In Sochi, the court sentenced Nikita Botberg to five days of arrest, who came to the Immortal Regiment with a portrait with an anti-war inscription. This was reported by OVD-Info. Botberg was charged with disobedience to the police (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Also, a protocol was drawn up against him on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences); there has not yet been a trial in this case.

on the account of the space robot Fedor appeared A tweet criticizing Roscosmos and the head of the state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, . This was brought to attention by the telegram channel “ Alpha Centauri | Space". The development of an anthropomorphic robot, later named FEDOR , began in 2014 on the initiative of Rogozin. In 2019, he was sent to the ISS, and soon the robot returned to Earth. Updated at 20:48 . Perhaps the account that disowned Rogozin is no longer related to Roscosmos.

Police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg released the former press secretary of the “Spring” movement, Artem Uimanen, on an undertaking to appear. This was reported by his girlfriend Kamilla Dotsenko. Uimanen is a suspect in the case of “false mining” of the St. Petersburg branch of RANEPA due to an anonymous letter that was sent to the university’s email in April (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code).

A 33-year-old man was detained in the Yubileiny-Ruchi gardening garden north of St. Petersburg for tearing down and setting fire to a flag with the Z. letter Fontanka was informed about this by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident, according to the local publication 47news.ru , occurred on the night of May 9.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk sent Ruslan Akhmetshin, a former operator of Navalny’s headquarters in Arkhangelsk, to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by his defender Vladimir Vasilenko. In March, a case was opened against 46-year-old Akhmetshin for the rehabilitation of Nazism due to comments about the celebration of May 9 in Russia (clause “c” of Part 2, Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). After that, he was prohibited from certain actions.

The governor of the Saratov region, Valery Radaev, and the head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, announced that they were leaving their posts early. Radaev’s words are quoted in the telegram channel of the regional government, which after the war in Ukraine was renamed “Pool Z 64.” “I headed the Saratov region for 10 years <…> I plan to focus on a different area of ​​work,” the official said.

The head of the Karelian “Memorial” and the historian Yuri Dmitriev, sentenced to 15 years, were transferred to the Mordovian maximum security colony No. 18 in Potma. about this . His lawyer Viktor Anufriev told Interfax In September 2020, Dmitriev was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony on charges of sexual assault against his adopted daughter (parts 3, 4 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code).

Governor of the Tomsk region Sergei Zhvachkin left his post. His appeal was published on the regional administration website. “On January 20, I turned 65. And although all men are boys at heart, I am still one of the oldest governors in the country. And of course, we need to give way to the young. <…> There is a law that limits governors to two terms. I'm used to obeying laws. I have never looked for and do not intend to look for any loopholes.

Image: Anya Leonova / Mediazona In late March, scores of contract soldiers from South Ossetia refused to fight in Ukraine and left for their homes. According to our source, all of the objectors’ contracts had been voided shortly after. Still, almost a hundred soldiers returned, and some of them will be sent back to the war zone. Some twenty contract soldiers challenged their dismissals in court.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow ordered a ban on certain actions as a preventive measure for three defendants in the criminal case of the activist movement "Spring". This was reported by OVD-Info. We are talking about Skat media journalist Angelina Roshchupko, from OVD-Info Timofey Vaskin and ex-FBK employee Ivan Drobotov. Drobotov will continue to serve administrative arrest in a special detention center.

The oldest Irkutsk comic book store, Woody Comics, will close as publishers have more than doubled prices for products. This was affected by the rise in prices of paints and the shortage of paper against the backdrop of sanctions. this to the Sibir.Realii publication . reported The owner of the store, Yulia Avdeenko, According to Avdeeva, due to restrictions imposed after the start of the war in Ukraine, the supply of souvenirs also completely stopped. “All the figures came from abroad.

The consequences of the shelling of the village of Golovchino in the Belgorod region, April 19, 2022. Photo: Evgeny Silantyev / TASS Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the border regions of Russia are underway - local authorities claim that the Armed Forces are behind this. Almost daily, explosions in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Rostov and Kursk regions are reported. Mediazona found out how in two months of the war life has changed in the south-west of Russia.

The Seimas of Lithuania unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine. This was reported on the parliament’s Facebook page.

On May 9, an action was held in Kislovodsk, during which a girl in military uniform shot the “last fascist” with an air rifle. to this Attention was drawn in the KMV News group. The mayor of the city, Evgeniy Moiseev, spoke about the action in his Telegram channel, but after criticism from local residents he deleted the publication and comments about the incident. The repost of the material was preserved in the telegram channel of the city information portal.

“Yandex.Musik” blocked the podcast “Mediazones” “ Dick War ”. Rosskhnadzor demanded this, referring to the demand of the Prosecutor General of May 9. “In accordance with the requirements of the legislator of the Russian Federation, we are obliged to limit users access to the specified content on the service within 24 hours,” the Yandex.Musica report, which came to editorial mail. In April, Yandex deleted references to the sites "Mediazons" and other publications blocked for coverage of the war.