The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) saw “signs of violation of advertising legislation” in the placement of advertising in the Telegram messenger. Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this. “It is not allowed to distribute advertising on information resources whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as access to which is limited,” says the FAS commentary.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow placed Deputy of the Supreme Khural of Tyva and former Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov under house arrest. RBC reported this. He was accused of creating a criminal community (Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code), embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), money laundering (Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code) and receiving a bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Defense intends to recruit 78.8 thousand people into the newly created unmanned systems troops by the end of 2026. Information about this was found in the department’s official documents by “Important Stories.” This information, as journalists write, was publicly available - it was published by a technical school in the Khabarovsk Territory and two rural settlements in the Rostov Region.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Romanian citizen Adrian-David Kercho to 15 years in a maximum security colony in a case of espionage (276 Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. According to security officials, in November 2024, the young man contacted Ukrainian intelligence, saying that he wanted to join the British Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He was offered “safe exit” from Russia in exchange for information about military installations.

The Shcherbinsky District Court of Moscow imposed administrative penalties on more than 20 foreigners under protocols of an uncoordinated mass action (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences), noted “Caution, News”.

On March 5, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow granted the petition for the re-arrest of 64-year-old politician and ex-deputy of Udmurt Glazov Andrei Edigarev in a new case - about participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found information about this on the website of the capital’s courts. The connection with which organization the politician is charged with is unknown.

The magistrate court in Moscow sentenced TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva in absentia to seven years in a general regime colony for a set of cases of violating the rules of the activities of a “foreign agent” and “justifying terrorism” on the Internet. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office. In October 2025, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow already sentenced Lazareva under the “foreign agent” article - one year and nine months of correctional labor.

The Royal Court of the Moscow Region sentenced 59-year-old resident of the region Natalya Yakimova to five years in prison under the article on “fake news” because of the reposts of Alexander Nevzorov and “Nightingale litter” on Odnoklassniki. As a SOTAvision correspondent reported from the courtroom, the woman was also banned from administering websites for three years. The court thus upheld the prosecution's demands. The defense asked for a suspended sentence.

In the Kemerovo region, a court in Kiselevsk fined junior police sergeant Ksenia Usacheva 25 thousand rubles in a criminal case for the illegal use of personal data (Part 3 of Article 272.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the text of the verdict dated January 29. Since 2023, Usacheva has worked as an assistant to the operational duty officer at the Zavodskoy police department. In particular, she was responsible for maintaining the accounting and registration system.

The magistrate of court district No. 9 of St. Petersburg sentenced the head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, Alexandra Garmazhapova, in absentia to 10 months in prison in the case of evasion of the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). Garmazhapova herself reported this to Mediazona.

Deputy of the Supreme Khural of Tyva and former First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Ruslan Tsalikov was detained in a criminal case of creating a criminal community, embezzlement and bribery, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported . According to the department, members of Tsalikov’s “community” in 2017-2024 were involved in theft of money from the budget, legalization of stolen property and bribery.

Judge of the Kirov Court of Yekaterinburg Yuri Radchuk sentenced seven members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg to terms of 10 to 22 years in a maximum security colony in the case of murders in 2001-2011, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Yaroslav Conway (Konvay), a former employee of the human rights project “First Department” and former chairman of the unregistered Libertarian Party, was added to the federal wanted list on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Mediazona drew attention to this. The pursuit of Conway has not previously been reported. The contact number on the wanted card is the number of police department No. 1 in his hometown of Omsk.

The Voronezh Garrison Military Court sentenced Major General, Deputy Commander of the Leningrad Military District Valery Muminjanov to 10 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee. Muminjanov was also deprived of his title and the right to hold “certain positions” for six years, and was also given a fine of 17.95 million rubles.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners using the 200-200 formula, the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. The Foreign Ministry and Vladimir Putin’s assistant Vladimir Medinsky, who heads the Russian delegation at the negotiations, also announced an exchange for tomorrow according to the 300-300 formula. The exchange was soon also confirmed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who posted a photo from the scene.