The military court of appeal has reduced the sentence of Yuliy Boyarshinov, a defendant in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, by three months. This was reported by Mediazona Taking into account the decision of the appellate court, Boyarshinov's sentence was five years and three months. The court upheld the sentence of seven years in prison for another defendant in the case, Viktor Filinkov.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has included the rapper Morgenstern (Alisher Valeev) on the list of persons threatening national security. Morgenstern was added to the list at the request of the Security Service of Ukraine. The reasons for this decision are not specified. After being included in the list, Morgenstern will not be able to visit Ukraine.

Nick Hannes / Scanpix / LETA On the evening of Thursday, April 29, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan announced a truce, putting an end to a recent flareup along a disputed section of their common border. Tensions began rising last Saturday after Tajik border guards detained two Kyrgyz nationals, prompting the two countries to exchange diplomatic notes. The clashes on Thursday left at least one person dead and dozens of others injured. Both sides blame each other for the escalation.

Journalist Pavel Lobkov will no longer work on the Dozhd TV channel. Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of the channel, wrote about this on Facebook. According to Dzyadko, on April 23, he removed Lobkov from the air “for repeated insults to colleagues,” and after that, the TV presenter “publicly exposed the channel and its employees to unfair accusations, including publishing private correspondence.” Unfortunately, after this, our further cooperation became impossible.

St. Petersburg police launch criminal vandalism case over Navalny graffiti Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Police officials in St. Petersburg have opened a criminal case over a graffiti mural of jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny that was painted on a transformer vault in the city’s Pushkarsky Garden. The investigation is being conducted under the criminal code article for political vandalism, which is punishable by up to three years in prison.

Alexey Navalny spoke in court and told how he leaves the hunger strike - but he was refused appeal. Report "Medusa" Press Service of the Babushkinsky Court / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On Thursday, April 29, the Grandmother's District Court examined the appeal of the lawyers of the politician Alexei Navalny about the verdict of the justice of the peace Vera Akimova, who found him guilty of slander for the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artemenko.

Physicist Viktor Kudryavtsev, who was accused of treason, has died. This was reported by lawyer Ivan Pavlov. "A year and two months in Lefortovo, on an absurd charge, completely undermined his health. The Kudryavtsev case is an example of how the secret services are killing Russian science. In the literal sense of the word," Pavlov wrote on Facebook. Kudryavtsev was 77 years old.

The film "Asshole" by Romanian director Andrei Khutsulyak received the main prize of the Moscow Film Festival. The Special Jury Prize went to the film "Bloodsuckers" directed by Julian Radlmeier from Germany. Aleksey Fedorchenko received the Best Director award for the film The Last Sweet Bulgaria. The Moscow Film Festival in 2021 was held for the 43rd time.

Konstantin Haaza speaks with Leonid Volkov about the defeat of Navalny's headquarters. This is a podcast, but we deciphered it for you (yes!) Petras Malukas / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On April 29, the opposition politician Alexei Navalny (located in the colony), as well as his closest associates Ivan Zhdanov and Leonid Volkov (they abroad) became defendants in the new criminal case.

Real disposable income of the Russian population fell by 3.6% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020. Such data are presented in the new monthly report of Rosstat on the socio-economic situation in the country. As noted, the first quarter of 2020 was not affected by the coronavirus crisis.

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Nick Hannes / Scanpix / Leta On the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan a few days ago, the territorial conflict was aggravated in the area of ​​the Golovoye water distribution point in the upper reaches of the Isfara River, which both countries consider their own. Border conflicts regularly occur between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, since only 580 kilometers are described from about 980 kilometers of a joint border in the process of delimitation and demarcation.

On Thursday, April 29, an Arkhangelsk court sentenced former Team Navalny coordinator Andrey Borovikov to 2.5 years in prison for sharing a clip of a music video by the German band Rammstein on social media. Lawyer Alexey Kychin told Mediazona that Borovikov was found guilty of criminal distribution of pronography via the Internet. Borovikov pleaded not guilty, underscoring that the same clip was shared by hundreds of other people on VKontakte.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Konstantin Haaza speaks with Leonid Volkov - about the defeat of Navalny's headquarters. And why the opposition supporters are no longer put on a street protest Leonid Volkov - ally of Alexei Navalny - announced the closure of the regional headquarters of the politician. He promised that they would become independent political organizations that will engage in elections and public campaigns, conduct investigations and rallies.

On Thursday, April 29, Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court will receive a class-action lawsuit against the Russian Interior Ministry demanding compensation for the inhumane conditions in the Sakhorovo special detention center, reports Kommersant. The 20 plaintiffs behind the claim were arrested during this winter’s rallies in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny.