The Vladimir Regional Court sentenced a local resident to 15 years in prison in the case of participation in a subversive community. This was reported by the press service of the court. The 35-year-old resident of the Kirzhach district must spend the first two years and six months in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

Vladimir Putin held a closed meeting with major Russian businessmen and invited them to “voluntarily chip in for the war.” The Bell reported this with reference to sources . Who exactly participated in the event is not specified. According to the journalists' interlocutors, the meeting took place today, March 26.

In the southwest of Moscow, a 15-year-old teenager set fire to an ATM. TASS reports this. The state agency's law enforcement interlocutor clarified that the arsonist probably acted "under the influence of scammers." According to REN TV , the teenager did not set fire to the ATM, but blew it up. Telegram channels Baza and 112 specify that the device was located in a Gazprombank branch. The young man was quickly detained. There is no information about casualties.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow published a ruling on the administrative case of “LGBT propaganda” (Part 3 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) against the online cinema “Smotreshka”. Mediazona found the text of the resolution on the website of the capital’s courts. The protocol was drawn up for the legal entity “Smotreshki” - Lifestream LLC. The service was punished on February 10. The reason for the administrative case was the screening of the Spanish TV series “Galgos”.

A court in Novosibirsk sent the former head of the regional department of the Russian Guard, Major General Vasily Shushakov, to a pre-trial detention center on charges of abuse of power (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the Investigative Committee reported . According to investigators, in 2024 he entered false information into the documentation on the implementation of a state contract for the supply of a structure for training and target shooting with weapons.

A criminal case was opened against ex-Kommersant journalist Vladimir Solovyov for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This is stated on the website of the Moscow courts, noted “Caution, news”. On March 25, the Savelovsky District Court of the capital arrested Solovyov in absentia.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi announced the verdict to policemen Eduard Adamyan and Tatos Harutyunyan, who were found guilty of exceeding their official powers with the use of violence and special means. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory. Adamyan and Harutyunyan were employees of the patrol service. The Investigative Committee indicated that one of them held the post of platoon commander of a separate company, and the second was his deputy.

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and subsequent death in a plane crash in the summer of 2023, his Wagner private military company fell apart. But traces of its existence can still be found—on the battlegrounds in Ukraine, where the regular army adopted the “meat-grinder” assault tactics and the practice of recruiting prison inmates as cannon fodder—and on the ground in Russia, where several cemeteries were transformed to memorialise the fighters buried there.

On March 25, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg received a protocol on drug propaganda (part 2 of Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against Svetlana Kurnosova , a candidate of art history and associate professor at the Herzen Russian Pedagogical University (RGPU), Mediazona noted.

Judges of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court in Krasnoyarsk three times refused to release 46-year-old resident of the Altai Territory Sergei Sviridov from prison due to a serious illness. He submitted such a petition in April and November 2025, as well as in March 2026, Mediazona found out.

On March 12, the Leninsky District Court of Tyumen fined Anastasia Alontseva 30 thousand rubles under the protocol of “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the text of the decision. The protocol against Tyumen was drawn up for a live video broadcast on VKontakte, where she, laughing, thought about sending her partner to the war in Ukraine in order to receive payments.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Veronica Gerasimovskaya, a blogger known by her pseudonym nickigeser , to 10 days of administrative arrest. The telegram channel “Caution, News” drew attention to the court’s decision . The girl was found guilty of inciting hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code).

The Mytishchi City Court of the Moscow Region placed a 19-year-old resident of Khimki under house arrest in the case of arson at a transformer booth. This was reported by the Moscow region department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced former lawyer Alexander Stinger to 11 years in a maximum security colony in the case of the murder of Kurgan journalist Vladimir Kirsanov, the website 74.ru reported . The second person accused of murder, businessman Ivan Kurpishev, was acquitted with the right to rehabilitation. Stinger was also accused of fraud, but he was also acquitted on this basis. Vladimir Kirsanov is the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kurganskie Vesti.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced student Maxim Kheifets to 15 days of administrative arrest, against whom a report of disobedience to a police officer was drawn up. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts. The court stated that the young man participated in “an unauthorized event against Internet blocking on Bolotnaya Square.” No other details were given there.