The foreign ministries of the United States, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Sweden warned their citizens who are in Russia about the threat of terrorist attacks in the coming days. This is reported on the websites of departments and embassies of countries.

Lawyer Olga Mikhailova, who defended Alexei Navalny, said that as justification for her arrest in absentia, the court used the wiretapping of her conversation with the oppositionist during a meeting in the colony. An interview with Mikhailova was published by Meduza.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) has uncovered a "major human trafficking network" that was duping young men into Russia to fight in the war against Ukraine. This was reported with by Reuters reference to the department. officers CBI conducted searches in New Delhi and Mumbai, detained several suspects and seized Rs 50 million in cash, as well as documents, the contents of which are unknown.

The magistrate of court district No. 268 in Moscow fined blogger Vyacheslav Bolshakov, known on Instagram under the nickname crazysuka , under an article about “LGBT propaganda” for participating in the “naked party” of Anastasia Ivleeva. The meeting took place on February 19. The publication of the impersonal version of the decision by the court was the first to draw attention to the publication "Next". At the same time, the amount of the fine was hidden in the text.

The village of Rozhdestvenka in the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine was attacked by three drones, says Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. As a result, he said, two people died and another was in serious condition. “An excavator and a manipulator were also damaged,” the official added. The Russian military reported repelling several attacks by Ukrainian drones on border regions on March 8.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone With the outbreak of war, the risk of being behind bars due to disagreement with the authorities in our country is growing day by day. After the murder of Alexei Navalny, it will not be an exaggeration to name this risk fatal. The expense of political prisoners is hundreds of, and even human rights activists are difficult to keep track of the fate of everyone. "Mediazona" considers it important to remind of these people.

In Russia, the website of the publication NeMoskva Speaks, which appeared after the start of the war, was blocked, according to data from the Ping-Admin service . The editors received a notice of blocking from the department. What materials caused the claims were not listed there. At the same time, “NeMoskva” is not displayed in the register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor .

The Abakan garrison military court sentenced serviceman Denis Novikov, who left his unit to care for his sick wife, to six years and three months of suspended imprisonment. The decision was published on the court’s website, . Sibrsky Express noted Novikov signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense for four months in October 2022.

Roman Abramovich last discussed the exchange of Alexei Navalny with Vladimir Putin on the morning of February 16, the Agency claims , citing a businessman acquaintance. On this day, it became known about the murder of a politician in the colony. Aleksei Navalny’s associates previously spoke about plans to conduct an exchange and Abramovich’s participation as a negotiator.

Daria Kozyreva. Photo: Mediazone Dozens of women in Russia are deprived of freedom for their beliefs. They are dissimilar to each other, convicted of various articles of the Criminal Code, but all of them need support and solidarity. Using the example of the ten stories of the Mediazon, she tried to show who and for what falls under political repression today. Learn about the rest - and write letters to them - you can on the website of the project “Memorial. Support for political prisoners.

Kupyansk in the Kharkov region of Ukraine came under Russian fire late in the evening of March 7. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to Snegubov, a 64-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed as a result of shelling from multiple launch rocket systems. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported that on March 8, at about 00:05, the Russian army launched a missile attack on the center of the city of Chuguev.

Security forces came to search the place of registration of libertarian Pavel Chalov in the village of Bezenchuk, Samara Region. Chalov himself reported this to the human rights project “OVD-Info”. The activist's mother was in the house. After the search, she was taken to the FSB department in the city of Chapaevsk.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning 52 convicted women, according to the Kremlin website. We are talking about women who have minor children, pregnant convicts, as well as relatives of participants in the war in Ukraine. “When making the decision to pardon, the head of state was guided by the principles of humanity,” the statement says. No other details are provided.

The Attorney General's Office has declared three American non-profit organizations "undesirable." This was reported on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which summoned US Ambassador Lynn Tracy to notify her of this decision. We are talking about the NGOs “Cultural Perspectives”, “Institute of International Education” and “American Councils for International Education”. All of them are engaged in cooperation with universities around the world.

The Attorney General's Office has declared three American non-profit organizations "undesirable." This was reported on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which summoned US Ambassador Lynn Tracy to notify her of this decision. We are talking about the NGOs “Cultural Perspectives”, “Institute of International Education” and “American Councils for International Education”. All of them are engaged in cooperation with universities around the world.