Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has doubled its imports of nitrocellulose needed for the defense industry. The Wall Street Journal reports this. According to the publication, by mid-August 2023, 3,039 tons of this substance were imported into Russia. Nitrocellulose is used to produce civilian products such as inks, paints and varnishes. It is also used to make smokeless artillery powder and rocket fuel.

The FSB reported on the detention of three people who were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory. TASS reports this. According to security forces, the detainees - citizens of one of the Central Asian countries - were preparing to carry out an explosion in a crowded place. During the search, they found parts of homemade explosives, chemical substances and destructive elements.

The Ministry of Justice added Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, to the register of “foreign agents”. The department’s updated register also includes the human rights organization “First Department” and lawyer Vadim Prokhorov. According to the Ministry of Justice, Vishnevsky opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Prokhorov “discredited” the Russian authorities.

The Higher School of Economics has canceled the XXV Yasin International Scientific Conference on Problems of Economic and Social Development. A message about this appeared on the university website. The conference was to be held in Moscow from April 23 to 26. This year, as the organizers write, more than three thousand participants from 44 countries were expected to attend the event.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the Okko streaming service one million rubles under the protocol on “demonstration” of LGBT relationships with incorrect age markings (Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the city press service of the courts. The reason for the protocol was the series “Annika”, “The One” and “My Dead Ex”.

In St. Petersburg, police called activist Anush Panina to draw up a report on the demonstration of prohibited symbols. She told MR7 about this. The reason was a post with a six-color rainbow flag, pinned on Panina’s page on VKontakte.

In the south of Belgorod, in the Kharkov Mountain area, a Ukrainian drone crashed into a multi-storey panel building. A video of the explosion was published by the city telegram channel BelPlus. According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, one man died, his wife was hospitalized with a closed head injury, wounds and burns. Another resident of the house went to the doctors with a lower back wound. The drone crashed into a high-rise building at the intersection of Shchorsa Street and Gubkin Street.

Appointed lawyer Nazrimada Lutfulloi told a Mediazona correspondent after the court hearing that her client partially admitted guilt. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow today arrested 24-year-old Lutfulloi until May 22. He was charged under the same article as the other defendants in the case (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). But what, according to investigators, the man’s role was is unknown.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested 24-year-old Nazrimad Lutfulloi in the case of a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Lutfulloi became the ninth known defendant in the case of the attack on Crocus on March 22. It is unknown what exactly the man is accused of.

Judge Elena Lenskaya of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya to a pre-trial detention center in the case of participation in FBK, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow named a new defendant in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. This is Nazrimad Lutfulloi. The court received a petition for his arrest, Mediazona was told in court. Like all defendants in the terrorist attack case, Lutfulloi is accused of committing a terrorist attack that resulted in death (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). Investigators did not publicly disclose the nature of the charges against him.

Russia and Ukraine handed over the bodies of dead servicemen to each other. The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported the return of the bodies of 121 dead. Of these, the majority, 107 soldiers, died in the Donetsk direction, 12 in Lugansk and two more in Zaporozhye. Russia has returned the bodies of 29 dead soldiers, State Duma deputy from Chechnya Shamsail Saraliev told RBC. On January 24, a Russian Il-76 transport plane crashed near Belgorod.

The Rubtsovsk City Court of the Altai Territory sent a man to a pre-trial detention center in the case of justifying the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, court representatives reported . This is a 30-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan; in the press release only the first letter of his last name is given - A. According to investigators, on March 24, in a store, a man spoke about an attack on Crocus.

The Kemerovo Regional Court, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, released from punishment the former head of the Kuzbass department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Mamontov, in the case of negligence, which led to a fire in the shopping center in “Winter Cherry,” a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom.

In the village of Zhernovets near Kursk, before the arrival of the governor, who was supposed to inspect repairs at a recreation center, a puppy living at a construction site was shot dead. This was reported by employees of the Kursk dog shelter “Right to Live”.