In the pro-Russian telegram channel “Sevastopol. SMERSH” a video appeared with an apology from the mother of a schoolboy who, while playing on the computer, jokingly commented on the attack of Ukrainian drones on an oil depot. On Sunday, April 30, “Sevastopol. SMERSH published two videos. In the first of them, a young man, playing a computer simulator, says that he is going to drop a bomb on a virtual model of Sevastopol.

The Proletarsky District Court of Tula sentenced Andrei Kuznetsov and Alexander Suchkov to three and a half years in prison. They, according to the prosecution, forged the registration certificate of the car used by the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Daria Dugina, Natalya Vovk. Those convicted were also banned from administering websites and instant messengers for two and a half years.

In the Bryansk region, as a result of the explosion of railway tracks, several carriages of a freight train derailed. This was reported by RBC and telegram channel 112 . SHOT posted a video of a fire truck approaching the overturned tanks. According to the interlocutor of the telegram channel, three explosions were heard during the explosion. Governor Alexander Bogomaz reports that the cars left the tracks near the Snezhetskaya station.

The Rostov-on-Don garrison military court sentenced Colonel of the Russian Guard Valery Kotovich to six years in prison in the case of spreading military “fakes” using his official position and motivated by political hatred. Kommersant was informed about this by the court’s press service. The verdict was handed down on April 17 and, according to information from the court card , the defense has already appealed it.

appeared on the Telegram channel of a pro-Russian blogger from Crimea, Alexander Talipov, A video with an apology from a young man from Yalta, who admitted during a street questioning that he was for Ukraine.

German citizen Alexander Daniel Roth, who was fined 150 thousand rubles by a Kamchatka court in April under the protocol on “LGBT propaganda” (Part 7 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code), was expelled from Russia. “Arguments and Facts” was informed about this by the press service of the court.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed cases of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (Part 3 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code) brought against businessman Valery Izrailit. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The cases were dismissed at the request of the defense due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the proceedings.

Announcements appeared on the sale of new novels by Stephen King and Joan Rowling, although both authors soon after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine were forbidden to publish and sell their books in Russia. “Kommersant” drew attention to this. The novels of King and the Black Heart “Black Heart” Rowling went on sale in English in the fall of 2022. Announcements of Russian-language translations of books were published in April 2023 by the VTB-BOOKS user . They have a cost of 2,500 rubles.

in 2022 Polish intelligence services found from the Russian-born Spanish journalist Pablo Gonzalez (Pavel Rubtsov), who was arrested on charges of spying for Russia, detailed reports on the work of Boris Nemtsov’s foundation. The Agency was informed about this by an unnamed employee of the foundation and a friend of the politician Zhanna’s daughter.

company The Tinder Match Group in its annual report announced that it will completely leave Russia by June 30, 2023. “We are committed to protecting human rights. Our brands are taking steps to limit access to their services in Russia, they will completely leave the Russian market by June 30, 2023,” the report says. The Tinder Match Group includes several dating apps - Tinder, Hinge and PlentyOfFish .

The BBC Russian service has identified two residents of the Amur Region and Primorsky Territory, who were arrested in the spring of 2023 in cases of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The prosecution of men on charges of transferring data to China on March 10 and 23 was reported almost at the same time by Baza and Astra without indicating the source of information.

Illustration: Boris Hmel / Mediazone Already in May, State Duma deputies may adopt amendments to the law “On responsible treatment of animals”, allowing the regions to decide for themselves how to control the number of homeless dogs. If the bill is accepted, local officials will be able to send animals to the shelters, release to the same habitat, kill or shoot.

Art by Anastasia Krainiuk / Mediazona Reports of railway sabotage potentially hindering the movement of Russian weapons convoys have surfaced almost since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Numerous Telegram channels emerged, publishing guerrilla warfare instructions and claiming responsibility for acts of sabotage, but law enforcement only began to report on the arrests of saboteurs in the fall.

The Belogorsk City Court of the Amur Region fined Valentina Gamliy 100 thousand rubles, against whom a criminal case was opened for “discrediting” the Russian military in Ukraine because of comments on a local telegram channel. This was reported in the regional court.

Sasha Skochilenko has been in jail since April 13, 2022. During all this time, practically no investigative actions were carried out with her, and during the consideration of the case the court - which, according to the defense, the prosecutor Nikandrov specially delays - the state prosecution instead of evidence leads only “investigative paperwork”.