The charges against Oleg Mironov, an activist of the unregistered Other Russia party, have been toughened, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky said on Twitter. As he explained to TASS, the investigators changed the charge of “hooliganism” from part 1 to part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, according to which the crime was committed by a group of people. In addition, under part 1, the maximum penalty is 5 years in prison, and under part 2, 7 years in prison.

The US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on the leader of the terrorist group "Caucasus Emirate" Aliaskhab Kebekov. Relevant information is posted on the agency's website. The sanctions include a ban on entry into the United States and the seizure of assets in the state. The date of the decision is not indicated in the message of the Ministry of Finance.

The second black box of the crashed Airbus A-320 aircraft of the Germanwings airline has been found in France, according to a tweet from the aviation site AirLive. The flight recorder is badly damaged and is missing a memory chip. As for the first "black box", the experts managed to remove sound data from it. According to experts, decryption of the data could take weeks. The last entry was quite ordinary, reports the BBC, citing a source.

In Minsk, the police detained two people at an opposition rally timed to coincide with Freedom Day, reports . the Belarusian human rights center Viasna Near the Yakub Kolas Square metro station, law enforcement officers detained Eduard Lobov, whom Charter-97 calls a former political prisoner. The second detainee is activist Timur Sidoruk. According to human rights activists, he was detained in Bangalore Square for refusing to roll up the flag.

Dave Grohl wants to make a sequel to his documentary Recorded at eight studios across America, Foo Fighters' latest album to date, Sonic Highways, has been complemented by a documentary of the same name that tells the history of each studio. The film premiered in October last year. According to Grohl, now is the time to turn to the history of music studios located in the UK. “This movie should have a sequel, simply because there are so many legendary studios in the UK.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded guards ranks to three military units for heroism in combat operations, according to the official portal of legal information. Putin gave this name to the 83rd and 11th separate air assault brigades and the 38th separate communications regiment.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil has canceled a fine for Elena Klimova, the founder of the project to help teenagers with non-traditional sexual orientation Children-404, writes Vecherniye Vedomosti, citing the press service of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. Klimova wrote on her VKontakte page that an expert appointed by the court did not see propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors in her actions.

Anti-fascist Alexey Sutuga was transferred to the punishment cell of correctional colony No. 14 in Angarsk, Irkutsk region, Mediazona reports with reference to Svyatoslav Khromenkov, a member of the POC of the Irkutsk region. According to Khromenkov, the colony staff found a shiv on Sutuga, although before the transfer his bag was searched and X-rayed. The anti-fascist will stay in the punishment cell for seven days.

The President of Russia signed a decree on the spring conscription for military service, according to the Kremlin website. The spring conscription will be held from April 1 to July 15, 2015. It is expected that more than 150 thousand people will receive summons. The President also instructed to release from service soldiers, sailors, sergeants and foremen whose term of service on conscription has expired.

Information about the reduction of the debt of Konstantin Malofeev to VTB from 596 to 100 million dollars is not true, the bank's press service told Novaya Gazeta. “VTB officially declares that information about a significant discount provided in the course of settling the debts of Marshall Capital Partners, reported by a number of media outlets, is absolutely untrue,” the credit institution said in a statement.

Deputy Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow Pavel Pyatnitsky asked to expel Elena Masyuk from the PMC. The relevant document is at the disposal of Novaya Gazeta. In particular, Pyatnitsky asked the Moscow prosecutor's office to submit to the Council of the Public Chamber a proposal to exclude Masyuk from the commission.

One of the leaders of the Anti-Maidan movement, the president of the Night Wolves motorcycle club, biker Alexander Zaldostanov (Surgeon), in an interview with the British The Telegraph, spoke about the decisive role of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the conflict between the club and the Moscow mayor's office.

Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zorian Shkiryak has been appointed acting head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, reports . Interfax “We deliberately took this step because we wanted civilian control over this process,” Interior Minister Arsen Avakov commented on the appointment. According to him, Shkiryak will act as the head of the State Emergency Service during the time that the investigation of corruption schemes in the department is underway.

The head of the investment fund Marshall Capital Partners, Konstantin Malofeev, settled the conflict with VTB over a loan of $225 million, returning $100 million, Kommersant writes , citing a source and a representative of the entrepreneur. The terms of the businessman’s settlement agreement with VTB were agreed upon on January 21. Malofeev's total debt was about $596 million - an overdue debt of 225 million plus 371 million in interest and penalties for overdue debt.

Ella Pamfilova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, will revise the list of non-profit organizations recognized as foreign agents, reports . Interfax At a press conference on Wednesday, Pamfilova said that she was going to analyze the list of NPOs-foreign agents in order to show the arguments on which organizations were included in the list, and most importantly, exclude organizations that were unreasonably included in the list.