The Ministry of Justice added five people and one legal entity to the register of “foreign agents”. The complete updated list is available on the department's website.

For 74-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Barnaul, Mikhail Reshetnikov, the prosecutor requested 4 years in a general regime colony. This is reported by the website “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". The next hearing in the case is scheduled for April 23, the believer will make his last word in court.

Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of the opposition publication Polit.Ru and the foundation of boxer Alexander Usik, which collected donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian military defense. Roskomsvoboda reports this. Both sites were blocked “by mask”, that is, with all domains and subdomains. It is unknown what was the official reason for the blocking.

On March 6, the Komstroma Regional Court, in an appeal, reduced the term of correctional labor for bookstore owner Yan Kulikov from Soligalich, who was convicted in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info found information about this on the court’s website. In December 2023, Kulikov was sentenced to six months of correctional labor with the withholding of 5% of income in favor of the state. Now this period has been reduced to five months.

The Central District Court of Prokopyevsk sentenced Jehovah's Witness Elena Chernykh to three years probation. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. The believer was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee for the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad reported on the completion of the investigation into the case of desecration of a gravestone (clause “a”, part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code) against a 38-year-old resident of the Sverdlovsk region and a 37-year-old resident of Izhevsk.

A former participant in the war in Ukraine, Russian blogger Yuri Shakeev, was charged with obstruction of justice (Article 294 of the Criminal Code) due to reposts about the head of the Chuvash Investigative Committee, Alexander Poltinin. “Angry Chuvashia” writes about this. According to investigators, representatives of the Ekra plant, which deals with state defense procurement, paid Shakeyev for publications discrediting the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia.

Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov, sentenced to four years in a maximum security colony, does not receive the necessary antidepressants in a pre-trial detention center. His wife Elena Gorban told SOTAvision about this. On March 28, the Central District Military Court found Miftakhov guilty in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Until the appeal, he will have to stay in pre-trial detention center-5 in Yekaterinburg.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg ordered a new forensic psychological and linguistic examination in the case of political scientist Evgeny Bestuzhev about military “fakes.” This was reported by Sergei Podolsky, a lawyer representing his interests from OVD-Info. The examination will be carried out by the North-West Regional Center for Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation; the previous “examination” carried out by the Center for Expertise of St.

Three new cases were opened against Nizhny Tagil resident Dmitry Cherepkov under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer Roman Kachanov, who defends the man in cooperation with OVD-Info. Currently, five criminal cases have been opened against Cherepkov under this article. He is under recognizance not to leave the place. The reason for new cases were comments on VKontakte.

The Investigative Committee for the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case for failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code) against publicist and ex-State Duma deputy Alexander Nevzorov. Fontanka reports this. The journalist was added to the register of “foreign agents” in April 2022.

A case was opened against a 74-year-old resident of Gelendzhik for repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to publications on social networks. This was reported by the department of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory.

Two guards at the Vladimir Central prison beat up Crimean Tatar activist Asan Yanikov when he asked to pick up his groceries in the storeroom. He told his relatives about this, Crimean Solidarity reports . During the search on April 6, Yanikov asked when he could get into the quarters to pick up food, but the prison staff refused. The man decided to ask them again. The inspector did not like this, and he signaled to the guards.

In the village of Pangody (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), a search was conducted on the person involved in three criminal cases, Igor Yakunichev, on April 1, after which the man was forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in the village of Vinzili (Tyumen region). His mother reported this to OVD-Info. In May 2023, a criminal case was opened against Yakunichev for “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Then a search was carried out at his home.

On March 6, the Tomsk Garrison Military Court issued a ruling in the case against serviceman Radmir Mustafin, who is accused of two counts of desecration of the Russian flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code). The card was published on the court’s website, and the Siberian Express publication drew attention to it.