The judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil, Alexandre do Moraes, overturned the decision to block Telegram , since the messenger complied with the instructions of local authorities. This was reported by Globo . On March 19, Moraes decided to block Telegram due to non-cooperation. The founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov, in turn, responded that the company “had a problem with sending emails” between corporate addresses and the Supreme Court of Brazil.

The Human Rights Project estimates that since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, security forces have carried out more than 15 thousand arrests of participants in anti-war protests. “15,000 is the number of arrests, but not detainees: the same people can be detained several times,” the project clarifies. Since the beginning of the war, protests began to take place throughout Russia demanding a stop to the invasion of Ukraine.

In Moscow, a mathematician from Donetsk, Konstantin Olmezov, committed suicide, who was unable to leave for Ukraine due to his arrest for 15 days. about this . spoke Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov Olmezov came to Russia in 2018 and entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). He said that after the start of the war on February 24, he wanted to go “to defend his country,” but he was detained and put under arrest.

On March 19, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan placed Candidate of Biological Sciences Andrei Boyarshinov under house arrest in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the publication and the head of the international human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov report .

In Moscow, near the Bolshoi Theater during anti-war pickets, the chairman of the board of the human rights center Oleg Orlov and the head of the Polish program Alexander Guryanov were detained. Novaya Gazeta reports this. Orlov was with a poster “Crazy Putin is pushing the world towards nuclear war,” and Guryanov was with a poster “No to war.” “Both were detained 3-4 minutes after going on solo pickets,” notes Novaya Gazeta.

The head of Ural Airlines, Sergei Skuratov, decided to send some of his employees on forced downtime “due to the geopolitical situation in the world.” His order was posted by the Aviatorschina telegram channel, and its authenticity was confirmed to Kommersant by the company’s press service. In his order, Skuratov instructed his subordinates, including the commander of the flight crew and the head of the flight attendant service, to prepare lists of employees who will be sent on downtime.

The social network VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the fan group of political scientist Ekaterina Shulman, which consists of almost 35 thousand people. notification of the blocking Community administrators received on the evening of March 19. The group was blocked on the basis of the same decision by which Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of almost all independent media outlets, including Mediazona.

The Central District Court of Volgograd arrested for 15 days 31-year-old Daniel Kurakin, who came to a rally-concert in honor of the annexation of Crimea with an anti-war poster. this in the telegram channel. reported The press service of the courts of the Volgograd region Kurakin was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of public events (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) and “discrediting” the Russian military (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

The daily audience of Instagram in Russia after the blocking, compared to February, decreased by 12.4% to 34.18 million users. study The results of the Mediascope were published by RBC. The study includes data on the audience of social networks up to March 15 inclusive. In February, on average, 39 million Russians visited Instagram every day.

In Volgograd, they searched the homes of four activists who opposed the war with Ukraine: Alexey Klokov, Angela Danskaya, Lyubov Samylova and Elena Chulanova. This was reported by the human rights project and the Watch in Volgograd project. What this is connected with is still unknown. “The lawyer reports that they [the activists] managed to notify human rights activists. At the moment there is no contact with the guys.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the prosecutor's office, has limited access to the Mediazona websites in Russia. Central Asia" and Agentura.ru by intelligence researchers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. Updates to the register of blocked sites are collected by the Roskomsvoboda project.