The Tsivilsky District Court of Chuvashia fined 53-year-old local resident Valeryan Viktorov because of old posts mentioning Open Russia. He himself told Mediazona about this. Viktorov was found guilty under two protocols on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences) - under the first he was fined five thousand rubles; Viktorov does not know the amount of the second fine, since the meetings took place simultaneously.

The Buzuluksky District Court of the Orenburg Region sentenced driver Mikhail Kolokolnikov to five months of correctional labor with a deduction of 5% of his salary, who was previously fined 130 thousand rubles in a criminal case for “discrediting” the army. The court's press service announced the change of sentence. The bailiff asked that Kolokolnikov be given a punishment other than a fine. She reported that the driver did not pay 130 thousand rubles on time.

The Maysky District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria acquitted Jehovah's Witness Kirill Gushchin in the case of organizing a religious community. This was reported on the website of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses. Gushchin was charged under the article on organizing the activities of an “extremist” organization and involvement in it (parts 1 and 1.1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow registered a case of military “fakes” against Nadezhda Buyanova, a 67-year-old therapist at Moscow Children’s Clinic No. 140. Mediazona drew attention to the case file . The first hearing in the case has not yet been scheduled. The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to initiate a criminal case against Buyanova (clause “e” of Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) in February.

In Ulyanovsk, a criminal case was opened against the artist Egor Kholtov for insulting the religious feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Ulyanovsk news agency. On April 26, the regional department of the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a case, although the name of the suspect was not reported in the press release of the security forces. Later it became known that this was specifically about Holtov.

Judge of the Rostov Regional Court Vladimir Abramov approved the sentence of 72-year-old pensioner Evgenia Mayboroda because of two reposts on VKontakte. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. During her speech at the hearing, the pensioner asked the judge to “be merciful.” “I’m an old man with a lot of ailments and illnesses. I understand that I can’t live like this for a long time without drugs; in general, it’s difficult for me.

At a meeting of the 1st Eastern District Military Court, the prosecutor's office asked to sentence Khabarovsk activist Angel Nikolaev to 18 years in prison, the Solidarity Zone reports . His sentence will be announced on May 3. 38-year-old Nikolaev was detained in Khabarovsk in July 2023 because of red-painted flags on the graves of participants in the war with Ukraine at the city’s Central Cemetery.

Volgograd cannibal Dmitry Malyshev, sentenced to 25 years in prison, left the colony for the war in Ukraine. V1.RU writes about this. According to the publication, Malyshev has been participating in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for several months now - he was wounded in February. The Volgograd resident was recruited to participate in hostilities in the fall of 2023.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered the initiation of a criminal case due to damage to the graves of participants in the war with Ukraine in Volgograd, according to the department’s website. On May 1, photographs from the Verkhnezarechenskoye cemetery in Volgograd were posted by the Ritual Patrol telegram channel.

In the Moskovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod, a trial in absentia begins against the head of the Sakharov Center, Sergei Lukashevsky, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. The first meeting is scheduled for today, as follows from the case file. Lukashevsky is charged with disseminating false information about the Russian armed forces based on political hatred (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Image: Markus Jonsson/https://twitter.com/auonsson On April 29, the FINNAIR airline suspended flights from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu. The reason for the airline was called "Squints GPS, which are quite common in this region." Before that, the two night flights of Finnair could not land in Tartu due to the malfunction of the GPS navigation. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhkna accused Russia of interference in the country's airspace.

During the debate in the Novgorod Regional Court, the prosecutor's office requested 10 years in a general regime colony for Antonina Martynova (Fedorova), the wife of the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, accused of attempted murder. A Mediazona correspondent reports this from the court. In 2008, a jury in Veliky Novgorod found her guilty of attempted murder of her daughter Alice.

The FSB directorate for the Primorsky Territory announced the detention of a resident of Vladivostok, who is suspected of collaborating with the Ukrainian special services. The FSB press release was published in the telegram channel of the region's anti-terrorism commission. A case of high treason was opened against the detainee (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee in the Murmansk region opened a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism against businessman and blogger from Izhevsk Konstantin Petrov. This was reported by the main department of the Investigative Committee. A case was opened against Petrov under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory and insulting the defenders of the Fatherland (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 12 drones intercepted by air defense systems in five regions of Russia. “Duty air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 12 Ukrainian UAVs, of which: five over the territory of the Bryansk region, one over the territory of the Kursk region, one over the territory of the Belgorod region, two over the territory of the Rostov region and three over the territory of the Krasnodar region,” - the ministry said in a statement.