Almost all the organizers of the Samara “March of Dissent” have been arrested or drafted into the army in recent days, and those who remain at large are hiding from the authorities, writes Kommersant. In the last 24 hours alone, 11 activists of the opposition coalition “The Other Russia” were detained in Samara and Tolyatti.

The accused, two previously convicted residents of the city of Alapaevsk: 32-year-old Sergei Davlyatchin and 33-year-old Roman Sukhachev, were found guilty and not deserving of leniency. Next, the court will determine the punishment for them, the hearing is scheduled for May 14. S. Davlyatchin was charged with murder and robbery. R. Sukhachev, in addition to the same charges, was charged under Art. a “rape” he committed several months before the murder of the priest.

Following the information about the cancellation of the St. Petersburg-Tallinn train, new news appeared from the transport front.

Employees of the Beslan police department, accused of negligence leading to the seizure of school No. 1 in Beslan, have been released from criminal liability. The chairman of the Voice of Beslan organization, Ella Kesaeva, spoke about this on Echo of Moscow: “We left the court hearing as a sign of protest. This is a violation of our constitutional rights to justice.

The Novodevichy Cemetery has run out of space. “The grave of Mstislav Rostropovich at the Novodevichy cemetery is probably the last... Probably, this delicate problem is worth thinking about,” Vadim Kozhin, manager of the presidential affairs, said in an interview with Arguments and Facts. Not just to think about it, given how quickly the Soviet love of magnificent funeral celebrations is returning to us, but to think seriously.

The decision of the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes department is another argument in the conflict between Russia and the Orthodox Association of Nice, which has managed the temple for more than 80 years. At the end of the year, the contract for free rent of the building expires, and therefore Russia decided to establish its right to the property through the courts.

The Presidium of the United Russia faction will consider the issue of admitting the richest State Duma deputy, billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, to the faction. As a source in the faction explained, at the meeting of the presidium “it will most likely be recommended to accept Kerimov into the faction,” in other words, the issue of Kerimov joining the ranks of United Russia can be considered resolved.

In Uzbekistan, human rights activist Gulbahor Turaeva was found guilty of libel and sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. At the end of April, she was already sentenced to six years in prison for transporting opposition literature, thus her prison term was almost doubled.