In Tbilisi, special forces soldiers began to disperse a rally against the bill on “foreign agents,” which was being held near the Georgian parliament for the second day in a row. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. The protesters, who, according to Jam , journalists numbered about 40 thousand people, surrounded the parliament and began to shake the gates to the courtyard.

Former editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexey Venediktov commented on the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s investigation into the fact that his company received 680.5 million rubles from the Moscow City Hall to publish magazines about the history of the capital’s districts, “My District.” FBK claimed that money from the mayor's office accounted for two-thirds of the budget of the Education - 21st Century company, which published magazines.

Arthur Aristakisyan. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova On March 7, at the Moscow Airport, Vnukovo was detained film director Arthur Aristahisyan. He was taken to the police department, asked in detail about a lecture with the participation of a naked model, which he gave for students of the New Cinema school at the Moscow International University, and then released.

In Tbilisi, a rally is again taking place near the Georgian Parliament building against the bill on “foreign agents” adopted on March 7 in the first reading. The event is TV channel broadcast by the Mtavari Arkhi . The Russian-language publication Paper Kartuli from journalists from the St. Petersburg “Paper” estimated the number of people gathered by 19:30 (18:30 Moscow time) at 10 thousand people. There were no arrests.

Masha Moskaleva. Frame from the video "OTD-Info" The sixth grader Masha Moskaleva from the Tula region, who found himself in the rehabilitation center after her father was sent under house arrest for “discrediting” the army, do not allow him to communicate with him. Visitors do not let her and the local deputy Olga Podolskaya three times tried to visit a 13-year-old schoolgirl, but the staff of the institution refuse her.

The Russian Premier League announced that the game of the Moscow Football Team Torpedo and the Yekaterinburg Urals was transferred from the Luzhniki stadium to the Khimki Arena near Moscow. Torpedo asked to change the place of the match due to the fact that at Luzhniki-their home stadium-there was “insufficient readiness of the lawn”. The latest event there was a concert mining on February 22 with the participation of President Vladimir Putin to the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.

In Novosibirsk, activist Elena Tardasova-Yun was detained, who was holding a single picket in defense of women political prisoners. She herself reported this to the human rights project “OVD-Info”. The police took the activist to Novosibirsk police department No. 1 and released her without a protocol a few hours later, around 21:00 (17:00 Moscow time).

The European Court of Justice has lifted sanctions against the mother of Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, Reuters and Euronews report . The resolution states that the claim was satisfied, since at the time Violetta Prigozhina was included in the sanctions list, there was insufficient evidence of her involvement in the businessman’s structures.

Schoolgirl Masha Moskaleva, who drew an anti-war drawing, is not allowed visitors to the rehabilitation center for minors No. 5 in the city of Efremov, where she was placed after her father Alexei was detained in the case of “discrediting” the army. OVD-Info about this Lawyer Vladimir Bilienko told .

The Zurich district court has begun the trial of four bankers accused of aiding cellist and friend of Vladimir Putin Sergei Roldugin, Reuters reports . Swiss prosecutors said Roldugin transferred millions of francs to local bank accounts, indicating that his occupation was “cellist.” According to investigators, this casts doubt on the ownership of this money.

Ramzan Kadyrov responded to reports of the theft of a 16-year-old thoroughbred English stallion named Zazu, worth about 18 thousand dollars, from a stable in the Czech village of Krabcice. “Back in 2014, my Zazu became the first victim of sanctions aimed at me, my family and the Team. <…> Today it turns out that Zazu was stolen by unknown persons. How did this become possible? Was he kept on some remote farm so that he could be taken away so easily? Where is the security?

Illustration: Sonya Vladimirova / Mediazona Cyberpartisans, a hacker collective from Belarus, gained access to the internal network of the General Radio Frequency Centre (GRFC), a subsidiary organization of Roskomnadzor, the Russian censorship agency.

At a rally against the law on “foreign agents”, which took place yesterday in the center of Tbilisi, 66 people were detained, reports . the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs The day before, 76 Georgian deputies supported the bill on “foreign agents”, only 13 opposed the initiative, 61 people abstained from voting. As notes Mtavari Arkhi , the meeting was originally scheduled for March 9.

Roskomnadzor blocked the OpenSanctions website , a database of individuals and companies subject to sanctions or of economic and political interest. attention to this . drew Roskomsvoboda The site is designed to search for information, as well as check data for signs of illegal activity and conflicts of interest, as well as compare the sanctions policies of different countries. RKN does not name the reason for blocking the site.

In the Karelian city of Sortavala, FSB officers detained 19-year-old member of the civil alliance of Russia public movement Nikita Klyunya, said the chairman of the organization and lawyer Oleg Filatchev. According to Filatchev, on the night of March 7-8, he received a call from a man who introduced himself as an employee of the Petrozavodsk FSB and said that Klyuna was charged with participation in a terrorist community “due to sabotage on the railway” (205.4 of the Criminal Code).