The Ministry of Defense confirmed that Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchina, who went missing in the occupied part of Zaporizhia Oblast almost nine months ago, has been detained and is in Russia. Her father told the publication "Grati" about this. The department does not specify where exactly the journalist is located or what she is suspected of or accused of.

A report was drawn up against a resident of Yekaterinburg for failure to fulfill child-rearing responsibilities (Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) after she was detained together with her 17-year-old daughter at a BDSM party. This was reported to EAN by Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Sverdlovsk Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Three people were killed as a result of Russian shelling in the city of Snegirevka in Mykolaiv Oblast, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) reported . Six people, according to rescuers, were injured. Among them are a 17-year-old boy and girl. The State Emergency Service clarifies that a coffee shop, a car shop and a tire shop caught fire due to the shelling, but the fire has already been extinguished.

The Polish authorities will restrict the movement of Russian diplomats within the country. This was announced by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. According to him, employees of the Russian embassy in Warsaw will be able to move only within the capital's Mazowieckie Voivodeship, and employees of consulates in Krakow, Gdansk and Poznan - within the regions where diplomatic missions are located. The restrictions will not affect the Russian ambassador to Poland, Sergei Andreyev.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a decree granting citizenship of the country to members of the group "Bi-2", the document was posted on her website ( .pdf ). Citizenship was granted to bass guitarist Maxim "Lakmus" Andryushchenko, the band's managers Alexey Levchenko and Alexandra Ovcherenko, as well as their family members.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow received a report on Meduza publisher Galina Timchenko under the article on participation in an “undesirable organization” (20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Mediazona found this in the court’s file. Information about the protocol appeared in the database today. At the same time, it says that the case materials were registered on May 2. Perhaps this is a typo. The protocol meeting has not yet been scheduled.

The group "Bi-2" announced the cancellation of their performance at the Family Rock Fest music festival, which will take place at the end of August in Kazakhstan, on the Peschanaya Spit near Almaty. The musicians did not give reasons for their decision. The group Bi-2, which openly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, announced its participation in the three-day festival in mid-January.

For the first time, an investigator allowed the mother and grandmother of journalist Antonina Favorskaya to visit her in the pretrial detention center. This was reported to Mediazona by lawyer Fedor Sirosh. Today, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow is to consider the defense's complaint against the ban on visits to the pretrial detention center for Antonina Favorskaya's relatives, but the hearing, scheduled for 4:00 p.m., has not yet begun.

The Council of the European Union has imposed personal sanctions due to "internal repression" and human rights violations in Russia. The document was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The list, as Current Time wrote , was unofficially named after Alexei Navalny. Today, the Federal Penitentiary Service and 19 other people were added to the list.

Protocols for incitement of hatred and calls for separatism were drawn up against the frontman of the indie rock band Avtosport Andrey Vanyukov, the Telegram channel “Beware, News” drew attention to. The administrative cases were registered by the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow. In April, Vanyukov was charged with "discrediting" the Russian army and demonstrating "extremist" symbols. The hearings were postponed until June 6 due to the plaintiff's failure to appear.

The Tomsk Regional Court sentenced a 17-year-old man accused of setting fire to a railroad to four years and six months in a correctional colony. This was reported by the Siberian transport prosecutor's office and transport police . The teenager was accused of setting fire to a contact network support in the Sovietsky district of Tomsk, between the Tomsk-1 and Tomsk-2 stations. It occurred on the night of September 19, 2023.

The owner of the company "Translom" Alexey Zolotarev has Maltese citizenship, The Insider found out . His company is the exclusive recipient of military scrap for recycling. According to the publication, Zolotarev received Maltese citizenship in 2018 along with his wife and four children. His wife Maria owns the Olivula company in France, which owns a villa in the commune of Grimaud on the Mediterranean coast.

The First Criminal Court of Erzurum, Turkey, acquitted Mohammad Nizar Arnabeh, who was accused of murdering his girlfriend, Russian femactivist Anastasia Yemelyanova. This was reported to Mediazona by the victim's friend Yulia Safronova. According to Sabah and DHA , the court ordered Arnabeh's release from custody.

A court in Dusseldorf has sentenced a former Bundeswehr officer to three and a half years in prison for spying for Russia, Spiegel reports . Thomas H., 54, was found guilty of acting as an agent and violating official secrets. The indictment says he voluntarily passed on official information to Russian intelligence services.

The 235th Garrison Military Court refused to release from pretrial detention the former commander of the 58th Army, General Ivan Popov, accused in a case of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Popov has been in pretrial detention since May 17. The investigation requested that he be released under house arrest.