The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced 42-year-old St. Petersburg resident Ruslan Izhersky, accused of participating in the Freedom of Russia Legion, to 20 years in prison. This was reported by MP7. A man must spend the first five years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. The court also imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on him and ordered him to pay more than 4.588 billion rubles to Gazprom Pererabotka as compensation for damages.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow, in connection with the settlement agreement, terminated the proceedings on the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, which demanded to nationalize the property of the senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Akhmat Salpagarov. Interfax reports this with reference to one of the participants in the process.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced a foreigner to 16 years in prison, who was accused of terrorist attack due to arson on the railway. This was reported by the Moscow-Yaroslavl Transport Prosecutor's Office. The department indicated that in January 2025, a young man rode a scooter to a relay cabinet at the Moscow 3 - Malenkovskaya station section and set it on fire. The court clarified that the convicted person is a 23-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, Bobur Allaer Ugli Ziedullayev.

The Shchelkovo City Court fined Alexey Borsyak 30 thousand rubles under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) for an online broadcast published on the Russian video platform Rutube. Mediazona drew attention to the text of the decision dated April 16.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former deputy head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Denis Butsaev, he is accused of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts. Butsayev's lawyer insisted in court that his client was not hiding from the investigation. “Butsayev temporarily left the territory of the Russian Federation; he is not hiding from the investigation.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Tomsk human rights activist Alexei Pryanishnikov on the wanted list. Mediazona found information about this in the ministry’s database. It is unknown what exactly he is accused of. In a conversation with the “Word to Protection” channel, Pryanishnikov said that the search is related to a criminal case of failure to comply with the legislation for “foreign agents” (Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list Viktor Muchnik, a Tomsk journalist and editor-in-chief of the publication NeMoskva Speaks. Mediazona found information about this in the ministry’s database. What exactly I accuse him of is unknown.

In the village of Ust-Isha, Altai Territory, two men brutally killed 15-year-old teenager Anton Zyablitsky, a relative of the victim, Alexandra Timokhin, reported on her Instagram. According to her, one of the killers is a 22-year-old participant in the war in Ukraine, who came on vacation. The second is a 40-year-old man in whose house the crime took place. “Sibir.Realii”, with reference to village residents, writes that the 22-year-old accused’s name is Evgeny Ashikhmin.

A criminal case was opened against three residents of Chelyabinsk, aged 35, 37 and 39, for the illegal collection and use of personal data obtained illegally (part 3 of Article 272.1 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported .

Judge of the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg Vladimir Ushakov softened the measure of restraint for 58-year-old participant of the project “Human Rights Defenders of the Urals” Larisa Zakharova from arrest to a ban on certain actions. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

Documents with plans to “increase the level of effectiveness” of VPN blocking to 92% by the end of 2030 have disappeared from the Roskomnadzor website. The Bell drew attention to this. Two documents spoke about the provision of subsidies to the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRFC), subordinate to Roskomnadzor, in 2025 and 2026 “to ensure the functioning of an automated system for ensuring the security of the Russian segment of the Internet” (ASBI).

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 18-year-old first-year student Yaroslav Koptilov to 6 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 40 thousand rubles in a criminal case for teaching terrorism and participating in a terrorist organization, the court’s press service reported .

The State Duma appointed a new Commissioner for Human Rights. Instead of Tatyana Moskalkova, this post was taken by State Duma deputy from A Just Russia, Yana Lantratova. The meeting is broadcast on the website of the lower house of parliament. Among the candidates were also the first deputy chairman of the property committee Ivan Sukharev (LDPR) and member of the tourism committee Artem Prokofiev (Communist Party of the Russian Federation).

The Sakhalin Regional Court sentenced a 48-year-old local resident, whose name has not been disclosed, to 17 years in a maximum security colony on charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the regional prosecutor's office reported . Judging by the electronic court file, the last verdict in cases of treason was handed down at the end of December 2025.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow fined the former editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, 10 thousand rubles in an administrative case for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Venediktov himself did not come to the meeting.