In 2021, in Russia, in all respects about extremism, two times more people were convicted of all articles than a year earlier. This was reported by the project "Network Freedom". According to the project, according to the criminal article on the initiation of hatred, 50 people were condemned - this is three times more people than in 2020.

The flag of Ukraine on the building of the Riga Duma The Diet of Latvia approved a law that allows the deprivation of citizenship of people who support war crimes. But only in people with dual citizenship can take it away. Delfi writes about this. Amendments to the law on citizenship were proposed by the Ministry of Justice of Latvia after Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine.

The State Duma has prepared a draft law on "foreign agents", which should unite all previously existing laws that regulated the activities of people and organizations recognized by "foreign agents". This was told by the head of the Duma commission to investigate the intervention of foreign states in internal affairs Vasily Piskarev. According to him, now the provisions on "foreign agents" are enshrined in five laws, and the Ministry of Justice leads four register of "foreign agents".

Mark Zuckerberg The Russian Foreign Ministry announced an unlimited ban on entering the country for 29 US citizens - as stated in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, "in response to constantly expanding anti -Russian sanctions." The sanctions, as stated on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were introduced against persons "from among the highest leaders, businessmen, experts and journalists forming the Russophobic agenda, as well as the spouse of a number of high -ranking

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked access to the website of the Russian Planet publication, RoskomSvoboda reported this. The Prosecutor General’s Office decided to block on April 16, on April 20, the department blocked one link - to the article that mothers were allowed to pick up Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine. But now the entire website of the publication does not open.

A resident of St. Petersburg, who fought and captured in Ukraine, was exchanged for a Ukrainian soldier. The name of the Petersburger is unknown. This was written "Fontanka" and "Paper" with reference to the regional Commissioner for Human Rights Svetlana Agapitova. The soldier is still in Moscow. His name and age are unknown. "Paper" clarifies that it is not a SRO. The exchange of prisoners occurred on April 19, this was reported by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk.

The poster of the exhibition "Genocide - no!" In St. Petersburg, the exhibition of the Armenian regional youth association (Arma) "Genocide - no!" The day before the opening. She was timed to the day of memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide. This is stated in the public Arma in VKontakte.

Victor Vorobyov Deputies of the State Council of Komi excluded the head of the Communist Party faction Viktor Vorobyov from the Presidium of the regional parliament, Interfax reports . On April 1, Vorobyov was included in the register of "foreign agents". The agency notes that the decision on the exclusion of the deputy was adopted by a majority vote, without indicating a specific number. In an interview with the North correspondent.

Rally in support of Alexei Navalny, Kaliningrad The Petersburger Mansur Bulatov sued a compensation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 20 thousand rubles for illegal detention during January protests in support of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny last year. It is reported by "Apology." On January 31 last year, Bulatov was detained at the Zvenigorodskaya metro station when he went to the store.

Vladimir Volokhonsky. Photo from the page in VKontakte The St. Petersburg deputy Vladimir Volokhonsky during a meeting of the municipal council condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called on the deputies of United Russia "to leave this party as quietly as possible", since they are responsible not only for the previously committed government actions, but also for the war crimes that occur in Ukrainian land now.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russia closes the consulates of Latvia in St. Petersburg and Pskov, as well as the Consulate General of Estonia and Lithuania in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. All employees of the closed consulates were declared by persons of non grant, their stay in the country is undesirable, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"There is a difficult process of denacing the Russian Federation." Journalist Matvey Ganapolsky about why Russians support the war with Ukraine

Icon of St. Nicholas in the Orthodox Church in Vilnius In Lithuania, the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church were removed from their posts and sent for the state, who disagreed with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, who approved the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At first, Metropolitan Vilensky and Lithuanian Innocent supported his clergy, and then made the opposite application and appointed the bishop to the main administrative posts of the loyal to Moscow.

An illustrative photo The court in Karelia recognized the witness of Jehovah, the father of three children, Alexei Smelov, guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and fined him for 400 thousand rubles.

Vagit Alekperov and Vladimir Putin Billionaire Vagit Alekperov left the post of President Lukoil and left the board of directors of the company. This is stated on the official website of the company. According to the Lukoil press service, Alekperov is not a controlling shareholder of the company. By the end of March, he owned and disposed of votes against 3.12% of the company's shares, and was also a beneficiary (through family trusts or share investment funds) another 5.43% of the shares.