In Moscow, participants of the picket in support of political prisoners - Pavel Stepanchenko and Alexander Kuznetsov - were detained. This was reported by OVD-Info. According to the publication, the activists were detained near the Presidential Administration building. As an eyewitness told OVD-Info, when one of the activists was standing at the picket, the police stopped another and during the search they asked to unfurl the poster.

Petrozavodsk City Council deputy Alexander Anishin apologized to local residents, whom he called “another piece of shit” and “idlers” for criticizing the head of Karelia, Artur Parfenchikov. about this Anishin wrote on his VKontakte page.

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of Stavropol sentenced Dzhokhar Aliyev to 1 year and eight months in a colony settlement for the participants of the rally in Magas. This was reported by MBKh Media. Aliyev was found guilty of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the protester threw chairs and stones at the security forces.

In Spain, a Russian woman, Olga Krasilova, was detained while departing from the airport on the island of Tenerife. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As the department said in a statement, Krasilova was arrested on the basis of “a possible message from the American side.” “If this is so, there is a new case of the US authorities continuing the unacceptable practice of ‘hunting’ for Russian citizens around the world,” the ministry assures.

Bulgaria has named three Russians accused of poisoning Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev, his son Hristo Gebrev and the director of their company in 2015. This was reported on the website of the republic's prosecutor's office. As the report says, the accused names are Sergey Viktorovich Pavlov, Sergey Vyacheslavovich Fedotov and Georgy Gorshkov.

The prosecution witness in the Penza case, Vladislav Gresko, also testified in another case of weapons storage, which was conducted by the FSB department for the Penza region in 2015, writes Novaya Gazeta. According to Penza resident Vadim Kondratev, Gresko was involved with his son Vadim in the airsoft team “Partiz Chernolesye”. Later, the Kondratiev family was searched and weapons were found. Kondratyev Sr.

Russian Post did not accept letters for Anti-Corruption Foundation employee Ruslan Shaveddinov, who was forcibly conscripted to a military unit on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, because they were sent to the wrong index. This is stated in the response of the organization’s press service to Mediazona’s request. The response states that letters to the village of Rogachevo, where military unit 23662 is located, should be sent to the following address: Moscow, 101300, military unit 23662.

Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO), “in preparation for May 9,” went around the apartments of residents of Rublevskoye Highway, whose windows overlook the “government highway.” This was reported by Open Media with reference to an eyewitness. “They didn’t break in, they asked for my first and last name, year of birth, and whether I had a registered weapon. They didn’t ask who else lived in the apartment, they didn’t demand documents.

In Makhachkala, local resident Makhi Idrisov, accused of possessing weapons, escaped from house arrest, TASS reports citing the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Makhi Idrisov has been put on the federal wanted list since February 10,” said a representative of the department.

The jury in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ivanovo unanimously acquitted former employee of pre-trial detention center-1 Igor Erokhin, accused of injuring prisoner A.L. the injury from which he died. This was reported by Advokatskaya Gazeta. According to investigators, on February 27, 2018, pre-trial detention center officer K.O. decided to transfer A.L. to another cell, but the accused refused.

In Tula, police seized recordings from surveillance cameras from the landlord of the Witness bookstore, which closed for one day in support of those convicted in the Penza case, store owner Irina Rocheva told Mediazona. The bookstore rents the ground floor near the Tula Historical and Architectural Museum. According to Rocheva, the police told his employees that she allegedly wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office about the beating, and they were looking for a suspect.

The Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory announced that there were no violations in the actions of the doctor about whom an HIV-positive local resident complained, the head of the department Oksana Melekhova reported on Instagram. “During the inspection, no facts of violation of medical ethics or disclosure of medical confidentiality were found in the doctor’s actions. In addition, it should be noted that the patient is currently provided with the necessary medications,” the message says.

The Nytvensky District Court of the Perm Territory sentenced policeman Sergei Kokhanov, accused of torturing a detainee, to four years in a general regime colony, reports 59.ru. According to the case file on the court’s website, Kokhanov was accused of two counts of paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence or the threat thereof).

The Omsk District Court sentenced programmer Sergei Kazakov and his girlfriend Alina Yumasheva in the case of child abuse, reports . the regional department of the Investigative Committee According to investigators, as punishment, Kazakov placed Yumasheva’s eight-year-old son on buckwheat with his knees and forced him to stand there for up to nine hours straight.

The Solikamsk City Court sentenced Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory Ilya Kuzmin to three years in a general regime colony for faking an attempt on his life, reports with reference to the court’s press service. RIA Novosti The deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 306 of the Criminal Code (knowingly false denunciation combined with the artificial creation of evidence for the accusation).