President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that allows campaigning on the day before elections in the event of multi-day voting. The corresponding document was published on the legal information portal. According to the adopted law, campaigning during multi-day voting must end “at zero o’clock local time on the first day of voting.” In the case of a one-day vote, the “day of silence” remains.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law on fines for failure to mention the status of “media as a foreign agent” and “illegal use” of press cards at rallies. The document was published on the legal information portal. The amendments provide for fines of up to 2.5 thousand rubles for citizens, up to 5 thousand rubles for officials and up to 50 thousand rubles for legal entities if they do not mention the status of “media - foreign agent”.

Musician Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) said that security forces disrupted his concert in Orenburg. this He announced on his Instagram. “The FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the regional administration set out to cancel our concert in your city at any cost. Therefore, all these structures began to threaten the site where our concert was originally supposed to take place,” the performer said. The reasons for the authorities' claims against the musician are unknown.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has banned eight EU members from entering Russia in response to EU sanctions imposed due to the persecution of politician Alexei Navalny and the torture of oppositionists. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Leningrad Regional Court sentenced former municipal deputy from United Russia Ilya Rusinov to four years in prison for shooting at a boat with people. this TASS reports with reference to the regional prosecutor's office. Previously, the court of first instance sentenced him to correctional labor for nine months. He was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm through negligence (Article 118 of the Criminal Code).

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek challenged the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to a debate in connection with the criminal case being investigated against the editors of the student magazine DOXA. A recording of an interview with Zizek about the case was posted by colleagues of those involved in the case. “He is, as far as I have been able to find out, an educated man, he has published many articles and so on,” says Žižek.

Six children died in an accident in the Stavropol region, reports with reference to the traffic police. RIA Novosti According to police, 12 more people, including eight children, were injured. The Ministry of Emergency Situations added that the accident occurred with the participation of a minibus and a Kamaz.

The Pskov City Court sentenced Oleg Ivanov, a 43-year-old resident of the village of Pushkinskie Gory, to eight months in a penal colony for assault on a security officer, possession of weapons, calls for mass riots and extremism. This was reported by the joint press service of the regional courts. “The court passed a verdict at the very first hearing in connection with the confession,” reports Pskovskaya Guberniya. Ivanov was arrested on February 11.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Tevan Badasyan, a witness in the case of actor Mikhail Efremov, accused of perjury (Part 1 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code), to one year of correctional labor. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. In addition, 10% of a man’s salary will be withheld as state income.

In the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee, from DOXA they tried to obtain a signature this journalist Alla Gutnikova and her lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov about criminal liability for disclosing preliminary investigation data (Article 310 of the Criminal Code). The defender reported on his Telegram channel. “Alla and I refused to sign the document, giving the investigator a written refusal.

The military registration and enlistment office in the Soviet and central districts of Krasnoyarsk was asked to go through a test with questions about the attitude towards rallies, terrorists and revolution, Taiga.info reports with reference to a copy of the questionnaire. The publication published one of the pages of the questionnaire.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow refused to exclude human rights activist Lev Ponomarev from “foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent.” this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court. “The court rejected Lev Ponomarev’s administrative claim against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to declare his inclusion in the register of foreign media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent illegal,” the court said.

A report was drawn up against politician Dmitry Gudkov because of a video from a rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on January 23 (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). this He reported on his Telegram channel.

The police opened a criminal case under the “Dada Article” 212.1 of the Criminal Code of a resident of Chelyabinsk born in 2003. This was reported on the website of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department says that the young man was repeatedly punished under the article on violating the legislation on rallies (20.2 of the Administrative Code). He “continued his illegal activities” and called for participation in uncoordinated actions.

Rosfinmonitoring introduced the “public movement of the headquarters of Navalny” to the list of extremists and terrorists, without waiting for a court decision. Information about this has already been published on the service website. The Moscow prosecutor's office on April 16 filed a lawsuit on recognition and headquarters of the politician Alexei Navalny with extremist. The agency suspended the work of the policy of the policy, the court imposed restrictions on the activities of the fund.