In most countries of the world, cryptocurrencies have already left the gray area (with the exception of Latin America and Africa, where there is still no form of regulation)
In the countries of the generalized West, Russia and India, they are regulated, but not prohibited. In China, a number of countries in North Africa and the Middle East — explicitly prohibited, in most parts of Africa and some countries in Asia — implicitly prohibited
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An INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) report reports that Mexican cartels are increasingly using bitcoin and e-commerce to launder money. The report also states that Mexican cartels are laundering about $25 billion a year in Mexico alone.
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France sent Ukraine vehicles and equipment for rescuers. The cargo consists of 11 fire engines, 16 ambulances, 49 tons of medical and emergency equipment, writes the French Foreign Ministry. Transport and special equipment will be transferred to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine
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Russian Railways received a notification from German Siemens about the suspension of the contract for the purchase of new Sapsan
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Scientists from the University of Cincinnati (USA) have found the use of coffee grounds in neuroscience. They proposed to use it as an environmentally friendly electrode coating for neurochemical research.
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Azerbaijan cut off gas supply to Karabakh — Armenian MFA
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Poland freezes $33 million in country accounts as part of sanctions against Russia, government spokesman says
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Italy has frozen the assets of Russian oligarchs for 800 million euros. This was stated by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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Basketball Euroleague has disqualified CSKA, UNICS and Zenit, their results have been annulled
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The American corporation Google in recent weeks began to transfer its employees from Russia, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the situation. The Moscow office of Google employed 244 people. The company has so far helped those interested in moving to leave
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French TotalEnergies has decided not to conclude or renew contracts for the purchase of Russian oil and oil products.
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Anonymous hackers have published the Nestle database. That’s 10 GB of email, passwords, and customer data for the world’s largest food company.
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The Montenegrin authorities have announced a seasonal visa-free period for tourists from certain countries from April 1 to October 31. Russia is not on the list
Previously, Russians were allowed to stay in the country without visas for 90 days from April 1 to October 31. Now, to stay in Montenegro for more than 30 days, even from April 1 to October 31, you will have to receive a multiple-entry visa for three months at the Embassy of Montenegro. Consular fee for a visa up to 90 days — 60 euros.
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The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against journalist Alexander Nevzorov under an article about the spread of fakes about the actions of the RF Armed Forces.
“The investigation is taking measures to establish the whereabouts of Nevzorov in order to conduct investigative and procedural actions with him,” the department said in a statement.
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The New York City Fire Department has hired two robotic dogs from Boston Dynamics. Two electronic quadrupeds, each worth $75,000, will collect photos and videos from the scene of the incident and help with security. They can run over rough terrain and overcome obstacles, and are equipped with a number of sensors. The operator can control the robots.
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The European Organization for Satellite Meteorology has suspended communications with Russia. EUMETSAT stopped sharing data and closed the training program for Russian employees.
The intergovernmental organization is based in Darmstadt, Germany. It is responsible for launching and operating satellites, delivering satellite data to end users, and facilitating operational climate monitoring.
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Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Novaya Gazeta about the inadmissibility of violating the law. The reason is the lack of marking of an NCO-foreign agent in one of the materials. Repeated warning within a year may be the basis for the court to terminate the activities of the media
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The Vietnamese airline Vietnam Airlines will suspend flights to Russia from March 25.
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The US and UK have reached a tariff deal in a trade dispute launched by Donald Trump in 2018 that saw heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum from the EU. The agreement should make it easier for British steel and aluminum products to enter the US market.
In response, London will remove tariffs on American goods, including whiskey, jeans and motorcycles. In addition, the new agreement should counter China’s trade bad faith, US officials said.
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Yemeni forces attacked Jizan airport. The coalition led by Saudi Arabia said the attack was carried out by a ballistic missile and the country’s air defense system destroyed it.
Social media users also reported that Jizan Airport, which is located in the southwest of Saudi Arabia near the city of the same name, was attacked.
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Hackers from the LAPSU$ group, who previously hacked Nvidia and Samsung, reported a hack to Microsoft. It is reported by the publication Vice. In their Telegram channel, the hackers published screenshots of the services that Microsoft employees use to collaborate on projects.
Dumps of some Microsoft products were also posted: the Bing search engine, the Bing Maps mapping service, and the Cortana voice assistant. The archive weighs 9 GB, it contains 37 GB of source code from more than 250 projects.
Microsoft said it has started an internal review. The company does not confirm that the servers were hacked — it is likely that the hackers took advantage of the negligence of employees to access internal resources.
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The Japanese manufacturer of digital and home appliances Sharp has suspended deliveries to Russia
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The Federal Tax Service of Russia has reduced the period for checking citizens’ declarations to receive tax deductions to 15 days, RBC reports, citing sources. The innovation concerns social and property deductions. Previously, three months were given to check social deductions and another month to transfer the refund.
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The Taliban (the Taliban movement is banned in Russia) have banned middle and high school girls from attending schools, the Afghan TV channel Ariana News reported. With the beginning of the school year, only girls up to the sixth grade will be able to start classes.
It is noted that «if the uniform for girls of the seventh to twelfth grades is developed in accordance with Sharia, national tradition and culture, then by order of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [the name of the state used by the Taliban] schools will be opened for them.»
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French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies is halting its operations in Russia. The company will stop allocating funding for the Arctic LNG-2 project. And also will no longer renew and enter into new contracts for the purchase of Russian oil.
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The court fined Venediktov 3,000 rubles for the predominant use of the Ukrainian language in the Echo of Moscow program “What do they have there” (violation of the license, where the language of broadcasting is Russian).
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Al-Jazeera, citing Israeli media, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, during a trilateral meeting with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the President of Egypt, proposed expanding a regional coalition agreement and creating an alliance similar to NATO. It is noted that the task of the coalition proposed by Bennett is to counter Iran and the threat of drones and long-range missiles.
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The Vietnamese airline Vietnam Airlines is suspending flights to Russia due to the need to review procedures related to aircraft insurance.
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From 2022, the Albanian authorities introduce an annual visa-free regime for Russian citizens from May 1 to September 30, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia. This visa-free period will operate on a permanent basis and will allow citizens of the Russian Federation to stay for 90 days.
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In Albania, due to a shortage of electricity, the lighting on the streets and in state institutions will be turned off. The country is facing an energy crisis due to an unprecedented drought.
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Volvo Cars U.S. said on Tuesday that it has entered into a partnership with coffee giant Starbucks Corp. to create a public electric vehicle (EV) charging network that will start operating this summer.
The Swedish automaker said pilot installations will include up to 60 Volvo-branded ChargePoint DC fast chargers across 15 Starbucks locations.
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The Polish authorities decided to expel about 40 Russian diplomats from the country for activities that, according to Warsaw, allegedly do not correspond to their diplomatic status. This was reported by the portal Onet, citing sources in the government of the country.
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Hungary will invest 209 million euros in the construction of a plant for the production of batteries for electric vehicles. The European Commission gave permission for these investments. The Hungarian authorities note that this will be the largest one-time state investment support in the history of the country.
The construction is planned to be carried out by the South Korean company SK On Hungary. The enterprise should start in 2025. The plant will produce lithium-ion battery cells and battery modules for electric vehicles.
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Russian business cloud service providers have increased their prices. For a number of providers, the growth of tariffs reached 60-80%. For example, the cloud provider Yandex.Cloud has increased its service costs by 30–60% since April 13. The Selectel operator of the former co-owners of the VKontakte social network Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev raised prices by 80% for IaaS and placement of client equipment in their data center. Prices have also increased at DataFort.
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Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov sent a letter to the Secretary General of the International Association of Prosecutors about Russia’s withdrawal from the IAP, Radio Liberty writes.
Russia has been a member of the association for 25 years. The letter also informs about the termination of the prisoner on October 20, 2021. agreements on cooperation to ensure the activities of the regional office of the IAP in St. Petersburg
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Poland’s Internal Security Agency has compiled a list of 45 Russian diplomats who it believes are either employed by or linked to Russia’s security services, according to a government website. The head of the agency demands that these people be expelled from Poland. According to him, they were engaged in espionage.
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The Russian ambassador confirmed the receipt of a note from the Polish Foreign Ministry demanding the expulsion of 45 diplomats on charges of espionage
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Nestlé suspends KitKat and Nesquik brands in Russia.
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Belarus is closing the Ukrainian consulate in Brest, the Foreign Ministry said. Only five employees of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission will remain in Belarus, all the rest must leave the country in the near future.
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On March 24, the Western Union payment system stops money transfers in the Russian Federation, the sender of the transfer in Russia, who decided to receive its return, can do this at the offices of Russian Post JSC, the company’s press service reported.
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Anatoly Chubais resigned as the representative of the President of Russia on sustainable development and left Russia, Bloomberg reports citing its sources. The dismissal was confirmed by a TASS source. Chubais’ longtime colleague Leonid Gozman, in a conversation with Present Time, said that he was not aware of the departure
Forbes managed to get through to Chubais by phone, but when asked if he really left Russia, he did not answer and hung up
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The head of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Nikolai Gorban, announced a complete halt in oil loading at the sea terminal near Novorossiysk due to an accident. Export through this terminal is 60.7 million tons per year, or 1.1 million barrels. in a day
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