In Grozny, they refused to issue a Chechen woman a foreign passport without a “guarantee” from an “elder male relative.” This was reported to Mediazona by the SK SOS Crisis Group. As human rights activists noted, we are talking about an adult woman. The “SK SOS Crisis Group” clarified that their clients are “regularly” refused to issue documents. The Chechen woman's lawyer sent a complaint in connection with the demands of the authorities.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the capital's realtor Pavel Krotov against the “Project”, which he filed because of the article “Brothers Ltd. An investigation into how Ramzan Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov make money.” Mediazona drew attention to this. lists The lawsuit Project journalist Maria Zholobova and the publication’s editor-in-chief Roman Badanin as defendants.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the oldest Russian human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group. attention to this . drew The Roskomsvoboda project As noted in the project, the reasons for the blocking are unknown. In addition, Roskomnadzor did not indicate at the request of which body the decision was made to restrict access to the site.

In the work of the VKontakte social network, a failure occurred, users from different cities of Russia reported difficulties with access to the site and application. This was reported by RBC with reference to the data data data. The administration of the social network confirmed the failure. “Now we are completing work to restore access in full,” the company representative added in a conversation with the publication.

Ilya Yashin, sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in the case of military “fakes,” was transferred to the capital’s pre-trial detention center No. 4 “Bear” from the detention center in Udmurtia, where the Moscow politician had been staying since the end of December. This was reported on the oppositionist’s Telegram channel. According to Yashin, he was returned to Moscow because the court accepted a statement sent by lawyer Maria Eismont about violations of the politician’s rights.

Journalist Yulia Starostina, who worked for Project and The Bell , and after the start of the war helped Ukrainian refugees in Russia, was subject to a report on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). about this . She told Dozhd According to Starostina, she learned about the initiation of an administrative case after finding a card with her name on the website of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow.

A publication with congratulations to Alexei Navalny’s comrade-in-arms Maria Pevchikh was removed from the “Student Life” section on the website of the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University after her interview with journalist Yuri Dudu. attention to this The oppositionist herself drew . The faculty post also included a photo of the Singers. Dud showed the photo during a video conversation with an oppositionist while discussing her studies at the university.

The Kirov District Court of Makhachkala sentenced the head of Makhachkala pre-trial detention center No. 1, Daud Davydov, and his subordinates to eight years in prison on charges of torture, extortion and taking a bribe. This was reported by the human rights project “Axiom”.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone From the first weeks of invasion of Ukraine, Russia is blackmailing the world with a nuclear war: the authorities are doing this more restrained, the propagandists are more aggressive. Atlantic correspondent Eric Schlosser discusses why it is impossible to succumb to such blackmail and how the victory of Ukraine can lead the world to complete nuclear disarmament. "Mediazona" publishes a translation of his article.

The Volodarsky District Court of Bryansk sent a 79-year-old Ukrainian citizen to a pre-trial detention center, who is accused of preparing for smuggling. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, the Ukrainian woman came to Bryansk and received by mail at least 50 microcircuits that are used to create weapons. She stored the microchips in food containers, the court clarified.

In the Tver region, a criminal case was opened for violating the legislation on “foreign agents” against activist Artem Vazhenkov, who left the country. This is the first known case under this article, said . human rights activist Pavel Chikov Vazhenkov, who was the coordinator of Open Russia and the Golos election observer movement, was added to the register of “foreign agents” in September 2021.

In the Perm region, a 33-year-old resident of the city of Tchaikovsky was arrested, who is suspected of murdering his father. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK. According to the department, in February 2022, the suspect, “due to a sudden personal enmity” towards his father, with whom he lived in the same apartment, stabbed him in the right side, after which the man died.

Convicted at the end of December for unauthorized abandonment of his unit, Corporal Nikolai Kartashev, who served in an airborne unit near Pskov, was captured in Ukraine - he was sent there despite a court verdict and a suspended sentence. Relatives of the contract soldier told Mediazona about this. According to mother Irina Kartasheva, on February 6 she received a call from a Ukrainian number and was informed that her son was in captivity, and then they handed the phone to Nikolai.

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded 33,500 euros in compensation to a girl who was interrogated at least 23 times after experiencing sexualized violence. The press secretary of the Legal Initiative, Ksenia Babich, reported this to Mediazona. The ECHR found that the Russian authorities violated Article 3 of the European Convention for the Prohibition of Torture and committed ill-treatment of a child during a criminal investigation.

In the city of Efremov, Tula region, a gas explosion occurred in a five-story building on Khimikov Street. One of the entrances collapsed, as can be seen in the photographs in the “Overheard Efremov” public page. At the moment, five people are known to have died; several residents of the house were pulled out from under the rubble alive, TASS reports , citing the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Updated at 17:49 .