Co-chairman of the “Voice” association Roman Udot was detained at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport after a conflict with NTV employees. This was reported to Mediazona by former Golos lawyer Daniil Lipin, to whom Udot told the circumstances of the arrest.

In Tuapse, after an attempt on the life of district deputy Artem Podolsky while traveling by car, a criminal case was opened, a source in the operational services of the Krasnodar Territory told Interfax. Senior assistant to the head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, Natalya Smyatskaya, confirmed to Yuga.ru that a criminal case had been opened for shooting at a car, but did not specify that it was an attempt on the life of a deputy of the Tuapse region.

In the village of Neftemaisk in Grozny, security forces killed a man who attacked a police station, told RBC. Magomed-Amin Deniev, press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, “An attack with a firearm was carried out on police station No. 4. The attacker was killed. One policeman was injured,” he said. The department's press service notes that an assistant to the police duty department was injured.

Radio Liberty fired documentary director Alexander Rastorguev and ceased cooperation with journalist Maria Pavlova, who became proxies of presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, according to the corporation’s website.

Former Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin has died, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . He died on March 19 at the age of 74. Erin was born and raised in Kazan, where he began serving in the internal affairs bodies. In 1990, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, and in 1992 became Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The Volokolamsk City Court of the Moscow Region refused to suspend work at the Yadrovo landfill, RBC reports , citing a court representative. At the same time, the court fined the operator of the landfill, Yadrovo LLC, 150 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of failure to comply with environmental and sanitary-epidemiological requirements when handling waste (Article 8.2 of the Administrative Code). Earlier, a resident of the village of Yadrovo complained about the landfill to Rospotrebnadzor.

An 18-year-old resident of Kurgan, who took a photo with an upside-down icon on his birthday, was given a court fine of 30 thousand rubles, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in December 2017, a local resident celebrated his 18th birthday in the cottage. In the room, he found an Orthodox icon, took a photo with it in the mirror and posted the photo from the social network.

Russian diplomats with their families, whom Great Britain decided to expel because of the murder of former GRU officer Sergei Skipal, will be taken out by the plane of the special squad "Russia", previously mentioned in connection with the case of attempted cocaine smuggling from Argentina. RBC noted that, judging by broadcast the Ruptly ( Russia Today video agency ) and TASS photographs, a plane with tail number RA-96023 arrived at London Stansted Airport.

Chemist Vladimir Uglev confirmed that nerve agents called Novichok were developed at a branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT) in the Saratov region, writes The Bell . Uglev said that he was a researcher at the Volsky branch of GosNIIOKhT and worked under the guidance of chemist Pyotr Kirpichev. According to Uglev, the scientific group headed by Kirpichev, from 1972 to 1988, received several hundred modifications of Novichok class substances.

RIA Novosti made changes to an interview with Doctor of Chemical Sciences Leonid Rink, who was part of the Novichok development team. The original version of the interview is preserved in the archive . In it, the chemist said that “the system adopted in the USSR was called Novichok-5.” The name was not used without numbers." Now this statement has been changed: “The chemical weapons development program in the USSR was not called Novichok, but was called differently.

In Murmansk, as a result of an explosion in a residential building on Sverdlov Street, corner apartments were hit on floors from the third to fifth, photographs were published in the Murmansk accident accident in VKontakte. Signature The TASS operational headquarters reported that household gas exploded in the house, one person died, four were injured, and five more people were blocked, but they managed to establish a connection with them. Updated at 19:01.

Oleg Navalny, convicted in the Yves Rocher case, was placed in a punishment cell (punishment cell) for the sixth time, his brother Alexei Navalny wrote in his Telegram channel. According to the politician, this time Oleg was sent to a punishment cell for “sitting at the table after the all-clear signal.” The last time Oleg was placed in a punishment cell for 13 days was in July 2016. Then the convict noted that it would be only 55 days in the punishment cell of correctional colony No.

founder Telegram Pavel Durov commented on Roskomnadzor’s demand to provide the FSB with decryption keys for user messages within 15 days. “Threats to block Telegram if it does not reveal the personal data of its users will not bring results. Telegram is committed to freedom and privacy,” Durov wrote on Twitter. Earlier on March 20, Roskomnadzor sent a notification to the messenger demanding that it provide decryption keys.

The Gagarinsky court ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to hand over the documents of the internal investigation regarding the police officers who beat Andrei Lukyanov in the center of Moscow in 2012, confusing him with the leader of the Voina art group Oleg Vorotnikov, the reports . Public Verdict Foundation A representative of the department “promised to try to find out,” but noted that she could not guarantee anything—the materials are stored for five years.

The police detained a passenger who wounded the Moscow metro security officer with a knife in the neck of the Security Service, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The man attacked the metro employee in the lobby of the Proletarskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. The department writes that the security officer asked the passenger to check his bag.