Security forces tortured with electric shock and strangled a 41-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg, suspected of “discrediting” the Russian army due to comments on VKontakte. OVD-Info reports this with reference to his lawyer. According to human rights activists, during the arrest on the morning of April 17, security forces threw the man to the floor and handcuffed him, after which they took the phone and demanded a password to unlock it.

The 2nd Western District Military Court announced the verdict of eight accused of attempting a terrorist attack against a “managerial employee of a defense enterprise,” the court’s press service reports . “Caution, news” writes that we are talking about an attempt on the life of the top manager of the Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau in Kolomna, Gennady Devyatov.

Photo: personal page on Instagram In mid-March 2026, TikTok began calling for actions against Internet blocking, and the Scarlet Swan channel appeared on Telegram, where participants were coordinated. The action on March 29 was a mess: the organizers had lost access to the channel by that time, and the initiative itself quickly went into decline.

The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Izzet Khalilov, accused of high treason, to 15 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The court claims that the Russian committed a “defect to the enemy’s side.” No other details were given there. The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sent Khalilov to a pre-trial detention center in December 2024. The project “If there were no war” indicates that the man was born in Crimea and is 41 years old.

In the fall of 2025, FBI employees warned the editor-in-chief of the investigative publication “Project” Roman Badanin that he and his family could be “the target of an attack by a foreign intelligence service,” the Agency reports . “Warning about the danger from a “foreign intelligence agency,” the FBI employees smiled: “You probably understand what country and intelligence agency we are talking about,” the media claims.

On April 27, the Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude sentenced in absentia the emigrated anti-war director Bair Tsyrenov to 5 years and 3 months in prison in the case of disseminating military “fakes” (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Tsyrenov himself reported this, as “People of Baikal” noted . A case was brought against the director because of a YouTube broadcast in which he and his guest discussed the killings of civilians in Bucha, said human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina.

In Yekaterinburg, 37-year-old historian Oleg Novoselov, who studied Soviet repressions, was sent to a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges. 66.RU writes about this with reference to sources among security forces and the local court. According to journalists, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg placed Novoselov in a pre-trial detention center. The preventive measure was chosen in the case of promoting terrorist activities (Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

In February 2026, the Kamchatka Regional Court sentenced Maxim Kindyakov to 11 years and 1 month in prison in a sabotage case (Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code). This became known from the press service of the Fifth Court of Appeal, Mediazona noted. Kindyakov will have to spend the first three years in prison, and the remaining term in a maximum security colony. A man was accused of dousing a cell phone tower with gasoline and setting it on fire for money.

At the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU), at the military training center, there is a secret department where future GRU hackers are trained. This is stated in a joint investigation by The Insider , Der Spiegel , Le Monde and The Guardian , which gained access to internal documents for 2022-2024. The department has serial number No. 4 and the name “Special Training”, but it is hidden from the website of the military training center.

On the night of May 6-7, prisoner from Krasnodar Vladimir Yarotsky died in correctional colony No. 9 in Kuban. This was reported by the telegram channel “Politzek-Info” and the publication SOTAvision . According to preliminary information, 41-year-old Yarotsky committed suicide. Previously, he reported pressure from the colony administration. The man was imprisoned because of the verdict in the case of military “fakes” and the rehabilitation of Nazism.

The former commander of the Espanyol volunteer unit, Ruslan Kazantsev (call sign "Altai") and his comrade-in-arms Grigory Gusev ("Sorcerer") were sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of illegal sale of weapons and explosives. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Krasnodar resident Alexei Zubarev to 18 years in a maximum security colony in a treason case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the court.

A court in the Irkutsk region arrested the head of the regional branch of Yabloko, Grigory Gribenko, for 10 days in a new administrative case. Activist Pavel Kharitonenko reported this. As Kharitonenko notes, the hearing on the case took place today - Gribenko told his wife about the arrest during a phone call. It is not yet known under what exact article the Yabloko member was sentenced.

Another girl who appeared in an FSB video about arrests in connection with the preparation of attempts on the lives of Roskomnadzor employees was released after administrative arrest, Mediazona found out. At her request, we will not reveal her identity. She did not tell the details of her detention and arrest. In a video published by the FSB on April 24, she said the phrase: “In March 2026, she entered a chat <…> where she offered her help in making leaflets.

The judge of the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg, Sergei Rassokha, closed the trial in the case of Ekaterinburg resident Dmitry Baranov, accused of a terrorist attack due to the arson of the Sverdlovsk regional military registration and enlistment office on the instructions of scammers, Mediazona learned. Military prosecutor Andrei Averin made a motion to close the trial from listeners and the press.