In Tomsk, police detained a Latvian citizen and drew up a report on him for drug propaganda (Article 6.13 of the Administrative Code), reports the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the telegram channels “Sirena” , Baza and “Caution, News” , we are talking about a rapper from Riga Platina (Robert Plaudis).

Izvestia military correspondent Semyon Eremin died in Ukraine. The publication itself reports this. How exactly and where this happened is unknown. The Izvestia employee was 42 years old. Eremin worked “in the special operation zone” from the moment it began and was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.

American Russell Bentley, an employee of the Sputnik propaganda agency, was killed in Donetsk. This was announced by the Chairman of the Public Chamber of the self-proclaimed republic, Alexander Kofman. “I received information from “Texas”’s wife, Lyudmila, and she was told that a DNA test confirmed a match with Russell,” Kofman said. Information about Bentley’s death was confirmed by his boss, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.

The death toll as a result of Russian shelling of the center of Dnieper has reached seven people. This was announced by the head of the regional administration Sergei Lysak. According to Lysak, the number of victims reached 35 people. At night and in the morning, nine suicide bombers and 11 missiles were shot down in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Lysak also spoke about the dead and injured in other parts of the region - Sinelnikovo, Krivoy Rog and Pavlodar. The latter damaged an unnamed business.

The US House of Representatives has sent a bill on a new aid package to Ukraine to a vote. The House meeting was broadcast on C-SPAN. The document has been discussed since last fall. In addition to Ukraine, senators will consider assistance to Israel and Taiwan in one package. Now the bill must be approved by the Senate and US President Joe Biden. The assistance package provides for the allocation of $61 billion to Ukraine.

The Vologda City Court transferred local activist and lawyer Yevgeny Molotov from pre-trial detention center to house arrest, who is accused of financing extremist activities (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by SOTAvision and fellow activist Evgeniy Domozhirov . The investigation claims that in 2021, Molotov sent a thousand rubles to the account of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) of Alexei Navalny.

The family of billionaire Ruben Vardanyan reported that on April 5 he began a hunger strike in an Azerbaijani pre-trial detention center. The Azerbaijani Border Service detained Vardanyan, who was the Minister of State (head of government) of Nagorno-Karabakh, in September 2023 at a checkpoint in the Lachin corridor. Then, after another stage of active hostilities, the unrecognized republic capitulated. Vardanyan tried to evacuate to Armenia from Karabakh along with other residents.

The Polish authorities identified the participants in the attack on Leonid Volkov thanks to the investigation into the attack on the wife of economist Maxim Mironov in Argentina. This was reported by The Insider . On August 31, 2023, a man called Mironov’s apartment in Buenos Aires on the intercom and said in English: “Professor Maxim Mironov. I have a message for you.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the detention of a Belarusian citizen as part of the investigation into the attack on Leonid Volkov. According to him, the man “worked for the Russians” and “ordered the murder of Navalny’s ally” to two Poles. Their detention became known earlier today. The attackers are “connected to ultra football fan circles,” Tusk added. Lithuanian police also provided details about the detained Polish citizens.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone More and more residents of Russia are behind bars due to disagreement with the authorities who unleashed the war against Ukraine. The expense of political prisoners is hundreds - even if their names are known, human rights defenders are increasingly difficult to keep track of the fate of everyone. "Mediazone" is trying to regularly remind of these people.

The Smolensky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Alexey Nazarov five thousand rubles due to a link to the Meduza article on his VKontakte page. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. We are talking about a “collective appeal by activists from Russia and Belarus”, released on March 8, 2023. It talked about the systemic problems women face in Russia and ways to solve them.

In 2023, Russia issued a record number of visas to Nepal citizens. The data about this "Mediazona" found in the statistics of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2023, Russian visas received 3,037 Nepalians. The most common goals of entry into Russia were tourism (1,756), work (660) and education (459). Russia did not give out such a number of visas even to the pandemic of coronavirus.

The Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee reported on the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect in the murder of a motorcyclist on Krasnodarskaya Street in Moscow. The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee clarifies that the young man was detained along with two accomplices in the Rostov region. Both departments - the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office - published photographs of the detainees; all three will be taken to Moscow for interrogation.

In the Samara region, two 16-year-old schoolchildren were detained suspected of setting fire to an Mi-8 helicopter at the Kryazh military airfield near Samara. This was reported by deputy Alexander Khinshtein, a former adviser to the director of the Russian Guard. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the arson of the Mi-8 on the afternoon of April 17. The post was accompanied by a blurry video showing the outline of a helicopter in the night and fire.

The WhatsApp and Threads applications owned by Meta , as well as the Telegram , Signal and Line instant messengers, were removed from the Chinese App Store . Apple representatives explained this to Reuters as a requirement from the Cyberspace Administration of China due to “concerns about the national security” of the country.