The Central Election Commission (CEC) approved the initiative of the Moscow City Election Commission (Mosgorizbirkom) to reduce the number of polling stations in the capital. this A TASS correspondent reported from a meeting of the Central Election Commission. According to the agency, the number of plots will decrease by more than a third - from 3.6 thousand to 2.2 thousand.

The arrested members of the Ufa Marxist circle were charged with terrorism in the final version. This was reported by the telegram channel “Black Book of Capitalism”. According to investigators, former candidate for State Duma deputy from the Communists of Russia, Pavel Matisov, created a terrorist community (Part 1 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

Arkhangelsk student Olesya Krivtsova, who was under house arrest in a criminal case for repeated “discredit” of the army and justification of terrorism, left Russia. This was reported by the authors of a telegram channel in support of the girl. Krivtsova reported that she was in Lithuania. The girl’s support group also published a video in which she removes the FSIN electronic bracelet from her leg, which records her movements.

The Bryansk Regional Duma, on the initiative of the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov, proposed including the costs of operating air defense systems in utility bills. This was discussed on the website of the regional Duma, and drew attention to this. the CTD telegram channel was later The material removed, but a copy of the original text remains in the web archive .

The Vladimir garrison military court sentenced lieutenant and resident of the Oryol region Grigory Titov, who left the training center for mobilized in Kovrov, to one year and six months in a penal colony. The verdict was published on the court's website. Judge Alexander Kondratyev found the mobilized man guilty in the case of unauthorized leaving his place of duty for less than ten days (Part 2.1 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow Arbitration Court recovered 200 thousand rubles from the founder of the Feelosophy Store, Georgy Saribekyan, following a claim by the Russia Today channel over merch with the word “foreign agent”. about this on Instagram Representatives of the store spoke . Russia Today began selling T-shirts with the words “foreign agent” back in 2017, when the US Department of Justice included the TV channel in the relevant register.

The Efremov Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region has scheduled a closed hearing on April 6 to restrict the parental rights of the father and mother of Masha Moskaleva, who drew an anti-war drawing. Lawyer Vladimir Bilienko spoke about this as he left the court. Mediazona has a recording of his speech. The schoolgirl’s father, Alexei Moskalev, is under house arrest in a criminal case for “discrediting” the army; her mother, Olga Sitchikhina, has not lived with her family for a long time.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that will allow commanders to apply “disciplinary arrest” to military personnel without a court decision. This is stated on the website of the Lower House. Currently, only a military court can make a decision on disciplinary arrest in a guardhouse. The authors of the bill write that during hostilities this is impossible, since the courts are too far away.

The one-time tax levy to the budget, which the Russian authorities are going to collect from large businesses, will not affect oil and gas and coal companies, Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Sazonov said, his words are reported by Interfax. The so-called Windfall tax, a tax on unexpected profits, “covers everything except oil and gas, coal, SMEs and companies with net pre-tax profit for 2021-2022 of less than 1 billion rubles.

A court in Kazakhstan extended the arrest of 19-year-old Rostov anarchist Denis Kozak, who in Russia is accused of justifying terrorism, for 12 months. A SOTA correspondent reports this . Kozak is on the international wanted list. On February 9, the anarchist was detained in Almaty by local security forces, they took him to the Criminal Police Department. Two days later, Kozak was sentenced to 40 days of arrest. The Insider found out that the request for detention was submitted from Moscow.

Rosfinmonitoring included in the register of terrorists and extremists the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, Denis Kapustin, whom the FSB calls the main organizer of the assassination attempt on the owner of Tsargrad, Konstantin Malofeev. This was brought to attention by a telegram channel that monitors changes in the registry. On March 6, the FSB reported on the prevention of an assassination attempt on Malofeev.

The Shelkovsky District Court of Chechnya returned the complaint of the lawyer, who was not allowed to see his client Idris Arsamikov. Crisis Group reported this to Mediazona The SK SOS . The reason for the return was that a “duly certified copy of the ID” was not attached to the complaint. However, there is no such procedure as certification of a lawyer’s certificate, human rights activists note. In addition, the law does not provide that identification must be attached to the complaint.

Illustration: Maria V. / Mediazona The amendments made to the Criminal Code in 2022 have made it the most repressive year in modern Russian history, according to Elena Yurishina, an analyst with “Komanda Protiv Pytok” (“Crew Against Torture”), a nongovernmental organisation that studied changes to the Russian legal system over the past 30 years.

The Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced three men to prison terms ranging from 8.5 to 12 years who attacked a Moscow metro passenger in 2021 who reprimanded them. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Magamaali Khanmagomedov was sentenced to 12 years in prison, Ibragim Musalaev - 11 years in prison, and Gasan Zalibekov - 8.5 years in prison.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 22-year-old Kirill Butylin to 13 years in prison in the case of arson of a military registration and enlistment office in Lukhovitsy near Moscow. this from the court . reported An Interfax correspondent Butylin will serve the first three years in prison, and the remaining ten years in a maximum security colony.