Seven pre-trial detention centers in Russia and annexed Crimea have been taken over by the FSB. Data about this appeared in the database of legal entities of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, drew the attention of The Insider . This includes the Moscow pre-trial detention center-2 “Lefortovo”.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg placed 60-year-old social worker Indira Sevostyanova under house arrest, accused of fraud with payments for concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. Sevostyanova worked as a social work specialist in the social assistance department for the homeless on the Obvodny Canal embankment. There is also a shelter , a heating point, the city's first shower for the homeless and a laundry.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sent three ninth-graders from Podolsk to a correctional colony, accused of setting fire to railway equipment. This was reported in court. All three were born in 2009. Two teenagers were sentenced to six years and six months in prison, and the third was sentenced to exactly six years. They were accused of setting a relay cabinet on camera at the Grivno station near Podolsk on the night of March 23-24, 2025.

The Penza Regional Court sentenced a local resident born in 1987 to 13 years in a maximum security colony in a case of collaboration with Ukrainian intelligence. The decision was announced by the press service of the court. The man was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). In addition to the real sentence, he was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom and a fine of 300 thousand rubles. The press release states that the accused has previously been prosecuted.

The Cheremushinsky District Court of Moscow fined musical performer Anastasia Savannana ( SavannaOki ) 500 thousand rubles in cases of “LGBT propaganda”. This was reported by Sotavision with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom. Savanina was found guilty under five protocols on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” on the Internet (Part 3 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code), for each of them the fine amounted to 100 thousand rubles.

The Zaporozhye regional court, located in occupied Melitopol, in one day issued two verdicts against two women accused of donating to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The names of the convicts can be found in the court file: Elena Maksimenko, born in 1977, and Victoria Tkachenko, born in 1972. Press releases about both verdicts are also published on the court's website. Tkachenko lived in Tokmak. After the occupation, in 2023, she accepted Russian citizenship.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has become the editor-in-chief of social studies textbooks for schoolchildren in grades 9-11, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education Olga Koludarova. The official spoke about this during the presentation of textbooks. She added that Medvedev also participated in the work on new federal standards and work programs in social studies.

The Mytishchi city court sentenced a man named Vladimir Neskorodev to two years in prison, who was accused of participating in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Regional Court. The verdict was announced the day before, on April 9.

A court in Tyumen sentenced a local resident accused of financing an “extremist” organization to a fine of 300 thousand rubles due to several transfers to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The convict himself told Mediazona about this. According to the Tyumen resident, during the debate the state prosecutor requested a fine of 400 thousand rubles for him. The verdict was handed down at the end of March.

The Ministry of Justice added electoral expert Roman Udot to the register of “foreign agents”. The department’s updated register also includes feminist Liliya Vezhevatova, Nogai activist Rizvan Kubakaev, creator of the public page “Asians of Russia” Vasily Matenov, literary historian Ivan Tolstoy and the project “Tatar Shurasy” (“Council of Tatars of the World”). According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they all opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized Stanford University, located in the United States, as an “undesirable” organization. The Ministry of Justice included the educational institution in the relevant list. According to information from the list, the Prosecutor General’s Office made the decision to recognize the university as “undesirable” on March 26.

The Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow gave four years and two months of imprisonment in absentia to the director of the Berlin Center of the Carnegie Endowment, Alexander Gabuev, on charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization and violating the requirements for “foreign agents,” the press service of the Moscow courts reports . The prosecutor asked to sentence Gabuev to six years in prison.

The 235th Garrison Military Court sentenced former Deputy Minister of Defense Pavel Popov to 19 years of strict regime. A TASS correspondent reports this. The former military official was accused of fraud, bribery on an especially large scale, forgery of official documents, exceeding his duties and illegal possession of weapons.

A balalaika teacher from Yekaterinburg, Artem Vaganov, who suffocated his students with a bag, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and went to war in Ukraine. This was reported by sources of E1.ru and Kommersant . As one of E1.ru’s interlocutors clarified, the man has been in the “North Military District zone” for two weeks now—since March 26.

The Nizhny Novgorod regional court sentenced local resident Alexey Ivankov to 17 years in prison in the case of cooperation with the Ukrainian press services. Pravda PFO and Kommersant write about the decision with reference to the court’s press service.