During a hearing in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Tomsk, the prosecutor asked to sentence retired police lieutenant colonel Viktor Lavrentyev to a fine of one million and three hundred thousand rubles under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). TV2 reports this. The case against Lavrentyev was opened in March last year due to posts on Facebook about the shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol.

The Rostov-on-Don garrison military court sentenced ex-Colonel of the Russian Guard Valery Kotovich to six years in a general regime colony, about whom colleagues complained because of conversations about the war in Ukraine. Kommersant reported this with reference to the court’s press service.

The Obninsk prosecutor's office (Kaluga region) transferred to court a criminal case against the leader of the regional movement "For Human Rights" Tatyana Kotlyar - she is charged with fictitious registration of citizens. Kotlyar herself told OVD-Info about this. The human rights activist’s case will be considered by one of the magistrates’ courts, but the start date of the process is still unknown.

A criminal case was opened against a 44-year-old resident of Kalmykia for repeated display of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code). The court sent the man to a pre-trial detention center. Information about this appeared on the SK website. According to the investigation, on May 6 and July 24, 2022, the man published images with Nazi symbols on one of the social networks.

Vladimir Taranenko, coordinator of the human rights project "Siberia Legal", is under pressure in the pretrial detention center. From April 2 to April 28, he was kept in solitary confinement. OVD-Info learned this from the human rights activist's relatives, as well as from his letters, which the project has at its disposal. The reasons why the human rights activist was placed in solitary confinement are still unknown.

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, sentenced to 6 years in prison, is being transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 2 of Biysk (Altai Territory) to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. RusNews reports this with reference to Ponomarenko’s letters. “In violation of all the rights of minor children to communicate with their mother, I am being transported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory,” writes Ponomarenko. — I expect the stage on April 28. They came with a Covid test.

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, sentenced to 6 years in prison, is being transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 2 of Biysk (Altai Territory) to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. RusNews reports this with reference to Ponomarenko’s letters. “In violation of all the rights of minor children to communicate with their mother, I am being transported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory,” writes Ponomarenko. — I expect the stage on April 28. They came with a Covid test.

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, sentenced to 6 years in prison, is being transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 2 of Biysk (Altai Territory) to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. RusNews reports this with reference to Ponomarenko’s letters. “In violation of all the rights of minor children to communicate with their mother, I am being transported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory,” writes Ponomarenko. — I expect the stage on April 28. They came with a Covid test.

In Barnaul, the authorities did not approve the May Day demonstration and rally that the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation wanted to organize. This is what “7×7” is about. reports Due to the refusal to approve the action, the communists held a cleanup day in Lenin Park on May 1.

The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg repeatedly terminated the administrative case of the city defender Oleg Mukhin, who participated in the picket against the demolition of the Basevich house. In court, he was represented by a lawyer from the OVD-info Igor Skachko. Promotion of city defenders / Photo: "Cityproof press center" Mukhin was charged with an article on the organization of an inconsistent public action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Telegram channel ASTRA that two criminal cases were opened against a resident of Lipetsk under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). reports According to the telegram channel of journalist Todar Baktemir, a man named Felix Eliseev has been in pre-trial detention center-1 in the Lipetsk region since the end of 2022: then a case was opened against him under Part 2 of Art.

The Supreme Court of Crimea returned the case of activist Irina Danilovich to a lower court, since Danilovich was not previously allowed to familiarize herself with the case materials. The Crimean Process reports this. Danilovic was detained in April 2022. For a long time, her relatives did not know where she was. The activist spoke about pressure and physical violence from FSB officers. According to the security forces, Danilovich kept 200 grams of explosives in the lining of her glasses case.

Evgeny Zinich / Photo: "Jehovah's Witnesses" Jehovah's witness from Krasnoyarsk, Evgeny Zinich, was placed in a penalty area in a correctional colony No. 15 in Nizhnevartovsk. This was reported by "Jehovah's Witnesses." The colony staff show increased attention to Zinich and makes oral comments on insignificant reasons, the community of the word believer reports. In addition, Zinich said that not all letters are transferred to him.

On April 29, the court sent Konstantin Pavlov, a deputy of the Bryansk Regional Duma, who had previously helped 40 mobilized people not to go to war, to a pre-trial detention center. This is reported by the regional investigative department of the UK. The initiation of a criminal case against Pavlov became known on April 27, when his house was searched. The deputy is suspected under the article on fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code).

An unknown agency has blocked three domains of the site "Sex change and gay sex is cool" in Russia. attention to the new blocking . drew Roskomsvoboda The Sex Change and Gay Sex project is reprinting information banned by the Russian authorities. Government agencies regularly block his domains, despite changing names. In January , it became known that 216 links to this site were included in the blocking register.