Vietnam has prepared a bill on gender identity. It will make gender transition easier for trans people. The bill establishes the right to change one's gender identity, to recognize a gender identity other than one's sex at birth, at the request of a person, and the right to choose the method of medical intervention. Parliament may consider the bill as early as next year. The government has announced its support for the bill.

Three cases were opened against RusNews journalist and editor-in-chief of the telegram channel and VK community about the city of Korolev in the Moscow region “Honest Korolevskoye” Roman Ivanov for “fake stories” about the Russian military.

In Ufa, on April 11, police came to search the office of the publication “Prufa.rf” “as part of an administrative investigation” and seized equipment, the publication itself reported. The security forces took explanations from political observer Ramil Rakhmatov and issued him a summons to the police to draw up an administrative protocol. The media does not indicate the article under investigation.

In Minsk, Belarusian lawyer Alexander Danilevich was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The process took place behind closed doors. He was convicted of "calls for sanctions" And “promoting extremist activities.” De facto, the lawyer is being persecuted for providing legal assistance to athletes from the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Fund, Alexandra Gerasimen and Alexandra Opeikin.

The Azerbaijani army opened fire on Armenian soldiers carrying out engineering work near the village of Teh in eastern Armenia, near the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. There are dead and wounded on the Armenian side, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. The Armenian army returned fire and the shootout took place around 16:00 local time. After this, at about 17:30, the Azerbaijani military fired mortar fire into the Armenian territory.

In Tatarstan, a freshman from the Alabuga Polytech college was found dead in the bathroom of the dormitory. According to students and relatives of the deceased, the student’s suicide could have been driven by the fear that after expulsion, the family would have to reimburse the college for unfinished studies. The portal 116.ru reports this. According to the agreement, after expulsion, the student must return to the college the funds spent on her education.

An ambulance was called for Alexei Navalny on the night of April 7-8, said his lawyer Vadim Kobzev. Medical care was needed after acute symptoms that Navalny had not previously shown. Kobzev believes that politicians can be poisoned in prison. Navalny is refused a diagnosis and is not allowed to receive the medications his mother sends him. Navalny is regularly imprisoned in a punishment cell on trumped-up grounds.

In Astana, Zhanaozen and other cities of Kazakhstan there are protests and workers' strikes. They began due to the mass dismissal of workers of the oil company from Zhanaozen "Berialy Mangistau Company." On April 10, about 80 dismissed workers entered the protest in Astana at the Building of the Ministry of Energy to demand fair and safe working conditions, as well as to achieve their restoration by canceling the tender lost by their employer.

Daniel Balazyukin, the father of the schoolboy Yegor Balazyukin, who was arrested for trying to anti -war arson, was fired from work. He worked as an electrician in a commercial company. After the security forces came there due to the persecution of the employee’s son, Balazyukin Divolia for the fact that he “does not like the company”. He worked in it for three years without any comments on the part of the leadership, reports Politzek-Info.

In Germany, the owner of the Mazur transport company Lukash Mazur decided to intimidate the striking truck drivers, having arrived at the parking lot, where the strikers gathered in an armored car. Mazur planned to pick up trucks from drivers. Between the striking and the men who arrived with Mazur, a skirmish occurred. The police arrested the businessman.

The Kherson region has also undergone aviation fire. Residential buildings were damaged. In Kherson, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a monument of architecture of the 18th century, suffered from the shelling. Due to the shelling in the temple, windows were knocked out, and the roof and walls were also damaged. Traces of shelling on the building of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. SHAS News Russian aviation also struck the Zaporizhzhya region.

Amendments to the law on military registration, which parliamentarians are considering today in the second reading, have been published on the State Duma website. The file with the amendments is named “text accepted in the second”.

On Sakhalin, the FSB detained a Russian on suspicion of “treason” . RIA Novosti reported this. The man was allegedly planning to leave for Ukraine and fight against the Russian army. Under the article “treason,” the detainee faces up to 20 years in prison.

Anti-war initiatives supported the appeal of Memorial and OVD-Info to the European Commission with a call to prevent the extradition of Alexei Moskalev from Belarus to Russia. The authors of the letter ask to achieve the transfer of Moskalev to a safe country. The appeal was signed by the Association of Civil Anti-War and Humanitarian Initiatives, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, the Spring movement, Groza media, and anti-war initiatives of Russians abroad.

Three Russians who oppose Russian aggression in Ukraine have already been deported from Vietnam. The Voice of America became aware of this. Sergio Quan was deported from Vietnam last spring for sending an angry email to the Russian consulate about Russian aggression. “I was desperate and worried about my family in Ukraine. My father is Ukrainian, and he is in very poor health,” the man explained his action. He was supposed to be taken to Moscow, but Quan managed to get off the plane in the UAE.