Vladimir Putin in the Yandex office, archival photo The General Director of Yandex and a member of the Board of Directors Tigran Khudardyan leaves these posts due to inclusion in the sanctions list of the European Union, the company's statement said . Khudardyan was appointed to the post of general director of the company for Russia on the eve of March 15: he took the position of Elena Bunina, who will now act as head of Yandex within a month.

An illustrative photo A resident of the Leningrad region was arrested on suspicion of trying to blow up his neighbors in a communal apartment, the Investigative Committee on the Region reports . The incident occurred in the Kirov district at the end of February. According to investigators, the suspect laid out at home a home -made explosive device with explosives based on TNT with control using a mobile phone. He himself went to St.

Destroyed by all -terrain vehicles of the Russian army on the road in Kharkov, February 28, 2022 The Investigative Committee initiated the case of "fakes" about the Russian army against a blogger and founder of the St. Petersburg media dog Veronika Belotserkovskaya. The reason was her posts on Instagram. This was reported in the department.

An illustrative photo At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor blocked another 32 portals, follows from the data on the website of the department. The blocking of the BellingCat investigation project, Ust -Kut 24, the Belarusian Euroradio, the Estonian Postimees portal, the site of fans of Kyiv Dynamo, Russian -speaking Israeli media and others fell under the block. The list of blocked also included the publication "Caucasian Knot".

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin is called the "National Districters" of those who are guided by the Western lifestyle. According to the head of state, the “West” makes a bet on such citizens. To people who just spend money abroad he has no questions. Speaking at a meeting on measures of socio -economic support of the regions, Putin again criticized the “West”, saying that he was trying to “cancel” Russia.

Anti -war action in St. Petersburg, Archive photo The head of the St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs Roman Plugin at a meeting of the city parliament stated that people with "empty heads" and "flashed brains" come to the city’s protests, which "just to yell slogans." Rotonda drew attention to the performance of the city police head.

Arbitration courts in some regions of Russia were subjected to cyberataka on Wednesday, March 16. Unknowns posted on references calls for the impeachment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as for the release of political prisoners. Later, sites of arbitration St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Pskov regions and other regions ceased to open. At the same time, the site of the St. Petersburg court at the time of the cyber attack continued to work.

Tarshis D. and Primakov E. at the official ceremony of Russia entering the Council of Europe, 1996 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to exclude Russia from the organization. The solution is valid immediately, according to their website. Earlier, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommends excluding Russia to the Committee of Ministers. 216 delegates voted "for", delegates from Poland, Germany and Bulgaria abstained.

An illustrative photo. During the march "There is no surrender!" In Kharkov, October 14, 2019 59-year-old Olga Nedvetskaya was detained by the police for singing Ukrainian folk songs in the center of Kaliningrad. At first she was charged with petty hooliganism, and then for a month she was placed in a psychiatric hospital. Olga actively opposed military operations in Ukraine and went to protest shares , her relatives told the North. Reali correspondent.

Latin letters Z and V, which were seen on Russian military equipment since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, have become almost the official symbols of this so -called "special operation". Expressing support to the Russian military, participants in the flash mobs are built in the form Z, this letter is drawn on cars and by public transport, on billboards and on T -shirts. The letter Z was also used to intimidate those who do not support the war.

Lawyer Ivan Pavlov The Council of the Bar Chamber of St. Petersburg decided to suspend the status of lawyer Ivan Pavlov, he said in his telegram channel. The formal reason for the suspension of status - Pavlov allegedly was not able to fulfill his professional duties for more than six months. “I am sure my clients will be very surprised when they hear this wording,” the lawyer commented on the decision.

Editor -in -chief of "Novaya Gazeta" Dmitry Muratov "New Gazeta" again began to publish texts and news about the Russian military in Ukraine. The publication on March 4 was one of the first to refuse the texts on military topics due to threats to criminal prosecution and military censorship. "Novaya Gazeta" had to remove already released materials about hostilities in Ukraine and stop the news feed.