Former State Duma deputy, sports gymnast Svetlana Khorkina called the abolition of the Olympiad “God's punishment” for “political distortion”. It is reported by Sport-Express. In an interview, the gymnast said that to cancel the Olympic Games was the right decision, since the “financial or moral losses” that may happen is “not worth risks in people's health”. Khorkina explained that if necessary, the athletes will prepare for competitions in 2021.

Residents of Moscow with a mild form of coronavirus were allowed to be treated at home. This was reported in the corresponding order of the capital’s Department of Health. The new rules will be in effect from March 22 to March 30. As stated in the document, if the patient’s temperature is below 38.5 ° C and breathing is free, then the sick person can stay at home.

The Moscow prosecutor's office opened an administrative case on the activities of an “undesirable organization” (20.33 Code of Administrative Offences) due to the publication on their website of the text of “Open Russia” on how to behave with police officers. FAR lawyer Vladimir Tsvingli told Mediazona about this. We are talking about the article “Police, drugs and you: survival instructions”, which was published on the Open Russia website in September 2017.

The Industrial District Court of Perm sentenced local residents Lidiya Krotov and Demid Elagin to prison terms of up to a year and three months for organizing an illegal shelter for the elderly. This is reported in the court decision.

The Medvezhyegorsky District Court released from punishment the former director of the local museum, Sergei Koltyrin, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in a pedophilia case, KarelInform reports , citing the court’s press service. The court made the corresponding decision on March 4, but Koltyrin has not yet been released, so the case is at the stage of appeal by the prosecutor's office. Now the convict is in the hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Karelia.

In Kurgan, a case was opened against a local resident who left comments on VKontakte calling for violence against police officers, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that quarantine violators should be killed, reports . the Caucasian Knot Kadyrov spoke at a meeting of the government of the republic about a Chechen who returned from Mecca and did not comply with quarantine. “Despite what we say, he, having arrived from Umrah, without remaining in quarantine, organized the reading of mawlid, dhikr, gathered people, greeted people.

In Moscow, the defrauded shareholder Yulia Oborina was detained, who rode on horseback to the presidential administration to deliver a letter to Vladimir Putin, reports , citing Oborina herself. OVD-Info “This morning I rode out of my house on horseback to take a letter to the reception office of the presidential administration. I actually handed the letter to the reception. When I left the building, I was met by police officers, one of them took me to the station,” said the detainee.

A resident of Yekaterinburg was suspected of murdering a friend, with whom he came to stay, reports the Department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan. On March 17 in Naberezhnye Chelny, a human leg was found in a waste bag at a waste sorting plant. As it turned out, it belonged to a local resident. According to investigators, in December 2019, a Ural resident came to visit a friend who had previously also lived in Yekaterinburg.

The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg fined Denis Ozerov for 10 thousand rubles, who held a rally in support of protesters against the construction of the garbage training ground at the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region. About the United press service of the city ships reports . On December 2, 2019, the unregistered party "Other Russia" said that their activists from St.

The Sarmanovsky district court imposed a fine of 1000 rubles on 22-year-old Ainur Gazizullin and Radik Fatihov in Tatarstan for publishing the VKontakte video "Adolf Hitler raps". The decision was published on the website, attention is paid to "Idel.Realii". Gazizullin and Fatikhov were found guilty of propaganda or public display of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The meetings took place on March 16.

The police drew up an administrative report against a resident of the city of Tavda, who wanted to take revenge on his wife and told the dispatcher that she was sick with coronavirus. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region. According to the police, on March 20, the unified dispatch service received a call from a citizen who said that his wife was sick with coronavirus.

A criminal case was opened against the head of the national-cultural association “Russian North” Pavel Sokolov for calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), Sokolov himself told Mediazona. According to the activist, on February 6, security forces came to his home with a search. On the same day he was charged, and then Sokolov was released on his own recognizance. The Russian North group publishes a copy of the resolution to initiate the case.

The State Duma has proposed toughening penalties for violating sanitary and epidemiological standards, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. In particular, if such actions cause mass infection, the violator may be fined one million rubles or have his freedom restricted for three years. If the violations resulted in one death, then he faces a fine of up to two million rubles or a restriction of up to five years.

Poland extradited to Russia Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, co-owner of the Kuzbass shopping complex “Winter Cherry,” where 60 people died in a fire. this The Prosecutor General's Office reports . Vishnevsky is accused under Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe). According to investigators, he paid 7 million rubles to obtain permission to put the building into operation. The businessman left Russia back in 2016. In March 2019, he was detained in Poland.