The Magnitogorsk Garrison Military Court sentenced former contract soldier Viktor Ryabinin to 10 years in a special regime colony for murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press service reported . According to the prosecution, on the night of June 5, 2025, the military man drank alcohol with a friend in her apartment in the city of Miass.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Azov fighter Denis Shepotko from the Zaporozhye region to 14 years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press service reported . He must spend the first two years of his sentence in prison, and the remaining 12 years in a maximum security colony.

In St. Petersburg, the producer of the Necrocomiccon exhibition festival, Alexei Samsonov, was detained , Fontanka and Rotunda reported. Fontanka adds that the police checked Samsonov’s documents for violations of migration laws - he is a citizen of Kazakhstan, but has been living in St. Petersburg for the last 20 years.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced Alexey Bykov to 5.5 years in prison for six counts of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the “Word to Defense” project reported .

The court of the city of Borzya, Trans-Baikal Territory, issued a verdict on extortion and forcible detention of a wounded participant in the war in Ukraine in a bathhouse. The case file can be found on the website of the Borzinsky Court. Two men, one of whom is a Russian military man, were drinking in a cafe, then both went to a store - there they met another participant in the fighting in Ukraine, who left the front after being wounded, Chita.ru clarifies .

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Omsk activist Richard-Roman King on the wanted list. Information about this appeared in the ministry’s database, Mediazona noted. It is unknown what exactly King is accused of. In April 2025, the activist was included in the register of “terrorists and extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring. Next to his name there were no marks typical for cases under terrorist articles, which may indicate that a case was opened against him under an extremist article.

In Moscow, the owner of the personal data search bot Userbox was detained in a criminal case regarding the collection and use of personal data (Article 272.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Baza , the telegram channel “VChK-OGPU” and RBC with reference to their sources. “The only ones left to work are penetration resources whose servers are located outside of Russia.

Telegram users in Russia can add a separate button in the settings that allows them to enter an email address to log into their account. Updated instructions for setting up this login method were published on the Durov Code project website. The innovation should make it easier for Russians to log in to the messenger when SMS messages and calls are blocked.

A criminal case was opened against blogger Lisa Miller (real name Elizaveta Batyuta) for money laundering on a particularly large scale (clause “b” of the fourth part of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, Batyuta evaded paying taxes in excess of 130 million rubles. She faces up to seven years in prison and a large fine.

A court in Moscow arrested historian Tamara Eidelman in absentia in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and “fake news” about the army (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), the capital’s prosecutor’s office reports . According to the department, the reason for the first accusation was a video published on May 5, 2024.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found blogger and business coach Ayaz Shabutdinov guilty of 113 counts of fraud on a significant, large and especially large scale, committed by an organized group (the fourth part of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). As the Moscow prosecutor's office clarifies , Shabutdinov will serve his sentence in a general regime colony and will pay a fine of five million rubles.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced a 58-year-old resident of the Nizhny Novgorod region to 12 years in prison in the case of a terrorist attack (part one of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

Roskomnadzor proposed replacing the existing system of consents for the processing of personal data with industry standards - with separate rules for different areas. According to the head of the department, Andrei Lipov, the current order no longer protects users. The institution of consent, prescribed in the law on personal data, is “extremely outdated,” Lipov believes: Russians sign such documents every time they interact with companies, but cannot track where and how their data is used.

Users of several mobile operators have stopped receiving SMS with codes from Telegram and WhatsApp - among them are Beeline and Tele2. The Durov Code and RBC publications claim, citing industry sources, that operators have received a requirement to limit the registration of new users in these messengers. The press services of the largest operators, as well as Telegram and the blocking regulator Roskomnadzor, have not yet commented on this.

The center of the Sumy region of Ukraine, bordering Russia, was attacked by drones at night. The regional police reported 15 victims, including four children. The drone hit a nine-story building, five apartments there caught fire. At least five residents of the house were injured. The regional prosecutor's office also provided information about four victims of a fire in a two-story residential building. A passenger depot in the city was attacked.