Major General Vadim Dragomiretsky, Deputy Commander of the Central District of the Russian Guard, has been prosecuted for receiving multimillion-dollar bribes (Part 6 of Article 290 and Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). This was announced by State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein. According to him, Dragomiretsky is suspected of systematically receiving "kickbacks" from a contractor that carried out the reconstruction of one of the military units in the Moscow region.

The journalists of the Dossier Center, as well as a number of Western publications, have come across documents belonging to the founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, of the “troll factory”. They contain information about payments to administrators of publics in social networks, channels in Telegram and Twitter accounts that received money from Prigozhin's structures.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . On February 27, 2022, a fire broke out in the Smolensk police department. Then the regional media wrote that the "gang of teenagers" wanted to "destroy the building with Molotov cocktails" - for this they would allegedly be paid 60 thousand rubles. Already on March 1, the local Investigative Committee reported that several people had been detained in connection with the case.

The Budyonnovsky garrison military court sentenced the mobilized Daniil Pistsov to five years in prison under the article on desertion (part 5 of article 337 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the telegram channel of the garrison military courts of the Stavropol Territory. According to investigators, on October 6, Pistsov “arbitrarily left his place of service” in Stavropol and went to the Krasnodar Territory to “rest from the performance” of his military duties.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on an official visit to Moscow. The Chinese leader's plane landed on March 20 at Moscow's Vnukovo-2 airport. Official talks between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will take place tomorrow, while informal but "direct and very important communication between Putin and Xi Jinping" is planned today, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Rescuers found the body of Cream Soda founder Dmitry Svirgunov. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to emergency services. Telegram channel 112 adds that the body of the musician was identified by his relative. Earlier in the social networks of the musical group it was reported that 34-year-old Svirgunov was walking with friends along the Volga in Yaroslavl.

The court of the Chukotka Autonomous Region fined a 41-year-old resident of Anadyr 1.8 million rubles in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet (point "c" of part 2 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the publication "Chukotka". The reason for initiating the case was the man's post on Vkontakte.

"Cold" studied the document on which it is now necessary to teach history at universities On February 2, 2023, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia published the concept of teaching the history of Russia for inexhaustible specialties. Previously, each university independently determined the program based on the federal standard; Now there is a document describing the mandatory minimum of knowledge about the history of the country that every Russian student should receive.

Kremlin says Putin visited occupied Mariupol Vladimir Putin is said to have flown into the city by helicopter and then toured several districts in a car. “Behind the wheel of a car, he traveled around several districts of the city, examined the coastline in the area of ​​the yacht club, the theater building, memorable places,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

German Bratchikov, 50-year-old Deputy Chief of Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Irkutsk, was found dead in his office. This information was confirmed to Kommersant in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Irkutsk Region. Earlier, the Police Ombudsman reported that Bratchikov shot himself. The Telegram channel Baza notes that on the morning of March 19, Bratchikov, as usual, took up duty and received Makarov's service pistol.

Socialist researcher Katya Kolpinets - about how Instagram and Facebook look like a year after blocking On March 21, 2022, the Tver District Court of Moscow recognized META extremist and banned it in the Russian Federation. A week before the official ban, Roskomnadzor had already actually blocked Instagram.

The Primorsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region arrested in absentia 20-year-old student Olesya Krivtsova, who is accused of "discrediting" the army and "justifying terrorism". This is reported by SOTA, citing a correspondent from the courtroom. On the morning of March 20, the girl was also put on the federal wanted list. Now Olesya Krivtsova is in Lithuania. On March 15, a video appeared on her Telegram channel in which she removes a tracking bracelet from her leg.

It became known why Muscovite Yuri Samoilov was arrested, who was reported to the police by a metro passenger. It turned out that on the screensaver of Samoilov's phone there was an image of a chevron of the Ukrainian Azov regiment - it was on him on March 16 that his random companion complained to the police. The decision in the case of Yuri Samoilov was published by the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow.