Yandex.Zen blocked the Mediazone page. When trying to go to the channel, the message "Error 404" appears at the link . A screenshot of the page that appears when crossing the link to the Mediazone page in Yandex.Zen Earlier, Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the publication.

VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the pages of the publications 7x7 and The Village . When you try to follow links to groups, appears the message “This material is blocked in the Russian Federation” . based on the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation dated March 09, 2022 No.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sent the founder of the company ChronoPay, which processes bank card payments, Pavel Vrublevsky, to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts. Vrublevsky is accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), as well as theft by an organized group (clause “a” of part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code). The duration of the preventive measure is 2 months.

The Ukrainian publication Grati, citing a source in the law enforcement system of the Crimean Ministry of Defense , claims that about 80 Russian conscripts and contract soldiers from among the marines refused to fight in Ukraine. “Among the Russian marines there were conscripts who served no more than a few months, some did not even have time to take the oath.

The Central Bank decided not to resume trading on the Moscow Exchange from March 14 to 18, with the exception of transactions in the “Buyback: Addressed Orders” mode and in the market section. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Central Bank.

Aeroflot Deputy General Director for Strategy, Service and Marketing Andrey Panov resigned from the airline and left Russia. about this He spoke on his Facebook page. Panov did not give reasons for leaving Aeroflot after four years of work and the decision to leave the country. From 2003 to 2010, he was a correspondent for the Vedomosti newspaper, where he also worked as editor of the Finance department and deputy editor-in-chief of the website.

A report was drawn up against Mikhail Gusev from Ivanovo because of a picket with a “*** *****” poster. this reports Sota with reference to the detainee. Gusev is charged with a new administrative article about discrediting the Russian military (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

The police detained female activist of the Eighth Initiative Group movement Evgenia Smetankina as she left her house. this on the telegram channel . reported Her associates They suggest that Smetankina is being taken to the police department to “give an explanation in connection with the all-Russian protest action on March 13.” A week ago, the femactivist and her associates were searched. Then she was detained and then released on her own recognizance.

In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Voronezh, police detained nine activists. This is reported with reference to the detainees themselves, their acquaintances, lawyers and the telegram channel “Detentions St. Petersburg”. Lyubov and Ivan Bogoslovskikh were detained in Moscow on Pushkin Square during an anti-war picket. The police took the man’s phone; they did not specify which police department the detainees would be taken to.

The Italian Financial Guard has seized the sailing yacht Sailing Yacht A, owned by Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko. This is reported by Repubblica and Corriere della Sera . Publications estimate the cost of the 143-meter sailing yacht, designed by architect Philippe Starck, at 530 million euros. According to the service VesselFinder , it is located in the port of Trieste.

Illustration: Boris Khmelniy / Mediazona Record numbers of people have been detained at anti-war protests across Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Although mass coordinated protests have been hampered by the Russian authorities’ wholesale attack on opposition organisations in recent years, people are still coming out to protest against the war – with pickets, unsanctioned rallies and statements online.

In Moscow, police detained a 43-year-old man who left an anti-war sign at a bus stop on Beskudnikovsky Boulevard. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Department of Internal Affairs officers drew up a report against him under the new article on “public discrediting” of the actions of the Russian military (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

The chief rabbi of Porto, Daniel Litvak, was detained as part of an investigation into Abramovich's acquisition of Portuguese citizenship. This is reported by the newspaper Publico , excerpts in English are published by Reuters . Abramovich received a Portuguese passport in April 2021 as part of the law granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews, in force since 2015. This became known only six months later, at the end of 2021.

Roskomnadzor blocked on the territory of Russia the St. Petersburg city publication “Paper,” which wrote about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the persecution of participants in anti-war actions. The department's register states that access was limited at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office on February 24. The editors of Bumaga said that they had not received notifications about the blocking from Roskomnadzor, and promised to continue working.

Rapper Face (Ivan Dremin) said on Instagram that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he left Russia forever and “will not come again.” “They survived me and my loved ones, they survived from their own home, from their own land, your state survived, which I completely refuse to recognize as mine from this second, and our people survived, who absolutely ***** [don’t care] about everything as long as they have enough money for a sandwich with butter,” the musician wrote.