The court in St. Petersburg terminated the case under the “rally” article against two activists due to an attempt to hang out a banner on the electric bubble in honor of the birthday of the ex-coordinator of the Ufa headquarters of Navalny Lilia Chanysheva, which is detained. This was announced by the OTD-Info by lawyer Sergey Podolsky.

Unknowns attacked the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov in the train wagon following the Moscow-Samara route. It is reported by Novaya Gazeta. Europe. Two men went into the train car, and then one of them doused the journalist and the coupe in which he was driving with oil with acetone with oil. “Eyes are terribly burning. <...> The oil smell throughout the car. The departure was already delayed for 30 minutes, ”said Muratov.

On April 7, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Wonderzine publication in Russia. The publication itself is about this. reports According to Wonderzine employees, the reason for the blocking was “a complaint from Rosmolodezh, which demanded that seven texts about LGBTQ people be removed from the site.” The publication “considers [Roskomnadzor’s] actions an unconditional act of censorship” and plans to appeal the decision.

The Tomsk Regional Court commuted the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Seversk Alexey Ershov. Instead of three years in prison, the 69-year-old believer was given a three-year suspended sentence. About this on the website “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”. was sentenced Ershov to three years in prison on January 19. The man was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

On the morning of April 6, searches took place in Kazan at the homes of two Jehovah's Witnesses, Alexey Ermakov and Ivan Minin. About this on the website “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”. reported During the searches, security forces seized electronic devices, postcards, personal notes and cash.

On April 6, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk sent for retrial the administrative case of activist Andrei Kaygorodtsev, initiated in connection with the announcement of an action in support of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal. Kaygorodtsev himself told OVD-Info about this; his interests were represented by OVD-Info lawyer Vasily Dubkov.

Arkhangelsk police filed a lawsuit in the Oktyabrsky District Court — security officials are demanding compensation from local activists for overtime work during protests in support of Alexei Navalny in January 2021. This is what Apologia reports. reports Ten people became defendants in the lawsuit. The Ministry of Internal Affairs demands 233,461.78 rubles from the activists for the action on January 23 and 532,722.10 rubles for the protests on January 31, 2021.

The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov , published in his telegram channel a list of criminal cases under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). In total, Chikov listed 21 criminal cases, including two that OVD-Info was not previously aware of.

On April 6, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill providing for administrative liability for identifying the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II, TASS reported.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the Human Rights Group Citizen. Army. Pravo“” due to the fact that human rights defenders themselves did not appear in the register of “foreign agents”. The corresponding decision was published on the website of the court, drew attention to it.

During the debate in the Birobidzhan District Court on April 5, the prosecutor requested 5.5 and 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witnesses Oleg and Agnessa Postnikov. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. reports In February 2020, a criminal case was opened against Oleg Postnikov under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

Historian and head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev is being transferred from a colony in Karelia to Mordovia. Information about this is on the Facebook page of the "Memorial" society. appeared For what reason they decided to send Dmitriev to serve his sentence in Mordovia is unknown. A week ago, the historian was transferred from SIZO-1 in Petrozavodsk, where he spent five years with a short break, to IK-1 in the Karelian village of Nadvoitsy.

​The prosecutor requested 300 hours of compulsory labor for Georgiy Gromada, who is accused under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) due to posting a photograph of General Pyotr Krasnov on the Immortal Regiment website. The telegram channel “United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg” writes about this. Hromada fully admitted his guilt and asked the court to consider the case in a special manner, but his request was denied.

In Sosnovoborsk, security forces conducted searches and interrogations in five families of Jehovah's Witnesses. A criminal case was opened against one believer for organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). About this on the website “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”. reported The person involved in the case was 55-year-old Yuri Yakovlev.

The lawyer of Novokuban blogger and SovInformBuro journalist Alexandra Nozdrinova reported that physical force was used against her client. Radio Liberty reported on this on April 6. writes Nozdrinova in disseminating deliberately false information about the activities of the Russian armed forces (207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason for initiating the case was a certain publication in his telegram channel “SANYA Novokubansk”. Nozdrinov was taken into custody on March 29.