Oleg Orlov The co-chairman of the Memorial human rights center, Oleg Orlov, who was recently sentenced to a real term of imprisonment under the article on so-called discrediting the army for an anti-war publication, was asked in a Moscow pre-trial detention center to sign a consent to participate in the so-called special military operation. This is how the Russian authorities call the war in Ukraine.

An illustrative photo As a result of the exchange, the bodies of 100 dead military were returned to Ukraine, the Ukrainian coordination headquarters said on the treatment of prisoners of war. The Russian side was handed over to 69 bodies of the dead soldiers, RBC was told by State Duma deputy Shamsael Saraliev. The last time the exchange of bodies of the dead military took place on February 16. Then Ukraine returned the bodies of 58 dead, and Russia - 61 deceased.

Tigers in the wild A two -year Tiger Roy died in a large Moscow circus: he could not withstand anesthesia after a wound. This was told by Circus CEO - the trainer Edgard Zapashny. According to Zapashny, recently Roy had a “small fight” with another tiger - and he bit his paw. The wounds healed poorly, and experts decided to introduce a swarm into a medical sleep in order to study the damage in more detail. The tiger could not stand anesthesia and died, writes Zapashny.

About ten days ago, Roskomnadzor stopped updating the unloading of the registry of prohibited sites from which Russian communication operators received information about sites that need to be blocked, and the search engines on its basis removed sites from the issuance. Kommersant drew attention to this. Experts suggest that locks are now carried out by the department itself through equipment on communication networks. A similar order complicates in particular the contesting of locks in court.

Roman Liberov The Ministry of Justice of Russia on March 15 entered the list of the so -called foreign agents of the former Kommersant correspondent, journalist Marianne Belenky, economist Igor Lipsitsa and director Roman Liberov. The list also included actor Semyon Treskunov, former policeman Oleg Kashintsev, a former deputy from Novosibirsk Svetlana Kaverzina and co -founder of the Vladimir publication “Association” Kirill Ishutin.

From March 20, Microsoft and Amazon will close access to cloud services for companies in Russia, such as Power Bi and Dynamics CRM. This was announced by RBC with reference to a source on the IT market, the information was also confirmed by the Softline group of companies. The decision was made in connection with the sanctions of the European Union, which limit the supply of software for business analytics to Russia.

Fagging, green, vodka - and this is only the first day. Observers from the Voice movement speak of multiple violations in the areas. As the first day of the presidential election takes place in Russia, we are discussing live with political scientist Nikita Savin.

Edgar Rinkevich The West should not be afraid to draw red lines for Moscow. Such a statement was made by the President of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich in the social network X. Rinkevich noted that he fully supports French President Emmanuel Macron, who recently stated that Russia should not win a war against Ukraine, and called for continuing assistance to Kyiv. "We must draw red lines for Russia and not be afraid to conduct them. Ukraine must defeat, Russia must be defeated. Russia DELENDA EST!

Information digest "Freedom time", March 15 Information digest "Freedom time", March 15 At least 14 people were killed, more than forty were wounded as a result of the next shelling of Odessa by Russian ballistic missiles; In Russia, voting in the presidential election - Zelenka in the urns, the arson of the booth, abandoned Molotov cocktail began officially; "Special conditions" - Ella Pamfilova about voting in the occupied territories; The Russian authorities are trying to force voters to come

According to the local authorities and the Russian Ministry of Defense, Belgorod was twice fired twice on Friday 15. As a result of the first shelling, two people were injured on Friday in the morning, several houses were damaged. This was announced by the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian air defense forces shot down shells issued from the territory of Ukraine from the missile system of volley fire.

The social fund of Russia corrected the data for 2023 about the record number of men who received disability. It is reported by "Mediazona". It followed from the initial publication that last year the number of men with a disability from 31 to 59 years old increased from 1.67 million and 507 thousand and amounted to 2.17 million. Attention to this was drawn by the edition of the "Labor". The published data diverge from more detailed calculations of the fund separately for each age category.

Svetlana Lishchinskaya Before Svetlana Lishchinskaya shot the documentary "Little Alien" about four generations of women in her family during the war, she worked as a director on Ukrainian television channels. Svetlana from the Russian -speaking family and was born in Mariupol. Her mother and daughter managed to go to Kyiv to a full -scale invasion. The film begins with the frames of the completely destroyed apartment of Svetlana in Mariupol.

Is Trump an artist in the world of politicians? Is Trumpism an ideology or a political tool? Trump and Putin: Is partnership possible? We discuss these and other issues with a sociologist from the University of Ratger Sergey Erofeev.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

At the beginning of the XIX century, African American Nancy Prince lived in the Russian Empire. She left notes about an exotic country and fateful events that she became a witness. The next episode of the podcast "Return address". Repeat of the program dated November 28, 2021.