A representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, during the consideration of the claim of the Dozhd TV channel, said that it “broadcast the position of Western countries in a certain sense.” This was reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 23-year-old resident of Tyumen about fakes about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the local department. According to investigators, on April 11, a young man “under the guise of reliable messages” published fake news about the army. The department does not provide details.

On April 5, the Sovetsky District Court of Orel sentenced former student of the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zainab Sadat and his classmate Safi Ezatulla to seven years in prison. This was reported in the decision published on the court’s website. Sadat said that Ezattula raped her in 2020. “She was upset and depressed after this because according to the laws of her country, having sex before marriage is severely punished.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of the Kursk Region fined a resident of the village of Pryamitsyno 30 thousand rubles for a Facebook video criticizing the authorities, which she posted after the start of the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the regional press service of the courts. The 47-year-old woman, who was born in Kharkov, posted a video with “offensive language” towards the authorities on February 25.

Photo: Preservice of Melitopolsko MISKO for / Facebook Mediazon continues to translate into Russian a series of reports that the New Yorker correspondent Joshua Jaffa writes from Ukraine. We have already published his materials about the first two weeks of Russian invasion , events in the village of New Bykov and the siege of Chernigov .

A government commission has reduced the percentage of foreign currency earnings that Russian exporters are required to sell. Now, instead of 80%, exporters are required to sell 50%, according to the Ministry of Finance website. The ministry emphasized that this decision was made due to “stabilization of the ruble exchange rate.” The requirement for the mandatory sale of 80% of foreign currency earnings was introduced on February 28, the fourth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Simferopol under the article on “calls for extremism.” This was reported by Kryminform with reference to the representative of the regional department of the FSB, Elena Varlamova. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code. A 29-year-old local resident was detained.

During trading on the Moscow Exchange, the euro exchange rate dropped below 59 rubles - at 16:20 Moscow time it was trading at 58 rubles 80 kopecks. This follows from exchange data. According to chart the Inesting.com , the last time the price of the euro on the stock exchange fell below 59 rubles was in April 2015. The dollar is now trading below 58 rubles. The Ministry of Economic Development told RBC that now “the strengthening of the ruble is at peak levels.”

The General Prosecutor's Office recognized the activities of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia. This is reported on the department's website. “It has been established that the activities of the fund pose a threat to the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.

Roskomnadzor drew up administrative protocols on the spread of “fake” news due to two texts from The New Times . Mediazona was informed about this by the Center for the Protection of Media Rights. Two protocols under Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses were issued to the editor-in-chief Evgenia Albats, and two more to the company “New Times”.

The St. Petersburg City Court dismissed two cases of “rehabilitation of Nazism” initiated due to photographs on the Immortal Regiment website. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg.

Boris Bondarev, an employee of the Russian permanent mission to the UN in Geneva, announced his resignation due to the war with Ukraine. The diplomat's letter was published by UN international lawyer Hillel Neuer. “I have never been as ashamed of my country as I was on February 24 of this year.

The Government Commission on the Russian Language proposed writing the word “God” with a capital letter. This was announced by the Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov, his words were reported by TASS and RIA Novosti . “The rules of Russian spelling and punctuation were adopted in 1956, and did not in any way regulate the spelling of words related to the religious sphere.

The Ikryaninsky District Court of Astrakhan sentenced police officers who extracted confessions from an innocent local resident to three and a half years in a general regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

Victoria Petrova. Photo: Victoria Petrova Personal Page "VKontakte" For three months, at least 35 people became involved in criminal cases about the spread of “fakes” about the Russian army. In early May, on the same charges, they were detained, and then sent to the pre -trial detention center Victoria Petrov from St. Petersburg. On her VKontakte page, she opposed the war and published several videos of Dmitry Gordon, Alexander Nevzorov and Maxim Katz.