Yuli Boyarshinov, a defendant in the Network case, who was released, left Russia. His wife Yana Sakhipova wrote about this on her Twitter. Boyarshinov was released from Karelian correctional colony No. 7 on April 21. In total, he spent five years and three months in the pre-trial detention center and colony.

The Volgodonsk District Court in the Rostov Region arrested for seven days pensioner Dmitry Lyagushkin, who published a video with a clip of Colonel Shendakov's statements and pictures, including a swastika. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The man was found guilty under the article on the public demonstration of Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The chairman of the Union of Journalists of Karelia, Georgy Chentemirov, and member of the board of the Union, Natalya Sevets-Ermolina, were expelled from the organization after the journalists were recognized as “foreign agents.” About this on the website of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Izhevsk on two counts because of comments calling for the execution of officials who proposed reducing the requirements for wastewater discharges into Lake Baikal. The publication “Caution, News” is about this. reports A man named Alexander S. is charged with calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

Vladimir Putin signed amendments toughening penalties for many articles of the Criminal Code, as well as introducing a new article on assisting international organizations and foreign government agencies. The law is on the official legal information portal.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Central District of Krasnoyarsk opened a criminal case under the article on public insult to the memory of defenders of the Fatherland (Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against a 43-year-old local resident. This is the press service of the Investigative Committee for the region.

The administration of Yekaterinburg refused to approve the annual march of the radio engineering faculty of UrFU, scheduled for May 7. The local Vecherniye Vedomosti news agency drew attention to this. the message drew The reasons for the lack of permission from the authorities are unknown. Prior to this, the action was refused approval only in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Patriarch Kirill issued a decree on the deprivation of the sanctiacon and missionary Andrei Kuraev, who criticizes the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church, the war in Ukraine and the Russian authorities. This was announced by Kuraev himself in his telegram channel. At the end of April 2020, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church forbade Kuraev to commit sacrifices.

The Moscow City Hall did not approve the Left Front's rally on May 2 in memory of the fire in the Odessa House of Trade Unions in 2014 due to coronavirus restrictions. About this on the movement's website. reportedly planned to hold a rally on Suvorov Square with up to a thousand participants. The Left Front A fire in the Odessa House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014 as a result of a confrontation between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists. The fire killed 42 people.

A court in Biysk declared illegal the refusal of the city administration to approve the May Day demonstration organized by the Communist Party. This was reported in the telegram channel "KPRF Biysk". On March 18, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation filed a notification about the May 1 march along Petrovsky Boulevard.

The Karelia authorities have banned a car rally proposed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in honor of May 1st. This decision was approved by the court. Telegram channel “Karelian Cart” is about this. reports The party was refused for a “far-fetched technical reason,” the telegram channel reports. The exact reason for the refusal to hold the rally is not specified.

The Third Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction refused to accept the complaint against the preventive measure against the artist Sasha Skochilenko until April 10. This was reported by the prisoner support telegram channel.

In the Kaluga region, a teenager was detained in the case of arson of a power plant. He is charged with an article on preparation for sabotage (part 1 of article 281 of the Criminal Code with the application of part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the FSB. In the message of the department, a young man born in 2006 is called a supporter of neo-Nazism. RIA Novosti published a video of the detainee.

For the second time, the prosecutor’s office refused to approve the indictment against the editor-in-chief of the publication “Modern Kalmykia” Valery Badmaev, who is being prosecuted under the article on repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). About this "Kavkaz.Realii" with reference to the journalist himself.

Environmental activists who oppose a landfill in the Leningrad region have announced the cancellation of the subbotnik due to threats of administrative and criminal prosecution from officials. This was reported on the page "Garbage at the origins of the Peterhof fountains" in "VKontakte". Local residents planned to hold a community work day to clean up debris from the area around the reservoir, created in 2020 after the reclamation of the former Alekseevsky quarry.