Forty human rights organizations from more than 25 countries have appealed to the UN with a request to immediately release Alexei Navalny’s associate Lyubov Sobol, reports the Swiss non-governmental organization UN Watch. Representatives of 40 associations accredited to the UN delivered a joint statement to the organization's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. “We call on you to demand that the Russian government honor its obligations.

The Tikhoretsky City Court arrested a policeman who, being drunk, caused an accident with two deaths, according to the website of the Krasnodar Regional Court. According to the investigation, on March 7 in Tikhoretsk, the driver of the linear police department of the Department of Internal Affairs at the Kavkazskaya station, while intoxicated, exceeded the speed, drove into the intersection and collided with a Lada Samara.

Vladimir Putin signed a law empowering the Central Election Commission (CEC) to require Roskomnadzor to block sites with information considered illegal. The corresponding document was published on the official website of legal information. CEC Secretary Maya Grishina clarified that we are talking about “planned, financed campaign events” that are not paid for from the candidate’s fund. After Roskomnadzor’s request, the site is obliged to remove the propaganda within 24 hours.

Roskomnadzor held a “preventive conversation” with representatives of the Paramount Comedy television channel regarding the episode of the animated series “South Park,” according to the website of the supervisory agency.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow sent a policeman suspected of murdering his six-year-old son to a pre-trial detention center, TASS reports citing the court's press service. A case was opened against Igor Khizhnyak under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder of a minor child). On the night of March 8, the body of a six-year-old child with signs of violent death was found in an apartment in a residential building in Moscow .

The Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow intends to exclude three more people. Open Media about this . told Alexey Melnikov, executive secretary of the PMC, He declined to name specific names, but said two of the three candidates are "very well known." “One of these three people went to places of detention only three times. These three not only do not go, but also do not take part in the activities of the commission,” Melnikov explained.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the case of organizing a terrorist community (Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) against three teenagers was dropped due to the construction and plans to blow up the FSB building in . This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to a copy of the resolution. The case against three teenagers - Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev - was dropped for lack of evidence of a crime; all defendants were recognized as having the right to rehabilitation.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Penza placed a teenager under house arrest for preparations for a terrorist attack at a school. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court and RIA Novosti with reference to an interlocutor in the city's law enforcement agencies. RIA Novosti clarifies that the court chose the preventive measure on Sunday, March 7. The student does not admit guilt.

In North Ossetia, two police officers are accused of taking possession of a local resident who was found in possession of pills by security forces. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. As stated in the release, in December 2020, a police colonel and an operative during operational search activities in Vladikavkaz found 24 tablets of the drug “Lyrica” in the apartment of a local resident, for the possession of which there is no criminal liability.

A court in Ankara sentenced five of 28 defendants to life imprisonment in the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov. This was reported by Anadolu and Habertürk. Agency Anadolu reports that Şahin Seğüt , Salih Yılmaz and another person were twice sentenced to life imprisonment with aggravating circumstances. The two defendants were sentenced to one life sentence, the agency reports .

The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan sentenced National Guardsman Timerbulat Shagimullin to eight years of general security, finding him guilty of raping a sex worker, Mediazona was told in the Law Zone. The interests of the victim were represented by lawyers Rushana Kamalova and Diana Fayzullina, collaborating with a human rights organization. Shagimullin's acquaintance Niyaz Khismatov, who was also accused in this criminal case, received seven and a half years in prison.

Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant In winter, the Russian scientific community was alarmed by the bill, which proposed taking under state control of educational activities and the contacts of scientists with foreign colleagues. Despite the protests of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and hundreds of ordinary scientists, today the document was adopted in the second reading without significant changes.

Novosibirsk industrial college teacher Alexey Alekseev, fired for a post about a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny, filed a lawsuit for reinstatement. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the teacher.

An internal audit of the court did not reveal a violation of the secrecy of the deliberation room during the verdict of the leadership of Yaroslavl IK-1. This was reported in the telegram channel of the “Yaroslavl case”. Lawyer Irina Biryukova of the Foundation clarified to Mediazona that the inspection was carried out by the chairman of the Zavolzhsky Court and the judicial department.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that allows websites that justify extremism to be blocked without a court decision. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. As stated in the explanatory note, “numerous facts of dissemination of information by representatives of foreign states” justifying extremism and terrorism have been established.