Perovsky District Court of Moscow He fined the chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, Sergey Sokolov, under the article on discrediting the Russian army, the publication correspondent said . The reason was the material published by the newspaper in December. It tells about the recruitment of Russian orphans into the army to participate in the invasion of Ukraine.

Information digest "Freedom time", February 29 Information digest "Freedom time", February 29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a new successful blow to build the personnel of the Russian troops - the third in the last week; What is the reason for the appeal to Russia for help, adopted by the parliament of an unrecognized Transnistria; The message of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly as a list of election promises; The UN Security Council discussed the humanitarian situation in the gas

How is the perception of the events of those times transforms in the time of unrecognized Ichkeria and the bulging of the topic of deportation in the Kadyrovskaya Chechnya.

In the Kirov region near the village of Talitsa, traffic police officers stopped the car in which two participants in the hostilities in Ukraine were traveling. When examining a car in the trunk, the body of their colleague was found without signs of life, reports BAZA. According to media reports, the deceased is 44 -year -old Roman Shishkin from the village of Rudnichnaya. He served on the territory of Ukraine under a contract, but at some point he left the deployment of the unit and went home.

In Samara, courts began on the claims of the victims of the “Big Samara case” - on the falsification of evidence by police. Employees of the department for combating drug trafficking, which have fabricated affairs, received real terms. Now the courts cancel the sentences to those who were sitting on fabricated cases

The classic of world cinema, the Italian director Paolo Taviani died in the 93rd year of life in Rome, the ANSA agency reported on February 29. In a duet with his brother Vittorio, he shot about 20 films, including those who received the "Golden Palm Branch" of the Cannes Film Festival and the "Golden Bear" of Berlinale. The brothers were born in Tuscany in northern Italy began their careers by journalists, but from the 1960s they shot a movie.

All countries of the European Union and their NATO allies should allocate at least 0.25 percent of their GDP for military support of Ukraine annually, deputies of the European Parliament believe. Ukraine needs to provide everything that it needs to reflect Russian aggression, the EU parliament deputies said. For the corresponding resolution on Thursday, February 29, 451 European parliamentarians voted in Strasbourg, 46 people opposed, 49- abstained.

The founders of the American IT company Veeam Software Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev abandoned Russian citizenship. Forbes writes about this. Both businessmen were included in the list of "200 richest businessmen of Russia" from 2017 to 2021. According to the publication, they have left Cyprus citizenship, businessmen themselves have long been living in Russia for a long time: barons - in Switzerland, Timashev - in the USA. Baronov initiated a way out of citizenship in April 2023.

The 73rd Marine Center participated in the operation of the liberation of the island of Zmein The forces of special operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of February 29 reported the death of the group of their military from the 73rd Marine Center in battle. "Providing the withdrawal of the main forces of the group after performing a special task, the military accepted their last battle, forever remaining in the ranks," the report said.

At least dozens of people died during the crush in the north of the city of Gaza on the night of February 29. The Ministry of Health of the Sector, controlled by the Palestinian group of Hamas, recognized as a terrorist in the United States, the European Union and a number of other countries, claims that people who were waiting for the distribution of humanitarian aid were opened by Israeli military.

Donald Trump In the United States, the Supreme Court agreed to hold the hearings on the 20th of April on the question: whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from court prosecution on charges of conspiracy. The judges appointed hearings for the week on April 22 and said that the trial in the court of first instance would remain frozen. This will provide at least Trump's intermediate victory, the New York Times says .

Ritual agencies in Moscow refuse to transport the body of Alexei Navalny from morgue to church, where he should be funeral, citing anonymous threats. This was stated by former press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmysh. “At first we were not allowed to remove the funeral room for farewell to Alexei. Now, when it should just take place in the church, ritual agents tell us that not a single catafalk does not agree to take the body there,” she wrote on the social network Kh.

Vladimir Putin, collage Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly is discussed by Nikolai Petrov, Nikita Savin and Sergei Erofeev Vladimir Putin addressed a message to the Federal Assembly, but in fact, two weeks before the elections, he announced his presidential program.

"The authorities will stay to the last, and I am afraid that before her death she can arrange a bad carnival all over the world." From March 1 to March 8, the Artdoxfest. Riga Documentary Film Festival will be held in Riga. One of the films of the program is Dmitriev’s case, Jessica Gorter, telling about the Russian human rights activist, who was sentenced to 15 years in the colony.

A court in Novosibirsk found former Wagner PMC mercenary Sergei Shakhmatov guilty of raping two schoolgirls and sentenced him to 17 years in a maximum security colony, writes the Sibir.Realii website. The Novosibirsk Regional Court handed down the verdict on February 28. This was reported by the official group of courts of general jurisdiction in the region on the VKontakte social network. The defendant is not named in the press release.