Non-Moscow news for the night of February 26
🔹 A civilian who was injured during a drone strike on a car near the village has died. Steppe, the governor reports Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
🔹 Two shopping centers are burning in Zaporozhye after an attack from the side of Russia, there is a victim. In Kharkov A direct hit on a residential apartment building injured five people. Other apartment buildings and private homes were also damaged, overhead power lines were downed, and a gas pipeline was cut. Another person was injured as a result of the Russian attack in Crooked Roge, there is a deceased person - in Orekhovo.
🔹 On Baikal after checking in Olkhonsky area The transport prosecutor's office has accused the owners of the hovercraft "Pioneer" and "Yantar" of operating without a license. In January of this year, they illegally carried passengers, the agency claims.
🔹 On a 17-year-old political prisoner Arseniy TurbinA new case has been opened against the man convicted in the Freedom of Russia Legion case under the article on “participation in mass riots.” “It is known that a wide circle of people are testifying against him,” "Arseniy's support group reports. It's unclear what this case might be connected to.
🔹 In Moscow a plaque in memory of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya It was torn down for the twenty-fourth time. The original plaque, which hung on the building where the journalist lived, worked, and was murdered for almost 20 years, was smashed on January 18. Since then, temporary plaques have been disappearing faster than they can be put up—on average, in less than a day.
🔹 Head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev criticized the report Khrushchev about Stalin's personality cult for "half-truths," and also called for a refutation of the writer's famous phrase Sergei Dovlatov About four million denunciations. Fadeyev emphasized the need to determine whether ordinary citizens were truly behind the repressions, in order to exonerate Soviet society from accusations of complicity in the Great Terror. He also condemned the "Last Address" project, calling the installation of memorial plaques on the homes of those repressed a political act rather than a way to preserve memory.
