The governor demanded to check the appeal about the introduction of troops into the Vologda region
On March 5, 2014, the governor of the Vologda Oblast, Oleg Kuvshinnikov, asked the regional prosecutor's office to conduct an extremism check against journalist Roman Romanenko. On March 4, 2014, Romanenko posted on his page in Facebook text stylized as an appeal to the President of Russia with a request send troops to the Vologda Oblast, whose population is suffering from devastation and needs protection of its rights and cash infusions.