Oral arguments are done in the case against Dmitry Tretyakov, the Primorsky Krai lawyer charged with inciting extremism online. He is the first Telegram user to be tried in Russia for the felony offense; all previous cases in Russia involving criminal charges and social-media reposts have been against VKontakte users. Tretyakov’s current arrest expires on April 4.

A new online project collects the memories of thousands of ordinary Russians Anna Kozlova Linor Goralik, a writer and journalist already known for her online innovations, has released a new media platform called PostPost.Media .

Disney has reinstated director James Gunn as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Deadline reported, citing Marvel Studios and the director's representatives. Gunn confirmed his return on Twitter. "I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported me over the past few months. I have always tried and continue to try to be the best version of myself. I thank Disney from the bottom of my heart for this decision.

Canada, following the United States and the European Union, has expanded its anti-Russian sanctions list. New sanctions are associated with the capture of Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait, the entry of Crimea into Russia and military operations in the Donbass, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said.

The anonymous Telegram channel 338 has issued a public apology to Magas Mayor Beslan Tsechoev, who recently vowed to “find and punish” the channel’s authors for a post that he deems insulting. In a post on Friday, 338 said its March 13 comments about Tsechoev were “unfounded” and expressed irresponsibly. The individual who wrote the offending post is apparently no longer an administrator for the channel.

Businessman Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit against the US Treasury and its head, Steven Mnuchin, in the District of Columbia court demanding that the sanctions imposed against him be lifted. In the lawsuit, Deripaska calls himself a victim of political infighting and backlash against Russia's alleged interference in the US presidential election. Deripaska insists that due to the actions of the US Treasury, the damage was 7.5 billion dollars.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS On March 14, the Ministry of Health and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives gathered experts to prepare a list of proposals to promote a healthy lifestyle in Russia. RBC listed the main ideas, which can then turn into the presidential instructions. Among these recommendations there are those that have shown well in many countries.

On March 15, the debate in the Spassky District Court of the Primorsky Territory in the case of lawyer Dmitry Tretyakov ended. He became the first person to be arrested under Article 280 for publicly inciting extremism for reposting on Telegram (previously, cases of reposting only concerned publications on VKontakte). The lawyer was arrested on April 4, 2018.

The US Treasury Department has added six individuals and eight Russian companies to its sanctions list related to Russia's actions in Ukraine.

The anonymous Telegram channel "338" apologized to the mayor of Magas Beslan Tsechoev, who promised to "punish" the authors of the channel for a post about himself that he considered offensive. The Telegram channel stated that the post contained "unsubstantiated accusations in a clearly negative and expressive form." Its content was not specified. The author of the post was excluded from the channel's administrators.

State prosecutors in the Krasnodar region have opened an administrative case against a district council member in Yeysk over an image he shared on Facebook. Alexander Korovainy is accused of “ carrying out the activities of an outlawed undesirable organization ” because he reposted an image created by the website MBKh Media , a news project launched by former oil tycoon, now self-styled dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. He knew how to feel the mood of the president. Who was and who became Valentin Yumashev Ilya Zhegulev tells Konstantin Benyumov about Valentina Yumashev, the closest adviser to Boris Yeltsin, who headed his administration and later married the president’s daughter. Yumashev was called the most influential person in Russia of the 1990s.

TOMAS BENEDIKOVIC / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Marian Kochner in court. June 2018 The Slovak businessman Marian Kochner was charged with the murder of journalist Jan Kutsyak and his bride Martina Kushnirova, which was committed in February 2018. This was reported on March 14 by the Police of Slovakia. The investigation considers Kochner, who is under arrest in the case of financial fraud, the customer of the crime.

Members of the European Parliament have called for sanctions against the director of the Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, Ruben Vardanyan, following an OCCRP investigation into the company's offshores. This was reported on the OCCRP website. The parliamentarians also asked to impose sanctions on Vladimir Romanov, the former owner of the Lithuanian bank Ukio, which serviced the accounts of some offshore companies associated with Troika Dialog.

Here is the poet and musician Yegor Letov. "Civil defense" And here is actor Daniel Radcliffe. It doesn't look like a summer at all, right? Erik Pendzich / Rex / Vida Press But take a look at the frames from the filming of the film “Escape from the Praetory”, where Radcliffe plays political activist Tim Jenkin. It seems to some users (as well as the KinoPoisk ) that this is a spilled Yegor Letov.