The FSB claims that the service officers managed to prevent an attempt on the life of a major Russian businessman, the founder of the Tsargrad TV channel, Konstantin Malofeev. According to the intelligence service, "the terrorist act was planned to be carried out by detonating an improvised explosive device attached under Malofeev's car." The FSB released two videos.

In the Kursk region, in one of the military units, a conscript killed one colleague and wounded another. This is reported by the telegram channels Astra and Baza, citing unnamed sources. According to them, the incident occurred on the night of March 6 in the 37th motorized rifle brigade of military unit 69647, temporarily stationed in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region near the Ukrainian border.

The Rudnichny District Court in the Kemerovo Region sentenced local journalist Andrey Novashov to eight months of hard labor in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army. He was also banned from publishing anything on the Internet for a year. This is what the Network Freedoms project writes about. Ten posts by Novashov on the VKontakte social network became the reason for initiating the case.

In Krasnodar, a local court found lawyer Mikhail Benyash guilty of attacking police officers and fined him 30,000 rubles. Benyash himself announced this in his Telegram channel. Thus ended the retrial, which was triggered by an incident at a protest against pension reform in September 2018. According to the prosecution, then the lawyer bit the hand of one police officer and hit another with his elbow in the face. Benyash pleaded not guilty and stated that he himself was beaten by the police.

The command of the Russian army sends groups of infantrymen to storm the trenches near Maryinka in the Donetsk region, knowing that they will be killed. The New York Times writes about it. According to the publication, when the first group of infantry begins the assault, the Armed Forces of Ukraine open fire on it. At this time, another detachment fixes the firing positions of the Ukrainian troops and begins a heavy mortar and artillery shelling.

The Kremlin wants the turnout and result in the presidential elections next year to be higher than in 2018. This wish was expressed at a seminar for employees of the Kremlin’s domestic political bloc, RBC reports citing sources. This block is supervised by the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko. At the seminar, it was said that the support of Vladimir Putin in society is high, and that the level of this support must be maintained.

We remember who came up with the “theory of six handshakes” and explain why today we need even fewer of them Twitter has been trying to find out for more than a week how many “handshakes” its users have before Adolf Hitler. As a rule, everyone has six. Just like the famous “six handshakes theory” - “Cold” remembers who invented it and explains how it works. In order not to miss the main materials of “Cold”, subscribe to our Instagram and telegram . Where did the theory come from?

The President of Russia issued a decree by which he promoted major general of the internal service Alexei Girichev. Now he holds the position of deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, according to the official portal of legal information. Girichev has been working in the FSIN system since 1996. Throughout his service, he was repeatedly promoted. For example, from 2017 to 2018, he served as head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Voronezh Region.

Kharkiv resident Irina was held in a Russian psychiatric hospital for almost a year after she refused to obtain Russian citizenship. Human rights activist Aleksey Pryanishnikov told the Telegram channel “We Can Explain” about this. According to him, in May 2022, Irina was taken from Kharkov by bus to Belgorod and placed in a temporary detention facility.

A video of the execution of an unarmed soldier was published on Telegram. The video was uploaded by the Trukha telegram channel. On it, a man stands in a shallow trench and smokes. The voice-over says, "Take it off." The man in the pit says: "Glory to Ukraine." Then shots are fired and the soldier falls to the ground. The voice-over says, "Die, bitch." Ukrainian activists and the media write that the soldier in the video is a Ukrainian prisoner of war.

In Russia for the first time charged with treason for donations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine In Moscow, while trying to leave the country, FSB officers detained a woman whose name was not released. A criminal case was initiated against her under the article on treason. The reason was the donations that the woman transferred to the Ukrainian army. The Lefortovo court of the capital sent the woman under arrest for two months.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . In Ukraine, they say it's time to liberate Crimea. Arguments are different “In 2014, Russian aggression began precisely with the seizure of Crimea. It is logical that by releasing him we will put a historical end to any attempts by Russia to break the lives of Ukrainians,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on February 26, 2023.

Kazakh writer Margot Ervand was forced to stop selling her book in Russia because of a law passed in the country banning "LGBT propaganda". In her work “The Temptations of Loneliness”, the neural network found a minor gay character. According to Forbes.kz, Russian publisher Ridero asked Ervand to cut or change the storyline of the LGBT hero.

Last year, a record number of criminal cases on terrorism and extremism were sent to Russian courts. Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group, writes about this. According to him, in 2022, 2,233 criminal cases on terrorism were opened. At the same time, every fifth of them was initiated in Dagestan. The number of such cases has more than quadrupled since 2010.

The son of a pensioner from Buryatia, Natalia Filonova, who is accused of assaulting police officers, was sent to an orphanage. 7x7 writes about this, referring to the representative of the activist Natalya Nizovkina. According to her, Filonova’s adopted son, 15-year-old Vladimir Alalykin, who has a disability, was first taken from his relatives and taken to the hospital, then placed in a social rehabilitation center in Ulan-Ude, and on March 5 he was brought to the Barguzinsky orphanage.