The cause of the crash of the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense, on board of which were artists of the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble and the head of the Fair Aid Foundation Elizaveta Glinka, can be attributed to the pilot’s loss of orientation in space, writes .

at the St. Petersburg office of the chewing gum manufacturer Wrigley Investigative measures were taken writes , Fontanka , citing its own source in law enforcement agencies. Investigators and police were looking for inserts that could lead teenagers to think about committing [Roskomnadzor]. According to the publication, investigators were also looking for the remains of a batch of Five gum .

A fire occurred at a gunpowder factory in Kazan, reports Tatar-inform with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The department received information about the fire at 20:27. Firefighters arrived at the plant. A TASS source in the republic's emergency services spoke about one death. the same reported An Interfax source in the law enforcement agencies of Tatarstan .

A court in Krasnodar sentenced the organizer of the “tractor march” Alexei Volchenko to 12 days of arrest for non-payment of alimony, the Yasno publication reports . In the morning, Volchenko told reporters about his detention. According to him, the bailiffs came to him at 6 a.m. and immediately took him to court. “There he is one month overdue on alimony. The bailiffs came, sent me to court, and from there straight to a cell. They didn't even allow a lawyer.

The police demanded to evict the experimental site of Theatre.doc “Transformer” from the premises of the Elektrozavod art squat, the artistic director of the project, Vsevolod Lisovsky, told Mediazona. According to him, today police officers and the administration of Elektrozavod came to the people who provided the premises for the project.

A 63-year-old resident of Pervouralsk drew up an administrative protocol for driving along the road by a car to which the snowman was attached, on which her grandson was sitting, the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Sverdlovsk Region reports . Law enforcement agencies became interested in the video published earlier.

The prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region sent to court a criminal case of theft and robbery against young people from Tyumen who, while trying to escape from being chased, climbed over the fence of the riot police base, according to a message on the department's website.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of a resident of the Ivanovo region, Valery Lyutarevich, who was fined in 2012 for the sticker “United Russia is a party of swindlers and thieves,” according to the website of the RosEuroSud project, created by FBK founder Alexei Navalny.

A resident of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, set fire to the office of an assistant prosecutor and died in the ensuing fire, the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement . The man was invited into the office for a personal reception, and inside he began pouring some liquid on the walls and floor, presumably gasoline.

The Kremlin is monitoring the planned action of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on March 26 in Moscow, reports a message from presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Interfax He noted that the Kremlin is “certainly” monitoring the preparations. “We know that a number of people are calling for people to take to the streets. It is illegal. These are illegal calls, and in fact this is nothing more than a provocation,” he said.

The head of the village of Obidimo, Leninsky district, Tula region, Olga Belova, was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling money from fellow villagers collected for laying a water pipeline, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Lyubov Kuznetsova told Interfax. The headman collected and kept money intended for solving economic issues. For central water supply, residents gave her more than 1.2 million rubles, but she spent this money at her own discretion.

A resident of Chita is suspected of stealing brake coils on elevators, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Trans-Baikal Territory. As specified, on the morning of March 23, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a report of the theft of an elevator coil in a building on Novobulvarnaya Street. The suspect, according to investigators, got into the elevator room by breaking the door locks.

Vladivostok police detained about 12 people at a meeting of the association of Russian carriers dedicated to the Platon system, activist Olga Reznikova told OVD-Info. According to her, about 40 police officers came to the meeting. In the video that activists sent to OVD-Info, one of them explains the detention by saying that the police received a report of a meeting of “thieves-authorities.” Information about the number and names of those detained is still being clarified.

The court in Uporovo, based on statements from the prosecutor's office, blocked 10 sites where rare animals were sold, including those listed in the Red Book, the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region reports . “These include the critically endangered pink pelican, as well as the peregrine falcon and cormorant, both of which are declining in numbers.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan partially granted the application of the coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s election headquarters, Elvira Dmitrieva, recognizing the city authorities’ decision to refuse to hold an anti-corruption rally without providing alternative venues as illegal, Dmitrieva wrote on Twitter.