The Kostroma City Duma stripped the powers of deputy Nikolai Sorokin, who had previously tried to organize broadcasts with the approval of the city budget. This is reported by SOTA. Sorokin told reporters that the reason was the prosecutor's office about inaccuracies in his declaration. The department pointed out “financial irregularities” - 5,200 rubles in Sorokin’s account at Gazprombank, about which he knew nothing.

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court sentenced a local resident to six months of strict regime in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) due to comments about the arson of the United Russia office. Mediazona drew attention to this information . He was also banned from administering websites on the Internet for a year.

A criminal case was opened against Severodvinsk resident Alexander Malafeevsky under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to posts on VKontakte. A friend of his told OVD-Info about this. On February 29, Malafeevsky was searched, after which he was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee and a confession was issued.

An investigator at the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on Tekhnichesky Lane in Moscow brought charges against SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya under the article on participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Eva Levenberg.

The Tambov Regional Court left unchanged the sentence of probation and a fine to former military man Oleg Borisenko, who poured paint on a poster with the letters Z and V. Information about this was published in the court file.

The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence in absentia for ex-editor of Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova; they approved the sentence in absentia in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code): 8.5 years in prison. RusNews reports this. The verdict was handed down by the Basmanny District Court of Moscow on October 4; the journalist was also banned from administering Internet sites for 4 years.

The Moskovsky District Court of Kaliningrad sentenced journalist and civil activist Mikhail Feldman to two years in a general regime colony in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Maria Bontzler, who represented Feldman in court. This is exactly the punishment the prosecution asked for the journalist. In addition to imprisonment, Feldman was banned from administering websites for two years.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sent journalist Olga Komleva to a pre-trial detention center until May 27 in the case of participation in FBK (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), reports the channel “NeMoskva Says”. Komleva has diabetes, but the judge did not allow insulin to be sent to her in the pre-trial detention center, which the journalist needs to take regularly.

On March 1, the First Eastern District Military Court sentenced Nikolai Titarenko, a resident of the Amur region, to eight years in prison, including on charges of calling for violence against the governor and writing inscriptions against the authorities. OVD-Info was informed about this by the press service of the court. He will serve the first three years of his sentence in prison, the next five years in a maximum security colony. He was also given a one-year restriction of freedom.

Komi teacher Nikita Tushkanov was transferred from IK-20 in Ustyuzhna, Vologda Oblast, to FKLPU MB-10 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Vologda Oblast due to flooding. This was reported by his support group. Flooding occurs in the colony almost every year. In addition to Tushkanov, other prisoners from his unit are also transferred to the hospital. They will stay there for two or three weeks.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined ex-deputy Maxim Reznik 40 thousand, finding him guilty under the article on the absence of a “foreign agent” plate (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Information about this was published by the press service of the city courts. This time, a report was drawn up against Reznik because of a post dated December 12, 2023, in the politician’s personal Telegram channel.

During the debate in the Central District Military Court, the prosecutor requested three years in a maximum security colony for the anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by his support group. In September 2023, the mathematician was detained at the exit from the colony, from which he was released after the end of his sentence in the case of the broken window of the United Russia office .

On March 27, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Nikolai Konashenko to a pre-trial detention center for two months in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The reason for the criminal case was Konashenko’s Facebook posts about the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. “Why Crocus and not the Kremlin? Confused?” the man wrote.

On March 19, the prosecutor's office of the Omsk region filed a lawsuit to recognize the Omsk Civil Association as an “extremist” organization. The media project wrote about this in its Telegram channel. According to the prosecutor, “CSO” threatens to change “the constitutional system in the Russian Federation by force,” and also “continues the activities of oppositionist A.A.

A criminal case was opened against former municipal deputy Nikita Yuferev from St. Petersburg for repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) because of three tweets. Rotunda reports this. In these tweets, the man talks about why he will not pay a fine under the protocol for discrediting the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and about an article by the German publication Die Zeit about his municipality, Smolninskoye.