The Russian army carried out an airstrike on Dergachi, Kharkov region, said the head of the Dergachiv city community , Vyacheslav Zadorenko , and the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov . The attack hit a civilian enterprise, and a fire started there. According to Zadorenko, a 39-year-old security guard received a shrapnel wound.

The Riga City Court found taxi driver Sergei Sidorov guilty of espionage for Russia and sentenced him to seven years in prison, reports the Latvian publication Delfi. Sidorov's case began to be considered in court on April 5.

The head of Bashkortoston, Radiy Khabirov, reported an attack by three Ukrainian drones on the enterprises of the fuel and energy complex of the republic. He does not specify what objects he is talking about. The first UAV, according to Khabirov, “fell on the territory of one of the enterprises and caused minimal damage in the form of broken glass in the control room.” Two more drones fell in an industrial zone, the head of the republic claims.

Daria Bogdanova, an activist of the Freedom Birds for Ukraine project and the great-granddaughter of Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov, was added to the list of “extremists and terrorists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. She herself wrote about this on Twitter. In May it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had put Bogdanova on the wanted list.

A prisoner in pre-trial detention center 5 in the Tatarstan city of Chistopol set himself on fire during a meeting of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, which he attended via video link. This was reported by the publications Inkazan and KazanFirst , as well as by the head of the regional branch of the Civil Initiative party, Dmitry Rumyantsev , citing sources. According to Rumyantsev, the man’s clothes were soaked in sunflower oil and caught fire when set on fire with matches.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow registered an administrative case of “discrediting” the Russian army, filed against comedian Danila Poperechny. Mediazona drew attention to the case file on the court’s website. Poperechny is charged with the first part of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences, which implies a fine of 30 to 50 thousand rubles. It is unknown why a report was drawn up against the comedian.

Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazon The 2nd Western District Military Court examined the case against 23-year-old Belgorod Ibrahim Orujov for three days, who was accused under articles on teaching terrorism and preparing for terrorist attack. According to investigators, he was going to commit it at the Moscow military registration and enlistment office.

Deputy Prosecutor General of Finland Jukka Rappe has charged the Russian neo-Nazi and one of the leaders of the sabotage and assault reconnaissance group “Rusich” Jan Petrovsky (Vojislav Torden) with five war crimes. Yle reports this. All the crimes that Petrovsky is charged with were committed in the fall of 2014.

A representative of the prosecutor's office asked the Sverdlovsk Regional Court to sentence a resident of Nizhny Tagil, accused of high treason, to 17 years in a maximum security colony. The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region reports this. According to the department, from September 2022 to March 2023, the man provided the Ukrainian special services with information of a “military-technical nature” that could be used “against the security” of Russia.

The Department for Youth Work of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) has banned mentioning the word “Halloween” and attributes associated with this holiday when holding events on October 31. Anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova, who previously worked at the university, reports this with reference to sources.

Three judges of the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 23-year-old Ibragim Orujov to 16 years in prison in the case of teaching terrorism (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code) and preparing for a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). He will spend the first 3 years of his sentence in prison, then will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

Ksenia Yudaeva left the position of adviser to the chairman of the Central Bank “due to the decision to continue working outside of it.” This is reported on the Central Bank website. “Ksenia Yudaeva made an invaluable contribution to the formation of the Bank of Russia as a modern institution. It was she who helped introduce the inflation targeting mechanism. Together with her we went through a series of crises.

St. Petersburg police conducted several dozen searches “in places of compact residence of nomadic people” in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region. This was reported in the telegram channel of the St. Petersburg department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

During the debate in the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor asked for eight years in a general regime colony for 64-year-old political scientist, activist and member of the board of the Solidarity movement Evgeny Bestuzhev. SOTAvision writes about this with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom. Bestuzhev is accused of spreading “fakes” about the army motivated by political hatred (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Southern District Court of Rostov-on-Don, at the request of prosecutor Sergei Aydinov, closed the trial of 18 Ukrainians accused of serving in the Aidar battalion. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.