The Southern District Military Court sentenced four men accused of setting fire to two transformer substations and attempting to set fire to a main oil pipeline in the Rostov region to terms of 13 to 20 years in prison. The press service of the court reported this. The sentence was handed down to Grigor Muradyan, Eldar Karmeev, Rafael Kirakosyan and Ivan Oancea.

The head of the investigation group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Rivne district of the Belgorod region, Oleg Shiyanov, dropped the criminal case against Nikolai Ostryakov, a participant in the war in Ukraine, who caused the accident in which the couple and their daughter died. This became known from the decision of the Veidelevsky District Court, and “Ashes” drew attention to it.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to check the books of the children's writer Grigory Oster, according to the department's telegram channel. Bastrykin gave this instruction following a meeting of the Coordination Council of the Investigative Committee on providing assistance to children affected by humanitarian disasters, natural disasters, terrorist attacks and armed conflicts.

The VKontakte administration, at the request of Roskomnadzor, removed from Nyura Sharikova’s blog for diabetics a section in which they shared medical equipment, insulin and other medications with each other. The blogger herself reported this. It is not known exactly why the section was deleted.

The Supreme Court of Udmurtia upheld the appeal of the prosecutor's office against the sentence of 44-year-old resident of Izhevsk Sergei Grebenkin, who was sentenced to six years probation under articles about “discrediting” the Russian army and “fakes” about the armed forces. After considering the complaint from the prosecutor’s office, the court commuted Grebenkin’s sentence to five and a half years in a general regime colony and took him into custody.

In the Voronezh region, two servicemen were sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of kidnapping and extortion. Kommersant drew attention to the court cards approving decisions on preventive measures. The accused names are Daniil Astakhov and Vitaly Borisov . They are charged with extortion and kidnapping of two people by prior conspiracy for mercenary reasons and with the threat of violence.

The Tambov Regional Court fined former judge Elena Drobysheva 600 thousand rubles under the article on making deliberately unjust decisions. A TASS correspondent reported this from the courtroom. According to investigators, in the fall of 2021, Drobysheva made 10 court decisions remotely, via video communication. At the same time, she was on vacation in a sanatorium in Sochi, although the cases were supposed to be considered in the Tambov District Court.

Anarchist Azat Miftakhov is being transported to the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets District. He announced this in a letter published by his support group. On April 19, a 33-year-old mathematician wrote from a stop in Vorkuta that he was being taken to Kharp. In the village there are IK-3 “Polar Wolf” of a special regime, where Alexei Navalny was killed , and IK-18 “Polar Owl”, where there are sections of colonies of strict and general regimes.

Sergei Garkusha, accused in the case of terrorist attacks in Melitopol, told in court that after his arrest he was beaten for several days with a bag over his head, because of this he signed the interrogation report “without reading,” Mediazona learned.

The magistrate of court district No. 206 in St. Petersburg sentenced in absentia the founder of the human rights project “Ark” Anastasia Burakova to a year in prison under the article on evading the duties of a “foreign agent”. As the press service of the city courts clarifies , in conjunction with the previous verdict of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Burakova was sentenced to eight years and two months in a general regime colony.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg received a criminal case in absentia against journalist Maxim Kournikov, editor-in-chief of radio “Echo” and leading editor of the Russian-language service of the German newspaper Bild. Today, the press service of the court reported about the case under the article on violation of requirements for “foreign agents”, without naming the name. The name is mentioned in the court schedule. The date for the first meeting has not yet been set.

The Adler District Court of Sochi fined a local resident one thousand rubles under a protocol for public display of Nazi symbols. As indicated in the text of the resolution on the court’s website, the reason for drawing up the protocol was the image of “Kotolf Kitler”.

Two administrative cases were opened against the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, for reposting the announcement of an interview in which Alexey Navalny was mentioned. The Yabloko press service writes about the transfer of the protocols to the court.

Judge Alexandra Anokhin of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined political scientist Sergei Markov 45 thousand rubles under a protocol for failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. According to the protocol, on January 11, Markov published two posts without a foreign agent tag - about the positions of China and Russia on Iran and Venezuela.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona By April 2026, according to Mediazona’s estimates, at least 225 criminal cases were opened throughout Russia for donations to FBK made after the fund was banned in August 2021.