Non-Moscow news for the night of March 20
🔹 Farmers Siberia Izvestia reports that they lost over 1,5 billion rubles due to the mass slaughter of livestock, citing calculations by the Analytics.Business.Law center. Another nearly 370 million rubles were spent on quarantine measures and the purchase of new livestock. This concerns Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Penza, Tomsk и Samara areas, as well as about Khakassia, Kalmykia и UdmurtiaThe causes of cattle slaughter there included not only pasteurellosis, but also rabies and plague. The number of animals that were seized, destroyed, or subjected to other restrictive measures amounted to 90,5 thousands.
🔹 In Lipetsk area A military police officer was killed. According to preliminary reports, the father of the deserter was the perpetrator—he opened fire on the arriving police officers, fatally wounding one of them. The suspect has been detained. The Investigative Committee did not specify the reason for the officers' arrival or why they were military police officers.
🔹 Workers who blocked a crane at a construction site in Murmansk due to wage arrears, they were detained, she reported NotMoscow politician Violetta SternumAccording to her, they were scheduled to be charged under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) for "rally protests." There has been no contact with the detainees since last evening.
🔹 A burial ground containing the remains of fifty cows was discovered under Krasnoyarsk near the village RoadsideLocal residents found piles of heads, ribs, hooves, and other waste. "Unfortunately, there's no oversight of farmers and entrepreneurs. We didn't find a single tag on a single head here. Either they were deliberately cut off, or the cattle were unaccounted for," the social activist commented Marina Yakubenko. “It’s not safe because, after all, these are cattle that are rotting here.”
🔹 A bill has been introduced in the State Duma that would allow the deployment of troops to other countries to "protect" Russians arrested abroad. The initiative was allegedly developed "to protect the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation in the event of their arrest, criminal, or other prosecution" by courts that act without the participation of the Russian Federation. MoscowPutin will make decisions regarding "defense."
🔹 The national messenger Max has received social network status. Now, according to a law passed in November 2024, owners of channels on the "national messenger" with an audience of over 10 users are required to submit their information to the Roskomnadzor registry. For this registration, the channel receives an "A+" rating.
