The government has ordered the military, prisoners and students to start making medical masks. this RBC reports with reference to the instructions of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The head of government, according to RBC, instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education and Science and the National Guard to create conditions for the production of personal protective equipment.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, will leave the department and become the general director of the Gazprom-Media holding. this RBC reports with reference to sources. Gazprom-Media owns the television channels NTV, TNT, Pyatnitsa, Match TV, TV3, radio stations Ekho Moskvy, Avtoradio, Humor FM , the film company Central Partnership, and the publishing house 7 Days. Since 2015, the holding has been headed by Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The owners of Vedomosti, Demyan Kudryavtsev, Vladimir Voronov and Martin Pompadour, agreed to sell the publication to the editor-in-chief of the Nasha Versiya newspaper, Konstantin Zyatkov, and a former employee of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Yukos company, Alexei Golubovich. this .

In the pre-trial detention center, Maxim Ivankin, convicted in the “Penza case,” was twice visited by employees of the Investigative Committee and demanded to confess to involvement in the murder of his acquaintances Artem Dorofeev and Ekaterina Levchenko, Novaya Gazeta and 7x7 write with reference to lawyer Konstantin Kartashov.

Eduard Limonov. Photo: Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti Eduard Limonov. Photo: Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti The writer and leader of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), Eduard Limonov, died, said State Duma deputy Sergei Shargunov. He was 77 years old. Information about his death was confirmed in the unregistered party "Other Russia", which Limonov headed after the ban on the NBP in 2007. The causes of death are not specified.

A police major from the Rostov region was fired after losing a pistol, which was used by a local resident, 1rnd.ru reports , citing a source in the region’s law enforcement agencies and Baza . According to the interlocutor of 1rnd.ru , the policeman lost his pistol while fishing on the Elbuzd River near the village of Gulyai-Borisovka. A few days later, the body of a 19-year-old local resident was found in the neighboring village of Svetlorechnoye.

The Tverskoy District Court fined artist Katrin Nenasheva 15 thousand rubles for her protest against the facial recognition system of the presidential administration in Moscow. Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represented the interests of the activist, said this in a conversation with Mediazona. Nenasheva was charged with violating the rules of the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The rally at the presidential administration took place on February 9.

The head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of Yakutia, Vasily Buraev, was fired after euthanizing 153 dogs and 48 cats at the shelter due to the fact that they could have come into contact with an animal infected with rabies. The head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, wrote about this on Twitter. According to the government, on March 3, the virus was discovered in a shelter in Yakutsk and quarantine was declared.

The head of the United Russia faction, Sergei Neverov, showed deputies a film about the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova at a State Duma meeting, according to the parliament’s website. This happened after Tereshkova proposed to reset Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms after the adoption of the new Constitution.

In Ryazan, during a single picket against amendments to the Constitution, activist and observer of the “Voice” movement Sergei Evseev was detained. This is reported by 7x7 with reference to himself. Published by Sergey Evseev Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Evseev went out with a picket to Victory Square next to the Municipal Cultural Center. His poster depicts President Vladimir Putin and contains poems calling for a boycott of the constitutional amendments.

Vera Oleinikova. Photo: Personal page on Facebook On March 14, in Moscow, by the FSB building on Lubyanka, the security forces detained the participants in the action against political repression. The police behaved aggressively: 78-year-old human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who was taken away on the ambulance, suffered in the Tagansky police department.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill that allows employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO) to use military equipment, according to the parliament’s website. The authors of the bill are deputies from the United Russia faction Vasily Piskarev, Ernest Valeev and Alexander Khinshtein, as well as member of A Just Russia Nikolai Ryzhak.

The 1st Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction postponed the hearing in the case of the theft of 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank due to the fact that the accused, top manager of the Baring Vostok investment fund Philippe Delpal, is in quarantine due to coronavirus. this . reports Kommersant The meeting was to consider complaints from Delpal and Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey about the extension of house arrest.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the payment of 26 thousand euros in compensation to two residents of Grozny due to the suspension of the investigation of criminal cases into the disappearance of their daughters. The ruling was published on the ECHR website. Leila Turpulkanova's daughter Luiza Mezhidova was divorced and worked as a saleswoman in a shoe store.

The Investigative Committee filed a petition with the Basmanny District Court of Moscow to extend the arrest of ex-police officers who are accused in the case of planting drugs on Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov. TASS about this .