The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic, established by Russia, sentenced the 60-year-old resident of Yenakievo Sergey Shtyrov to 13 years in a maximum security colony in the state of state-owned manner (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Russian prosecutor's office in the region and the telegram channel "DPR Defense Headquarters" . He was also a fine of 450 thousand rubles.

In the Rostov region, the security forces detained Imam Ahmed Abusupyanov in the case of organizing the activities of extremist organization and hooliganism due to an attack on humans (part 2 of Article 213, part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Kommersant and the site 161.ru with reference to anonymous sources and the press service of the local department of the FSB.

Коллаж: Медиазона This spring, one of the major hits of the 2010s, The Walking Dead, returned to Russian streaming services.

Russian developers Alexander Litreev and Artem Tshoyan established the name of a person who can be associated with fake telegram channels and sites that outstand the resources of the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Ukrainian project “I want to live”, collecting personal data of users. According to developers, a 25-year-old resident of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Ostenkov, using the Illegmercy pseudonym, may be involved in the creation of fake sites.

Maria Bonzler in court. Photo: Kaliningrad Regional Court press service Maria Bonzler, a prominent human rights lawyer in Russia’s Kaliningrad region, was placed in pre-trial detention accused of “confidential cooperation with a foreign state”. This serious charge, introduced to the Criminal Code in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is, in essence, a “treason-lite” offence punishable by three to eight years’ imprisonment.

The Saratov Regional Court sentenced three local residents in the case of money laundering, state reception and sabotage. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the region. Yuri Aksenova was found guilty of one episode of sabotage and stateisms and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Dmitry Aksenov and Vlasov Shirokov sentenced the court to 18 years in prison: both, in addition to the Stateizer, were charged with three episodes of the sabotage, follows from the card .

Upninsky City Court of the Kaluga Region sentenced to two years of compulsory work with a deduction of 10 percent of the salary of the state of the local resident Zakhar Petukhov, accused of spreading military “fakes”. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the region. According to investigators, in December 2024, Petukhov left a message about the murders of civilians in the Ukrainian Buchi in the Dol.

The Leningrad District Court of Kaliningrad arrested lawyer Maria Bonzler, accused of cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state or organization (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to the "Mediazone" in the press service of the Kaliningrad Regional Court. They clarified that the lawyer was elected a preventive measure in the form of detention until July 26, 2025.

The Appeal Military Court increased the term of conclusion of the security forces from the Irkutsk region Sergey Taltykin, accused of justifying terrorism due to comments in Telegram. This was reported by the OVD-Info with reference to the press service of the court. In February, a 63-year-old man was sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony. The Court of Appeal has increased the term to six years.

The publishing house of children's and adolescence “Samota” sent a list of 23 books to stores and asked to withdraw them from sale. This was reported by "Paper" with reference to employees of an unnamed bookstore in St. Petersburg, which received this list.

The 21-year-old warehouse of the State University of Education Polina Kostikova pleaded guilty to the case of participation in Azov and RDK (part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazons" from the hall of the Moscow City Court. The Moscow City Court today left the measure of Kostikova restraint without changing - the content in custody. For the first time, Kostikov was detained in early March, then she was sent under house arrest.

The Krasnoarmeysky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced to terms of three and a half to four years in a colony of general regime two former police officers accused of beating the detainee for the testimony. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the region. According to investigators, in August 2023, the district police officer Evgeny Samonov and the operative of Ivan Tatsenko beaten the detainee with a metal chair, demanding to confess the theft.

Collage: Mediazone In the spring, one of the main hits of the 2010s, “The Walking Dead,” triumphantly returned to legal Russian streaming services. Mediazona examined how the Amediateka service, which distributes the series, treated it, its numerous spin-offs and related documentary projects. We found more than two and a half hours of censorship in the Walking Dead universe on a variety of topics: references to LGBT people, abortion, BDSM and the Black Lives Matter movement were cut out.

The 2nd Western District Military Court has appointed a long time to citizens of Ukraine and Russia, accused of preparing to kill a senior soldier. This was announced by the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. A native of the Kharkov region Oleg Zabolotny was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and the second accused - Maxim Volga from St. Petersburg - to 19 years in prison. For the first four years, both men will spend in prison, and the rest is in a maximum security colony.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg at the suit of the prosecutor’s office recognized the links to the track “Cooperative” Lebedin Lake, Rapa Noize MS. This was announced by the head of the press service of the city of the city of Daria Lebedeva. The court registered the prosecutor’s office on the ban on the ban at the end of April. Then Lebedeva said that the track was sent for research at the State Pedagogical University named after Herzen.