The Ministry of Communications criticized the proposals of the State Duma deputies regarding the work of news aggregators. According to the department, the requirement for pre-moderation of many news materials by news aggregators is technically impossible to implement, writes the newspaper Vedomosti.

A criminal case has been opened against employees of the Irkutsk prison hospital under Article 109 of the Criminal Code (murder by negligence), the prosecutor’s office said in a response to the founder of the social network Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin. In mid-February 2016, the women's ward of hospital No. 1 of FKUZ MSCh-38 of the Federal Penitentiary Service caught fire; the fire was extinguished after two and a half hours.

Investigators of the Nizhny Novgorod region are investigating the death of three prisoners of IK-9 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, according to the website of the regional investigative committee. The reasons for their death have not yet been established. According to preliminary data, on March 5, one of the colony prisoners became ill. The 48-year-old man was rushed to the correctional facility's medical unit, where he later died.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to equate the issue and circulation of cryptocurrencies to serious crimes, punishable by imprisonment for up to 7 years, TASS reports , citing Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev. “We have developed draft amendments to the Criminal Code. It is proposed to increase the maximum term of imprisonment to 7 years,” Moiseev said.

A member of the executive committee of the Other Russia party, Yuri Staroverov, was placed in the punishment cell of Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 4 until March 25, his party comrade Olga Shalina told Mediazona. According to her, the management of pre-trial detention center No. 4 refuses to name the reason for the disciplinary sanction. In addition, Staroverov’s common-law wife, Elena Mironycheva, was denied a short-term visit, despite the court’s permission.

Rostechnadzor specialists revealed that the technical condition of the elevators in the Scarlet Sails residential complex is worn out, and the structures of most of them are in disrepair, TASS reports with reference to the relevant act of the supervisory agency.

The government did not support the initiative of the Karelian deputies, who proposed punishing officials for insulting citizens, TASS reports with reference to the review of Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Sergei Prikhodko.

In the Kirov region, officials arbitrarily reduced teachers' salaries in 18 municipalities in the region, reports with reference to the press service of the regional government. Interfax According to Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kirov Region Alexander Galitskikh, statistics showed that the average salary of teachers in January 2016 decreased compared to January last year.

Investigators in the Yaroslavl region opened a criminal case against unidentified officials of the regional education department who did not provide housing for orphans, according to the website of the regional investigative department. According to investigators, from 2013 to 2015, officials made unfounded and illegal decisions to refuse to include orphans and children without parental care in the list of people in need of housing.

The Krutinsky District Court sentenced 65-year-old Vitaly Tokarev, who poured a bucket of sewage on the judge, to a fine of 30 thousand rubles, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region. He was found guilty of insulting a government official. On May 14, 2015, in the village of Krutinka, Omsk Region, in the presence of other people, Vitaly Tokarev poured a bucket of feces on a passing judge, explaining this with a desire to draw attention to corruption in court.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region is checking a report about debt collectors paralyzing the work of a local hospital because of the debt of one of the employees, according to a press release from the department. According to preliminary information, a resident of the city of Polevsky took out a loan from one of the microfinance organizations.

The decision of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladimir to recognize the graffiti emblem of the Azov National Guard Battalion of Ukraine as extremist material has come into force, according to the website of the regional prosecutor’s office. The court sentenced the author of the graffiti to two years of restriction of freedom.

In addition to Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov, the director of the ministry’s department, Boris Mazo, as well as the head of the Restoration Center subordinate to the ministry, Oleg Ivanov, were detained in the case of the theft of funds allocated for the restoration of cultural monuments, TASS reports , citing a source in the Ministry of Culture. According to the agency, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky is in contact with the leadership of the FSB.

Investigators charged Parnassus activist Natalya Pelevina under Article 138.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal trafficking in special funds), her lawyer Sergei Badamshin told Mediazona. Pelevina was released from the Investigative Committee on her own recognizance.

On Sunday, March 13, unknown masked men broke into the apartment of ex-SBU officer Kirill Veres, who had previously testified in the case of Russians Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev accused of terrorism, a representative of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine said during a regular hearing in the Goloseevsky District Court of Kiev. Alexander Klimovich.