Ozon and Yandex.Market will remove Anti-Meow electric shock collars for cats from sale after criticism on social networks. On February 16, a Twitter user with the nickname Moonhalf tagged the accounts of Ozon , Yandex.Market and Wildberries and demanded that shock collars be removed from sale. The tweet became popular and received about two thousand likes.

The UK Home Office has scrapped the golden visa system for investors in a bid to "stop corrupt elites". This is reported on the government website. “I have zero tolerance for abuse in our immigration system. Through my New Immigration Plan, I want to ensure British people have confidence in the system, including stopping corrupt elites who threaten our national security and drive dirty money through our cities,” Home Secretary Priti Patel said.

In Moscow, during the day, police detained six participants in protests against the deforestation of the Trinity Forest, reports . Among those detained were activists Maria Gorodeiko, Valentin Panferov, Anna Filatova, Oksana Voronina, Alexander Kubalov; The name of one detainee has not been released.

The investigation softened the charges against former Deputy Minister of Communications and one of the founders of Runet Alexey Soldatov in the case of transferring IP addresses to a Czech company. this RBC reports with reference to lawyers Sarkis Darbinyan and Andrey Barkanov, who represent the interests of Soldatov’s business partners Alexey Shkittin and Evgeny Antipov, who are also involved in this case.

Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova received a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the women's singles competition, Alexandra Trusova won silver, the reported on Twitter. Olympic Committee Russian Kamila Valieva was in fourth place. Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto received the bronze medal.

Russia expelled Deputy US Ambassador John Sullivan Bart Gorman from the country. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the diplomatic mission Jason Rebholz. The agency did not specify the reasons for this decision. Rebholz added that Washington considers the expulsion of the diplomat an “escalatory step,” and the United States will respond to this decision.

In Bakhchisarai, Crimean Tatar activist and architect Edem Dudakov was detained because of a Facebook post about “militant quilted jackets.” Grati about this . told Lawyers Edem Semedlyaev and Emine Avamileva In the morning they came to Dudakov’s house with a search. The lawyers did not specify what the search was connected with. They themselves were not allowed inside, they were asked “not to peek” through the gate and to move 15 meters away from the Dudakovs’ house.

The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov again fined regional Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolai Bondarenko 300 thousand rubles due to an action against fraud in the 2021 elections. about this The politician told Sota . According to the administrative case card , Bondarenko was fined according to the protocol on repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Saratov region residents were told that they “had a favorable impression” after visiting tuberculosis hospital No. 1, a video of torture from which was published by the Gulagu.net project . “The situation in the institution has returned to normal, they are actually treating patients,” said members of the supervisory commission.

The Ministry of Justice explained the inclusion of lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina in the register of media - “foreign agents” by her fees for work at last year’s rallies. This was reported by the human rights project “First Department”, in which Vetoshkina participates. The Ministry of Justice indicated that the human rights activist received 16 thousand rubles last year from.

The Investigative Committee is checking the posts of Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova under the article on “insulting the feelings of believers” (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). RBC reported this with reference to sources. According to the publication, the inspection is carried out by the Investigative Committee department for the Meshchansky district of Moscow. It is not specified which posts we are talking about.

The state publication “Chechnya Today” posted a video with an apology of the Moscow municipal municipal deputy of the uninstall Alexander Zakushin in front of the 68-year-old Chechenka Salimo Yusupkhadzhieva, which he sprayed in the face of a pepper cylinder. In the video, the head of the Council of Deputies of the Meshchansky District of Moscow gives the woman a bouquet and a basket with fruits: “In principle, I rethought the whole situation.

Electronic Arts ( EA ) will release in Russia a new set for The Sims 4 “Wedding Stories”, the release of which was refused because of a lesbian couple. This was stated in the official statement from EA . The press release states that initially the The Sims 4 team believed that they could not “freely share the stories of same-sex couple Cam and Doma (Camilla and Dominika - MZ) in Russia,” so they decided not to release the add-on to Russian audiences.

The court of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug toughened the sentence for the father of oppositionist Ivan Zhdanov, Yuri Zhdanov. Instead of three years of probation, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony, wrote on Twitter. his lawyer Vladimir Voronin Yuri Zhdanov was found guilty of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and forgery of official duties (Article 292 of the Criminal Code). Zhdanov was given a suspended sentence in December 2021.

Illustration: Lisa Spoon / Mediazone The Kikabokser Chervonya Ogly in the nineties roofed the market in Tambov, and at the end of the two thousandth received a deadline for extorting money from the ex-police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, the organizer of surveillance of Anna Politkovskaya. Then the Ogly himself became a witness in the Politkovskaya case and testified against the murder participants.