On April 16, the military appeal court in Vlasikha, near Moscow, approved the verdict of Felix Eliseev, the former administrator of the public network “SHE COLLAPSE” from Lipetsk, in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared in the court file. In December 2023, Eliseev was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

On March 29, the Pacific Fleet Military Court in Vladivostok sentenced Tamara Kryukova, an elderly activist from Magadan, to a fine of 400 thousand rubles because of posts related to the war in Ukraine. Her friend Galina Gorina reported this to OVD-Info. In addition to the fine, the woman was banned from administering websites for two years. The prosecutor asked to impose a similar fine on her with a ban on administering websites for four years.

The First Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction approved the verdict of environmental activist from the Moscow region Alexander Bakhtin in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the army based on political hostility (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info. On August 11, 2023, the Mytishchi City Court sentenced Bakhtin to six years in prison.

A new criminal case was opened against DOXA journalist Maria Menshikova for justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Baza and ASTRA . The reason for the persecution was a post in the DOXA public page on VKontakte dated July 11, 2022. Probably, we are talking about a publication about the railway resistance and partisans in Russia and Belarus, writes ASTRA.

The Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg received materials from four defendants in the “Tyumen case”, accused, among other things, of terrorism charges. This was reported by the telegram channel of the defendants' support group. The preliminary hearing will take place on April 26. At the same time, the court will once again consider the issue of assigning a new preventive measure to the defendants in the case. They have been in pre-trial detention since August 2022.

The Sovetsky District Court of Ufa fined musician Ivan Dremin (Face) 30 thousand rubles under the article on the absence of a “foreign agent” sign (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Kommersant-Ufa reports this. What specific publication caused the fine is not specified. The musician was added to the register of “foreign agents” in April 2022: after he left Russia and spoke out against the war with Ukraine.

Human rights activist Gregory Marcus Severin Winter, sentenced to three years in prison in the case of military “fakes,” was transferred from pre-trial detention center-3 to pre-trial detention center-2 in the Vologda region. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Sergei Tikhonov.

A criminal case was opened against 35-year-old Sterlitamak resident Evgeny Shepelev under the article on repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). The man himself told OVD-Info about this. It is unknown what exactly served as the reason for initiating the case. The man's VKontakte page has been deleted.

The Moscow City Court approved a sentence in absentia for oppositionist Maxim Katz: eight years in a general regime penal colony and a ban on administering websites for four years in the case of distributing “fakes” about the army (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared in the telegram channel of the press service of the city courts. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow handed down the verdict in August 2023.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar in absentia in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the actions of Russian military personnel in Ukraine motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Mediazona.

50-year-old Simferopol resident Nikolai Mazanka was detained by Russian security forces due to “discussions on the topic of Ukraine,” pro-Russian blogger and serial informer Alexander Talipov reported on April 11. The reason for the man’s detention, Talipov claims, was Mazanka’s statements against Russia’s war with Ukraine, as well as against Vladimir Putin.

The Orenburg Regional Court, in an appeal, re-qualified the first part of the article on “military fakes” to the second (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) in the case of reserve border guard officer Andrei Prikazchikov and replaced his fine with three years of forced labor with deduction 10% of income. This was reported by Network Freedom.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 25 complaints from OVD-Info and Memorial and awarded compensation in the amount of three and a half to five thousand euros. Information about this was published on the court’s website on April 11. The decisions are contained in the decisions “Chursin and others against Russia” , “Kinzhabayeva and others against Russia” , “Papulin and others against Russia” , “Ryakin and others against Russia” .