The judicial districts of Vologda received two administrative cases about “fake news” about the coronavirus (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the "Joint press service of the courts of the Vologda region". The first case will be considered by the judicial district No. 63. According to the protocol, a 19-year-old local resident posted a voice message on a social network: “Two hundred people are questionable whether they are infected or not.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, police officers forced a man to apologize for the camera for the publication “Fake-Nuus” about the coronavirus and drew up a protocol on him about the distribution of “obviously inaccurate” information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported on its Instagram page.

In the Moscow region, the Royal City Court found local journalist Roman Ivanov guilty of failure to comply with police demands (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). This is reported by Apology-Protest. According to the prosecution, Ivanov refused to comply with the police’s instructions to maintain a “social distance” of 1 meter. The court imposed a fine on Ivanov in the amount of 1,000 rubles.

The military appeal of the city of Vlasikh, the Moscow Region, rejected the appeal to the defendant of the Sevastopol case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir” Enver Seitosmanov. This was reported by the movement "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyers Emil Kurbedinov and Sergey Legostov.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained the National Bolsheviks Sergey Kondratyev during the action near the Czech Consulate General. About this "another Russia" reports on its website. The participants in the action advocated the return of the monument to Ivan Konev in Prague. They deployed a poster with the text “Konev - in place, kurvy!”, And also set fire to a smoke bomb. Promotion near the Czech Republic Consulate General in St.

The magistrate of court district No. 3 of the Zheleznodorozhny judicial district of Yekaterinburg found local resident Natalia Babikova guilty under the article on the distribution of fake news (Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles. This is reported by the portal "66.ru".

In Irkutsk, the police drew up a protocol on the author of the banner “Don’t wait for help - Pavel Kharitonenko threw us again”. This was announced by the ATF-INFO by the acquaintance of the activist Mikhail. Kharitonenko hung a banner on a pedestrian bridge in the Akademgorodok area.

The Prosecutor General's Office demanded to block an article by Novaya Gazeta columnist Elena Milashina on the situation in Chechnya related to the spread of the coronavirus. Novaya writes about this on its website.

In Tula, security forces came to the home of anarchists Dmitry Tsibukovsky and his wife Anastasia Safonova. Safonova reported this by calling the hotline. OVD-InfoShe suggested that they came for a search, but it is not known within the framework of what criminal case. Only Safonova’s husband is now at home, but it was not possible to contact him. According to Safonova, Tsibukovsky planned to open the door to the security forces so that they would not break it.

On April 1, a law came into force tightening penalties for “fake news” about the coronavirus. The penalty for disseminating “knowingly false information” is up to three years of restriction of freedom or a fine of up to 700 thousand rubles. OVD-Info tells which publications became the basis for criminal cases.