State Duma deputies have prepared a bill that prohibits surgical operations as part of a transgender transition, as well as changing the name and gender marker in documents at will. If the document is accepted, then it will be possible to do this only on the basis of medical indications, reports Vedomosti with reference to the bill. However, it has not yet been submitted for consideration.

The Second Eastern District Military Court sentenced Vladimir Konstantinov, a mobilized resident of Novosibirsk, to five years in prison on charges of desertion. The telegram channel of the court reports that on December 29, 2022, Konstantinov “arbitrarily left the tent camp of a military unit” in the Novosibirsk region. According to Kommersant, Konstantinov, before mobilization, worked in the Novosibirsk region as a loader at an ice cream factory.

The former editor-in-chief of Ekho Peterburga, Valery Nechay, was charged with an administrative case under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the human rights project "The First Department". The journalist was summoned to the prosecutor's office, where they handed him a copy of the decision to initiate a case.

On Friday night, several Russian regions were hit. Explosions were heard in Krasnodar, the governor of the Rostov region reported that a Ukrainian rocket had been shot down, and the Belgorod region was shelled several times. In the morning, telegram channels reported that an explosion had occurred in the sky over the center of Krasnodar. A video of a drone flying over the city and then exploding has circulated online.

39 deserters who were part of the Storm Z squad fled from Lisichansk in the self-proclaimed LPR. This is reported Baza and 161.ru. by Now they are looking for in the Rostov region. According to 161.ru, the escapees are former prisoners. During the escape, they killed an employee of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR. Baza writes that it was a member of the Ministry of Defense. The Telegram channel notes that the escape took place on May 24.

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has kidnapped several thousand civilians in the occupied territories. More than a hundred of them are kept in the Crimean pre-trial detention centers, not given the status of prisoners of war, not allowing lawyers to see them, and subjected to torture and humiliation. about this , referring to those who were able to free themselves, as well as relatives and lawyers of the abducted.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Maria Zholobova, an investigator for Important Stories, 5,000 rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The head of the joint press service of the city courts, Daria Lebedeva, told Mediazone about this.

The head of the headquarters of the Russian Volunteer Corps - about the raid in the Belgorod region In the Belgorod region, they fought for several days with the "Diversion Group of the Armed Forces". For this, the regime of a counter -terrorist operation was introduced in the region. The “Russian Volunteer Corps” - the pro -Ukrainian unit of Russians who fight on the side of Ukraine took responsibility for the action.