Russian diplomats and can communicate with his family only by phone.

The authorities of the Novosibirsk region introduced a rabies quarantine in two more settlements: the urban-type settlement of Kolyvan and the village of Gzhatsk. The corresponding orders of Governor Andrei Travnikov were published on the regional government website . It is alleged that foci of rabies have been identified in the farms of these settlements.

The war in the Middle East has threatened the supply of life-saving medicines around the world. Pharmaceutical companies are already rerouting cargo along new routes and overland transport due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as setting up an internal system to sort life-saving drugs to prioritize them. Australia is reporting an ongoing drug shortage.

The Federal Tax Service has strengthened control over the income of Russians in foreign accounts as part of the automatic exchange of financial information with other countries. Representatives of large legal and consulting companies told Forbes about this. According to them, the tax authorities began to massively check not only large incomes, but also relatively small incomes, which they “didn’t get around to” before.

The tanker Sea Horse has been trying to reach Cuba since late February. Photo: Jan Verhoog / MarineTraffic Доступно на русском Two tankers carrying Russian petroleum products are heading toward Cuba, with one approaching the zone of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean. The tanker Anatoly Kolodkin (IMO: 9610808) left the port of Primorsk on March 8 and is heading to the Cuban port of Matanzas, according to a Bloomberg report citing data from the analytics firm Kpler.

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani was killed in an Israeli strike, Iranian authorities have confirmed. This was reported by the state agency Tasnim. Larijani's funeral will take place today, March 18. Along with the head of the Security Council, his son Morteza Larijani, the deputy head of his security service, Alireza Beyat, and a group of security guards were killed.