Russia plans to expand its territorial waters near the borders with Finland, Estonia and Lithuania in the Baltic Sea, follows from the draft government. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Defense. A change in the border in the Baltiysk, Zelenogradsk and in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland will allow the use of the relevant water area as the internal sea waters of Russia, the document says.

Meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation The State Duma deputies adopted immediately in the second and third final reading a bill , which will allow the accused to “involve minors in criminal activity” up to 8 years in prison. This was announced by the head of the Committee of the Chamber of Youth Policy, Artem Metelev ("United Russia"). “The war is being waged against our country, including informational.

The ambassadors of the European Union in Brussels agreed on the introduction of a new category of sanctions - they will be directed against persons involved in human rights violations in Russia. This sanctions regime was informally named after the Russian opposition politician, who died in the colony, Alexei Navalny. This is stated in the EU document, which is at the disposal of Radio Liberty.

Oleg Mukhin The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the city defender Oleg Mukhin guilty of organizing an unauthorized rally and fined it 25 thousand rubles. The reason for the administrative punishment under the “rally” article of the Code of Administrative Offenses was the action of Mukhin on November 7, 2023 in defense of the house of Schröder - the now demolished historical building of the 18th century.

Daria Kozyreva The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg decided to extend the preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to the activist Daria Kozyreva. Her "crime" consists in the fact that at the end of February she hung a poster with an excerpt from his poem on a pedestal of the monument to Taras Shevchenko. The 18-year-old activist was accused of repeated "discredit" of the Russian army.

From 2018 to 2023, 170 decisions were published on the websites of Russian courts to send the defendants for forced treatment under repressive articles (“extremism”, “justification of terrorism”, “discrediting” and “fakes” about the army, calls for sanctions against Russia, etc.). The courts issued more than half of these decisions after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Anatoly Maslov in court The court on Tuesday in St. Petersburg sentenced the 77-year-old scientist Anatoly Maslov to 14 years in a maximum security colony. Judge of the City Court Irina Furmanova found him guilty in the case of Gosizman. According to the prosecution, in 2014, the physicist allegedly transferred data on closed scientific developments to representatives of Germany intelligence. Maslov himself did not plead guilty.

A group of 30 State Duma deputies from the Party of Communists, led by the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, submitted a bill to the chamber that provides for the creation of a new permanent authority in Russia. The Constitutional Assembly, in the event of its appearance, will receive the right to change the unchanged heads of the Basic Law by adopting a new Constitution bypassing a popular referendum. This decision cannot be challenged even in court.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg approved in the first reading a package of amendments prohibiting citizens whom the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation recognized as "foreign agents" and participate in the elections. About this writes "Business Petersburg". Amendments make amendments to the laws on the elections of the Governor of St. Petersburg, on the elections of municipal deputies and the law on the election of deputies of the Legislative Assembly.