Students from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University are invited to a rally in honor of Putin’s arrival in St. Petersburg. For participation they are offered 400 rubles and free pizza. University students reported this to DOXA. Earlier, RIA Novosti wrote that on April 27, Vladimir Putin will come to St. Petersburg to participate in a meeting of the Council of Legislators. A year ago he also attended this event.

The Ministry of Defense recruited 40 prisoners in two colonies in the Ivanovo region to participate in the war against Ukraine. The prisoners themselves told about this to the human rights activist of “Sitting Rus'” and the Foundation “In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners” Pyotr Kuryanov. Also in April, about 400 prisoners from Colony No. 15 in the city of Angarsk were forcibly recruited by the Ministry of Defense.

Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army has shelled six regions of Ukraine. Eight dead and 30 injured are known, and dozens of houses and civilian infrastructure buildings were also destroyed. In the Nikolaev region, private houses, residential high-rise buildings, as well as one historical building were damaged as a result of shelling. The Russian military struck residential buildings in Nikolaev, killing one person and injuring 23 others, including one child.

While trying to cross the Belarusian border, Russian security forces detained the author of “wish marathons” Elena Blinovskaya. against her The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case about tax evasion and money laundering for unpaid 918 million rubles in taxes in the period from 2019 to 2021. As Mediazona notes, bloggers Valeria Chekalina and Alexandra Mitroshina were previously involved in similar cases .

In occupied Melitopol, collaborator Alexander Mishchenko died as a result of an explosion at the entrance of an apartment building. He was leaving the entrance when an improvised explosive device went off. Mishchenko was taken to the hospital, where he died.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree that assigns Ukrainian citizens living in the “DPR”, “LPR” and the occupied parts of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions the status of “foreigners permanently residing in Russia” if they refuse to accept Russian citizenship. This status, according to the decree, allows Ukrainian citizens to be deported if they “threaten the national security” of Russia, as well as prohibit them from entering their home regions.

The loader from the Ostashkov of the Tver region Alexei Sukhobokov was sentenced to two and a half years in the colony on charges of "Justification of terrorism." According to the security forces, he “rejoiced” at the explosion on the Crimean bridge. Initially, Sukhobokov was arrested for seven days for a "demonstration of Nazi symbols." According to the investigation , he allegedly painted the emblem of the Azov battalion on a dusty door, as well as a swastika on a dirty Gazelle.

The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected a request from the United States Embassy for a consular visit to Wal Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges. The agency stated that these are “retaliatory measures” for the failure to issue American visas to Russian journalists to travel to a meeting of the UN Security Council with Sergei Lavrov.

The Leninsky District Court of Bishkek decided to stop the activities of the media "Azattyk Media" . The court satisfied the corresponding claim of the Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan, which became known on January 23, 2023. On October 26, 2022, the Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan blocked the websites of Radio Azattyk, and on November 16, the country’s parliament suspended the journalist’s accreditation of the publication.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk declared illegal the delivery of runner Andrei Korolchuk from Berdsk to the police department in Novosibirsk and ordered compensation for moral damage in the amount of 15 thousand rubles. In September 2022, he participated in the Running Festival, where, as a sign of solidarity with his relatives in Ukraine, he wore a T-shirt with the Ukrainian flag. Andrey Korolchuk @sibirmedia After the end of the race, security forces came to his registration address.

Early in the morning, the police came to the house to the head of the Ural Memorial Alexei Mosin. First, he was taken to the warehouse of the Yeltsin Center, where the documents of the "memorial" are stored, and then to the police station, where two protocols on administrative article About the "discredit" of the Russian army. According to the "Evening Vedomosti", the day earlier, Mosin was at the court the politician and ex-head of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman.

The Moscow City Court decided to liquidate the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. The court upheld the corresponding claim of the Ministry of Justice, which it filed on March 10, 2023. The center said it would continue to operate and appeal the decision. In January, the Ministry of Justice inspected Sova for compliance with the law.

In Belarus, ex-presidential candidate Viktor Babariko, who is in prison, was beaten “beyond recognition.” reported this Rabochy Rukh . According to the movement, on the night of April 25, the politician was taken from IK-1 of Novopolotsk to the central city hospital with multiple injuries.

Searches were carried out in the houses of Crimean Tatar activists Edem Ismailov and Bari Bariev in Sudak, both were detained and taken to Simferopol. The reasons for the searches were not reported, and no protocols were left. FSB and local criminal investigation officers worked in Ismailov’s house. “Calls about searches began to arrive at the beginning of six. Bari's elderly mother lives in the same yard as him.

The ETOS War Victims Relief Fund has launched a fundraiser in favor of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh who are living in tents after being evicted from the former building of the Armenian Ministry of Defense. The fund collects money for food and gasoline for generators, as well as food and things that refugees need. In total, you need to collect 204,598 drams (approximately $530).