Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka City Court sentenced the journalist and the head of the Yabloko branch in the Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Efimov to the two years of the penal colony in the third criminal case. This was reported by the press service of the party. He was also forbidden for three years to make publications on the Internet.

The Ministry of Justice included four more people and one media in the register of “foreign agents”, according to the website of the department. This time, the list got: Kinocritics, journalist Ekaterina Barabash, accused of the case of military "fakes"; Blogger Jesusavgn (Alexey Gubanov) Musician Glory Tolstoy; TV presenter Alexei Lushnikov; The publication "Vowel".

On April 2, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow wrapped up until May 26 Dmitry Marsov in the case of financing an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the lawyer of the OTS-Info Eva Lovenberg. Mars is charged with five FBK Donates at 300 rubles each, which the man made from August to December 2021. According to investigators, in total during this time, the defendant transferred the Fund 1,500 rubles.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a 60-year-old resident of Vyborg Oleg Mampia, accused of repeated propaganda or demonstration of prohibited attributes or symbolism (part 1 of article 282.4 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel of the press service of the city courts. The man was detained on April 3. He was already charged, and he himself pleaded guilty.

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Against a resident of Yekaterinburg, Yegor Beloglazov opened a criminal case under the articles on the insult of the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code) and the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). About this ATD-info was told by his wife. The reason for the persecution was the publication of Beloglazov on VKontakte. The man spoke out against war, repression and Russian power.

In the Crimea in the village of Zemlyanny (Ortalan), the security forces on April 1 conducted searches in four houses of Crimean Tatars, including the parents of the journalist of the ATR television channel Gulsum Khalilova. This was announced on his Facebook page by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov. Searches were carried out under the pretext of finding weapons and prohibited items, including prohibited books.

The Leninsky District Court of Tyumen ceased the criminal prosecution of a local resident under an article on the military “fakes” (part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the lawyer of the defendant Pavel Rusnakov. The reason for the termination of the case was the expiration of the statute of limitations. The girl was persecuted due to anti-war publications on Instagram made in the spring of 2022. “Now there is only black and white. No shades. No ambiguities.

Government propaganda publicly portrayed pro-Ukrainian Crimeans as dangerous violent offenders and mass rioters. At the same time, the release of the individuals involved in the 3 May case on bail indicates that initially, in some cases, the Russian authorities attempted to use softer forms of influence on their opponents while establishing their repressive regime on the peninsula.