Security forces searched the house of Evgenia Berkovich, director of the play Finist the Clear Sokol, in Moscow, as well as her family members in St. Petersburg. In the afternoon, the author of the play, Svetlana Petriychuk, was detained at Vnukovo.

The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow fined Yan Dvorkin, the head of Center T, an initiative group to help transgender and non-binary people, for 100,000 rubles under an article about LGBT “propaganda”. This was reported to Kholod by his defender and head of the human rights organization Delo LGBT+, Vladimir Komov.

Aleksey Moskalev, sentenced to two years in prison for “discrediting” the army, found himself in the SIZO of Smolensk thanks to volunteers. His lawyer Vladimir Biliyenko told Kholod about this. Moskalev escaped from house arrest on the eve of the verdict in his case on March 28. On March 30, he was detained by Belarusian security forces in a private house near Minsk. After that, the relatives and the defense could not find out where he was for a whole month.

Three decades ago, Russian soldiers invaded a newly independent state to “protect” the Russian-speaking population: it happened in Transnistria, a region of Moldova. With that war still fresh in many Transnistrians’ memories, they’re now grappling with the effects of the war raging in neighboring Ukraine In 1992, Russia got involved in the armed conflict taking place in Moldova, a sovereign country that had been one of the fifteen republics making up the Soviet Union.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Air defense has been installed in Moscow, but its systematic work has not been established One of the arguments of ISW is the increase in air defense systems in Moscow, which is confirmed by geolocation images. Indeed, additional air defense systems were placed around Moscow, but this is not enough for full-fledged protection.

Users of several car sharing services complained about numerous failures in GPS operation in the center of the capital. Later, representatives of the companies confirmed the existence of problems. “Please try to bypass the area inside the Garden Ring - it is currently blocked. There are also problems with GPS now - you may have difficulty starting a rental in this area, as the cars may not be displayed correctly on the map.

The drone strike on the Kremlin residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely staged. Analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) write about this in a recent report. In their opinion, Moscow could organize it in order to show the internal Russian audience the proximity of war and promote wider social mobilization of society. ISW experts recall that in recent months, the Russian authorities have consistently strengthened Moscow's air defense.

The director of the "Seventh Studio" Yevgenia Berkovich became a defendant in a criminal case under the article on "justifying terrorism." Berkovich's mother Elena Efros wrote about this on her Facebook. According to her, the reason for initiating a criminal case was Berkovich's play Finist Yasny Sokol.