The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, converted into state income the property of the owners of the Sirena-Travel group of companies, the operator of Russia's largest airline ticket reservation system Leonardo . Kommersant reports this. The value of Sirena-Travel's assets exceeds 35 billion rubles, and the gross profit is 8.5 billion rubles, the publication writes.

The Samara department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” against the editor of “Mediazona” Dmitry Treshchanin. A copy of the resolution is at the disposal of Mediazona. Investigator Andrei Larionov indicated that in April 2025, Treshchanin was fined 30 thousand rubles under a protocol on publications without a “foreign agent” label, which was drawn up due to a voice message in his Telegram channel.

In the Amur Region, a Robinson R44 helicopter with police and investigative officers, who were returning from the scene of the death of a worker at logging sites, disappeared from radar. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, a criminal case has been opened under an article on violation of safety rules for the operation of transport, which resulted in the death of several people.

Part of the exhibition. Photo: Telegram channel of the Gulag History Museum The site of the former Gulag History Museum in Moscow, which was shut down by authorities in November 2024, will soon host a “Museum of Memory”. According to the museum’s website, the new institution will abandon the topic of Soviet state terror and instead be dedicated to the “genocide of the Soviet people” and Nazi war crimes. The Moscow mayor’s office announced that the new museum is slated to open in 2026.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov and Aidar battalions accused in terrorism cases. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Among those sentenced were 43-year-old Taras Koshman, 46-year-old Nikolai Salo, 42-year-old Oleg Pavlenko and 36-year-old Artem Kushakov.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced lawyer Nikolai Polozov to eight and a half years in prison under the article on military fakes. SOTAvision reports this with reference to Polozov’s defense lawyer in court, Ivan Tamarov. The prosecution asked Polozova for nine years in prison, while the defendant’s lawyer asked the court to acquit his client.

The Leninsky District Court of Kursk sentenced the defendants in the case of the theft of 152.8 million rubles during the construction of fortifications in border areas to terms of seven to nine years in prison. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of the Kursk region.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced 34-year-old Sochi resident Frederick Norman Du Bois to 11 years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of participating in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.

Frederic Du Bois. Photo: social networks The Southern District Military Court sentenced 34-year-old Sochi resident Frederick Norman Du Bois to 11 years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of participating in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the list of “foreign agents”. It included political scientist Alexander Kynev and journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky. Also added to the register were journalist Auren Khabichev, exiled official Alexei Cheremushkin and the international non-profit organization European Youth Forum . Alexander Kynev is a political scientist who specializes in analyzing the structure of power in the constituent entities of Russia.

A 19-year-old Voronezh university student was detained in connection with the arson of a UAZ Patriot police SUV near the building of the Orenburg department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 4 on the night of February 20, the press service of the federal department reported . The student was accused of committing a terrorist attack (205 of the Criminal Code).

Russian billionaire Leonid Mikhelson's Novatek company is in talks about the possible use of its technology to liquefy natural gas in Alaska, the New York Times writes . According to the publication, in the fall of 2025, an investor from Texas, Gentry Beach, secretly entered into an agreement to develop a natural gas field in Alaska with a Russian company. According to him, the agreement was reached due to the fact that Novatek is not on the US sanctions list.

The Chita Garrison Military Court sentenced contract soldier Alexander Medvedev to a suspended sentence of 3 years and 1 month in the case of threatening to kill and detaining a person with a weapon. Mediazona drew attention to the text of the verdict dated December 9, 2025.

Judge Elina Babayants of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced former Russian officer Konstantin Efremov to 7 years in prison in absentia under the article on military “fakes,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The prosecution asked for 7.5 years in prison. “The state took measures to prevent Efremov from receiving the status of a defendant and to understand his political blindness.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow detained two people - a 19-year-old Kostroma resident and a 17-year-old resident of the capital - due to suspicions of damaging police property on the instructions of scammers. This was reported by the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. A resident of Kostroma was detained in Krivoarbatsky Lane in the capital after setting a police car on fire.