The Mirny City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region sentenced local resident Lyudmila Korotkova to four and a half years in prison in a case of extremism. The human rights center “Memorial” drew attention to the court’s press release .

The Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced a 15-year-old teenager to five years in an educational colony in a case of sabotage (Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the message from the court’s press service. According to the security forces, in January 2026, a minor broke into the door of the metering panel at a cellular communication station in the village of Gorny, Toguchinsky district, doused the equipment with flammable liquid and set it on fire.

The FSB in Vladimir detained an Estonian citizen born in 1995, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the special service. A criminal case has been opened against him under the article of attempted mercenary activity. The court sent the man to a pre-trial detention center. He faces up to 11 years and three months in prison. According to investigators, the foreigner planned to go to war in Ukraine and take part in hostilities against the Russian army for money.

Political prisoner, human rights activist and former member of the Memorial organization Bakhrom Khamroev was sent to the punishment cell of colony No. 18 “Polar Owl” in the village of Kharp. As reported on Khamroev’s Facebook page, which is now run by the human rights activist’s wife, the reason for sending him to a punishment cell was a picket with a poster “Show me the living Azat Miftakhov!” in support of another political prisoner.

The Irkutsk City Court sentenced 32-year-old local resident Dmitry Rupenko to 15 years in prison under articles of treason and complicity in committing sabotage. As a Sotavision correspondent reported from the courtroom, he will have to spend the first 3.5 years in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. The state prosecution requested 17 years in prison for Rupenko. The court also ordered the confiscation of the man's phone, quadcopter and his mother's laptop.

In Russian schools, in classes on the subject “Fundamentals of Security and Defense of the Motherland” (BSD), the share of initial military training will be increased from 20% to 50%. Interfax reports this with reference to the Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov. According to him, the curriculum will include the study of unmanned aerial vehicles. They will also add training camps.

The Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow sent Maxim Glushkovsky, accused of a terrorist attack by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, to a pre-trial detention center. Mediazona drew attention to the court’s decision . The resolution states that the case was initially opened on May 26 under the article of attempted intentional destruction of property, but the next day it was reclassified as an article of terrorism. It is unknown what exactly the Muscovite is accused of.

Judge of the Serovsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region Natalya Kholodenko sentenced policeman Vladimir Greb to five years probation in the case of abuse of power. Greb’s lawyer Olga Dyachkova reported this to Mediazona. The policeman was found guilty of hitting detainee Anatoly Shushakov in August 2025, causing the victim to rupture the mesentery of the small intestine.

Telegram channels and regional media report blocking of chats in the Max messenger where Russians discuss the purchase of gasoline and problems with its availability. Mediazona found reports of at least five such cases. The “Ivanovo Region” channel the day before, June 24, talked about a chat in “Max”, in which citizens talked about problems with fuel and places where and at what price it can be purchased.

Judge Sangadzhieva sentenced Pavel Ivanov, the former sales director of the Popcorn Books publishing house, to a 4-year suspended sentence in the case of “LGBT extremism,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow. He was also banned from publishing books and administering the Internet for 4 years and confiscated almost 2.7 million rubles as “criminal income.” The prosecutor requested the same punishment.

In Podolsk, security forces detained a 13-year-old sixth-grade student at a local school on suspicion of setting a gas station on fire. According to official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk, a criminal case has been opened on terrorism. The detainee was taken to the territorial police department. There, the schoolboy said that he had previously entered into a correspondence with a girl via messenger.

Judge Elena Samsonova of the Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the ex-co-chair of the independent trade union of school workers “Teacher”, English teacher Marina Balueva 15 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and the American organization Access Now released a report on the use by Russian security forces of the UFED software package of the Israeli company Cellebrite to remove data from the iPhone of oppositionist Andrei Pivovarov. Mediazona reviewed the report before its publication. On May 31, 2021, Pivovarov was detained at the St.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow began to consider the case against the former sales director of the publishing house Popcorn Books Pavel Ivanov in the case of “LGBT extremism,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Ivanov, as well as one of the heads of the publishing houses Popcorn Books and Individuum , Dmitry Protopopov, and Artem Vakhlyaev, who was responsible for the warehouse and distribution of literature, were detained in May last year.

Judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg Alexandra Evladova sentenced 22-year-old Daniil Nuryev to 3 years of forced labor in the case of public calls for extremist activities, vandalism and hooliganism by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, the press service of the Kirovsky Court of Yekaterinburg told Mediazona. Daniil Nuryev.