Meduza special correspondent Maxim Solpov reports from Kolchugino, where Alexey Navalny was in custody until just recently Evgeniya Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The new building at Kolchugino’s Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3 After being transferred from a Moscow remand prison in late February, opposition politician Alexey Navalny was sent to a detention center known as SIZO-3 in the city of Kolchugino (Vladimir region), northeast of Moscow.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne rejected the request of the Russian Olympic Committee, which proposed using the song "Katyusha" instead of the Russian anthem at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing . "The CAS panel considers that [the concept of] 'any anthem associated with Russia' extends to any song associated with Russia or with references to it, including Katyusha," the court's decision, as quoted by the Associated Press, says.

An investor in electric car manufacturer Tesla has filed a lawsuit in the US state of Delaware against Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk and the company's board of directors, Bloomberg reports, citing a 105-page lawsuit . The lawsuit was filed over Elon Musk's "erratic" Twitter posts, which the investor believes are putting the company at risk for billions. The investor claimed that Musk's tweets violated the terms of a 2018 agreement with the U.S.

In January 2021, 16,347 people died in Moscow, which is 5,434 more than in January 2020. In February, 12,541 people died in the city, up 2,677 from the same period last year. This was announced on March 12 by the Moscow Health Department. In January, coronavirus infection became the main and concomitant cause of death in 5588 people, in February - in 3113 people. In January, covid became the main cause of death of 5038 people, in February - 2340 people.

The Investigative Committee for Chechnya has opened a criminal case under the article on justification of terrorism against former Chechen field commander Akhmed Zakayev . The website of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya reports that the case was opened because of a video recording that Zakayev published on YouTube.

A group of EU countries have come out in favor of easing entry rules for citizens of countries outside the EU, Bloomberg reports, citing diplomatic sources. Which countries made such a proposal is not specified, but the agency writes that these are states for which the tourism industry is important. Amid the start of coronavirus vaccination programs, countries have begun to offer to ease current entry restrictions in order to restore the economy.

Page of the AST54 community in VKontakte at the site of the murder of student Denis Gubarev, February 16, 2021 In Novosibirsk, a second-year second-year student of the Novosibirsk State Technical University Sofia K. , who had previously met with 26-year-old student Denis Gubarev, killed in a university in February, died. The student was found dead in her apartment on March 10, the NGS publication reports , referring to the words of one of the students of NSTU.

They have already been accused of agreement and corruption Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / Leta Rosguard employees go out to disperse the protest rally. Red Square, February 2, 2021 On March 5, 2021, an article entitled “Verification of Reality No. 4: to concentrate on the interests, not human rights in Russia” appeared on the website of the Atlantic Council expert center (Atlantic Council ” .

The Yandex company is negotiating the purchase of a small bank, Akropol, which belongs to the CEO of the Svyaznoy group, Evgeny Davydovich. It is reported by The Bell, citing four sources in the payment and banking market. The deal, according to the publication, is already at one of the final stages. The contract of sale can be signed in the next few days. The Bell does not give the amount of the deal. The assets of Acropolis amount to 1.24 billion rubles.

What is NFT and how it works. Why the police did not come to Kemerovo after receiving seven calls about the murder of a girl. Several countries immediately suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine Good evening, This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important news of the day. We begin the letter with one of the honorary heroes of the Big Top column - the "bridge of stupidity" in St. Petersburg.

Meduza talks to one of the organizers behind the March 10, 1991 opposition protest in Moscow Sergey Mamontov / TASS The rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. March 10, 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this week, on March 10, 1991, one of the biggest opposition rallies in the history of the USSR and the Russian Federation took place on Moscow’s Manezhnaya Square.

Politician Alexei Navalny has been transferred to Penal Colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov in the Vladimir Region, where he will serve his sentence . This was reported by TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The politician's lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, in turn, told the agency that the colony's employees were unable to confirm or deny the information about Navalny's transfer from the pretrial detention center to IK-2.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the Russian authorities to immediately release opposition politician Alexei Navalny and quash his conviction in the Yves Rocher case . This is stated in a decision taken at a session to monitor the execution of the most high-profile rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

In the sky above the Yakut village of Ust-Nera, a luminous object was noticed - either a meteor, or space debris burning in the sky. Here is the same object taken from a different angle. According to Mash, Ural Federal University professor Viktor Grokhovsky, who studied the Chelyabinsk meteorite, is sure that this is garbage dropped from the ISS, and not some celestial body. From the ISS on March 11, they really dropped a platform with garbage - old nickel-hydrogen batteries.

Here is the story of Vera Makarova and her two -year -old son, who faced this Archive of Vera Makarova In early March, a channel called Hnrnph2 Life appeared in Telegram. He is led by Muscovite Vera Makarova: she talks about her son Boris, who is two years and ten months. Doctors diagnosed the boy with extremely rare genetic breakdown - now he is considered the first child in Russia in violation in the HNRNPH2 gene (about 100 cases are known in the world).