The platform for downloading “pirate” films, music and computer programs Rutracker will limit access to Russians even if Roskomnadzor removes the site from the register of prohibited. About this magazine Forbes said a representative of the service. According to him, Rutracker in the current situation "does not support any actions of the Russian authorities." In early March, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Megogo, online cinemas, suspended work in Russia because of the war in Ukraine.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich decided to terminate the powers of the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation and focus on educational projects. This was reported on the organization’s website. Dvorkovich has been led by the Fund since 2018. Earlier, on March 14, Dvorkovich in an interview with the American publication Mother Jones opposed the war of Russia with Ukraine and expressed support to Ukrainians.

The financial guard of Italy arrested the residential real estate of the owner of Severstal Alexei Mordashov, RIA Novosti was told in the power department. Earlier, Mordashov fell under the sanctions of the EU, which were introduced in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The order on the freezing of assets refers to the "residential complex" located in the city of Olbia on Sardinia. Its cost is 105 million euros.

The Southern District Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the five Crimean Tatars accused of involvement in the Islamic Party of Hizb Ut-Tahrir, the Ukrainian media project G'rati reports . Akim Bekirov - 14 years in a maximum security colony, the first five years in prison. After liberation - a year of restrictions. Seytabdiev Seitwells - 14 years old, five years in prison. Year of restrictions. Rustem Seytkhalilov - 14 years old, five years in prison. Year of restrictions.

The Ukrainian Internet telekanal "Gromadske" reports the abduction of its journalist. According to witnesses, Victoria Roshchina detained the FSB of Russia when she was in Berdyansk. Roshchin shot the video and wrote articles from hot spots in the east and southern Ukraine all the days of the war. On March 11, she published material on how life takes place in a temporarily occupied Energodar, and also prepared material about hostilities in the Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk regions.

From February 24 to March 7 in Kharkov, due to the actions of the Russian military, 450 civilians were injured or were injured. This follows from the report of Human Rights Watch on the actions of the Russian army in the first 11 days of the war. “In Kharkov, the Russian armed forces demonstrated neglect of the lives of civilians, repeatedly attacked settlements.

The Russian Ministry of Defense regularly reports on the destruction of “Bayractars” - Turkish drones with missiles that military Ukraine use. In the reports of the military department, aircraft pass a separate point. Mikhail Zelensky, deputy editor -in -chief of the Kholod publication, notes that the Russian Ministry of Defense only once published a photo of the downed Bayractar - March 17. And only once did the Russian military named the total number of shot down drones of this type.

The Russian army intends to attack any military cargo that will be delivered to the territory of Ukraine. This was in an interview with RT channel by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We made it very clear that any goods that will call in the territory of Ukraine and which, we will consider, are transporting weapons, will become a legal goal. This is completely clear, ”said the head of the Foreign Ministry.

The US Department of Trade has announced a list of 100 commercial and private aircraft related to the Russian Federation, which, as part of the export control policy, are prohibited anywhere to provide service services anywhere. The list includes 100 aircraft: 33 belong to the Aeroflot air park, 12-AirbridgeCargo, 5-Aviastar-Tu, 23-Azur Air, 14-Nordwind, 12-UTAIR, another plane belongs to the billionaire to Roman Abramovich.

2256 POLITICS The Insider March 18, 2022 The military invasion of Ukraine, which Putin positions as a «special operation,» is increasingly turning into a deliberate killing of civilians.

Against the background of the war in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions in Russia, the demand for antidepressants and other sedatives has sharply increased. Only from February 28 to March 6, the sales level of these drugs exceeded 525 million rubles, which is four times higher than the year before. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to the DSM Group. As specified in the company, the indicators exceeded a similar level of sales over the past year by about 4.4 times.

The Russian Defense Ministry is trying to deflect accusations of an airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater building which served as a bomb shelter for more than a thousand civilians. The TASS report entitled «Russian Defense Ministry rejects Kiev's accusations of an airstrike on Mariupol theater» says: «Militants of the Azov nationalist battalion blew up a theater building in Mariupol they had mined, the Russian Defense Ministry told journalists.

We will remind, earlier the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Azov battalion was also in the bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, which himself arranged an explosion. At the same time, the author of the photographs from the scene - Evgeny Menletka - told The Insider that in the hospital, contrary to the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry, there were ordinary patients, and not a battalion of militants.

Judge of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow Margarita Kotov, considering the new criminal case of Alexei Navalny, was appointed by the judge of the Moscow City Court. Before leaving for this higher post, she will have to put a sentence and complete all current cases. The appointment of Kotova by the judge of the Moscow City Court is mentioned in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, which is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

OMON burst into the apartment of the leader of the Pskov "Yabloko" Lev Schlosberg early in the morning, at 6:20. At home was the wife of politician Jeanne, Shlosberg himself at that moment was not in the apartment, the Yabloko party reports . Searches are also held in the apartments of other Pskov activists, in particular, members of the regional council of the Pskov “Yabloko” Nikolai Kuzmin (and his parents) and Ekaterina Novikova.