The Buzuluksky District Court of the Orenburg Region replaced the fine of driver Mikhail Kolokolnikov in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) with five months of corrective labor with the deduction of 5% of the salary, the court’s press service reported . The bailiff asked for a change in the punishment because Kolokolnikov was unable to pay it on time. After the verdict, he told Mediazona that he did not have the money for this.

The Tsivilsky District Court of Chuvashia twice fined activist Valeryan Viktorov five thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). Lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov reported this on his Telegram channel; case files are available on the court’s website.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow received the case of Andrei Gaevsky about military “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to a post on VKontakte. The case file is available on the Moscow courts website. ASTRA wrote about the initiation of the case in March. According to investigators, in the summer of 2022, Gaevsky published a post on social networks about the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha.

In Ufa, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod, unknown persons attacked Socialist Platform activists, the first secretary of the movement, Sergei Strannik, told OVD-Info. According to the organizing secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Platform, Andrei Gorskikh, on April 29, three unknown men ambushed him near his house in Ufa and, shouting “fascist,” began beating him on the head, trying to knock him to the ground.

There was news here about attacks on Socialist Platform activists, including Yevgeny Lutsenko. We deleted this news after Lutsenko's story that the news was incorrect: no one attacked him. According to the man, he does not know why platform members Andrei Gorskikh and Sergei Strannik passed on such information to OVD-Info.

After a search, security forces in Ulyanovsk detained local artist Egor Kholtov (creative name HOLTOV) as part of a criminal case for insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Ulyanovsk news agency, and Mediazona drew attention. The man was detained jointly by employees of the Ulyanovsk Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the Investigative Committee.

The Maysky District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria acquitted Jehovah's Witness Kirill Gushchin. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. The believer was charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and involving others in similar activities (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). At a meeting on March 19, the prosecutor asked to sentence Gushchin to seven years in prison.

The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow has received a criminal case regarding military “fakes” against pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova for consideration on the merits. Information about this is published on the court's website. Buyanova is accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army based on national hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

A resident of Sevastopol was sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony because of calls on social networks for violent actions against Russians, writes “Krym.Realii” with reference to the press service of the FSB department in annexed Crimea. The verdict in the case of calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) was handed down back in January, and on April 26 it was approved by the Sevastopol City Court.

72-year-old pensioner Evgenia Mayboroda was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony in the case of two reposts on VKontakte. NeMoskva Speaks reports this. Taking into account the time spent in a pre-trial detention center and under a ban on certain activities, the woman has about four and a half years left to serve. Mayboroda was sentenced on January 29.

The prosecutor at the debate in the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk requested 18 years of imprisonment for local activist Angel Nikolaev. This was reported by the "Solidarity Zone".

The Moskovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod began to consider a criminal case of “fakes” about the Russian army against the head of the liquidated Sakharov Center, Sergei Lukashevsky. Mediazona drew attention to the case file .

In the Chelyabinsk region, a local resident was sent to a pre-trial detention center who, according to investigators, “placed in the public domain materials containing calls for terrorist and extremist activities” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), they report Izvestia with reference to the regional department of the FSB.

Security forces detained a 41-year-old resident of the Surgut district in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in a case of justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the regional Investigative Committee.

The Investigative Committee in the Murmansk region opened a criminal case under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory and insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Izhevsk businessman Konstantin Petrov, who spoke out in a video against the veneration of monuments of the Great Patriotic War many years after it graduation. The department's press service wrote about this in a telegram.