The Russian tanker Arctic Metagaz , which transports liquefied gas, caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea. Reuters and gCaptain write about this, citing sources in the shipping industry, as well as the Greek publication Naftemporiki . The exact cause of the tanker fire is unknown. The ship itself was previously included in the US and UK sanctions lists; the last time it reported its location was yesterday, when it was off the coast of Malta.

Transport police officers opened a criminal case against a 27-year-old resident of Stary Oskol for setting fire to a diesel locomotive. This was reported by MIA Media. The man is accused of committing a terrorist attack (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). The court placed him in custody. According to investigators, a resident of Stary Oskol broke a window in a diesel locomotive and set it on fire using an incendiary mixture.

The Omsk Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Bessmolin, a participant in the war in Ukraine, who escaped from a military unit, to 13 years in a maximum security colony on drug charges. The decision was announced by the press service of the court.

Karelian journalist Anna Yarovaya was detained by FSB officers in Petrozavodsk when she arrived from abroad to visit her relatives. She told the Norwegian publication Barents Observer about this. It is clarified that Yarovaya arrived in Russia on February 25 after the Barents Spektakel festival, which took place in Kirkenes, Norway. She was detained the next day when she left her parents' house in Petrozavodsk.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Nikolai Rudoy, ​​a 23-year-old resident of Odintsovo near Moscow, to three years in a general regime colony in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press service reported .

During a mass funeral for victims of an airstrike on a primary school in Minab, March 3, 2026. Photo: AP / TASS Since February 28, the United States and Israel have been launching missile and bomb attacks on Iran, citing the fact that the Islamic Republic is developing dangerous weapons (including nuclear weapons). The attacks come less than two months after widespread protests within Iran, during which the opposition campaigned for the dismantling of the ultra-conservative regime.

On February 16 and 17, the Prosecutor General's Office recognized the American University at Berkeley ( UC Berkeley ) and the Russian-American Science Association ( RASA ) as “undesirable” organizations, according to updated registry data on the Ministry of Justice website. What exactly is associated with the repressive status against the university and the association is not specified.

On February 25, the Sormovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sent 37-year-old Anton Voronin to a pre-trial detention center on charges of participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the court reported this; Mediazona drew attention to the press release.

Photo: Anton Saikhyev / Facebook A Ukrainian prisoner of war has been fined 30,000 rubles ($385) for “discrediting” the Russian military while he was held in a penal colony in Buryatia, Eastern Siberia, on terrorism charges tied to defending Ukraine.

A conscript from Kaliningrad, who did not come to the military registration and enlistment office following a summons to clarify data, was given five bans through an electronic registry, the Conscious Objector Movement (DSO) reported .

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 19-year-old Kirill Pegushin, accused of a terrorist attack due to the arson of cell phone towers, to 12 years in prison. Properm.ru reports this with reference to the press service of the court and the lawyer of the convicted person Andrei Popov. The young man must spend the first three years of his 12-year sentence in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony.

The St. Petersburg City Court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice to recognize the support group for LGBT people “Coming Out” as an “extremist association” and ban its activities in Russia, the press service of the city courts reported . The lawsuit, which was received in early February, was considered behind closed doors “due to the presence of the “Secret” stamp,” the judicial press service clarified. At the same time, a trial is underway in a St.

The Rostov Regional Court sentenced 39-year-old blogger Sergei Kaplienko to 5 years in a general regime colony in the case of distributing military “fakes” on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the appellate instance reported .

Judge of the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow Andrei Dudkin sentenced Central Bank employee A. to two years of forced labor under the article on financing “extremism,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. He was also sentenced to six months of restriction of freedom, and the court decided to seize the donation amount of 3.5 thousand rubles in favor of the state. The prosecutor's office asked the defendant for 3.5 years in prison.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced 29-year-old Kazakh citizen Artur Martynov, who had previously been sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony, to 16 years on charges of undergoing training to commit terrorist attacks and attempted terrorist attacks. By adding it up, his sentence is now 17 years in a maximum security colony, the first five of them in prison. Mediazona became aware of this.