The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow sent Fyodor Grudin to a pre-trial detention center, against whom a case was opened for justifying terrorism. Mediazona found this in the court file. From the published resolution we only know that the Muscovite was detained yesterday, April 1. At the same time, the case itself was initiated (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Sternum is 30 years old. He was the author of several public pages on VKontakte with memes about politics.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev in absentia on charges of organizing a pogrom at Makhachkala airport in the fall of 2023. The press service of the republic's courts reported this. Together with him, the Islamic preacher Israil Akhmednabiev, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, and Abakar Abakarov, whom Russian authorities consider the administrator of the telegram channel “Morning Dagestan,” were tried in absentia.

Source: Mediazona Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, at least 15 of its generals have been confirmed killed—in drone strikes, car bombings, crashes, and on the front line. In March, Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshhenko reportedly died in a plane crash over Crimea. Mediazona has reconstructed the toll and the careers of these generals.

The Baltic Fleet Military Court sentenced F., a resident of the Kaliningrad region, to 21 years in prison in the case of cooperation with foreign intelligence services and preparation of an explosion. The decision was announced by the press service of the court. The accused will spend the first four years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, held a meeting with the largest services, at which he said that they need to limit access to users with VPN enabled by April 15, RBC writes , citing sources close to the meeting participants. The meeting took place on March 30.

Judge of the 1st Western District Military Court Egor Objectov sentenced 58-year-old disability pensioner Andrei Ivanov to two years in a general regime colony in the case of calls for terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment about Vladimir Putin five years ago. Mediazona became aware of this. Prosecutor Viktor Gradusov asked for 4 years and six months in prison for Ivanov. Before the verdict, the pensioner was under house arrest.

During the crash of an An-26 military transport aircraft in the annexed Crimea, Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshchenko, commander of the mixed aviation corps of the Northern Fleet, was killed. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service with reference to sources. An anonymous Northern Fleet serviceman told the BBC that Otroshchenko was on the crashed plane along with other fleet officers.

Investigators opened a criminal case of terrorism against a 62-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who tried to set fire to a gas station on instructions from scammers. The Investigative Committee reports this. According to investigators, late in the evening of April 1, a woman threw a bottle with a flammable mixture towards fuel pumps at a gas station in the Frunzensky district. No one was hurt.

Security forces opened a criminal case under the “Dada” article against Mikhail Bitov, a Yaroslavl National Bolshevik leader and supporter of the “Other Russia” movement of E. V. Limonov. The National Human Rights Channel writes about the criminal prosecution of the activist. Bitov is charged with repeated violations of the established procedure for holding public events (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). What exactly was the reason for initiating the case is not yet known.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced German sculptor Jacques Tilly to eight and a half years in a general regime colony in absentia because of a carnival float with figures of Putin and Patriarch Kirill and an interview with Deutsche Welle. As SOTAvision reports from the courtroom, in addition to imprisonment, judge Konstantin Ochirov imposed a fine on Tilly in the amount of 200 thousand rubles and a ban on website administration for four years.

Security forces detained a 15-year-old teenager from the Moscow region suspected of setting fire to cellular communication equipment. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports this. According to the police, the young man set fire to a metal cabinet with equipment at the 27th kilometer of the Krasnogorsk - Opalikha section. At the scene of the fire, security forces found burnt cables and casing, damaged batteries and traces of flammable materials, the Ministry of Internal Affairs indicated.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 42-year-old Kostroma resident Roman Gribov to six years in a general regime colony because of two comments in a telegram. Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova announced the court's decision. Gribov was found guilty of calls for terrorism and extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2, Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

The judicial panel of the Moscow Regional Court rejected the defense's complaint against the decision of the Lyubertsy City Court, which sentenced 56-year-old Vladimir Osipov to 6.5 years in prison in the case of “fake news” about the army. According to SOTAvision , the criminal case was dropped due to his death. The verdict, handed down in November 2025, has been overturned.

Magistrate Tatyana Cherkasova began to consider the case of rapper Alisher Morgenstern under the article on violating the requirements for “foreign agents” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code), reports a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom of court district No. 349 in Moscow. The reason for the criminal case was posts without “foreign agent” tags published on the artist’s telegram, Instagram and YouTube from March to June 2024.

At the Telecom 2026 conference, the general director of the VimpelCom company operating under the Beeline brand, Sergei Anokhin, proposed limiting Internet access using “white lists” only to subscribers who raise “doubts.” RBC reports this. “We have good statistics, information where we are absolutely sure that this is the person who uses the phone. You can also run additional identification to further guarantee.