Pro-government blogger and lawyer Ilya Remeslo, known for his fight against the opposition and denunciations of Alexei Navalny, was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. Fontanka writes that in the information desk of the St. Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 named after. Skvortsova-Stepanova confirmed that they have a patient with the same name and surname.

Several political prisoners were released from Belarusian colonies. This was reported by the publications “That’s So” and “Nasha Niva” , as well as the human rights center “Viasna” . According to them, journalist Katerina Andreeva, blogger Eduard Palchis, human rights activist Nastya Loiko, as well as protest participants Mikita Zalatarev, Sergei Maushuk, Kirill Kazei and Nikolai Kulyashov were released. The list of released prisoners continues to be updated. Update 18:45 (Moscow time).

Starting April 2, the US State Department will extend the visa deposit program to 50 countries - citizens of these countries will be required to pay $15 thousand when receiving B1 and B2 business and tourist visas. The deposit is refunded to those who left the United States on time or did not use a visa.

The United States and Qatar knew nothing about Israel's intention to attack the South Pars gas field in Iran, President Donald Trump said on the Truth social network, commenting on the Israeli strikes and the subsequent Iranian attack on Qatar's gas infrastructure. According to Trump, a “small part” of the Iranian field was affected. “The United States knew nothing about this attack, and Qatar was in no way involved in it and had no idea that it would happen.

Доступно на русском Anzhalika Melnikava, who served as the spokesperson for the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council before disappearing from Poland in March of last year, can be seen in photographs taken at a gym in Minsk. The images were posted to Instagram stories by fitness trainer Galina Kazantseva on March 16. On March 18, screenshots of the stories were sent to the bot of the Ukrainian Telegram channel BalaganOFF .

Ilya Craft. Photo: Telegram Content 1. “He could be a hostage.” 2. “Undergoing psychiatric treatment” Pro-government blogger and lawyer Ilya Remeslo, who for many years positioned himself as a “fighter against the opposition,” suddenly made a series of statements directed against the Russian government and Vladimir Putin personally. The man who wrote denunciations against Alexei Navalny is now demanding that Putin be tried as a war criminal.

In October 2025, a Russian court arrested Ilya Yashin in absentia, as well as opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian colony, in the case of “creating an extremist organization.” The reason for his arousal was the anti-war rally they organized in Berlin.

Imported smartphones risk being left without fifth-generation communications in Russia - the Ministry of Digital Development intends to oblige operators to use the domestic NEA 7 crypto-algorithm, known as “Grasshopper”, when deploying 5G networks, Izvestia reports with reference to the department’s draft order. Foreign encryption protocols (European SNOW, American AES and Chinese ZUC) are allowed to be used only until 2032, after which priority should completely switch to the Russian standard.

The United States lifts sanctions on Belinvestbank, the Development Bank of Belarus and the country's Ministry of Finance. This was stated by the US Presidential Special Envoy for Belarus John Cole. According to him, the Belarusian Potash Company and Belaruskali were also excluded from all sanctions lists. At the same time, sanctions on the last two were lifted three months ago, also after the release of political prisoners, among whom were Maria Kolesnikova and Viktor Babariko.

A total of 250 Belarusian political prisoners were released after a meeting between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and U.S. representative John Coale in Minsk earlier today. They include journalist Katsiaryna Bakhvalava (Andreyeva) , blogger Eduard Palchys , human rights activist Nasta Loika , as well as 2020 protest participants Mikita Zalatarou , Siarhei Maushuk , Kiryl Kazei and Mikalai Kuliashou . In response, the U.S.

Anthropic, the developer of the chatbot Claude, published the results of a large-scale qualitative study: more than 80 thousand users from 159 countries spoke in interviews about what they expect from artificial intelligence and what they fear. The survey was conducted in December using a special version of Claude, which asked questions and adapted them based on responses.

Meta Corporation will stop supporting its Horizon Worlds VR platform on Quest VR headsets as of June 15, Bloomberg reports . Users will no longer be able to create, share, update, or access virtual worlds through Quest devices. At the same time, the platform will continue to work in the Meta Horizon mobile application. The company explained the decision by a change in strategy. As Bloomberg notes, this confirms a gradual shift away from the development of the metaverse as a key direction.

Pro-Kremlin blogger and lawyer Ilya Remeslo, known for his crusade against the Russian opposition in general and for filing complaints against Alexei Navalny in particular, has been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reports that the information desk at Skvortsov-Stepanov Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 confirmed having a patient with Remeslo’s name.

India was considering making it mandatory for smartphones sold in the country to come pre-installed with the government's Aadhaar biometric identification app. Representatives of manufacturing companies opposed this. This is stated in an internal letter sent to its members by the Indian IT association MAIT. Reuters journalists reviewed the document.

RIA Novosti in a publication entitled ““Actually blind.” The West has announced dramatic changes in Iran,” retells the contents of the statement by ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson, made on the Dialogue Works YouTube channel with 388 thousand subscribers: “Neither the United States nor Israel can anymore shoot down Iranian missiles,” former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on YouTube.