On the afternoon of April 30, driver Magomed Sharipov was detained in Chechnya, who brought journalist Vasily Polonsky, who was filming a story for the Dozhd TV channel, to the high-mountain village of Kenkhi. This was reported by the Chernovik publication with reference to local residents. The day before, April 29, Polonsky arrived in Dagestan to meet with Ramazan Dzhalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi.

Four activists detained while walking in masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the center of Moscow were released from the Kitay-Gorod police station. This was reported by the website of the OVD-Info project, which provides assistance to those detained at protests. One of the detainees, activist Roman Roslovtsev, told OVD-Info that a protocol was drawn up against him for violating the established procedure for holding a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

In the center of Moscow, four activists were detained while walking wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The detainees are being held at the Kitay-Gorod police station, reports OVD-Info with reference to activist Nikolai Glukhin, who is located near the police station. As OVD-Info notes, there is currently no contact with the detainees. Activists Roman Roslovtsev and Vasily Nedopekin were detained on Nikolskaya Street. Yuri Merzlov and Alexander Ferenc were detained on Red Square.

Approximately 60 people were detained in an underground Salafist prayer house in Samara, told TASS. a representative of the FSB regional department “During the operation at the gathering place of the Salafi cell in the city of Samara, about 60 people were detained. We had information regarding a number of people from this cell who are now participating in the armed conflict in Syria in illegal armed groups,” said the FSB representative.