The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow considered investor Alexander Galitsky and his venture fund Almaz Capital Partners an “extremist association” and confiscated the businessman’s property worth 8 billion rubles. We are talking about assets in bank accounts, an apartment and five parking spaces in Moscow, a plot of land outside the capital, as well as a cottage and a garage.

A Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashed in Colombia, Reuters reports . The accident occurred on Monday during takeoff in Puerto Legisamo, a small city in the Amazon region in the south of the country, near the border with Peru. Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed that the aircraft was carrying members of the armed forces. According to the BluRadio radio station, there were 110 soldiers on board; the plane crashed 3 km from the nearest populated area.

The Hungarian Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Justice to check information about the possible wiretapping of Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó. Viktor Orbán called it a “serious attack” on the country. According to the head of the Foreign Ministry himself, a Hungarian journalist who allegedly gave the minister’s personal telephone numbers to foreign intelligence services may be involved in the wiretapping.

Japanese scientists have discovered on the asteroid Ryugu a complete set of nucleobases - the molecules that make up DNA and RNA. This is the first time that all five of these compounds were found in samples delivered from an asteroid in an intact form, without contact with the Earth's atmosphere. The study was published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Nucleobases are the building blocks of the genetic code.

Last year, 152.4 thousand foreigners received Russian citizenship - this is 27.1% less than in 2024, according to the reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department did not specify what exactly this is connected with. The figure has been decreasing for several years in a row: in 2022, 691 thousand foreigners received a passport, which is 4.5 times more than last year.

The Estonian authorities deported a native of Chechnya to Russia who was seeking asylum. According to human rights activist and representative of Ichkeria abroad Roza Dunaeva, the man was deprived of full legal assistance and was not given the opportunity to defend his rights. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii. The deportation took place on March 20. The name of the deportee is not disclosed for security reasons - human rights activists continue to monitor his fate.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is creating a personal AI agent to help him in his work. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. According to the publication, the agent is already being used in test mode and helps Zuckerberg receive information faster. For example, he can find answers to questions without having to contact multiple employees. The project is part of Meta's broader strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into all company processes.

The EU is limiting Hungary's participation in sensitive discussions and reducing the amount of sensitive information shared with it. Politico reports this with reference to European diplomats. According to them, the reason was fears that Budapest could transfer data to Moscow. In this regard, EU leaders are increasingly holding negotiations in a narrow format, without the participation of Hungary. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that such suspicions have existed for a long time.

Iranian media affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said there were no talks with the United States and that Washington's decision to delay the strikes was due to pressure from Tehran. The Tasnim agency, citing a senior security official, claims that “there were no negotiations and there are no”.

The damaged Russian gas carrier Arctic Metagaz (IMO 9243148) is set to be towed to a Libyan port, according to a recent statement by the country’s National Oil Corporation, or NOC. The vessel is drifting toward the Libyan coast, creating a pollution risk. NOC said an international firm specializing in maritime accident cleanups has been brought in to work with the ship. The gas carrier was damaged on March 3 in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Ministry of Digital Development has introduced amendments to a package of bills aimed at combating online and telephone fraud, which is being prepared for the second reading. According to Forbes, after reviewing the new version of the package, the ministry proposed making an exception to existing laws and allowing searches for “extremist materials” on the Internet for scientific purposes, as well as within the framework of law enforcement agencies.

The IX Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, held in February 2026, obliged all cities and regions of the DPRK to simultaneously begin housing construction under the slogan of “regional development.” North Hamgyong Province is ordered to build 400 housing units in March alone. Speakers at the convention described the campaign as “an unprecedented housing revolution in the history of the republic,” surpassing anything done under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Global exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have fallen to their lowest level in six months, Bloomberg writes . Average global LNG shipments over the past 10 days have fallen to 1.1 million tonnes, the lowest level since September 2025, according to an analysis of data from ship tracking service Kpler. The decline is mainly due to the situation in Qatar and, to a lesser extent, in the UAE.

Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development has introduced amendments to a package of bills aimed at combating online and telephone fraud. According to a report by Forbes Russia , which reviewed the new version of the draft laws, the ministry has proposed changing existing legislation in order to allow for online searches of “extremist materials” provided that they are done for scientific purposes or as part of law enforcement work.

More than 60 drones were destroyed over the Leningrad region in less than 24 hours, Governor Alexander Drozdenko reported on the morning of March 23. In particular, the port of Primorsk, the largest Russian oil loading port in the Baltic region, was attacked. “In the port of Primorsk, a fuel tank was damaged and a fire broke out. The fire is being extinguished, the personnel have been evacuated,” Drozdenko wrote on his Telegram channel.