Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that a summons was sent to his old address in Russia, where he was called a “suspect.” “They (Russian security forces - MZ) must suspect me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution - which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to privacy of correspondence. Proud to be guilty! 😏” he added.

The AST publishing house reported that they had not received any complaints from the Investigative Committee regarding the works of the writer Grigory Oster. The position of the publishing house is given by Kommersant.

In the Belgorod region, security forces detained a man who installed a video camera over a bridge. As the local publication Bel.ru writes with reference to the regional department of the FSB, a criminal case has been opened for treason. According to the intelligence service, the man contacted a representative of the SBU via the Telegram messenger, after which he received the task of installing and pointing a camera at the road bridge over the railway.

In Azerbaijan, the Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced Russian citizen Alexander Vaissero to four years in prison under the article on the legalization of property acquired by criminal means. According to the publication Minval , the state prosecution proposed to sentence the defendant to five years in prison. According to investigators, Vaissero acted as part of a group of people in a preliminary conspiracy.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Alexei Kostylev, the founder of the propaganda publication Readovka , until July 19. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The decision was made by judge Olga Semina.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced 28-year-old orderly Artem Shevchenko and 25-year-old tank radio operator Artem Pustovar to 18 years in a maximum security colony in the case of participation in the Azov regiment and undergoing military training, the press service of the DPR prosecutor's office reported. According to the prosecution, Shevchenko joined Azov in January 2019, Pustovar - in March 2021. Both were captured by Russia in 2022.

The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar approved a settlement agreement between Maria Smelaya and her ex-husband Chingiskhan Shabazov, reports the human rights project “Caucasus Without a Mother”. According to it, the woman transferred custody of her son to his father, whom she had previously accused of domestic violence.

Prisoner Alexander Aniskov, who collaborated with the administration of the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center-6 and was tried for sexualized violence against other convicts, went to war under a contract. This was reported by the Team Against Torture. According to human rights activists, on February 24, 2026, the court suspended the criminal prosecution of Aniskov and released him from custody.

Swedish authorities have released from custody the Russian captain of the cargo ship Caffa , who was previously detained off the coast of the country. This was announced by senior prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg. According to him, the prosecutor's office consulted with international organizations and concluded that some of the documents used by the Caffa ship were forged. These include documents confirming registration under the Guinean flag.

The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court fined local activist of the Russian Communist Party (Internationalists) Andrei Kalinin 20 thousand rubles under the protocol on organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the text of the decision dated April 20.

Russian telecom operators discussed in mid-April a delay in introducing fees for the consumption of international traffic of more than 15 gigabytes per month on mobile networks. As Vedomosti writes , citing three sources among the participants in the discussion, it was planned to introduce the fee as early as May 1, 2026, but this issue has not yet been legally resolved.

FSB officers detained a Russian citizen in Moscow in 1981 on a criminal case of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). He was sent to a pre-trial detention center, the secret service's press service reported . Judging by the video published by security forces, the man was detained in the lobby of the metro station.

The Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region sent the deputy director of the Patriot Park of the Ministry of Defense, Vitaly Melimuk, to a pre-trial detention center in the case of receiving a particularly large bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), Fontanka reported .

Magistrate Kalyapin sentenced film critic Anton Dolin to 1 year in a general regime colony in the case of a “foreign agency” in absentia (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the court district of Magistrate Judge No. 353 in Moscow. Prosecutor Martynov asked him for 1 year and 10 months in prison. Dolina was also banned from administering the Internet for two years.

Due to a drone attack in Syzran, the entrance to an apartment building partially collapsed, said the governor of the Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. According to the official and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, two people were killed and at least 12 more were injured, including two children. Astra notes that a house on Astrakhanskaya Street, three kilometers from the Syzran Oil Plant, came under attack.