On April 9, 2026, the Vilnius municipality changed the procedure for admission to schools: children who arrived from abroad and have not previously studied in Lithuania under the primary education program can now only enroll in schools with instruction in Lithuanian. This effectively closes their choice of schools for national minorities, including Russian-speaking ones.

Residents of at least 40 regions from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad received notifications about restrictions on the operation of mobile Internet, 7x7 journalists calculated based on regional media reports. Sber announced the dates of restrictions - from May 5 to May 9, and added that problems may be observed with sending SMS, non-cash payments and using ATMs. In some regions, warnings were also sent out by cellular operators, including T2 and MTS.

The head physician of the Shebarkul district hospital in the Omsk region, Oleg Miller, signed a document according to which one employee must voluntarily go to war with Ukraine for a year by the end of the year. Nadezhda Bityutskaya, an employee of the paramedic and obstetric station in the village of Krasnoyarka, stated this on Instagram*, Sopka noted . She did not specify in what capacity doctors should go to war - stormtroopers or military doctors.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court reduced the arrest of 42-year-old Orenburg resident Serik Taspakov from 14 to four days in the case of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). A report was drawn up against him for swearing in a public place. ... Source: press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region On May 1, Serik Taspakov tried to break through to the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Denis Pasler .

On May 5, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court rejected the collective lawsuit of animal rights activists against the Government, the Legislative Assembly and the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov. Activists demanded the repeal of the law in force since March 1, allowing the euthanization of homeless animals. The law allows the killing of animals that are recognized as seriously ill or showing unmotivated aggression.

The antitumor drug etoposide cannot be purchased in 74 regions, and methotrescate in 51, Izvestia reports . Roszdravnadzor, in a commentary to RIA Novosti, denies the shortage. According to oncologist Irina Borova , complaints about the lack of drugs are coming from “Kaliningrad to Kamchatka.” Etoposide, according to Izvestia, can only be bought in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk regions, Krasnodar Territory, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

In Yakutsk, on the site of the monument to Polish exiles and victims of repression, which for unknown reasons disappeared in 2023, a monument to a participant in the war in Ukraine will be erected . The townspeople are outraged , but are not particularly surprised: monuments in honor of the Northern Military District are being erected more and more often on the site of memorials to those killed in Soviet times. We talk about such replacements in three examples.

Sewer collectors burst in the Saratov region (in Balakovo - on May 4, in Engels - on April 29) and in the Samara region (in Kinel , this became known on May 4). In Engels, water and feces flooded the courtyards of at least three houses on Poltavskaya Street and a sports ground , as well as a school area . According to residents, the water utility tells them that there is not enough equipment to pump out water.

As 7x7 learned, on May 4, politician Dmitry Rumyantsev filed a petition with the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan for early expungement of his criminal record. He plans to participate in the State Duma elections in September. During the 2024 presidential elections, Dmitry Rumyantsev headed the headquarters of Boris Nadezhdin in Tatarstan. He was also the chairman of the regional branch of the Civil Initiative (the party was liquidated by the Supreme Court in June 2025).

Workers are finishing the renovation of the site at the intersection of Poyarkova and Kurashova streets, where there used to be memorial stones to exiled Poles. A monument to Yakut citizen Dmitry Egorov, who died in the war with Ukraine, and whom Putin declared a Hero of Russia, will be erected there. The chief architect of Yakutsk, Semyon Sergeev, told YSIA about this.