📌 Have a look at Sputnik’s infographics showing part of the package deal on Ukrainian grain and foodstuff exports via the Black Sea

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Professor of law and public policy and senior counsel at Westwood Capital Robert Hockett joined us to discuss the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank

🎧Listen to more of Hockett’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits

🇷🇺 While talking to the workers of an aircraft factory in Russia's Ulan-Ude, Vladimir Putin said that Russia had been trying to persuade partners to solve the problems of Donbass peacefully for eight years, and they "deceived and led by the nose."

📍 The president also noted that all the current problems began after the collapse of the USSR: the world was created after the Second World War by the victors - the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Sputnik Lithuania editor and Sputnik Radio host Marat Kasem, who has been detained in Latvia for more than two months on charges of violating EU economic sanctions, turns 33 on March 14.

The conditions of his detention could be considered torture, which is prohibited by the European Convention. Kasem was transferred to a cold solitary cell with unsanitary conditions, worsening his chronic illnesses, but the prison administration ignored his requests for medical attention. The investigation has also exerted much pressure on Kasem to confess. His arrest is an example of persecution against Russian media workers in Europe.

The immediate release of Marat Kasem would put an end to the story of the illegal arrest and send a good signal that the campaign of persecution against Russian journalists is coming to an end.

🇷🇺 Steven Seagal said that he is 100% Russophile and a million percent Russian.

▪️ Seagal has taken part in the founding congress of the International Movement of Russophiles today.

▪️ The actor said that his father was Russian, and that he himself has been immersed in Russian culture since childhood.

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Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor of economics and politics at St. Mary's College in California, joins us to discuss the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the correlation between the bank and the government

🎧Listen to more of Rasmus’ analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour: US Banking Sector on Edge

⚡️ Germany, Denmark and Sweden refuse to cooperate with Russia's Prosecutor General's Office and FSB on the Nord Stream investigation, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said

At the same time, Ukraine's GDP collapsed by 40%, Putin said. "But in fact, I think even more," Putin said during his visit to an aircraft plant in Russia’s Ulan-Ude.

Russia also saw a decline, but only by 2.1%, Russian President Vladimir Putin added.

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📹 Crews of Ka-52 attack helicopters destroyed the Ukrainian stronghold and armored vehicles (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

During the performance of sorties, the pilots launched missiles at the discovered fortified points of the Ukrainian units.

Precise hits destroyed the enemy's command post and armored vehicles.

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Should North Korea feel threatened?

Greg Elich, a member of the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea and author joined us to discuss the US-South Korean military exercises and their significance for North Korea

🎧Listen to more of Elich’s analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

❗️Latest statements from Russian President Putin on Nord Stream blasts:

▪️ It is obvious that a terrorist attack took place on the Nord Stream pipes, committed at the state level;

▪️ It is very difficult for Russia to engage in its own investigation along the threads of the Nord Streams if we are not allowed;

▪️ The involvement of Ukrainian activists in the explosion on the Nord Streams is "complete nonsense";

▪️ The United States is theoretically interested in such incidents as explosions on the Nord Streams in order to supply its own LNG.

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❗️ EUCOM claims US lost MQ-9 drone in Black Sea int'l waters after colliding with Russian Su-27.

Sputnik was not able to independently confirm EUCOM’s statement.

🇰🇪 Lake Kamnarok in Kenya - Africa's second largest crocodile habitat - dries up due to a lack of rain

▪️ The lake was once home to about 10,000 crocodiles, and now the parched lakebed is flooded with their remains.

▪️ In addition to the lack of rain, one of the reasons the lake dried up is that the water from it drained into a natural fissure in the earth's crust

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AfD Politician: Strikes Gain Steam in Germany as Economy Spirals Into Crisis

The country is experiencing rapidly rising inflation, skyrocketing food prices and collapsing living standards, Gunnar Beck, member of the European Parliament for the rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party who is currently vice-president of the Identity & Democracy Group in the Parliament, told Sputnik.

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Greg Elich, a member of the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea and author, joined us to discuss the US-South Korea military exercises that look to provoke China

🎧Listen to more of Elich’s analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

❗️ Russian MoD’s latest statements on the US MQ-9 drone incident:

▪️ On the morning of March 14, in the area of the Crimean peninsula, an American UAV flight was recorded in the direction of Russia's border;

▪️ The drone flight was carried out with the transponders turned off in violation of the boundaries of the area of the regime for the use of airspace;

▪️ As a result of sharp maneuvering, the US drone went into uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water;

▪️ Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the US drone, but returned safely to the airfield.

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