The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put political scientist Maria Snegovaya on the wanted list. Mediazona drew attention to the wanted card in the ministry’s database. It is unknown under what specific crime Snegovaya is being sought. The phone number of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northern Administrative District is indicated on the card as a contact contact.

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to take into custody local resident Boris Rudnitsky, against whom a criminal case was opened due to a comment on social networks. The press service of the city courts announced the choice of a preventive measure. Rudnitsky is accused of justifying terrorism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on February 3, 2025, a St.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 22-year-old student from Moscow Polina Kostikova to five years in a general regime colony on charges of involvement in a terrorist organization. The decision was announced by the capital's prosecutor's office. In addition to the actual sentence, Kostikova was given a fine of 250 thousand rubles.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Vedeno district of Chechnya, Akraman Elmurzaev, for assault and use of force against a police officer, the press service of the district court reported . On the evening of April 17, Elmurzaev saw a husband and wife jogging at the stadium. Under the pretext that he “should not allow his wife to be in places where other men are present,” he hit the man in the face. The victim filed a statement with the police.

After another update of the list of “foreign agents” on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice , the After project and human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky were added to the register. The list also included Yakut activist Vilyuya Choinova and T-Invariant editor-in-chief Olga Orlova.

In December 2025, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced two prisoners of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 for a group fight in a cell that led to the death of a person (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the published text of the decision.

In the Leningrad region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of inciting hatred on ethnic grounds with a threat of violence against a resident of the city of Kudrovo, who insulted and threatened two mothers with children from Ulan-Ude. A native of Buryatia, Maria Tsydenova, who previously faced violence from the Moscow Region police, reported this on her Telegram channel. A video depicting the conflict circulated on social networks in early April.

The Solntsevsky District Court of Moscow placed lawyer Igor Popovsky, accused of fraud on an especially large scale, under house arrest, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. At the meeting it became known that the case was opened at the end of April, and Popovsky was detained on the morning of May 21. He admitted guilt.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, as an interim measure, seized the property of the families of businessmen Artem Bikov and Alexey Bobrov. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region. The court received a new claim from the Prosecutor General's Office, which demands that the property of Bikov and Bobrov, obtained, according to representatives of the department, through corruption, be converted into state income.

The police drew up reports on “LGBT propaganda” and the demonstration of extremist symbols against a 13-year-old schoolboy, Mediazona found. At the same time, according to Article 2.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, administrative liability can be brought only from the age of sixteen. The lawyer representing the boy’s interests told Mediazona that the student showed a certain picture or video to other children or their parents.

A year later, a bill from the Tatarstan parliament and Tatarstan State Duma deputy Ayrat Farrakhov was submitted to the State Duma for consideration in the second reading, which gives the authorities the right to administratively prosecute Russian emigrants for actions “against the interests of the Russian Federation.” By the second reading, the document was significantly revised.

Parents of schoolchildren from the village of Malinovka, Achinsk district, Krasnoyarsk Territory, complained about an excursion that was given to 14-year-old teenagers at a local slaughterhouse. As the Achinsk Osa channel reports , the school leadership explained that they had organized such excursions before, but “only this group turned out to be sensitive.” First, the schoolchildren were taken to the sausage shop.

Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev spoke about the decision to include UAV control in the GTO (Ready for Labor and Defense) physical education and sports complex for schoolchildren. As Interfax clarifies , in 2026 the standard will be introduced in test mode; from 2027, “everyone who wants” will be able to pass this standard. According to Degtyarev, when passing the GTO, you will need to control a small drone. The diagonal size of its frame is 75 millimeters.

Employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched in connection with the case of fraud with money allocated for the translation of Aristotle, the pro-government channel “ Z apiski traditionalista” reported . A post about searches of philosophers was also published , but later deleted by Alexander Dugin’s AGDChan channel.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow registered a protocol on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization, which was drawn up for the namesake of the editor-in-chief of the Den-TV channel Andrei Fefelov. Mediazona drew attention to this. The protocol was received by the court on May 15; a hearing on it has not yet been scheduled.