In the city of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region, former prisoner Ivan Kumov, who returned from the war in Ukraine, beat to death a veteran of the war in Chechnya, Alexei Khudyakov. The wife of the murdered man, Olga , told Ura.ru about this. When exactly this happened is unknown. According to the woman, “at the end of April” her husband went to the pharmacy to buy allergy pills.

The Investigative Department of the IC in the North-West Administrative District of Moscow opened a criminal case against a resident of the capital, accused of organizing the work recognized by the “undesirable” Chinese movement “Falungun” (part 3 of article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the department.

Germany and the Czech Republic blamed Russian hackers from the APT28 group (also known as Fancy Bear ) for the cyberattacks. The words of official representatives of European countries are reported by Reuters . According to the head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Bärbock, in 2023, hackers attacked the server of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and tried to hack the work emails of its employees.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa registered the materials of the administrative case against rapper Face (Ivan Dremin). Mediazona drew attention to the card in the court database. The musician is charged with failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). The case materials were received by the court today; a hearing on it has not yet been scheduled.

A court in the Finnish city of Kajaani arrested three Russian citizens on suspicion of exporting dual-use goods abroad. The Yle agency reports this. On April 30, the police reported an “operation” that took place at the Kainuu Vocational College and in the dormitory. Then two 25-year-old students and an 18-year-old student of this school were detained. The preventive measure was chosen for them today at a closed meeting.

In Novoaleksandrovsk, police and FSB officers detained three local residents who, on May 2, burned the “New Testament” on a barbecue in the courtyard of a house, reported the department of the Investigative Committee for the Stavropol Territory. The young people are suspected in a criminal case of insulting the religious feelings of believers and hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code and Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

By the end of the first quarter of 2024, Russian banks issued 311 thousand deferrals under loan agreements for contractors, mobilized and volunteers fighting in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the Central Bank, to which the Mediazona drew attention to. The number of new applications for benefits continues to grow: for the first three months of 2024, banks received 33 thousand statements, while in the last quarter of 2023 there were 31 thousand.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk arrested for ten days a businessman and blogger from Izhevsk, Konstantin Petrov, who came to the city on an excursion. This is reported on the court's website. Petrov was found guilty under the protocol of petty hooliganism (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). According to the police, on April 29, the blogger swore in the Murmansk Mall shopping center.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the "Committee of Ingush Independence" founded by the Ingush diaspora in Turkey as an "undesirable organization." Today the Ministry of Justice entered the organization into the appropriate register. Representatives of the movement advocating the secession of Ingushetia participate in the events of the “Forum of Free Peoples of Russia” - this is a project of ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. It was also declared "undesirable" in March 2023.

The 2nd Western District Military Court received a criminal case against the former Prosecutor General and First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema, Mediazona drew attention to the case file . Yarema was charged in absentia with disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and promoting terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

The State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation supported amendments to the second reading of the bill banning “foreign agents” from participating in elections at all levels. The table of amendments has been published in the database of the lower house of parliament.

The Russian military shelled the Kholodnogorsky district of Kharkov, said the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov. Guided aerial bombs were fired at the city, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim . According to Terekhov, an elderly woman died as a result of the attack. Two people were injured - men 78 and 66 years old, said the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. The first one has an acute reaction to stress, the second one has a shell shock.

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.

Former deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council Helga Pirogova received a response from the regional Ministry of Education about the attendance of events for schoolchildren by “North Military District veteran” Nikita Semyanov, who was convicted of murdering his wife’s father.

The Rostov Regional Court sentenced Ivan Milovanov to ten years in a maximum security colony on charges of espionage. Mediazona was told about this by the press service of the court. The plot of the charges in the espionage cases is not disclosed. Article 276 of the Criminal Code assumes that the accused is a foreign citizen. Convict Ivan Milovanov was born in Lugansk, the court clarified. Details about his persecution have not previously been reported.