The Ministry of Digital Development published a draft resolution in which it proposed to oblige telecom operators to transfer data about subscribers and their conversations to Roskomnadzor. attention to him .

More than forty actors, directors, artists and musicians signed a letter in support of Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Lucy Stein, who are under house arrest for a “sanitary matter.” told Mediazona about this Representatives of Pussy Riot . Signatories include directors Pedro Almodovar and Spike Jonze, actors Martin Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Gillian Anderson, Ed Harris and Mia Farrow, artist Marina Abramovic, as well as the European Film Academy.

The Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, to Moscow for consultations. This was reported on the website of the Foreign Ministry.

A rally of relatives of employees of the special police regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya named after Akhmat Kadyrov was held in the park named after Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov. They claim that the publication in Novaya Gazeta about extrajudicial executions is not true, reports . Grozny Inform According to the human rights center, “a large group of elders was taken to the entrance to the PPSP-2 location,” and later they moved to the center of Grozny.

In the Chechen village of Achkhoy-Martan, police on March 16 detained three relatives of a former employee of the Akhmat Kadyrov regiment, Suleiman Gezmakhmaev, who told details about the extrajudicial execution in 2017. The press service reported this to Mediazona. Unnamed village residents told human rights activists that the men were taken to “one of the police units” in Grozny, where they were demanded to reveal the whereabouts of the emigrated Gezmakhaev, his mother and brother.

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee opened a new criminal case regarding the use of violence against a National Guardsman at a rally on January 23, according to the website of the department’s main department. The suspect has been detained. According to investigators, a young man hit a National Guardsman during a rally near Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street. The name of the detainee has not been released.

In Novosibirsk, employees of the search department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Altai Territory detained former special forces soldier of the GRU General Staff Valery Voblikov, reports . the department’s press service On March 16, the convicted Voblikov was put on the wanted list because he escaped from house arrest with an electronic bracelet.

The US Department of Commerce has introduced new sanctions targeting the export of goods related to national security to Russia. This is stated on the department's website. The restrictions come into force on March 18. They will affect equipment, technology and software that can be used in the field of chemical weapons.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the capital's prosecutor's office to block a video on the YouTube channel of journalist Karen Shainyan, “Adoption by Gays: Is this the Russia you will choose?”, in which he criticizes homophobia. The decision was published attention to it .

The Leninsky District Court of Kemerovo returned to the prosecutor's office the case of Vladislav Kanyus, who admitted to the murder of his former 23-year-old girlfriend Vera Pekhteleva. This was reported by the regional publication Vse42 .

The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee did not find any grounds to check the actions of the National Guard soldier who, during the action on February 2, hit Fyodor Khudokormov, operator of the Real View YouTube channel, on the head with a baton . This was reported by Apology of Protest with reference to lawyer Leonid Solovyov. “The actions of law enforcement officers were lawful,” the human rights project reports the investigator’s response to the crime report.

Police officers of the juvenile affairs department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zainsky district of Tatarstan drew up reports on the parents of three girls and a boy aged 9-11, whom security forces consider involved in the arson of the monument to the liberating soldier. This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The protocols were drawn up under the article on, the department clarifies.

The Investigative Committee announced the arrest of two villas of former Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov in Italy. about this They write on the department’s website. The release states that Russian security forces, together with Italian colleagues, found “a large amount of property that actually belonged” to Abyzov. We are talking about two villas. One of them is called Il Tesoro.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced two defendants in the case of the National Socialist Black Bloc movement, Artem Vorobyov and Dmitry Nikitin, to suspended sentences. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. Vorobyov was given a suspended sentence of 4 years, Nikitin - 3 years. Another defendant, Viktor Trofimov, was fined 50 thousand rubles.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, in a conversation with reporters, said that Roskomnadzor “does not conduct activities against Twitter and cannot do this.” this . reports Meduza “It is impossible to imagine that any company - no matter what size it is, but any company that operates in the IT field , in the field of social networks and so on - that it would act in violation of the laws of the Russian Federation.