Prisoners of the Angarsk correctional colony No. 2 began a hunger strike after the beating of 23-year-old convict Dmitry Mikhakhanov. about this The Insider Human rights activist Ivan Astashin told , citing relatives of prisoners. According to him, on April 18, during the morning check, Mikhakhanov was holding a blanket in his hands, since the heating in the colony had already been turned off and the prisoners were freezing.

Germany has promised to stop importing Russian oil by the end of 2022. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. According to the agency, Berbock met with colleagues from the Baltic countries. “I clearly and unequivocally say: yes, Germany also completely refuses to import Russian energy resources. By the summer we will halve oil, and by the end of the year we will be at zero, and then gas will follow as part of the joint European roadmap,” she assured.

The Kremlin did not publish the names of the metallurgists who participated in the meeting with President Vladimir Putin. attention to this . drew Journalist Farida Rustamova The press release about Putin's meeting on the metallurgical industry does not contain the names of the metallurgists themselves. However, their participation in the meeting is still mentioned on the Kremlin website.

The TV channel "Russia 1" deleted all episodes of the program "One Hundred to One" on YouTube due to comments under the video of its host Alexander Gurevich. attention to the presenter's recordings . drew Journalist Roman Super Gurevich wrote in the comments under the March 5 issue that his family has Ukrainian roots. Now all episodes of the program have been deleted, but the episode dated March 5 with the host’s commentary is available via a direct link .

The US Treasury has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia. In total, 40 legal entities and 29 individuals were included in the sanctions list. Among them are the deputy head of the Central Bank Ksenia Yudaeva, the founder of one of the largest Russian IT companies IBS Group Anatoly Karachinsky, the owner of the Tsargrad TV channel Konstantin Malofeev, the chairman of the board of Otkritie Mikhail Zadornov.

The FSB reported on the “suppression of illegal activities” in the RANEPA branches in Rostov-on-Don and Khabarovsk. this with reference to the FSB press service . reports RIA Novosti The investigation department of the FSB Directorate for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Rostov Region opened cases of large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Cemetery in Chernigov. Photo: Piero Cruciatti / Sipa USA / Reuters Mediazon continues to translate into Russian a series of large reports of the New Yorker Joshua Jaffa magazine from Ukraine. His material about the inhabitants of Chernigov was released on April 15. In mid -March, bulldozers dug trenches in the wasteland at the edge of the Yalovshchin cemetery in Chernigov.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill on turnover fines for IT companies that do not comply with Russian laws. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. The draft amends the Code of Administrative Offenses and introduces a new Article 13.47 of the Code of Administrative Offences.

Russian banks that find themselves under blocking sanctions from Western countries will not be able to issue UnionPay cards , since the Chinese payment system is afraid to cooperate with them. this RBC reports with reference to five sources in large banks. cards to issue UnionPay Sber, Alfa Bank, Otkritie and VTB were previously planning . Promsvyazbank, which opened cards on this system even before the sanctions, stopped doing so.

The authorities have decided to change the Civil Code and allow courts to issue compulsory licenses for the content of companies that have left Russia, reported , citing two interlocutors familiar with the discussion of the amendments.

Director Dmitry Krymov, who received the Golden Mask in 2022 for the play “Mozart. "Don Juan". Dress rehearsal,” asked to hand it over to the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov. The ceremony was broadcast on the VKontakte page of the award. Krymov himself did not participate in the online award ceremony - he is in the USA and does not intend to return to Russia, so he conveyed his wish through actor Evgeny Tsyganov.

The Moscow Stanislavsky Electrotheater, after a complaint from United Russia deputy Alexander Khinshtein, canceled the play “The Garden” with the participation of actress Yulia Aug. This is stated on the theater website. The report said that the performance, scheduled for April 20, was canceled due to “technical reasons.” Tickets for the May 25th and 26th shows are still available on the website.

Moscow police, together with employees of the FSB and Roszdravnadzor, detained suspects in the theft of medicines for the treatment of cancer patients. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with reference to department representative Irina Volk.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced opposition ex-deputy of the legislative assembly Maxim Reznik, accused of drug possession (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code), to a year in a penal colony. This was reported by the joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts. The court counted the time that Reznik spent under house arrest, so his sentence is already considered served.

Maxim Reznik. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone The court in St. Petersburg sentenced Politics to Maxim Reznik, who for many years was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the city. He could not take part in last year’s elections because of a criminal case and house arrest-the opposition ties his persecution with the conflict with Governor Alexander Beglov.