The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against PFC CSKA and the sons of Bortnikov and Kiriyenko, according to the ministry’s website. PFC CSKA is under the control of the state corporation VEB.RF, which also came under sanctions due to Russia’s recognition of the DPR and LPR.

President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference that Russia recognized self-proclaimed DPR and LPR within the boundaries of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. “We recognized them. And this means that we recognized all their fundamental documents, including the Constitution, and borders are spelled out within the framework of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions at a time when they were part of Ukraine.

Fedor Gorozhanko. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone Former employee Fedor Gorozhanko summoned the charges against Navalny as a witness, but during the meeting he called the initiated case “absurd” and told how the investigator pressed him, threatened the criminal case and forced him to teach testimony. Mediazona asked the city dweller about how interrogations were undergoing, why he decided on his act and what was now afraid of.

The Federation Council supported President Vladimir Putin's appeal to send Russian troops abroad. The meeting is broadcast on the website of the upper house of parliament. “The agreement to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation outside the Russian Federation is aimed at establishing peace in the Donbass, aimed at stopping this bloody civil war,” Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko said at the meeting.

President Vladimir Putin signed laws ratifying “treaties of friendship and cooperation” with the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. The texts were posted on the Kremlin website . The State Duma and the Federation Council adopted both laws during the day. The “friendship agreements” themselves were signed between Putin and the heads of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass in the Kremlin on February 21.

President Vladimir Putin applied to the Federation Council for permission to use the Russian army abroad, said at the meeting.

In Moscow, Kirill Medvedev, the vocalist of the Arkady Kots group, was detained at an anti-war picket; a few hours later, he was detained again at the exit from the police station. about this The musician spoke on Facebook.

The companies Zoom and Meta , which includes Facebook , Instagram and WhatsApp , have registered a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website, according to the agency’s website. This was done within the framework of the law on foreign Internet companies, which also requires opening a representative office in Russia and creating a form for requests on its website.

The magistrate of precinct No. 2 in Cheboksary dismissed the case of blogger Alexey Radchenko because of a post on his forum about , which did not mention their ban. This was reported by the human rights organization Apology. A report was drawn up against the blogger and creator of the website Cheb.ru because of someone else’s post about the arrest of local headquarters coordinator Semyon Kochkin on January 30, 2021, before the rally.

The Achkhoy-Martanovsky District Court of Chechnya imposed real sentences on the administrators of the opposition Chechen telegram chat, brothers Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev. , told Mediazona about this Miron Rozanov, a representative of the crisis group SK SOS . Salekh Magamadov was sentenced to 8 years in prison, of which he will spend a year in prison and seven years in a maximum security colony. Ismail Isaev was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony.

The Ukhta City Court of Komi sentenced nine years in a maximum security colony to the former rector of the Ukhta State Technical University (USTU) in the case of and. This was reported by the press service of the Republican Department of the Investigative Committee. The ex-rector was fined 25.5 million rubles, and he was also deprived of the right to hold positions in educational institutions for three years, the department added.

State Duma deputies voted for the ratification of "treaties on friendship and cooperation" with the DPR and the LPR. The broadcast led on the YouTube channel of the lower house. In the case of each agreement, deputies voted three times, adding to the texts of the agreements the amendments on their imminent entry into force. In final votes, 399 and 400 deputies voted; There were no abstracts and opponents.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh sentenced district police officer Vladimir Sheikin to three years in a penal colony for killing two pedestrians. This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. Sheikin was found guilty of violating traffic rules, which negligently resulted in the infliction of grievous harm to human health and the death of two persons (Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code).

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced Gray Efendiev, investigator for especially important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, to four years in a general regime colony. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Efendiev was found guilty of intermediary in a large-scale bribe (Part 4, Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code).

Illustration: Boris Hmel / Mediazone The Achkhoy-Martan District Court of Chechnya announced the verdict to the brothers Saleh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev. The brothers-one of them gay, and the other began a transgender transition-administered telegram chat for atheists.