Andrey Grishin, editor-in-chief of the Vecherniy Magadan newspaper, was fired over a Facebook post about Russia's deputy representative to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov. Grishin wrote about this on his page on the social network. On Friday, they called me and asked me to come to the conversation. During it, representatives of the mayor's office of Magadan, the founder of the publication, announced with regret that I would have to write a letter of resignation.

In Tyumen, 17-year-old student of the Polytechnic College Gleb Shafigullin, who was detained for putting up posters for the film “He is not Dimon to you,” was acquitted due to the lack of corpus delicti. about it Writes "Mediazona". The police attached to the materials of the administrative case only a report and photographs of posters pasted on the door.

The Elista administration refused to approve the opposition rally, citing the fact that the claimed area "is located less than 100 meters from the educational organization." This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The city authorities offered to find an alternative venue, but the organizers of the action intend to hold it at the previously announced one.

Artem Matveev, the organizer of the action "I'm Tired" scheduled for April 29, was threatened with a criminal case on extremism. This is reported by the portal "Open Russia". “We submitted a notice of the rally to the mayor’s office, and on April 17 the event was approved. But then they began to put pressure on the applicant,” said Yegor Savin, Siberian coordinator of the Open Russia movement.

The Supreme Court recognized Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. Thus, the court satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Justice. RIA Novosti about this. reports The organization is being liquidated and its property is being confiscated. Representatives of the organization intend to appeal the decision to the European Court of Human Rights.

The city court of Naberezhnye Chelny found Marat Latypov guilty of an administrative offense under part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols, or paraphernalia or symbols of extremist organizations) for reposting an image on the Vkontakte social network. This is reported by the portal "Chelny 24". The court fined Latypov 1,000 rubles and removed the publications.

The FSB department for the Pskov region charged Boris Yakovlev, songwriter from the city of Dno, with “public calls for extremist activities using the Internet” (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was announced by lawyer Dmitry Dinze. According to him, Yakovlev pleaded not guilty and refused to testify, since the defense needed to analyze the material imputed to him. A computer examination has now been scheduled for the digital media that was confiscated from Yakovlev.

On April 20, the Supreme Court of Russia began a debate on the suit of the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Ministry considers the organization extremist, representatives of the department asked the court to liquidate not only the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, but also local religious organizations of believers. about this writes The "Caucasian Knot" .

The administration of St. Petersburg denied the united opposition, which includes the "Party of Growth", "Yabloko" and PARNAS, to agree on a May Day march along Nevsky Prospekt. As an alternative, Polyustrovskiy Park was proposed. about this on her Twitter . wrote Oksana Dmitrieva, deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the Party of Growth,

One of the defendants in the Crimean Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Enver Mamutov, has been charged with attempting to forcibly seize power in Russia and changing the constitutional order (Article 278 from Article 30 of the Criminal Code). Emil Kurbedinov wrote about this on his Facebook page. On May 12, 2016, searches were carried out in five houses and cafes in Bakhchisaray.

Alexander Shpakov, who was arrested in connection with the March 26 rally, spoke about the beating during his arrest. about this writes Dozhd with reference to members of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow. On April 13, four defendants (Alexander Shpakov, Yury Kuliy, Stanislav Zimovets and Andrey Kosykh) in the case of assault on police officers (Article 318 of the Criminal Code) were arrested for two months.

On April 20, during a press conference, which was broadcast on PerisCope live, a crowd of unknown in the form of Cossacks broke into the headquarters of the opposition of Navalny in Krasnodar. As reported in the VKontakte community, the broken people threw eggs and flour, after which they disappeared. All technique is flooded with water. Cossack Evgeny Panchuk, who recently publicly supported Alexei Navalny, is beaten. The police came to the place to adopt a crime statement.

On April 18, the Administrative Commission for Juvenile Affairs and the Protection of Their Rights found 16-year-old Vladislav guilty of violating the established procedure for holding a rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Vladislav participated on March 26 in a rally against corruption, where he was detained. About this writes "Vostok Media". A fine of 10,000 rubles will be paid by the parents of the student. In the city police station No.