The Pulitzer Prize jury awarded the award in the category “Editorial Commentary” to M. Gessen. This was reported in the official stream of the ceremony announcing the winners.

33-year-old anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov was tortured after being transferred to IK-18 “Polar Owl” in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The Insider reports this with reference to the story of a political prisoner. According to Miftakhov, on the afternoon of April 21—probably the day after arriving at IK-18—he was taken to the colony administration building, where the operations department is located.

The Pskov City Court sent a man accused of calls for terrorism to a pre-trial detention center, the court's press service reported . According to information from the Pskov Province, we are talking about Alexei Shibanov, who has already been tried under this article. The court report indicated that the senior investigator of the regional department of the FSB demanded that the Pskov resident be placed in custody.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced bikers Sergei Dudchenko and Nikolai Murnev, Mediazona learned. They were accused of preparing to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office in Pyatigorsk (part 1 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code). The court sentenced both defendants to 7 years of strict regime, with the first three years to be served in prison and 1 year of restriction of freedom.

Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral truce in the war with Ukraine in honor of the celebration of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, the Ministry of Defense reported . It will last on May 8 and 9. “We hope that the Ukrainian side will follow this example. At the same time, we drew attention to the statement made by the head of the Kyiv regime in Yerevan at the summit of the European political community, which contained threats to strike Moscow precisely on May 9.

The Tagansky District Court registered a protocol on “demonstration of LGBT relationships” to minors against the VimpelCom company, which owns the telecom operator Beeline and the online cinema of the same name. Mediazona drew attention to the case file on the website of the Moscow courts. It is unknown what became the reason for drawing up the protocol. A hearing in the case has not yet been scheduled.

Kaluzhanin Ivan Lyubshin, who served five years for commenting on the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate, was detained in Minsk while trying to fly to Yerevan. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The man was supposed to fly on the night of May 2, but two hours before the flight he was detained by Belarusian border guards. The Russian was handed over first to the police and then to KGB officers. As a result, Belarusian security forces handed Lyubshin over to Russian operatives.

The Tuapse City Court fined a local resident 35 thousand rubles under a protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona found information about this on the court’s website. The court ruling states that on March 12, a Tuapse resident said in a store “few of your Russians are killed in the war.” Other details of the administrative case are unknown. The man admitted guilt and repented, which the court considered a mitigating circumstance.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow received a protocol on “LGBT propaganda” (Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) in relation to the Nekrasov library. Mediazona noticed this information in the database of the capital’s courts. What exactly was the reason for drawing up the protocol is not yet known. The case materials were received today, the meeting has not yet been scheduled. The Nekrasov Library is one of the most popular in Moscow.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk arrested two men on charges of attacking animal rights activist Valeria Belova. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The accused are a 38-year-old man named Dyakov and a 23-year-old young man named Filippov. A criminal case was opened against them for hooliganism with the use of violence committed by a group of people (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). Valeria Belova died on April 23. She was 35 years old.

In the Kuban district of Krasnodar, the graves of Russian military personnel who took part in the war in Ukraine were damaged. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on the desecration of military graves, the department’s press service reports . According to investigators, on the night of May 1, 2026, unknown people damaged a total of 14 graves in the cemetery near the Kopanskaya farm near Krasnodar.

The head of the Irkutsk branch of Yabloko, Grigory Gribenko, was relieved of the obligation to be examined and “treated for drug addiction.” Irkutsk activist Pavel Kharitonenko spoke about this. In the complaint against the arrest, which was drawn up by Gribenko’s defender Stanislav Khromenkov, it was stated that no traces of any narcotic substances were found on the politician.

Seven Miratorg employees were injured in the village of Brovnichi, Klimovsky district, Bryansk region. According to Governor Alexander Bogomaz, the Ukrainian army fired at the territory of the enterprise from the Grad MLRS. The official adds that production premises were also damaged as a result of the attack. “When evacuating the victims, the Ukronazis tried to re-attack with FPV drones,” Bogomaz reports.

The governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, instructed his subordinates to put photographs of participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers on their avatars on social networks. He spoke about this at a meeting of the regional government, Kommersant reports . “I ask that you and I, colleagues, change our avatars this week.

The Austrian authorities decided to expel three Russian diplomats from the country and declare them persona non grata. According to Reuters , they are suspected of espionage. According to the agency, all three diplomats have already left the country. Their names are not mentioned. Reuters clarifies that the total number of employees of Russian diplomatic missions expelled from Austria since 2020 has reached 14 people.