The deputy of the Samara Regional Duma from the Communist Party Mikhail Abdalkin was criticized from the party leadership after the appearance of the video in which he watches the message of Vladimir Putin with the federal assembly with pasta on his ears. Abdalkin himself published a video on personal pages on social networks, noting that he watched a message at the request of the leadership of the Communist Party faction in the regional Duma.

As Wagner Group edges towards enveloping Bakhmut, Russia’s regular army risks getting bogged down near Kreminna. Here’s an updated map of the combat situation. Meduza Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding Russia responsible for its military aggression and atrocities.

The commander of the 1st battalion of the Azov regiment, Oleg Mudrak, who took part in the defense of Azovstal in Mariupol and spent several months in Russian captivity, has died. The military nephew Daniil wrote about this on Instagram. As Channel 24 clarifies , the cause of death of 35-year-old Mudrak was cardiac arrest. “Medusa” in Russia is now not only a “foreign agent”, but also an “undesirable” organization. This status is much worse than before. Nevertheless, we continue to work.

Medusa visited a rally concert in Luzhniki. This is how the Russian authorities celebrated the anniversary of the beginning of the war with Ukraine Avtozaklive In Moscow on February 22-on the eve of the Defender of the Fatherland Day and two days before the anniversary of the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine-at the Luzhniki stadium, the “patriotic” rally of the “Glory to the Defenders of the Fatherland!”, Organized by the Russian authorities, was held .

Current and former municipal deputies and human rights activists demanded that the Russian authorities provide residents of the country with the constitutionally guaranteed right to refuse military service for religious and ethical reasons. The letter was posted on the website of the “Spring” movement.

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, accused of spreading “fake news” and treason, was placed in a punishment cell in the Moscow Vodnik pre-trial detention center. His lawyer Vadim Prokhorov told Dozhd about this. The reason for being sent to the punishment cell was that Kara-Murza “was lying on a bunk after getting up.” The politician will have to spend four days in a punishment cell. “Medusa” in Russia is now not only a “foreign agent”, but also an “undesirable” organization.

In 2022, Russians submitted twice as many applications for asylum in the European Union as a year earlier, according to preliminary calculations by the EU Migration Agency. In total, in 2022, the EU received almost 17 thousand asylum applications from Russians: 13.6 thousand initial applications and 3.3 thousand repeated ones. In 2021, 4.6 thousand initial and 2.6 thousand repeat applications were received from Russians. In total, the EU received almost a million asylum applications in 2022.

The Russian State Duma has adopted in the second and third readings an amendment that gives the government the right, at its own discretion, to suspend the provision and dissemination of official statistical information in Russia. The document was published on the website of the legislative support system.

YouTube has blocked the channels of bloggers Artemy Lebedev and Dmitry Ivanov (Kamikaze Di). The reasons for the blocking are unclear. When you try to enter the channels, it says that they are "blocked for violating YouTube's terms of use." Lebedev's channel had over 1.1 million subscribers, Kamikaze Dee had over 1.7 million. Kamikaze Di was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia in September 2022.

The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill on transferring the regions of Ukraine annexed in 2022 to the Moscow time zone. As stated in the explanatory note to the document, in these territories “Moscow time is already in effect.” Russia does not fully control any of the Ukrainian regions it announced its annexation of in September. The entire territory of Ukraine is in one time zone. In summer, the time there coincides with Moscow, in winter - it is an hour behind Moscow.

Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has published a photo of several dozen dead mercenaries. Prigozhin himself explains that all of them were killed on February 21, and that their deaths could have been avoided if not for the scarcity of ammunition supplied by the Defense Ministry. In an interview to the self-styled “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky, Prigozhin said the daily death toll could have been a fifth of the actual number of mercenaries killed due to poor supply.

The Estonian parliament has passed a law that allows only those foreigners living in the country who are citizens of EU or NATO states to own firearms. Previously, any foreigner with a residence permit in Estonia could obtain a weapons permit. Thus, now citizens of the Russian Federation living in the country will not be able to own weapons. Previously issued licenses will be valid for one year after the law comes into force.

Chronicle of the first day of the Russian invasion - through the eyes of the Ukrainian border guard, with whom the journalists of the publication Babel spoke On February 24, 2022, at about 5:30 a.m. Moscow time, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he announced the beginning of a “ special military operation ”, was broadcast on the air of Russian television channels. But even before this statement, units of the Russian army began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.

In Moscow, after a search, transgender activist Katerina Myers was detained (before her transgender transition, she was FSB captain Alexander Chumakov). This was reported by TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak , the Republic publication and the Dozhd TV channel, citing friends of the detainee. According to the journalists' interlocutors, police officers came to Myers' apartment early in the morning.

A man suspected of setting a hotel on fire in Moscow, which led to the death of seven people, has been detained. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. The Investigative Committee did not provide any details about the identity of the detainee, only noting that he is a native of the Belgorod region.