In February 2024, the Russian authorities launched a series of cyberattacks against Meduza more intense than any we’ve ever faced. The assault began around the time of Alexey Navalny’s death — about a month before Russia’s upcoming presidential election . Meduza has faced similar attacks before, of course; we’ve been dealing with them for practically our entire existence, and they became especially intense after the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

Unfinished stations of the mothballed metro in Omsk were taken under protection. The authorities explained this by the need, among other things, to prevent city residents from canoeing through the tunnels, Omsk-inform writes. Security at the flooded Zarechnaya and Kristall stations appeared on March 1.

Russian opposition figures on the controversial ‘Noon Against Putin’ election protest strategy Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images On March 15–17, Russians will head to the polls for yet another election whose winner is known in advance. Despite the predetermined outcome, St. Petersburg opposition politician Maxim Reznik has come up with a protest strategy that he says will show voters they’re not alone in opposing Putin.

Japanese judge Tomoko Akane, who a year ago issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has become president of the International Criminal Court. This is reported on the organization's website. Akane was elected following a vote of court members on March 11. Her term of office will be three years. Together with Akane, her deputies were elected, who were Rosario Aitala from Italy and Rein Alapini-Gansu from Benin.

Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft law to the State Duma that would annul the Soviet Union’s 1954 decision to transfer control of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR.

The Moscow Region Arbitration Court has seized the property of one of the structures of the IKEA furniture concern. This was reported by Interfax, citing the court's card index. The seizure of the property of OOO Torg in the amount of 12.9 billion rubles was imposed as a security measure based on a claim by the interregional inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma to invalidate the decision to transfer Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. The corresponding document has appeared in the database of the lower house of parliament.

Russia produces approximately three times more shells than Europe and the United States for Ukraine combined. These estimates are given by CNN. According to NATO intelligence data, Russia produces 250 thousand shells every month - that is, about three million a year. In turn, the West, a senior European intelligence official told CNN, together can only produce 1.2 million shells for Ukraine annually.

Residents of the country opposed the expansion of the concept of family - and against the Constitution to remove the clause on the duties of a woman around the house Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Plot for voting in Dublin. March 8, 2024 In Ireland, on March 8, a referendum was held on the revision of the provisions of the Constitution, which relate to the marriage and role of a woman in the family. Most of those who came to vote opposed the changes.

Simultaneously with the murder of Navalny and a month before the presidential elections In February and March 2024, Russian authorities launched an unprecedented attack on Meduza's infrastructure. The pressure intensified simultaneously with the murder of Alexei Navalny and a few weeks before the Russian presidential election. Of course, Meduza was attacked before—almost throughout our entire history, and especially actively after the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.

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A district court in the Chernihiv region has sentenced 15 Russian servicemen in absentia to 12 years in prison in a case of violation of the laws and customs of war committed by a group of people, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports. According to the investigation, during the occupation of the village of Yagodnoye, Russian soldiers forcibly held local residents in the basement of the school from March 3 to March 31, 2022.

The Deputy Minister of Defense, responsible for the material and technical support of the troops, was appointed Lieutenant General Andrei Bulyga. The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported the relevant presidential decree. Earlier, Bulyga oversaw the material and technical support in the Western Military District, also in the status of the deputy commander.

In Minsk, screenings of two films by Alexander Sokurov, which were to be presented by the director himself, have been cancelled. This was reported on the page of the Falcon Club cinema, where the screenings were to take place. The events have been cancelled "for technical reasons". No further details have been provided. The screenings were to take place from March 11 to 13.

AP journalists talked with the Ukrainian military about how the battle for Avdeevka developed Madeleine Kelly / Zuma Press Wire / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian BMP troops in the vicinity of Avdeevka. February 17, 2024 In mid -February, Russian troops captured Avdeevka - a city in the Donetsk region, acting as an important fortified APU. Since the fall of 2023, fierce battles went for him.