On April 21, the judge of the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol, Gurina, extended until May 5 a preventive measure in the form of detention for the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Akhtem Chiygoz. about this wrote Lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who represents the interests of Chiygoz, on Facebook.

A criminal case was opened against Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is in a strict regime colony in Kotlas (Arkhangelsk region) on charges of attacking police officers during a rally as part of Strategy 31, on disorganizing the work of the colony. This is reported by Kasparov. Ru with reference to Mokhnatkin's public defender Vladimir Stepanov.

On April 20, the State Duma approved in the first reading a bill equating the organization and holding of rallies and other public events, as well as speeches and public discussions, with political activity. Information about this is published in the project card on the website of the Automatic System for Ensuring Legislative Activity.

The Vologda City Court found truckers Alexei Poperechny, Alexei Nesterov and Vyacheslav Gromtsev guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event (under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for participating in a protest against the system of paying for passage on federal highways for heavy trucks and fined them 10,000 rubles each. This was reported on April 21 by the regional Internet newspaper Newsvo.ru.

The academic leave of the editor-in-chief of the RBC holding, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, could be accelerated due to pressure from the Kremlin in connection with critical publications about Vladimir Putin's inner circle. This was reported by Reuters, citing an anonymous source close to the media group. On April 20, RBC reported that Elizaveta Osetinskaya from the beginning of the academic year 2016-2017 will participate in the annual program of Stanford University "Innovations in Journalism".