During a scheduled flight over Crimea, the Ministry of Defense lost contact with the An-26 military transport aircraft, Interfax , RBC and RIA Novosti write with reference to the ministry itself. According to the department, communication was lost at approximately 18:00. The Ministry of Defense claims that “there was no damaging effect on the aircraft.” “Search and rescue teams have been sent to the suspected area of ​​the incident,” Interfax quotes the ministry’s press release.

World Court District No. 12 in Bryansk fined two administrators of local telegram channels for posts about the consequences of Ukrainian attacks on the region. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. According to information on the court’s website, four protocols were drawn up against Dmitry Kondrus, and two more against Tatyana Olkhovik .

The Kalarsky District Court of the Trans-Baikal Territory decided to send to a pre-trial detention center a local resident, against whom a case was opened due to a publication in the Telegram messenger. The press service of the court announced the choice of a preventive measure. The detained man is accused of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 15-year-old teenager from Moscow for setting fire to a pump at a gas station on instructions from scammers. This was reported by the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee . The minor is accused of hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and damaging other people's property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 26-year-old electrician Pavel Burenkov to 1.5 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 .

Prisoner Nikita Zhuravel, who disappeared during transfer and was sentenced to 14 years in prison, was found in the Ulyanovsk colony. Human rights activist Eva Merkacheva reported this with reference to his mother, without specifying the number of the correctional institution. Zhuravel was transported from the pre-trial detention center in Moscow on the 20th of December, and his relatives received the last letter from him on December 24, when he was in Ulyanovsk.

On March 20, the governor of the Ryazan region, Pavel Malkov, signed a decree in which he demanded that enterprises and companies carry out “tasks for selecting candidates for military service under contract.” Legal entities with 150 to 300 employees expect two candidates, from 300 to 500 employees three candidates, and businesses with more than 500 employees expect five candidates. Recruitment runs from March 20 to September 20, 2026.

The government, at the proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, submitted to the State Duma a package of amendments to the code of administrative offenses, which significantly expands the grounds for the deportation of foreign citizens. The explanatory note says that the project introduces 58 new trains under which a foreigner can be forced to leave Russia.

Albina Yunusova. Photo: LinkedIn On March 31, RBC, a major Russian business daily, published an op-ed by Albina Yunusova, a partner at the HR firm Zarya Ventures, titled “Why returning after relocation has become a ‘red flag’ in hiring.” The text is a masterclass in euphemism: it never once mentions the war in Ukraine that drove hundreds of thousands of Russian professionals to flee the country in 2022.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Ruslan Semiletko and Alexander Sazhin behind closed doors. Both were accused of smuggling military equipment by a group of people (Part 3 of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code), and Semiletko was also accused of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona learned. The verdict was handed down on March 26.

Judge of the 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg, Sergei Krasnopevtsev, sentenced in absentia to 6 years and 1 month in prison the former coordinator of the Pskov branch of the Golos movement, Vladimir Zhilinsky, in the case of justifying terrorism and evading the duties of a “foreign agent.” Mediazona became aware of this. The prosecutor's office asked to sentence Zhilinsky to seven years in absentia.

On March 31, the 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced a minor from Khabarovsk to five years in an educational colony in the case of telephone terrorism and connections with an organization recognized as “terrorist.” In 2024, a teenager called one of the schools in Khabarovsk and reported an explosive device planted in the building, which turned out to be untrue.

Judge Timur Vakhrameev of the Basmanny District Court sentenced Nina Volokhonskaya, producer of the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel, in absentia to 5.5 years in prison on charges of participation in an extremist community, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Anti-war activist Roman Evseev, who went abroad, told how, after returning to Russia, FSB officers tried to recruit him. His story was published by the First Department. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Evseev lived in Kemerovo and worked in a chemical laboratory. In the summer of 2022, he left for Georgia.

Prosecutor Maria Kryukova requested 7 years in prison in absentia for the former coordinator of the Pskov branch of the Golos movement, Vladimir Zhilinsky, accused of justifying terrorism and evading the duties of a “foreign agent” in the 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg. Mediazona became aware of this.