Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh, who is serving a sentence in the Verkhneuralsk colony in the Chelyabinsk region on charges of participating in the First and Second Chechen Wars on the side of the separatists, wrote a letter to Novaya Gazeta, in which he demanded a transfer to another institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

In St. Petersburg, a film crew from the NTV channel is pursuing lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who is defending Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the “Penza case,” as well as POC members Yana Teplitskaya and Ekaterina Kosarevskaya. First, an NTV film crew waylaid Kosarevskaya at the exit from the prison hospital.

Human rights activists from Human Rights Watch and the French association “Internet Without Borders” criticized the decision of the Tagansky District Court, which upheld the claim to block Telegram in Russia. “It is unfair that Telegram is now being punished for upholding the right to privacy of its users.

In the center of Grozny, on Minutka Square, five children were detained for blocking the road to wedding processions in order to receive a cash reward. As a representative of the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs told the Caucasian Knot, this is a long-standing Chechen wedding custom. The incident occurred on April 14. The children were taken to the police station, where they had an explanatory conversation with them in the presence of their parents, and then were released.

application The Opera VPN for iOS and Android will stop working on April 30, the service said in an official statement. All users of the paid Opera Gold service for a year package will be given free access to the SurfEasy Ultra VPN packages ; owners of other Opera VPN are promised an 80% discount on the application. For what reasons the decision was made to close Opera VPN, the statement does not specify.

Law enforcement officers detained about 10 people in Volokolamsk protesting against the Yadrovo landfill, Interfax reports , citing a representative of the initiative group. The activist clarified that he does not know where the detainees were taken. Later, in a conversation with OVD-Info, one of the detainees clarified that eight people were taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs department in the Volokolamsk district.

Residents of Volokolamsk near Moscow, protesting against the Yadrovo landfill, blocked the entrance to the landfill, . Interfax reports, citing representatives of the initiative group “This morning we blocked the road to Yadrovo; there are several hundred people on site, they joined hands and stood at the entrance to the landfill,” the agency’s interlocutor said. Police are on the scene. on Twitter A video posted by lawyer Denis Kunaev shows police pushing protesters off the road.

New Day journalist Maxim Borodin, who had previously fallen from the fifth floor, died in the intensive care unit of a Yekaterinburg hospital. this The agency itself reports . “He never regained consciousness. Doctors fought for his life for several days, but the injuries received in a fall from the 5th floor turned out to be too serious,” writes New Day. Borodin fell from the fifth floor balcony on April 12.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is conducting an investigation after the discovery of the body of an employee of the police investigation department of the Etkul district of the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the department’s press service. Investigations are currently underway. The deceased was a police major. She was found with a gunshot wound at her workplace, and Radio Broadcasting Company notes .

The Swiss laboratory Spiez , which referred Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to in a statement about the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the substance BZ , does not question the conclusions of the British authorities about the use of Novichok. tweeted about this Spiez Laboratory . “We can repeat what we said 10 days ago - we have no doubt that Novichok has been identified in Porton Down,” the company emphasized.