Roskomnadzor has blocked access to the websites of all Euronews language services. About this on the publication's website. It is reported on the department's website that the site was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office on March 21. indicated The Euronews TV channel has stopped broadcasting. At the moment, the number of sites since the beginning of the “special operation” is in the dozens. blocked

Tverskoy Court in Moscow has banned the operations of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in Russia and has recognised it as an extremist organization. This decision was announced in «Novaya Gazeta.» The ban will not apply to the messenger service WhatsApp. A hearing was held at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which claimed that extremist material was disseminated on Facebook and Instagram.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow dismissed the claim of comedian Idrak Mirzalizade against the Russian Interior Ministry. The artist demanded that the ban on his entry and stay in Russia for 14 years be declared illegal. about this The "Caucasian Knot" writes with reference to the comedian's lawyer Sergei Badamshin. On August 30, 2021, Mirzalizade's stay in the country was declared undesirable for life. The reason was a performance in which he joked about Russians and shit.

The Pskov City Court recognized the searches of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva and the parents of the editor-in-chief of Pskovskaya Guberniya Denis Kamalyagin as “legal and justified.” Sever.Realii writes about this. Searches in the libel case in the houses of Kamalyagin and Prokopyeva took place on March 18. On the same day, security forces came with searches to the head of the regional branch of Yabloko, Lev Shlosberg, and other party members.

On March 17, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court rejected an appeal against the sentence of Jehovah's Witness 70-year-old Lyudmila Salikova. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. Snezhinsky City Court (Chelyabinsk Region) on January 20 sentenced her to six years probation. reports sentenced As they write on the website, in the materials of the case against Salikova there is not a single fact of the defendant committing extremist actions.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow banned Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, from operating in Russia, recognizing the organization as extremist. Novaya Gazeta is about this. The ban will not apply to the WhatsApp messenger. reports The meeting was held on the basis of a claim from the Prosecutor General's Office, which alleged that extremist materials were distributed on the social networks Facebook and Instagram.

Jehovah's Witness Maxim Beltikov, sentenced to two years in prison, was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar to colony No. 9 in the city of Khadyzhensk. About this on the website covering the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses. In January, the Pavlovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory found Beltikov guilty of participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The decision did not come into force.

In Moscow, security forces tried to serve ex-DOXA editor Natasha Tyshkevich, accused in a criminal case, with a “subpoena for an administrative case.” She herself told OVD-Info about this. People who introduced themselves as employees of the criminal investigation department came to Tyshkevich’s home. But at that time she was at a hearing on her case in the Dorogomilovsky District Court. Then the security forces went to court, but again did not find Tyshkevich - she had already returned home.

A case was opened against Kemerovo journalist Andrei Novashov for disseminating deliberately false information about the use of the RF Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason was the repost of Victoria Ivleva’s article “Mariupol. Blockade", "Network Freedoms". reported According to the project, the investigator suggested that the journalist “apologize to the armed forces.” He refused.

Human Rights Office on March 21 / Photo: Sota The unknown person’s office “For Human Rights” was written by the door of the Lev Ponomarev “for human rights” by the letters Z and V, which marked military equipment involved in the “special operation” in Ukraine. It is reported by Sota. The NTV crew came to the office. On March 16, provocateurs tried to get into the office. They applied to the front door of the inscription “Traitor Vali” and “The Enemy of Ino -Agent”.

VKontakte blocked the page of St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. The basis for the blocking was the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office dated February 24. Idrisov himself told OVD-Info about this. Previously, VKontakte in Russia hosted the public pages of the publications Meduza, Present Time, Radio Liberty and its projects, as well as groups of fans of political scientist Ekaterina Shulman.

The MVD and FSB received orders to carefully scrutinize all Ukrainian citizens living in Moscow. OVD-Info has spoken to two independent Ukrainian sources who confirmed this. Еhe law enforcement agents themselves didn’t seem to know what they were supposed to be doing with the Ukrainians. Some were offered Russian citizenship through a fast-track procedure, others had criminal charges for petty hooliganism fabricated against them.