The former head of the press service of the Moscow police, Colonel Yuri Titov, who was fired in 2019 due to the case of journalist Ivan Golunov, was appointed deputy head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported on the department’s social networks. Titov was fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the fall of 2019.

Accused by the American authorities of money laundering and evading sanctions, the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Artem Uss, escaped from house arrest a day after an Italian court approved his extradition to the United States. This was reported by the publications La Repubblica , La Stampa and ANSA . The day before, on March 22, Uss took off the electronic bracelet that tracked his movements and left his apartment in the town of Basiglio, south of Milan.

The Ministry of Justice included in the list of “foreign agents” the head of the human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov and blogger Ilya Varlamov. Tatarstan political scientist Ruslan Aysin, journalist Bohdan Bakaleiko, founder of the banned party "Volya" Svetlana Lada-Rus (Peunova) and the project "Parni PLUS" were also included in the updated register.

The Moscow City Disinfection Center held a meeting with employees, at which the managers said that they were required to “bring about a hundred volunteers from each city disinfection station” who would go to war in Ukraine. A source who was present at the meeting reported this to Mediazona.

The Commission for Juvenile Affairs of the Leninsky District of Barnaul fined 17-year-old Artem Sakharov 20 thousand rubles, who, on the anniversary of the war, organized a spontaneous memorial on Soviet Square in memory of the dead civilians of Ukraine. this Sakharov announced in his Telegram channel. On March 16, the teenager was found guilty of organizing an unapproved public event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Memorial human rights center told what items security forces inspected and seized in the apartments of International Memorial employees and the organization’s Moscow offices during searches in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism on March 21.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested politician Maxim Katz in absentia in the case of “fake news” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the information in the database of Moscow courts. The meeting took place today, March 23, and was scheduled for 9:30. However, information about this appeared in the database after the materials had been reviewed. The decision was made by judge Natalia Dudar.

The Buysky District Court of the Kostroma Region fined Dmitry Kulikov a thousand rubles because of the video “Punky Hoy!!!” 11 years ago on VKontakte. The resolution was published on the court’s website, and drew attention to it. the SOVA Information and Analytical Center Kulikov was found guilty under the protocol on the demonstration of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).

Finnish President Sauli Niiniste signed laws on the country's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO); this stage completes the process of national recognition of membership in the organization. This was reported by the local publication Helsingin Sanomat . In mid-March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a meeting with his Finnish counterpart, announced that Turkey would begin work on approving Finland's membership in NATO.

In the Leningrad region, a 20-year-old resident of Sosnovy Bor was detained, who, according to investigators, tried to set fire to the building where the Social Fund and the military registration and enlistment office are located. reported this with reference to unnamed sources The SHOT telegram channel and 47News . SHOT claims that the detainee's name is Vladislav Shitikov - he is a second-year student at the Agrotechnical College.

The Ryazan City Duma, at the request of the Union of Orthodox Women, decided to rename the 1st and 2nd Bezbozhnye streets, located next to Victory Square and Vokzalnaya street, into the 1st and 2nd Vokzalnaya passages. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Ryazan. As noted in the publication, on these streets there are eight dilapidated houses without sewerage. The city authorities planned that these buildings would be demolished and a new quarter would be built in their place.

Security forces hacked the Yandex account of resuscitator Alexander Polupan, who, together with other doctors from Omsk hospital No. 1, made the decision to send Alexei Navalny for treatment in Germany after poisoning. about this The doctor spoke in an interview with Meduza.

Schemes, together with the Scanner Project, found two new oil production companies associated with the family of Viktor Medvedchuk.

Reanimatologist Alexander Polupan, who examined Alexei Navalny after the poisoning, suggested that the politician was given drops to dilate his pupils in order to declare him untransportable and not allow him into Germany. about this The doctor spoke in an interview with Meduza. In August 2020, at the request of Lenonid Volkov, the resuscitator joined the group of doctors who tried to diagnose Navalny at Omsk hospital No. 1, who became ill on a plane from Tomsk to Moscow.

The management of the office of the human rights organization “Legal Initiative” in Nazran decided to suspend work for an indefinite period. The press secretary of the Legal Initiative, Ksenia Babich, reported this to Mediazona. The organization's management does not disclose the reasons for this decision. “The management plans to formalize the process of transferring a number of cases that the office has been handling all these years,” Babich added.