Photo: Conflict Intelligence Team The Russian military concentrated in a field camp in the Voronezh region. The camp is located 250 km from the Ukrainian border - the Voronezh region is located next to Kiev controlled by the northern part of the Luhansk region, notes Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT). The authors of the investigation studied photos and videos from social networks and the GDEVAGON car tracking service.

The spring governor fall is in full swing. The head of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, and the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Sergei Morozov, have already resigned. The tradition of changing governors in batches in the fall and spring began in 2016: the acting governors appointed by the president go to the polls and, with rare exceptions, win.

Twitter has been in talks for months to buy audio chat platform Clubhouse. The companies valued the deal at $4 billion, Bloomberg reports . Negotiations have been stopped for now. The reasons why the companies stopped discussing are unknown, the publication’s interlocutors say. The day before, Bloomberg reported on Clubhouse’s plans to attract investments with a valuation of $4 billion. It is not yet known how much Clubhouse wants to attract and who will participate in the round.

The UN has recorded the highest food prices around the world in seven years. This was reported in a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The food price index, which shows monthly changes in the cost of the food basket, reached 118.5 points in March 2021, which is 2.1% higher than in February. Previously, the highest FAO index was recorded in 2014 (115) and in the crisis year of 2008 (117.5). Vegetable oil has risen in price the most, according to the FAO report.

Russia is by far the leader in the global market for shadow crypto transactions. The country's share in operations amounted to 41.1%, Clain platform analysts reported . Second, third and fourth places in the study were taken by Ukraine, Great Britain and Germany with shares of 6.54%, 2.8% and 1.87%, respectively. The share of “unknown countries” was 24.6%, “other” - 23.1%. Clain's analysis included 200 sites, including LocalBitcoins, BitBits, BitZlato and WebMoney.

Photo: VTIMES The regulation of ecosystems in the form in which the Bank of Russia proposed it can undermine the business model, the profitability of the largest players and slow down the development of national ecosystems. This was written by Moody's Vice President Peter Paklin in a commentary on the recent report of the Central Bank on approaches to regulating Russian ecosystems.

© The Financial Times Limited 2021. All Rights Reserved. Reprint, copying or any modification of the text is not allowed. The translation was made by VTIMES. Financial Times Limited is not responsible for the quality and accuracy of the translation. Photo: Andres Perez / Unsplash The dollar rate grew in the first months of the year, refuting the expectations of the overwhelming number of analysts, which predicted its weakening in 2021.

Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergei Morozov. The corresponding decree was published on the Kremlin website. The President appointed senator and member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexei Russkikh as acting governor. According to Kommersant sources, his candidacy for this post has been considered since last year. Earlier, Morozov announced that he was resigning because he intended to run for the State Duma.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky (left) at the position of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass photo: President.gov.ua The first telephone conversation between US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Zelensky took place. Negotiations were held at the time of the escalation of military operations in the Donbass, when four of the Ukrainian military were injured during the shelling.

Greenpeace sent letters to the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Energy and the Russian Environmental Operator with arguments against waste incineration. Agencies must analyze how effective waste incineration is compared to other waste management methods, and by April 12 choose how to optimally dispose of municipal waste, activists remind. Incineration emits more greenhouse gases than other waste management methods, Greenpeace notes.

Vladimir Putin with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan Photo: kremlin.ru The visit of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Moscow is, of course, important news. But what makes it sensational is the almost simultaneous presence in the Russian capital of Nikol Pashinyan’s main political opponent, ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, in the Russian capital.

Photo: Sergey Kiselev / Agency "Moscow" Coronavirus reached Russia a year ago, and soon policies appeared in case of a new disease. Insurers and banks quickly launched the online sale of new insurance to the population. They provide a direct payment to people of fixed amounts when diagnosing the virus, hospitalization or staying on sick leave, as well as reimbursing large amounts to the heirs in the event of the death of the insured, but do not cover the payment of diagnosis and treatment.

Photo: Semyon Likhodeev / TASS The Bank of Russia to create a digital ruble - to be: the regulator has decided on the terms and model of the project. The first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Olga Skorobogatova, identified three key issues that interest the market in the first place: why the Central Bank decided to create a digital ruble, how it will be introduced and in what terms .

Gennady Timchenko Photo: Sergey Karpukhin / TASS The Volga Group Gennady Timchenko received 15.6 billion rubles from the sale of shares and shares in subsidiaries in 2020, it says in her report on the movement of funds. Last year, the businessman sold stocks of at least two companies, both construction contractors. No other transactions were reported, there is no information about them in the Spark-Interfax system. VTIMES sent a request to the representative of the businessman.

Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit against Channel One due to the use of foreign agent media material without appropriate labeling. RBC drew attention to this; the document was published on the Electronic Justice website. The regulator’s claims are related to the fact that on March 11, the “Time Will Show” program on Channel One aired a story from the “Current Time” TV channel without the “foreign agent” tag.