The State Duma immediately passed in the second and third readings a bill allowing employees of private security organizations to use military small arms when protecting critical infrastructure. According to the initiative card , the adopted project was sent to the Federation Council. The document states that such organizations will be able to receive military weapons from the territorial bodies of the Russian Guard.

The Pskov City Court sentenced policeman Alexei Fominov, who shot at an instructor at a shooting range, to a year of restriction of freedom. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Pskov region. This happened on March 28, 2025 during a training session at a shooting range at the professional training center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Pskov Region.

Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona The number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine—those whose names have been discovered and verified by Mediazona, the BBC Russian service, and a team of volunteers—has now surpassed 200,000. This grim tally is far from complete, as the verification process is slow and tedious.Amid this work, we are facing a dual threat: algorithmic errors and deliberate attempts to introduce disinformation and undermine our project’s authenticity.

St. Petersburg magistrate Roman Yesyutin began to consider in absentia a criminal case against Miron Fedorov for violating the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona became aware of this. Prosecutor Daria Lyubopytnova announced the indictment, from which it follows that Oksimiron twice failed to put the “foreign agent” mark on his publications and both times was fined 40 thousand rubles by the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St.

The Central District Military Court sentenced the Ural hieromonk of the ROCOR(A) Nikandr (Evgeniy Pinchuk) to five and a half years in a general regime colony in the case of a post on Facebook. This was reported in the telegram channel of the anti-war priest Ioann Kurmoyarov. Pinchuk was found guilty of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). During the debate, the prosecution asked that he be sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a verdict in the case of group abduction of a minor, robbery and extortion of money, the press service of the city courts reported . Four St.

Maxim Katz was sentenced in absentia to 1 year in prison on charges of violating the procedures for the activities of a “foreign agent.” In combination with the previous sentence, the politician was sentenced to 9 years of general regime, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom of Magistrate Judge No. 151 in Moscow. He was also banned from administering websites for 6 years.

The administration of the Belogorsk district of the Amur region said that the authorities will create a unified list of games and toys for kindergartens and other preschool institutions. A message about this was published in the administration’s telegram channel.

The Abakan City Court sentenced two local residents, 17 and 18 years old, to two years of suspended imprisonment in the case of arson of the republican office of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). As the Khakassia prosecutor's office clarifies , they were found guilty of deliberate destruction of property by arson with significant damage.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow filed an administrative claim against businessman Alexander Galitsky and the Almaz Capital Partners, LTD corporation for their ban due to signs of “extremist activity.” This was reported by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow. As RBC clarifies , the plaintiff was the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia. In addition to the ban, the department demands that the organization’s property be converted into state income.

The Nyurbinsky District Court sentenced Gennady and Alexey Kirillin, father and son, in the case of the use of slave labor with the use of violence (Part 2 of Article 127.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press services of the court and prosecutor's office of Yakutia . 68-year-old Gennady Kirillin was sentenced to 3 years in a general regime colony, Alexey - to 3 years and 2 months in prison. At the time of sentencing, they were free under a ban on certain activities.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced two teenagers from the Nizhny Novgorod region to six and eight years in a correctional colony in the case of arson of railway equipment. The decision was announced by the Volga Transport Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee . Convicts are 17 years old. They were found guilty under the article of terrorism. According to investigators, in February one of the minors set fire to a relay cabinet on the Gorky Railway for money.

Judge Anastasia Turkina of the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced 29-year-old native of the Kherson region Ekaterina Korchagina to 3.5 years in prison for a post about raising money for a drone for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mediazona learned. The girl was found guilty under the article on calls for activities directed against the security of the state (clause “c” of part 2 of article 280.4 of the Criminal Code).

Photo: Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters Connect The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Ekaterina Korchagina, a native of Novaya Kakhovka. According to investigators, in 2023, she published a post on her Instagram about raising money for a drone for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and conducted a stream where she spoke out against “carrying out a special military operation.” In court, the 29-year-old girl repented and admitted her guilt in full. The court sentenced her to 3.5 years in prison.

In Yekaterinburg, the police left ex-deputy of the Sverdlovsk Regional Council, 68-year-old Mikhail Borisov, in the department for no more than 48 hours; a protocol was drawn up against him for organizing an uncoordinated public action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) because of laying flowers on the 11th anniversary of the death of politician Boris Nemtsov, his defender Alexey Antonov told Medivzone.