Employees of the pre-trial detention center “Kresty-1” expelled members of the St. Petersburg public monitoring commission Yana Teplitskaya and Roman Shirshov because of the story of Abror Azimov, accused in the case of a terrorist attack in the metro, about torture in a “secret prison”. Teplitskaya herself told Mediazona about this.

In the city of Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod region, police detained five anarchists who participated in a coordinated rally against the construction of a hydroelectric complex on the Volga, Ekaterina Maksimova, coordinator of the Nizhny Novgorod Political Red Cross, told Mediazona. After the rally, police officers detained five activists; OVD-Info cites their names: Denis Zagladin, Vladislav Barabanov, Artem Antonov, Maria Shukalovich and Sergei Reshetov.

On April 19, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for two months the director of the Bolshoi Puppet Theater, Alexander Kalinin, accused of receiving a bribe of 1.2 million rubles (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), reports the joint press service of the city courts. Kalinin does not admit guilt; he asked for house arrest.

Police officers detained three activists of the opposition movement “Vesna” during a rally against conscription into the army, reports the telegram channel “North-West. MBH Media". The movement's press secretary, Lika Petrovskaya, told Mediazona that Viasna activists Kirill Matveev and Vlad Ivancho, as well as one of the movement's supporters, took part in the action. Ivancho clarified that the third detainee’s name is Artem Uimanen.

The Moscow police began an investigation after a fight between police officers in the south of the city, told the Moscow agency. the press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “An official investigation is being conducted into the conflict that occurred on Borisovskie Prudy Street between police officers who were in civilian clothes during their free time,” the statement says.

The US prosecutor's office asked the court to sentence Russian woman Maria Butina, accused of working as a foreign agent, to 18 months in prison, according to a sentencing memo noted by RBC . The memo said Butina could not be considered a real spy or trained intelligence agent, but the prosecution argued that she was promoting Russian interests.

The Nalchik City Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sent the chairman of the council of teips of Ingushetia Malsag Uzhakhov to a pre-trial detention center for two months in the case of a clash with security forces, lawyer Dzhabrail Kuriev told Mediazona. He clarified that Uzhakhov is suspected of organizing the use of violence against security forces (Part 3 of Article 33, Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during an uncoordinated rally on March 27 in Magas.