The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation opposed the ban on Russian IT specialists leaving the country.

Latvia has included six Russian cultural figures in the persona non grata list.

The proposal by the chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), aide to President Vladimir Medinsky to chant the country's state symbols in schools has nothing to do with the official position of the Russian leadership.

The authorities did not plan to announce a general mobilization and ban Russians from leaving the country. Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Constitutional Committee, told RBC in an interview.

An administrative case has been instituted against former editor of Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk could theoretically block YouTube and foreign social networks in the country.

The businessman said that because of assets blocked in European and British jurisdictions, he might not have enough money to pay the necessary bills.

Petropavlovsk, one of Russia's largest gold miners, will not be able to sell gold, according to its press release to RBC.

A high-ranking official of the Investigative Committee (IC) was detained in Moscow on suspicion of corruption.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is alive, he is in hospital in a serious condition. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.