After the start of the war, 120 residents of the region were killed due to shelling in the Belgorod region. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced this. 11 of the 120 dead were children, the head of the region added. Another 651 people, of whom 51 were children, were injured. In addition, Gladkov recalled that just recently a shell fragment killed a pregnant woman in Novaya Tavolzhanka.

In St. Petersburg, the authorities want to introduce a ban on the dissemination of information about the consequences of drone strikes in the city. The corresponding draft resolution of Governor Alexander Beglov was published on the administration’s website.

In Penza, police detained trash streamer and TikToker from Volgograd Pavel Prokudin, who called participants in the war in Ukraine “cannon fodder.” Representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk spoke about this. They plan to take the detainee to Volgograd - there, as the local department of the Investigative Committee reported , he must be given a preventive measure in a criminal case.

The head of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov called the philosopher Immanuel Kant "Russian trophy" during the plenary session at the International Kantus Congress. The broadcast from the event was published on the UTUB channel of the Kanta BFU.

AST Publishing House has stopped selling the book “Heritage” by Vladimir Sorokin. This was reported in the telegram channel of the publishing group. In addition to The Inheritance, ACT has stopped selling The House at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin.

In Kharkov, the Russian military hit a television tower. This was announced by the head of the region Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, there are currently interruptions in the digital television signal in the city. Video footage distributed by local residents shows that the upper part of the tower has collapsed. Kharkov authorities report that no one was injured in the attack.

61-year-old Belgorod volunteer Alexander Demidenko, who helped Ukrainian refugees, was found in a pretrial detention cell with cut veins on his left forearm. The regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service reported this to the Lantern publication. “Employees from the medical service of the institution immediately arrived at the scene of the incident, and an ambulance was called. Resuscitation efforts did not bring any results; emergency doctors pronounced the death of the accused.

The case against eight residents of Crimea, who are accused under articles of treason and terrorism, was transferred to the southern district military court in Rostov-on-Don. “Mediazona” found the card on the court’s website. The “Zone of Solidarity” project to help anti-war activists also drew attention to this.

Prisoners at Colony No. 6 for lifers in the Orenburg region, known as the “Black Dolphin,” spoke of beatings and torture. Member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) Eva Merkacheva writes about this in a publication in Moskovsky Komsomolets. According to the human rights activist, newly arrived prisoners are forced to stand in the “swallow” position for hours. “Those who, in their [prisoners’] opinion, do not spread their legs wide enough, are hit on the limbs.

Project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized the owner of the Orenburg bar Pose Vyacheslav Khasanov, the art director of the club Alexander Klimov and the administrator Diana Kamilyanova as political prisoners. All three were arrested at the end of March on charges of organizing the activities of an “extremist organization” (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This is the first known such case since LGBT people were recognized as an “extremist organization” in Russia.

The Tosnensky City Court of the Leningrad Region arrested 42-year-old Wagner PMC mercenary Alexey Serov for two months in the case of the murder of a St. Petersburg woman, a 78.RU correspondent reported from the courtroom. As Fontanka wrote , Serov was detained in the village of Nikolskoye, where police officers arrived at the request of a 20-year-old girl whose mother had disappeared. Police found a suitcase with human remains on a closet in the apartment.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow arrested 21-year-old Shahin Abbasov, who is accused of murdering a motorcyclist in the southeast of the capital. The press service of the Moscow courts reported this from the courtroom. According to investigators, last Wednesday, April 17, 24-year-old motorcyclist Kirill Kovalev reprimanded Abbasov for parking his car on the sidewalk at the entrance. The accused stabbed Kovalev with a knife and then fled. The motorcyclist died in hospital.

Judge of the 2nd Western District Military Court Roman Kiforenko sentenced Meta spokesman Andy Stone to 6 years in a general regime colony because of a tweet written in March 2022 about new moderation rules for Facebook and Instagram .

The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Chechnya, Alakhan Tsakaev, who was detained on April 14 by Dagestani police, was driving in the oncoming lane, tried to escape and hit the security forces several times. The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District reported on the results of the inspection. Tsakaev was detained at the Gerzelsky Bridge federal checkpoint.

In secondary school No. 1 in the Kotelniki near Moscow, the event “How Patriotism begins”, to which the war member in Ukraine Alexander Glazov came. The publication “Nemoskva” found the publication about this on the website of the All -Russian Society of Veterans “Battle Brotherhood”. The meeting with the schoolchildren took place on October 27, but the note was paid attention to the notes dedicated to her only now.