Sentenced to two years because of publications about the murder of the Tatar Ekaterinburg PR specialist Yaroslav Shirshikov, he was placed in a pre-trial detention center on preventive registration as a person prone to promoting extremist and terrorist ideology. This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti with reference to a letter from the prisoner. Shirshikov fears that this will give more reasons to place him in a punishment cell.

On the morning of April 27, security forces conducted a search of 85-year-old Sakhalin human rights activist Mark Cooperman in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). He himself told OVD-Info and SOTA about this. The reason for the case was a telegram mailing. According to security officials, the man allegedly sent an “unidentified circle of people” a document entitled “Plan for the West’s participation in regime change in Russia.

Novosibirsk private college "Novokolledzh" will stop working in July. The founder of the project, Sergei Chernyshov, reports this. “I believed and still believe that my colleagues bear enormous blame for the normalization of war in our country. All these “Talks about important things”, letters to the front, delivery of subpoenas. For propaganda and recognition of former murderers and rapists as heroes. None of this ever happened at Novokolledzh,” the man said in a video on the YouTube channel.

On April 26, 41-year-old journalist Sergei Karelin was detained in the Murmansk region in connection with the case of cooperation with FBK. This was reported by the Guardian. and Associated Press , Mediazona drew attention to the publication. One of the courts in the Murmansk region arrested Karelin on April 27.

Political strategist from Udmurtia Sergei Antonov has been declared wanted. Information about this appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, Vot Tak noted . The criminal case on participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) against Antonov became known on March 18. According to investigators, the political strategist is a participant in the "Congress of People's Deputies" of former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev.

Security forces opened a criminal case on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) against 21-year-old resident of Veliky Novgorod Daniil S. ASTRA reports this. The case was opened because of a photograph with the caption “Life for thieves, death for garbage,” published on VKontakte in March 2022. It shows the defendant showing the middle finger to the police car.

A court in the Rostov region sentenced Vladimir Sizov to three and a half years in prison in the case of participation in the “Union of Slavic Forces of Rus'”. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Rostov region, RAPSI noted . Sizov was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The man was also sentenced to six months of restricted freedom after serving his sentence.