The United States, as part of measures to strengthen cybersecurity, imposed sanctions against four people and three organizations “associated with Russia.” The country's Ministry of Justice reports this. Three Russians were subject to restrictions - Oleg Kucherov, Marina Vasanovich, Sergey Zelenyuk, a citizen of Uzbekistan Azizjon Mamashoev, as well as the companies Advance Security Solutions , Matrix and Operation Zero .

Two people died in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region as a result of a Russian attack. This was announced by the head of the region, Alexander Ganzha. Five more people, according to the official, received moderate injuries. Among them are four men aged 71, 69, 59 and 47 years old, as well as a 21-year-old girl. In the attacked Sinelnikovsky district, private houses were damaged, Ganzha adds.

In Pskov, a 16-year-old girl was detained in the case of aiding a seventh-grader who came to school with a knife and wounded a peer in the Perm region. The Investigative Committee reports this. Last Thursday , February 19, a 13-year-old teenager stabbed another schoolboy several times in Aleksandrovsk, a city located near Berezniki. The victim was hospitalized in serious condition. The attacker was neutralized and the school teacher was handed over to the security forces.

The founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov commented on reports of his criminal prosecution in Russia. On the night of February 24, notes that Durov’s actions were being investigated by the FSB under the article of “promoting terrorism” almost simultaneously appeared on the websites of Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to “FSB materials.” The intelligence service itself did not officially confirm this.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 25-year-old Anastasia Donova to 18 years in prison in the case of spying on high-ranking military officers in Rostov-on-Don and preparing an assassination attempt, Mediazona learned. The prosecutor requested 19 years in prison for her. The girl was charged with preparing to make an explosive device, storing explosives, preparing for a terrorist attack and treason.

Former deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, Mikhail Smirnov, died in the war in Ukraine as a result of a kamikaze drone attack. As Fontanka clarifies , he previously admitted to a series of serious crimes, including the murder of journalist Maxim Maximov. According to the publication, Smirnov died about a week ago on the border of the Belgorod and Kharkov regions during the offensive of the Russian army.

A court in Chelyabinsk sentenced a transwoman who was tried for publishing intimate photographs to four years in prison in a men's colony. This was reported by “7x7” and “Caution, News” with reference to the girl’s defender. She was previously sentenced to five years probation, but the decision was overturned and the case was sent for review.

The Yegoryevsk City Court of the Moscow Region sent to a pre-trial detention center a man accused of justifying terrorism because of a comment on VKontakte. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, on November 14, 2024, a resident of the Moscow region left in the group “Crimea 24 | News of Crimea and Sevastopol" commentary with a "positive assessment" of the explosion that occurred the day before.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office approved an indictment in a criminal case against a 20-year-old local resident. According to the department's press service, he is charged with promoting terrorism, attempted terrorism, participation in the activities of a terrorist organization and treason.

A criminal case was opened against three employees of the patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nazran for abuse of power for beating a detainee. This was reported by the Ingush department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on January 10, police stopped a car to check documents at the intersection of Gairbek-Khadzhi and Nasyr-Kortskaya streets in Nazran.

The First Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Saratov recognized the legality of the decision to deny Alexei Navalny’s mother Lyudmila’s claim against the Federal Penitentiary Service due to the inaction of doctors before the death of the politician. The press service of the court reported this. Alexey Navalny died on February 16, 2024 in a cell in correctional colony No. 3 “Polar Wolf” in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Prosecutors Natalya Tsepkalo and Nadezhda Mariinskaya ask that the defendants in the Viasna case be sentenced to 8 to 13 years in prison. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the hall of the St. Petersburg City Court.

The UN Human Rights Committee took urgent measures in the case of a Russian from Chechnya, Mansur Movlaev, obliging the Kazakh authorities to refrain from extraditing him until they consider the merits of the complaint in his case. Lawyer Vadim Drozdov reported this to Mediazona, who also provided a letter from the organization. The committee's decision was made on February 23 on Drozdov's complaint in the interests of Movlaev.

On February 20, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow imposed 15 days of administrative arrest on the head of the Gulag-info project, Denis Soldatov, against whom a protocol was drawn up for demonstrating prohibited symbols. The decision was published on the website of the Moscow courts.

In the Primorsky Territory, FSB officers detained a man born in 1984, who is suspected of transferring information about the region’s infrastructure to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. In the telegram channel of the anti-terrorism commission of the Primorsky Territory, they clarify that the detainee is a suspect in a case of high treason.