The Kursk Garrison Military Court sentenced two deputy commanders of one of the military units in the region to real terms in the case of extorting bonuses from subordinates. The decision was announced by the press service of the regional courts. Lieutenant Colonel Igor Karamyshev was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony, and his colleague Jamal Otegenov was sentenced to five years in prison.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined the legal consultant of the seamen's trade union, Igor Telyatyev, 20 thousand rubles because of the organization's forms and membership cards. Mediazona drew attention to the court ruling. Telyatyev was found guilty under the protocol of participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and he was tried as an official. The hearing itself took place on April 17.

The charge against Ivan Blagodatskikh under the article of involvement in terrorism is related to alleged correspondence that was not found on his phone, Mediazona learned. Speaking in the debate in the case of the failed arson of the regional military registration and enlistment office in Rostov-on-Don, the Blagodatskys’ lawyer Evgeny Yuryev asked to exclude the linguistic examination ordered by the investigation from the evidence.

The Moscow City Court recognized the Moscow Community Center for LGBT+ Initiatives as an “extremist” organization. This is reported on the project’s social networks and on the website of the capital’s courts . The decision to recognize the center as “extremist” was made on the basis of a lawsuit from the city department of the Ministry of Justice. The court registered the case materials on February 24. What exactly was the reason for banning the organization is unknown.

The European Council announced the adoption of the 20th package of sanctions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the allocation of a loan to Ukraine in the amount of 90 billion euros. Documents on the sanctions were published in an EU magazine. They expected approval from December 2025. Progress was blocked by Hungary and Slovakia, which demanded the resumption of oil transit through the southern section of the Druzhba pipeline (Ukraine resumed it last night).

Schools in Tuapse did not cancel classes, despite the report from the regional operational headquarters that the permissible concentrations of benzene, xylene and soot in the air were three times higher, Mediazona found out.

Alexei Navalny's lawyer Igor Sergunin was released from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Vladimir region, the human rights project First Department reported . Sergunin, as well as two other lawyers - Vadim Kobzev and Alexey Liptser - were detained in October 2023 on charges of participation in the “extremist” community of Alexei Navalny (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced a 39-year-old resident of the Amur region to 18 years in prison on charges of preparing an explosion on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Interfax reports this with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Sergei Chumachenko from the village of Kirillovka near Melitopol in the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region to 26 years in prison. As reported in court, he was accused of failed bombings of Russian-appointed village leaders. 49-year-old Chumachenko will have to spend the first five years in prison, and the rest of his term in a maximum security colony. In addition, he was fined 1 million rubles.

The Zavodskoy District Court of the Oryol Region upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice and recognized the “Guys+” project as an “extremist” organization. This was reported in the LGBTQ media telegram channel.

At least two children were held by Russian security forces in the basement of the former National Police headquarters in Kherson in the summer of 2022, according to testimony given in the Southern District Military Court by those involved in the “Kherson Nine” case. One of the kidnapped boys was 11-12 years old, said businessman and Red Cross volunteer Yuri Kaev. He was detained “for allegedly dumping the coordinates of the SBU.” “He constantly cried at night and asked to see his mother.

Photo: Crimea.Realities, collage: Mediazona From early March to November 2022, Kherson was under occupation by Russian troops. After the liberation of the city, several secret prisons were found there - the FSB equipped one of them in the basement of the National Police headquarters on Lutheran Street. For several months, abducted Ukrainians were tortured there. Among them were those involved in the “Kherson Nine” case, about which you can read more in this text.

Vasily Stetsenko, the chief specialist of the control department of the state environmental inspection of the Kherson region, who was kidnapped by the FSB, died from torture in the summer of 2022. The defendants in the Kherson Nine case spoke about this in the Southern District Military Court, Mediazona learned. An eyewitness to Stetsenko’s death was his cellmate, former director of the fisheries Sergei Geidt.

Illustration: Danny Berkovskii / Mediazona Kidnapping with a bag over the head, torture and death in the basement, staged “operational filming” for news on “Russia-1” and confessions as the only evidence - “Mediazona” learned the details of the criminal case about the “terrorist community” in occupied Kherson, nine of whose defendants received from 14 to 20 years of strict regime in January of this year.

A report against rapper Ganvest (Ruslan Gominov) on drug propaganda charges was received by the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, Mediazona noted . The date of the meeting has not yet been set (Part 1 of Article 6.13 of the Administrative Code). It is also still unknown what tracks led to the protocol being drawn up. In February, the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St.