The court placed under house arrest an employee of the Vladikavkaz police department No. 3, suspected of kidnapping a person and planting drugs on him. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to the department, on January 4, five security officials came to the hostel “to check a citizen of the neighboring countries” for involvement in drug trafficking.

The Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg has canceled showings of the play “Cyrano de Bergerac”. This is reported on the theater's website. The release states that the productions scheduled for April 23 and May 24 will be replaced by other performances - “The Raven” and “The Marriage.” The reason for this is unknown. The publication 78.ru reports that earlier one of the spectators contacted the police after seeing signs of “discrediting” the army in the production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

The Ministry of Justice added investigator Hristo Grozev to the register of “foreign agents”. Also included in the department’s updated list were Moscow politician Elvira Vikhareva, Karelian activist Natalya Sevets-Ermolina, the “Conscript School” project and the publication “Advocatskaya Street”. According to the Ministry of Justice, Grozev disseminated “inaccurate information” about the decisions of the Russian authorities and collaborated with an “undesirable” organization.

The GRU leadership uses the Silk Road international car rally project as an infrastructure for its secret employees. write about this in a joint investigation . The Insider , Spiegel , Le Monde and Bellingcat The Silk Road is an annual off-road race. According to internal documents, its goal is to strengthen Russia’s “soft power,” aimed at bringing the country closer to China, Iran, Qatar, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan and other eastern states.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of the Leningrad Region did not extend the arrest of businessman Dmitry Skurikhin in the case of “discrediting” the army and transferred him to house arrest. This was reported by the human rights project “Network Freedoms”. Skurikhin has his own store in the village of Russko-Vysotskoye. On its facade he places political and pacifist inscriptions.

Roskomnadzor sent Telegram , as well as foreign services for streaming Twitch and Kick games , demands to delete the channels of singer Yegor Creed and several bloggers for advertising online casinos. This was reported by Ekaterina Mizulina, daughter of Senator Elena Mizulina and director of the Safe Internet League.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow received a petition for the arrest of Yu.V. Plyske, who is suspected of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the relevant information in the database of Moscow courts. The case file says that the petition for arrest was registered yesterday, April 20, but the information appeared in the database only today. The request has probably already been granted.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the South-Western District of Moscow opened a case for justifying terrorism against DOXA magazine employee Maria Menshikova. this to Kommersant The department reported . The reason was last year’s post on DOXA’s VKontakte public page on July 9 about their mailing list about anti-war actions. It was accompanied by an illustration of a man throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military registration and enlistment office.

FSB officers detained suspects in the arson of a relay cabinet on a railway near Kaluga, the agency's regional department told TASS. The arson occurred on April 13 on the stretch between the village of Vorotynsk and the Kaluga-2 station to the west of the regional center. “The equipment on the route broke down.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Jewish Autonomous Region for justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), reports “City on Bir” with reference to the regional department of the FSB.

Art by Nika Kuznetsova / Mediazona The Zotovs, a family of four, are facing three criminal charges: 19-year-old Lera is accused by the FSB of attempted terrorist acts due to the failed arson of a rural rallying point for mobilised soldiers while her mother Svetlana is sued of calling for terrorism and extremism based on her three comments on Telegram. Mediazona tells the story of the anti-war family and how Yaroslavl law enforcers turned their life into hell in just one month.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow received petitions to extend the arrest of Artem Bressky and Kirill Basko , who are accused of sabotage (clause “b” of Part 2 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the relevant information in the database of Moscow courts. Judge Varvara Oganova will consider the petition to extend the period of detention of the accused on April 24 at 15:30.

The Russian video hosting service RuTube has disabled advertising at the beginning of videos, since due to sanctions YouTube operates without advertising in Russia. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Anton Gorelkin. According to the deputy, in fact, the American platform “gave all Russian viewers a free premium subscription” and thus created “unequal conditions” for RuTube.

The Prosecutor General's Office announced the recognition of the Japanese "Union of Residents of the Islands of Chishima and Habomai" as "undesirable" in Russia. These are the Japanese names for the southern islands of the Kuril archipelago, the ownership of which has been disputed by the country since World War II.

investigator The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested Bellingcat Hristo Grozev in absentia, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the court. The meeting was held behind closed doors. Grozev's interests are represented by lawyer Veronika Polyakova. She clarified that Grozev was arrested in absentia for two months. At the same time, the defense attorney could not disclose the details of the accusation, citing a subscription to non-disclosure of investigative data.