The Southern District Military Court sentenced 21-year-old Rostov-on-Don resident Joseph Kritsin, accused of trying to join the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), to seven years in prison. This was reported by the press service of the court. The young man must spend the first three years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of preparing to participate in the activities of a terrorist organization.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev in absentia to life imprisonment in a special regime colony and a fine of 900 thousand rubles in the case of organizing a murder and raider seizure. This was reported by the press service of the republic's courts. A sentence in absentia was also handed down to the brother of the ex-deputy - the former general director of the Makhachkala seaport and deputy of the People's Assembly of Dagestan Akhmed Gadzhiev.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow announced the verdict of two police officers accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in an official car. The Trauma Center reports this. One of the former patrol service employees was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony, the second - 10 years. The court also stripped them of their special ranks and banned them from working in law enforcement for four years. Both security officials did not admit guilt.

German authorities arrested four people: Nikita S., Evgeniy R., Daniel A., and Boris M. - they face up to 10 years in prison for violating export controls, circumventing sanctions and participating in a criminal organization. According to Politico , over four years, the company Global Trade from Lubeck, associated with the suspects, carried out about 16 thousand deliveries of dual-use goods to Russia for a total amount of more than 30 million euros.

Judge Anastasia Mokina of the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg began considering a criminal case against 52-year-old former neurologist Mikhail Fetisov. He is accused of articles about military “fakes” and calls for activities against state security due to publications on VKontakte. Mediazona became aware of this.

Viktor Kirman, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, was arrested nine times under various administrative protocols, reports OVD-Info with reference to his daughter Nelly Kirman. The artist also told his loved ones about the torture he was subjected to by the security forces. 63-year-old Kirman was first detained on February 26. Security forces searched his home, after which they took away all his equipment and documents.

Judge of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court Marina Sennikova changed the sentence of 30-year-old Yekaterinburg resident Roman Stadler from two years and two months in a penal colony to two years of forced labor with the withholding of 15% of his salary to the state in the case of shooting a pistol in front of the Great Chrysostom Church, the press service of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court reports .

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced YouTube blogger Diana Chistyakova to 12 years in a general regime colony in the case of a terrorist attack. This was reported by Fontanka and channel 78 . According to investigators, on the evening of October 22, 2025, Chistyakova threw three Molotov cocktails over a barbed wire fence into the territory of the police guard and escort regiment on Zagreb Boulevard in Kupcin.

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow began to consider the case of financing extremism against 21-year-old 4th year student of the Republican Party of Justice of the Ministry of Justice Fyodor Sidushkin, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The young man was charged with donating 100 rubles to the “Male State”.

The Yamalo-Nenets Prosecutor’s Office responded to the story of the political prisoner’s defender Azat Miftakhov about torture in IK-18 “Polar Owl” in the village of Kharp. As reported in the telegram channel of Miftakhov’s support group, the supervisory agency did not reveal any violations. Prosecutor's office employees examined medical documents, received explanations from convicts and prison staff, and also checked recordings from CCTV cameras and portable video recorders.

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53-year-old political prisoner Andrei Padalka inflicted wounds on himself as a sign of protest against abuse in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Irkutsk. According to the People of Baikal publication, Padalka wrote an open letter from the detention center in which he said that on May 13 he was beaten for not greeting the administration loudly enough. According to him, he was “in a sick condition”, and the day before he came to see a doctor.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk fined and banned Ivan Fedin and Vladimir Vinichenko, two members of the leadership of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, from participating in elections for a year. This was reported by Kommersant-Sibir with reference to the Omsk regional party committee. The decisions were made on the basis of protocols drawn up under the article on public display of extremist symbols.

Anton Putyatov. Photo: personal archive Putin’s decree No. 647 on “partial” mobilization, signed in September 2022, left the military with only three reasons for dismissal: reaching 65 years of age, health conditions, or imprisonment by a court verdict. The first option objectively suits few people; it is almost impossible to achieve a commission.

The Second Western District Military Court began to consider the case of justification of terrorism and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization against 37-year-old resident of Lyubertsy Dmitry Ionov, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. According to the indictment, Ionov “no later than March 17, 2024” transmitted his data to the RDK via telegram and joined the organization.