The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala fined a local resident 40 thousand rubles for failing to report a crime under a terrorist article. Mediazona drew attention to the text of the verdict dated February 4, 2026.

Two residents of the Belgorod region died due to attacks by Ukrainian drones, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. In the village of Semyiy, Rakityansky district, a kamikaze drone attacked a motorcycle, which killed an 18-year-old boy. In Grayvoron, a drone hit a car, killing a woman. The Ashes Belgorod telegram channel clarifies that after the impact the car caught fire, and the victim burned alive in it.

In the Kaliningrad region, the Guryevsky District Court in December 2025 sentenced a man named Kazanovsky to four months in a general regime colony in the case of financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the text of the verdict. A Kaliningrad resident was accused of transferring 300 rubles to the account of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK).

Photo: Mediazona A 39-year-old Russian man is facing a possible life sentence after making four donations worth a combined $27.17 to a political blogger through DonationAlerts, the most widely used tip service for streamers across Russia and the former Soviet states. Court proceedings revealed that the platform’s payment infrastructure provided investigators with detailed transaction records, including the donor’s IP address and email, that now form the evidence in a “terrorism”-financing case.

The Pushkin City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced film critic Ekaterina Barabash in absentia to 5 years in a general regime colony in the case of distributing military “fakes,” she reported on her Facebook. The case against Barabash was opened in February 2025. She was charged with four Facebook posts in 2022 and 2023. During the investigation, the film critic was placed under house arrest.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 41-year-old resident of the Moscow region Vadim Alekseevsky, accused of participating in a terrorist organization - the Freedom of Russia Legion, to 12 years in prison and a fine of 200 thousand rubles. The press service of the court reported this. The court stated that Alekseevsky was born in Kyiv and worked in the Moscow region as a specialist in servicing cash register equipment.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian schoolchildren have made at least 57 types of equipment for the front during labor lessons. This is reported by Vestkaya journalists, who, together with the “Not the Norm” project, studied public publications on VKontakte of more than 30 thousand educational institutions. In total, more than 50 million posts posted up to and including January 2026 were analyzed.

The DonationAlerts service transmits data to Russian security forces for monetizing streams. This “Mediazone” became known from the materials of the case about donations to the founder of “Artpodgotovka”, Vyacheslav Maltsev, announced in court. Today, March 25, the 2nd Western District Military Court began to consider the criminal case of 39-year-old Lyubertsy resident Andrei Khoroshko.

The Sovetsky District Court of Astrakhan sent to pre-trial detention a resident of the region suspected of participation in an “extremist” organization - a non-existent “LGBT movement”. The decision was announced by the press service of the court.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk fined the Gramota company, which sells books through the Read-Gorod network, 800 thousand rubles under the article on “LGBT propaganda.” This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of Udmurtia. The protocol was drawn up regarding the distribution of a book with information “aimed at the formation of non-traditional sexual attitudes” on December 10, 2025, the statement said.

The Second Western District Military Court began considering the case against 39-year-old equipment repairman Andrei Khoroshko, accused of participating in a terrorist organization and financing terrorism, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. According to the indictment, Khoroshko wrote to Vyacheslav Maltsev in a telegram on the evening of July 29, 2024: “Hello, Uncle Slava, I have been with you since 2014, I live in Lyubertsy. Is there a task for me?

The Sovetsky District Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra sentenced to six months of restriction of freedom a security guard at a gymnasium in the city of Sovetsky, where a schoolboy came with a weapon in early February. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. An employee of a private security company was found guilty of providing services that did not meet security requirements.

Moscow police officers, whom city resident Daniil Devyatkin accused of beating him at the police department, claim that he inflicted injuries on himself. According to the Team Against Torture, the investigation into the complaint about the use of force has been going on for a year and a half, during which time the police have put forward several versions of what happened. First, the police accused the man of inappropriate behavior, then of insulting the police and causing injury to himself.

The Ministry of Digital Development plans to increase the throughput of technical means of countering threats (TSPU) by 2.5 times by 2030. Kommersant writes about this. TSPU is special equipment that is installed on operator networks. It is used to block and slow down traffic as part of the “sovereign internet” law. According to the plan of officials from the Ministry of Digital Development, by 2030 the throughput of TSPU should increase to 954 Tbit/s.

Police officers detained a resident of Taganrog, suspected of administering a platform for trading personal data databases. This was reported by official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. Security forces call the detainee “the administrator of one of the largest international hacker platforms,” through which stolen personal data was traded for four years.