On February 26, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Yekaterinburg sent a 16-year-old college student from Tajikistan to a pre-trial detention center on charges of attempted terrorist attack, the court’s press service reported on March 2. According to investigators, in the period from February 10 to 24, a student, for a reward from the “curator,” set fire to the power supply point of the railway contact network at the Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochny station and at the Palkino section of the stage.

The Barnaul mayor's office refused to allow the Altai branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to hold a rally against political repression and blocking on the Internet on March 9, the party itself reported .

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ulan-Ude fined convicted Azov fighter Anton Saykhiev, who is serving his sentence in the Buryat penal colony-8, 30 thousand rubles under a protocol on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the text of the decision dated February 25.

Frame: @sledcom_press / Telegram Telephone scammers from Ukraine have been scamming Russians out of money since at least 2014, but since the outbreak of all-out war they have found a new use for their skills. By the beginning of 2025, deceived people launched at least 200 attacks on military registration and enlistment offices, police departments, polling stations and administrative buildings, confident that they were helping Russian security forces.

AST Publishing House is withdrawing from sale 14 books published in the imprint “Edited by Elena Shubina”. This was reported by the literary telegram channel “Words Beyond Myself”. In particular, the novel “Wyvern Gardens” by Yuri Buida and the collection of essays by Alexander Genis “The Skin of Time. Book of Changes”, as well as five books by the writer Denis Dragunsky.

Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / TASS In 2025, Russian banks processed 244,000 loan deferrals (credit holidays) for citizens deployed to the war in Ukraine and their families. These figures from the Central Bank, reviewed by Mediazona, provide unique insight into the ongoing recruitment efforts of the Russian military.

Former investors of the Yukos company were allowed to seek enforcement in the UK of a Dutch arbitration court decision, which implies payment of $65 billion to them by Russia. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the decision of the High Court of London. A group of shareholders that previously owned a controlling stake in Yukos sought the right to recover compensation through Russian state-owned business assets in the UK. The decision was made by London High Court Judge Robert Bright.

Judge Marina Kasatkina sentenced political scientist Ekaterina Shulman to a year in prison in absentia for failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent,” reports a Mediazona correspondent from the court district of Magistrate No. 384 in Moscow. She was also given a three-year ban on website administration.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined the online publication “E1.RU Ekaterinburg Online” 40 thousand rubles. According to the press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region, the decision was made under the administrative article on the mention of a “foreign agent” without indicating his status. “Information about foreign agents” was presented in the editorial material, as specified in the press release.

In 2025, Russian banks issued 244 thousand credit holidays for Russians who went to war and members of their families. Mediazona drew attention to the latest statistics from the Central Bank. The third quarter of 2025 became a record (69 thousand) for the entire period of the preferential program, which was launched after the announcement of mobilization in September 2022. At the end of the year, the number of new credit holidays fell only slightly - to 62.5 thousand.

The Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case of the theft of money from the Ministry of Defense during the construction of the Don-Donbass water pipeline, which was supposed to provide water to annexed Donetsk. According to Kommersant, the damage in the case is estimated at 533 million rubles. The case was opened in October 2025 after an inspection conducted by the FSB.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nizhny Novgorod Region found no violations in the actions of the police, who, without explanation, pushed a resident of Nizhny Novgorod into a car, confusing her with a criminal. Team Against Torture reports this. In December 2025, 31-year-old Vera Rumyantseva was approached on the street by men in civilian clothes. They did not introduce themselves and called her by a different name.

The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined a Russian citizen 50 thousand rubles, against whom a report was drawn up for “discrediting” the Russian army because of shouts in the subway. Mediazona drew attention to the court’s decision . The resolution states that on February 24, the anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a man rode along an escalator at the Prospekt Bolshevikov metro station in St.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Anti-War Committee of Russia ( Russian antiwar committee , UK) as a terrorist organization and banned its activities in the country. This is stated in a press release on the court's website. The court considered that the goals and actions of the committee “are aimed at promoting, justifying and supporting terrorism,” and also clarified that the organization is headed by “foreign agent” Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Judge Irina Gorbulina sentenced 56-year-old ex-Central Bank employee Alexei Buchnev to three years in prison on charges of financing “extremism.” This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow. Buchnev was taken into custody in the courtroom. Prosecutor Elizaveta Shilkina asked the man for 3.5 years in prison. She named partial admission of guilt and Buchnev’s participation in charity as mitigating circumstances.