In the Ulyanovsk region, on April 11, political prisoner Yevgeny Afanasyev, sentenced to 12.5 years in prison on charges of transferring information about the Bulava missile to China, died at the age of 63. Afanasyev died of a heart attack in the Dimitrovgrad city hospital. The Kommersant newspaper wrote about this on April 15 with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Ulyanovsk Region.