The Krasnoyarsk Garrison Military Court sentenced junior sergeant Vyacheslav Shtal to six years in a maximum security colony in the case of desertion (Part 3 of Article 338 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press service reported . The military man was sentenced on February 27, as follows from the case file on the court’s website. The command sent Stahl on a business trip to Tatarstan to begin searching for military personnel who had left their unit without permission.

The Krasnodar regional court sentenced a local resident to 13 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles, who was accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) due to donations to the Ukrainian army, the press service of the regional courts reported . According to the prosecution, in February 2022, the woman made several transfers totaling 100 thousand rubles.

Police detained 16 residents of Karachay-Cherkessia who were members of a queer dating group on VKontakte. The crisis group “SK SOS ” reports this with reference to a source. According to human rights activists, security forces searched the home of one of the group members on the morning of April 27. Then he was taken to the Investigative Committee, where the young man saw about 15 more detainees. “Mostly everyone was young, except for a couple of people who were about 40 years old.

Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with representatives of Dagestan, said that the head of the region, Sergei Melikov, will leave his post after the end of his term in September 2026. TASS reports this. At the beginning of the meeting, Putin said that he had gathered representatives from Dagestan to discuss floods and the “personnel” issue. “The current head of the republic, Sergei Alimovich Melikov, ends his term in September. He did a lot, and we are grateful to him for that.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the organization of an extremist community and participation in it against 11 residents of Dagestan. This was reported on the department’s telegram channel. According to investigators, a group of suspects “operated under the same ideological guidelines” in the village of Gubden since 2015.

Former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Denis Butsaev left Russia after his resignation, Vedomosti reported , citing three sources. The Ministry of Natural Resources reported on April 23 that Butsayev resigned of his own free will. Vedomosti writes that he “promptly” left Russia via Minsk after the dismissal order.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS For many years, Belarus was a country through which Russians with a travel ban could go abroad, including conscripts fleeing the army. Recently it became known about the first case when a young man with a summons was not released by Belarusian border guards - this may indicate the beginning of an exchange of data between Russia and Belarus.

Security forces detained two Moscow residents suspected of carrying out “intimidation actions” near the apartments of Roskomnadzor employees. This was reported to the Investigative Committee and the FSB .

The 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced two cellmates - Maxim Ivannikov and Shakhban Aliyev - in the case of preparing to escape. Both of them were also charged with disrupting the work of pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Trans-Baikal Territory and attempting to take a hostage. Aliyev was separately charged with financing and inciting terrorism. This was reported by the press service of the court.

During the assassination attempt on Major General Azatbek Omurbekov, 36-year-old Defense Ministry officer Alexey Kuzmenko was killed, his aunt and sister told Mediazona. According to the soldier’s sister, Kuzmenko actually died at the entrance of a house in the village of Knyaze-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Territory, but the family does not know the details of the incident. “The investigators are not giving any precise information; they haven’t told us any details,” said Kuzmenko’s sister.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced 21-year-old Stepan Kosarev, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, to 11 years in prison. The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office reported this. According to the security forces, on December 20, 2024, a young man threw two bottles of a flammable mixture at the door and window of the military commissariat of the Leningrad region.

The Russian authorities are building a systematic network to involve teenagers from the occupied territories of Ukraine in propaganda work, using educational programs, media projects and direct ideological pressure. This is stated in the OCCRP investigation. One of the main tools for involving children is the creation of media platforms and educational initiatives.

The Kirovsky District Court of Khabarovsk sent two people to pre-trial detention center suspected of “undermining and causing death to other persons, as well as destabilizing authorities.” This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. Another person involved in the case was given a preventive measure in absentia because he “hid outside the territory of the Russian Federation,” the court added.

Prosecutor Nadezhda Voskrebentseva asks to sentence 25-year-old Ivan Koryukov and 25-year-old Alexander Cherepanov to 10.5 and 11 years of maximum security, respectively, in the case of escaping from a pre-trial detention center and theft. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg.

The court sent to a pre-trial detention center a resident of Krasnodar born in 1963, who had previously been detained by FSB officers on suspicion of treason in favor of the Ukrainian special services. This was reported by the Public Relations Center (PSC) of the intelligence service.