It is this that Russia accuses Ukrainian Peter Opalnik. Here is his story In July 2022, a new article 275.1 appeared in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - confidential cooperation with foreigners. In January 2023, a citizen of Ukraine and Russia, Petr Oparikov, was a handler and a builder, who, according to the FSB, tried to persuade the information about the places of deployment of Russian military equipment, its abduction and voluntary surrender. Now the disgrace is under arrest.

Lady Gaga will be the new co-chair of the Arts and Humanities Committee under the President of the United States. The corresponding decree was signed by Joe Biden, according to the White House website. According to the document, director and producer Bruce Cohen has been appointed as the second co-chairman of the committee.

The BBC Russian Service, based on open data, has established the names of 20,451 Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine. According to the publication, the growth rate of losses remains high. Especially many dead are among the troops fighting near Bakhmut. Many conscripts also die. Over the past two weeks, journalists from the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona have counted 1,820 dead - this is the largest increase in the entire war in Ukraine.

Russian contract soldier Alexei Usenko was sentenced to ten years in a strict regime colony for killing one National Guard and threatening to kill another. Writes about this "Kommersant". As follows from the case file, the crime was committed last year in a combat zone in Ukraine. According to investigators, Usenko stopped a civilian car that was driving next to a military convoy. There were two employees of the National Guard in the car.

The Central District Military Court sentenced 52-year-old radio amateur and beekeeper Kirill Akimov, who lives in the village of Krasnopolye in Mordovia, to six years in prison on charges of inciting extremism. This was reported by the press service of the court. They specified that in addition to imprisonment, the court also prohibited Akimov from engaging in amateur radio communications for three years after his release.

The Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg arrested a 16-year-old pupil of the closed special school No. 124 in the case of sexualized violence against a 12-year-old student. This is reported by the publication "Vecherniye Vedomosti" with reference to the press service of the court. Earlier, regional and federal publications spoke about the complaint of one of the children who had run away from school about beatings and rape in the institution.

The Usinsk City Court of the Komi Republic arrested 60-year-old local resident Nadezhda Kornilova until June 10, 2023 on charges of attempted terrorist attack. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, in April of this year, Kornilova "made an attempt to set fire to the front door" of the building of the military registration and enlistment office of the Usinsky district.

Four of the five elite special forces brigades of the Russian army were almost completely destroyed in the war in Ukraine, losing up to 95% of their fighters. The Washington Post writes about this, citing information from a recent leak of secret Pentagon documents. As follows from the documents, the main reason for the heaviest losses in the elite Russian units was their "unconventional" use.

A resident of Moscow, who asked not to be named, was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This happened on April 5, writes "OVD-Info". A week earlier, a woman was taken to the police station after she made a remark to a man in a coffee shop - he loudly called Ukrainians "faggots" and justified the war. According to the Muscovite, on Thursday at the end of March, she went to her favorite coffee shop.

Emigrants from Russia went to the massage therapist in Georgia. He touched them for intimate places - but many were silent about it for more than six months In April of this year, in social networks they began to discuss a masseur named Vitaly: supposedly he allows himself to touch the clients for intimate places and conduct talk about sex. It turned out that some girls who took advantage of his services talked about the Harassment on his part in the fall of 2022.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . How has the number of treason cases changed ? In January-March 2023, Russia opened as many criminal cases under this article as there were in the entire previous year, lawyer Valery Vetoshkin estimates. At the same time, it became more difficult to count them in 2023: the FSB stopped promptly publishing press releases about detentions.

Roskomnadzor through the court demanded to deprive the license of the Nizhny Novgorod publication KozaPress, the founder of which was the journalist Irina Slavina, who committed suicide due to pressure from the security forces. This was reported by the journalists of the publication. As follows from the statement of claim, the reason for the requirement to revoke the license was that the website and social networks of the publication had not been updated for more than a year.

Russian educational institutions began to campaign for schoolchildren to serve in the army on a contract basis. This is reported by several regional media at once, "Important Stories" drew attention. The mother of one of the Perm schoolchildren shared with Perm 36.6 that representatives of the military enlistment office recently came to her son's school and told the students about the "charms of contract service." “My fool still pulled a booklet from school.

Mediazona journalists talked to several people who, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, have been writing denunciations against Russian writers, scientists, military personnel, and ordinary citizens. In a conversation with the publication, they expressed confidence that their actions help the state. One of the scammers is a 40-year-old resident of an unnamed million-plus city.