In St. Petersburg, Z-blogger Alexander Vaskovsky was detained because of posts criticizing the leadership of the self-proclaimed “republics” in southeastern Ukraine and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. A post about this appeared in his telegram channel “Flames will flare up from Donetsk.” The post, which contains the contact of Vaskovsky’s daughter, says that the Z-blogger was detained on the morning of April 13.

During the war in Ukraine, Andrei Ashcheulov, the leader of the Kuragin organized crime group, went missing. Novaya Gazeta writes about this. The publication's sources report that information about his disappearance first came from prison, and then was confirmed at large. The circumstances of the disappearance, according to interlocutors, suggest his death. Ashcheulov was considered the head of a criminal group operating in the Kuraginsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested college student Konstantin Bodunov for 10 days under a protocol of petty hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences), the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow” drew attention to . From the published text of the decision it follows that on the afternoon of April 8, Bodunov came to Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square, hit the sarcophagus with the revolutionary’s body several times, and also threw a moccasin at him.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced former senator Dmitry Savelyev to 10 years in a maximum security colony for the attempted murder of his former business partner Sergei Ionov, telegram channel “112” and “Izvestia” reported. Savelyev and Ionov controlled the Optomonitoring company: the ex-senator owned a share through his assistant Irina Kudryashova, and Ionov had 50%.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow has begun consideration of a criminal case on military “fakes” based on political hatred against 35-year-old courier from Moscow Yaroslav Bykov, Mediazona learned. The reason for the criminal case against Bykov was two publications on Instagram.

Illustrative photo: Egor Myznik / Unsplash The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow began considering a criminal case on military “fakes” based on political hatred against 35-year-old courier from Moscow Yaroslav Bykov. Mediazona became aware of this. The reason for the criminal case against Yaroslav Bykov was two publications on Instagram.

The prosecutor asked 39-year-old equipment repairman Andrei Khoroshko to serve 23 years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organization and financing terrorism, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the hall of the 2nd Western District Military Court.

The court in Gorno-Altaisk chose preventive measures for two teenagers who were accused of preparing armed attacks, the court’s press service reported. A 16-year-old detainee was sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of telephone terrorism (Article 207 of the Criminal Code) and teaching terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code).

The ex-husband of blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek), Artem Chekalin, was sentenced to 7 years in prison in the case of withdrawing more than 250 million rubles from Russia (points “a” and “b” of part 3 of article 193.1 of the Criminal Code), reported “Caution, News”. Additionally, he was fined 194.5 million. Chekalin himself asked the court to impose a suspended sentence, since his ex-wife is undergoing treatment for cancer, and the children remain with him.

In Moscow, a criminal case was opened against an employee of the Kisski bar on Sretenka, who made a “hookah on Easter cake” for Orthodox Easter, for insulting the feelings of believers. The Investigative Committee reported this. Less than two hours earlier, stories and reels of 27-year-old Ksenia Shirokova with a “hookah on Easter cake” were published by Z-blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov, as well as Mash , Baza and REN TV.

The Czech group of companies Alta Invest, after the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine, continued to service and supply equipment to Russian enterprises associated with the production of tanks and artillery. This is stated in a joint investigation by the Czech Voxpot and the Russian The Insider . After February 2022, the Czech corporation officially abandoned some of its Russian assets, but journalists found signs of fictitious transactions.

In the former Museum of Gulag History, the previous exhibition was dismantled and all museum objects were removed. Photos of the museum premises were published by “Layout”. The Gulag History Museum ceased operation in November 2024. In February it became known that a Museum of Memory dedicated to the victims of the “genocide of the Soviet people” and war crimes of the Nazis would be opened in its place.

A court in Yakutsk fined Alexey Popov, an activist and ex-head of the city headquarters of Boris Nadezhdin, 2 thousand rubles under a protocol on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by “Caution News” with reference to Popov himself. The activist himself said in his telegram that a protocol was drawn up against him after an application to hold a rally against blocking and Internet censorship.

Three PFL Advisors traders were detained on charges of manipulating stock prices due to posts on their Telegram channels about investments. The FSB and the Investigative Committee reported this. We are talking about the telegram channels “MarketsDengiVlast|RDV” ( now there are 121 thousand subscribers), “Wolf from the Moscow Exchange” ( 27 thousand ) and “RSB Signals” ( 121 thousand ). The names of the detainees are not given, only the years of birth - 1985, 1997 and 1998.

Judge Dmitry Merzlyakov of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced ex-FBK employee Alexandra Frolova to 5 years in prison in a case of “extremism” in absentia, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The details of the case are unknown; it was considered behind closed doors at the request of prosecutor Shishov.