The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg sent pensioner Svetlana Shestakova to a pre-trial detention center in the case of a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. A 62-year-old woman is accused of starting an arson at a gas station. On the evening of April 1, she threw a Molotov cocktail towards a fuel dispenser. However, no one was hurt. The footage of the video published by Fontanka shows that the St.

Activist and representative of the small Siberian Selkup people Daria Egereva is accused of participating in a terrorist organization as part of a large criminal case against ten people and “other persons.” This is stated in the appeal ruling of the Moscow City Court, to which Mediazona drew attention. Egereva was detained and arrested in December last year.

The US authorities excluded from the sanctions list the Russian Mikhail Zadornov, the former chairman of the board of Otkritie Bank and ex-Minister of Finance. The US Treasury announced the lifting of sanctions. Zadornov was added to the US sanctions list in April 2022, shortly after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The reason for this was his position at Otkritie Bank, but at the end of 2022 he announced his resignation and left his post on January 1, 2023.

On March 16, the 2nd Western District Military Court convicted three residents of Kineshma from the Ivanovo region in the case of two episodes of a terrorist attack, participation in a terrorist community and involvement of a minor in a crime, the press service of the Ivanovo region prosecutor's office reported . The two defendants were sentenced to 20 to 22 years in prison, with the first 5 years to be served in prison and then in a maximum security colony.

The press service of the Investigative Committee reported that the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed “to give a legal assessment of the actions of Yuri Dud,” who yesterday published an interview with the founders of the Russian Volunteer Corps, Denis Kapustin.

Art: Danny Berkovskii / Mediazona The Kremlin has passed a raft of isolationist laws in recent years, from fines for contact with organisations labelled “undesirable” to criminal prosecution for merely talking to foreigners—so-called “confidential cooperation,” also known as “treason lite”).

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 42-year-old Bryansk resident Vitaly Razlugo to nine years in prison in the case of money transfers to Artpodgotovka. The decision was announced by the press service of the court. Razlugo was found guilty of financing terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code). The man will spend the first three years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

The Magistrate's Court of the Moscow Arbat district dropped the criminal prosecution of football player Fyodor Smolov in the case of causing moderate harm due to a fight in the Coffeemania coffee shop on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, Caution News reported . The case was dropped after Smolov entered into a settlement agreement with the victim: the former Russian national team player apologized and paid 4 million rubles as compensation.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list the political journalist of Meduza Andrei Pertsev, against whom a case was previously opened for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona drew attention. The Prosecutor General's Office declared Meduza an "undesirable" organization in January 2023.

The Swedish Coast Guard detained the tanker Flora 1 in the Baltic Sea, suspected of an oil spill east of Gotland. This is reported on the department's website. An oil spill in the Baltic Sea was recorded on the morning of April 2, when it spread over 12 kilometers. So far it has not been possible to localize it. The ship was brought to a parking lot near the city of Ystad. There are 24 crew members on board Flora 1 .

The Temryuk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined local resident Olga Sklyarova 30 thousand rubles for criticizing military personnel. The decision on the fine was published on the court’s website, and Mediazona drew attention to it. Sklyarova was found guilty under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

On April 2, the Ufa District Court sentenced two former police officers, lieutenants Elmir Galimov and Adam Gaisumov, to 12 and 11 years in a maximum security colony, respectively, the press service of the courts of Bashkortostan reported . Both employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were accused of robbery, extortion with the use of violence, kidnapping and abuse of power with grave consequences.

Evgenia Gubanova. Photo: Evgenia’s personal archive In 2024, Evgenia Gubanova mistakenly took a colleague’s bank card from the office table - they were given identical cards without indicating their name at work. A year and a half later, the girl was detained in Moscow on suspicion of theft. And although Gubanova is due to give birth to a child in a few months, and the owner of the card has no claims against her and asks to close the case, the police insist on criminal prosecution.

The magistrate of precinct No. 1 of the Kirov district of Yekaterinburg, Irina Serebryakova, fined gestalt therapist Evgenia August (Stanina) 100 thousand rubles under the protocol on “LGBT propaganda” on the Internet (part 3 of article 6.21 of the Administrative Code). This is reported by the publication It's my city .

The Kormilovsky District Court of the Omsk Region sentenced 58-year-old Stanislav Moskvitin, accused of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, to three years in a general regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, from August 15, 2023 to December 22, 2024, the man conducted services, sermons and read prayers as part of the activities of the American “Covenant of Churches TCCN ” in Omsk and the Omsk region.