Art by Boris Khmelny / Mediazona Mediazona continues to monitor trials against Russians resistant to participating in the Ukraine war. Official data reveals a significant increase in soldiers going absent without leave (AWOL) in the first four months of 2023. Over one thousand AWOL cases (Art. 337 of the Criminal Code) went to military courts, surpassing the total number recorded for all of 2022.

The Sochi Garrison Military Court sentenced contract soldier Alexander Kondratyev to five and a half years in prison in the case of unauthorized leaving his place of service (parts 4 and 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code). The court’s decision was noticed by “Caucasus. Realities." According to the verdict, Kondratyev left the military unit on July 25 and returned to it on December 30.

The St. Petersburg City Court received materials from the case of treason against 76-year-old physicist Anatoly Maslov. Mediazona found information about this in the court file. No meetings have been scheduled yet. Maslov was the chief researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Novosibirsk. His main area of ​​work was aerogasdynamics. The scientist was detained in July 2022.

The Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko to nine years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 43 million rubles. this The Prosecutor General's Office reported . Maksimenko, who oversaw the work of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the economic area, resigned in November 2019, shortly after the change in the head of the department.

Since May 8, management of the Angstrem microelectronics plant has been transferred to another company, the United Instrument-Making Corporation, part of Rostec. Data about this, as appeared RBC noted, in the Rusprofile service , which collects data on legal entities. Angstrem was created in Zelenograd near Moscow during Soviet times as a pilot plant at the Research Institute of Precision Technology.

The Kholmogory District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region fined lawyer Elena Kalinina, who opposed the construction of a landfill on Shies, 130 thousand rubles. This was reported by the publications 29.ru and Sota . A criminal case about “discrediting” the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine was opened at the end of 2022 due to two publications by Kalinina on VKontakte (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

In the Irkutsk village of Pivovarikha, a Polish monument and a Lithuanian cross were dismantled at the site of a mass burial of gestures of Stalin’s repressions in 1937, Oksana Trufanova, a lawyer, human rights activist and author of the study “The Great Terror,” told Taiga.Info. In the 1930s, next to Pivovarikha there was a special zone of the NKVD, where political prisoners were shot. Researchers estimate the number of killed at 15-17 thousand people.

Никита Тушканов. Фото: личный архив On May 11, Nikita Tushkanov, a 29-year-old history teacher from Komi Republic, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. He was accused of justifying terrorism and discrediting the Russian army over several comments on social media. Among other things, he called the 8 October 2022 explosion on the Kerch bridge, which connects Russia to occupied Crimea, “a little gift for Putler.” The court carried out the sentence single day.

The FSB reported on the detention of a 34-year-old resident of Crimea in a case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The department's press release is quoted by TASS. According to investigators, the Crimean citizen sent a video showing the movements of military equipment “in the direction of the special military operation zone” to the bot of an unnamed Ukrainian telegram channel.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a pilot project to change the levels of higher education; the corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal information. The pilot project is going to be implemented on the basis of the Baltic Federal University, the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), the National Research Institute MISiS, Moscow State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg Mining University and Tomsk State University.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine on programmer Ilya Vasiliev, known by his pseudonym Arvi Hacker, for “discrediting” the Russian armed forces (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona found this decision on the website of the Moscow courts; Vasilyev was fined 40 thousand rubles.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Justice, Konstantin Chuychenko, said at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum that transpersons should be sent for compulsory treatment. The broadcast was carried out on the event website. Chuychenko noted that today it has already been decided that the “loophole in the legislation” on changing the gender marker needs to be eliminated.

on the website of Penza State University An announcement was published for students, in which they were encouraged to inform university staff about acquaintances who may be involved in the preparation of sabotage. According to the announcement, the FSB warned the university management about a possible “sabotage and terrorist act” in the region, in the preparation of which “several young people aged 15 to 21 years” are involved.

The Tobolsk City Court of the Tyumen Region placed a schoolboy in a psychoneurological hospital who was detained with a Molotov cocktail at the military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by the joint press service of the regional courts. FSB officers detained a 15-year-old teenager in Tobolsk on the evening of February 23, 2023, not far from the city military registration and enlistment office; the building itself was not damaged in any way.

In the Volgograd region, three former prisoners were arrested who were released ahead of schedule through Wagner PMC. They were accused of robbery and extortion: according to investigators, they attacked a local businessman and demanded that his store be transferred to them, and then robbed him and took his car.