In Moscow, nurse and civil activist Olga Menshikh was detained in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Her lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev wrote about this in his Telegram stories. Menshikh's acquaintances confirmed this information to OVD-Info. In the afternoon, employees of the capital's Investigative Committee came to search Menshikh's apartment.

The Uzlovsky District Court of the Tula Region fined civil activist Elena Agafonova 30 thousand rubles for filing a complaint with the prosecutor's office without indicating that she was a “foreign agent.” Her defender Alexey Vlasov told OVD-Info about this. The meeting took place on January 10.

On April 4, the Kirov Regional Court approved the sentence of Maria Rose, who was sentenced in absentia to five and a half years in prison under articles on military “fakes” (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and on calls for extremism (part 2 of Art. 280 CC). Information about this appeared in the court file, OVD-Info drew attention. The Oktyabrsky District Court sentenced the woman on January 29.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined journalist Alexey Pivovarov 30 thousand rubles under the article on the absence of “foreign agent” markings on publications (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the joint press service of the Moscow courts. The protocol against Pivovarov was submitted to the court on January 15. According to RBC, the reason for the fine was a post with a survey on Pivovarov’s Telegram channel.

On April 5, the FSB conducted searches in the museum complex “Don Cossacks in the fight against the Bolsheviks” in the Rostov region. Security forces seized the collected works of Ataman Pyotr Krasnov and emigrant Cossacks. The owner of the complex, Vladimir Melikhov, reported this on his Facebook page and the pro-Kremlin telegram channel Don Mash . According to Melikhov, it is unknown on what basis the literature was confiscated.

The prosecutor, at the debate in the Kirov District Court of annexed Crimea, requested two years and six months of a penal settlement for the Crimean Tatar Dlyver Salimov due to a conflict with a gas station driver who had a cap with the letter Z. This was reported by “Krym.Realii” with reference to “ Crimean Human Rights Group. Salimov is accused of threatening to kill based on hatred (Part 2 of Article 119 of the Criminal Code).

A report was drawn up against the founder of the telegram channel “Angry Chuvashia”, Semyon Kochkin, under the article on participation in an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) because of the broadcast of “Dozhd”, in which he talked about his criminal case. “Angry Chuvashia” reports this.

On April 5, Belgorod volunteer Alexander Demidenko, who helped Ukrainian refugees, died in a pre-trial detention center. This is reported by the publication “That’s So”. In December 2023, a 61-year-old man was refused bail. Demidenko’s kidnapping became known on October 17, when he brought a stretcher for a woman with cancer to the Kolotilovka checkpoint. As the volunteers who worked that day said, he left there in his car, accompanied by two UAZ vehicles.

The Slavic City Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined Archbishop Viktor Pivovarov 150 thousand rubles under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church “Eschatology”. “Most of the fine will be taken from the money seized during the search. The rest will be collected by parishioners,” the publication says.

Irkutsk resident Alexander Skvortsov was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony in the case of desecration of the state flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code), rehabilitation of Nazism (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 UK). This was reported on the telegram channel of the 2nd Eastern District Military Court, the case file was published on the website.