President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to suspend the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty ( CHB-3 ). this . reported The press service of the State Duma According to the chairman of the lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin, it will be considered on February 22. Putin announced the decision to suspend participation in the treaty with the United States, which limits the number of deployed warheads in each country, today in his address to the Federal Assembly.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Central District of Moscow charged activist Maxim Lypkan, whose home was searched in the morning, with disseminating “fake news” about the war. This was reported by the OVD-Info project. The case was opened because of Lypkan’s interview with Radio Liberty, which was published last week. In it, he talked about his previous anti-war actions and about his attempt to coordinate a rally on February 24 on Lubyanka Square.

The prosecutor asked the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar to impose a fine of 40 thousand rubles on former lawyer Mikhail Benyash in a criminal case due to his arrest at a rally in 2018. about this during the debate . spoke Benyash himself Before the rally against raising the retirement age on September 9, 2018 in Krasnodar, plainclothes police stopped lawyer Benyash and pushed him into their car.

The Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced 37-year-old American Andre Khachaturyan, who was detained at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport in 2021, to eight years in prison. The press service of the court told RIA Novosti about this. According to the case file, Khachaturian was flying from the United States to Armenia and was detained in the transit zone. combat pistol They found a Glok-17 and ammunition on him. The weapon was in the luggage in a case that was locked with a key.

The court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra sentenced a local resident to 12 years and six months in a maximum security colony in a case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This is reported on the court's website. The press service did not provide details about the identity of the convicted person and the details of his criminal case. The process took place behind closed doors.

Photo: AP Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is suspended in the Treaty on Strategic offensive Weapons (START-3). He emphasized that Russia “does not leave the contract, namely, suspending its participation”, although in fact the contacts of the United States and Russia were frozen within the contract.

In Lipetsk, a criminal case was opened against activist Stanislav Korvyakov for “discrediting” the army, acting Oktyabrsky district prosecutor Roman Plotnikov said at a meeting of the city council. His words are reported by Gorod48. “This person published on Yandex.Zen.” He compared the symbols of the special operation to the swastika and wrote about the Russian army. A lot of negativity, a lot of dirt. We provided linguistic expertise.

In Perm, security forces were unable to place a homeless man without legs in a shelter, since there were no places there, and forced him to leave the police department on his own. A video of a person with a disability appeared in the “Overheard Zakamsk” group; The regional Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the information to Podem. A reader of a public page on VKontakte said that on February 17 he met a man without legs crawling in the snow on the street.

The Russian state circus company (Rosgostsirk) purchased helmets and body armor for 2.3 million rubles. on the State Procurement website The corresponding contract was discovered by the Polygon Media publication. The contract must be completed by the end of March 2023. At the same time, the number of helmets and body armor required by the Russian City Circus was not indicated in the purchase.

Illustration: Sonya Vladimirov / Mediazon In early February, the 19-year-old anarchist Denis Kozak, accused in Russia in the case of justification of terrorism and put on the wanted list, was detained in Kazakhstan. According to lawyers, he is not formally extradition, but now Kozak will have to spend months in a pre -trial detention center, hoping to appeal the decision to detain or receive political asylum.

During the debate, a representative of the prosecutor's office asked to assign 9 years in a general regime colony in absentia to the composer, former conductor of the Vyatka Philharmonic Society Prokhor Protasov because of his posts about the war. One of those present in the hall of the Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov reported this to Mediazona. In addition, the state prosecution is asking to deprive Protasov of the right to administer and create websites for 4 years.

The Mariinsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region fined 45-year-old local resident Vyacheslav Romazanov a thousand rubles for publishing two videos of Navalny’s headquarters on Odnoklassniki in 2020, according to the court’s website.

A second case of military “fakes” was opened against the founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team project, Ruslan Leviev (Karpuk), because of words about the shelling of a children’s hospital in Mariupol by the Russian army. this on Twitter Leviev himself announced . According to the decision to initiate the case, Leviev is accused of disseminating “knowingly false information” motivated by political hatred (clause “d” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, announced that Russia was suspending its participation in the Russian-American Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms. The speech is broadcast on the Kremlin’s telegram channel.

The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, until December 2021 received $250 million in profit from the activities of companies that are engaged in the extraction of oil, gas, diamonds and gold in Syria, the Central African Republic and Sudan and are under sanctions, the found out Financial Times newspaper . Journalists also analyzed the financial reports of the companies Europolis, M Invest and Mercury.