The FSB announced the detention of three eighth-graders who are suspected of trying to damage railway infrastructure in the Moscow region, RBC reports . The secret service's press release states that the schoolgirls allegedly received the task of damaging the tracks via telegram. “Students of the 8th grade, through the Telegram messenger, came into contact with unknown persons who, for a monetary reward, offered to damage the transport infrastructure of Russian Railways,” the FSB said.

The consular department of the Russian embassy in Lithuania refused to issue a foreign passport to the former coordinator of Navalny’s Yaroslavl headquarters, Elena Lekiashvili, reports Sirena . The reason for the refusal was an unpaid fine for participating in a rally against the arrest of a politician on January 23, 2021. Failure to pay the fine will result in restrictions on leaving Russia.

Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the area under opium cultivation in the country has grown by 33% to 40,100 hectares, The Guardian reports , citing a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. According to UN representative for Southeast Asia Jeremy Douglas, farmers in remote areas of the country are forced to switch to growing opium poppies due to economic and security problems caused by the coup.

The Central District Court of Tyumen sentenced 23-year-old student Kirill Martyushev to three years in prison in the case of “calls for extremism,” reported Network Freedoms . The reason for his persecution was a telegram video that he recorded after his arrest at an anti-war rally on February 24.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded LGBT activist Vasily Ivanov 16.3 thousand euros. Russia must pay such compensation due to the Russian court's refusal to recognize the attack on Ivanov as homophobic. In 2012, Ivanov and several other LGBT activists who were carrying rainbow flags from a rally on Russia Day were attacked by a nationalist group. They sprayed activists with gas from canisters in their eyes and beat them.

The Ministry of Justice sent a lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Mari El demanding the liquidation of the local human rights organization “Man and the Law,” said its chairman Irina Protasova. The NGO “Man and Law” has existed in the republic since 1999 and has been supporting its residents who have become victims of torture by security forces. In 2014, the Ministry of Justice included the organization “Man and the Law” in the “foreign agent_k” register.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired his assistant Masayoshi Arai for making homophobic remarks. Kishida said such remarks were “outrageous” and “totally inconsistent” with government policy. Masayoshi Arai said he would not want to live near or look at people in same-sex relationships. The official also said that allowing same-sex marriage in Japan would lead to many leaving the country. Japan is the only G7 country that does not recognize same-sex marriage.

At the Na Drovakh restaurant in Krasnodar, police officers harshly detained a married couple because of anti-war statements in a personal conversation, reports OVD-Info . The security forces placed the detainees on the floor in handcuffs and kept them in this position for about an hour until they were taken to the police department. It is reported that the police were called by one of the restaurant's visitors. The police department drew up reports of petty hooliganism against the spouses.

An elderly woman was killed and three other people were injured when a Russian missile hit a residential building in the center of Kharkov on the night of January 30. This was announced by the head of the Kharkov regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. Consequences of the shelling of Kharkov on the night of January 30 redpost.com.ua As a result of the shelling, the upper floors and roof of a house in the Kievsky district of Kharkov were destroyed.

In several regions of Russia, “snow landings” have been launched, in which schoolchildren and students are sent to remove snow from the families of mobilized and World War II veterans and help them in everyday life. attention to this . drew Idel.Realii In the Perm Territory, high school students from the “landing force” were sent to the Kochevsky district of Perm to remove snow and chop wood from the family of a mobilized person.