The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced the former editor of Ura.ru Denis Allayarov to five years in prison in the case of giving a bribe (Part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code), writes Mediazona. He was also given a fine of 1 million 200 thousand rubles and was banned from engaging in journalism for four years after his release. Allayarov was accused of giving a bribe to his uncle, the head of the criminal investigation department of police department No.

Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe Four books about the lives and work of Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Soviet singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky are set to be labeled under Russia's "drug propaganda" law, state media reported on Tuesday. The titles appear in an updated list published by the Russian Book Union cataloguing works that require the warning tag.

Over the past three weeks, the port of Primorsk, which has been repeatedly attacked by Ukrainian drones, has begun to receive about five to eight ships a day - half as much as a year earlier. New Europe drew attention to this after studying data from the VesselFinder shipping tracking service. In 2025, the port averaged 15 to 25 ships per day.

Photo: Social media Russian security forces raided the offices of Eksmo, the country's largest publishing house, on Tuesday, targeting the company's senior management, according to state media. The searches were reportedly carried out as part of a criminal investigation into the organisation of activities of an "extremist organisation”, referring to the sale of books with LGBTQ-related content. Eksmo CEO Yevgeny Kapyev was detained during the searches.

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Photo: social networks This afternoon in Moscow, security forces came to search the management of the Eksmo publishing house. REN TV , TASS , RBC and Kommersant were the first to report this; the information was later confirmed by the publishing house itself. According to media reports, the investigative actions were carried out as part of a criminal case about organizing the activities of an “extremist organization.” We are talking about selling books with LGBT themes.

On April 19, Russia celebrated the “Day of Genocide of the Soviet People” for the first time. Vladimir Putin established this date at the end of December 2025. In schools and museums, children were told about the parallels between the crimes of the Nazis and the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Bucha and the House of Trade Unions in Odessa were cited as examples, and participants in the war in Ukraine were also invited.

Photo: SOTAvision / Telegram Russian authorities have opened a criminal negligence investigation into the death of jailed anti-war activist and blogger Vegan Khristolub Bozhiy (previously known as Dmitry Kuznetsov), who was found hanged in a solitary confinement cell on Friday, according to Mediazona.

The authorities of ten regions of the Russian Federation have appointed an additional day off this year for April 21 - the Easter day of remembrance of the dead, which has been called Radonitsa since pagan times, which is significant for most Orthodox Christians.

On April 19, Vladimir Shinkarev, a St. Petersburg artist and writer who stood at the origins of the Mitki art group and became its ideologist and chronicler, passed away. He was 72, in recent years he had suffered greatly, looked bad, had difficulty walking, leaning on a cane, but continued to write and exhibit paintings.

In Moscow, searches were carried out at the management of the Eksmo publishing house, the largest player in the Russian book market. The general director of Eksmo, Evgeny Kapyev, was detained, as well as the director of the editorial office of fiction, Alexandra Shipetina. The preliminary case is about the organization of “extremist” activities due to the “distribution of LGBT literature” among minors.

Vyacheslav Gladkov headed the Belgorod region back in November 2020 and then did not stand out much among the galaxy of “technocrats” appointed by Sergei Kiriyenko, selected by him through the “school of governors.” Since 2022, everything has changed dramatically. The region once closest to Ukraine has suffered more from the war than other Russian regions: almost 500 civilians have already died there.