Svetlana Petriychuk and Evgenia Berkovich The Second Western District Military Court extended the arrest of director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk until October 22. Thus, Judge Yuri Massin granted the prosecution's request, which argued that the grounds for detention had not changed, and the accused could allegedly escape from the investigation.

Eduard Ulman The commander of the GRU special forces, Eduard Ulman, convicted in 2007 for the murder of civilians of Chechnya, could die during the hostilities in Ukraine. New Buryatia reported his death, referring to the statements of the mother of officer Natalia Korobenkova and the ex-head of the public organization, the Union of Military Service "Protection" Sergey Semanchuk. The publication does not give details and circumstances of the alleged death of Ulman.

Valentin Nikitchenko The St. Petersburg photographer Valentin Nikitchenko was able to return his things seized by the security forces during the "inspection" of his apartment in March 2023. The photographer reported this to RusNews. "Inspection" with the seizure of equipment in the apartment Nikitchenko took place on March 29. After that, Nikitchenko was taken to the police station, where the security forces asked him to financing Open Russia and the Corruption Fund.

Russia rose to two points - to 162 places out of 180 - in the rating of freedom of the press , which annually publishes the international organization "Reporters without borders". An increase in the rating is due to the fact that the positions of countries with low indicators are even worse than a year ago.

Russian propaganda has increased its activity in Tiktok compared to 2022, follows from the study of the Bruckings Institute. In the first three months of 2024, accounts associated with the Kremlin began to publish several times more videos than two years ago. At the same time, the number of accounts decreased from 57 to 46.

Konstantin Petrov The court arrested for ten days the Izhevsk blogger and businessman Konstantin Petrov, who previously stated that there were too many military monuments in Murmansk. He was charged with an administrative article about petty hooliganism. To the court of the first, the Mediazon was the attention of the court. Previously, a criminal case was also instituted against Petrov about the insult of symbols of military glory.

Finnish police patrol, photo from the archive In Finland, three Russian citizens are suspected of export without the permission of double goods. The police demands to arrest them on charges of violation of sanctions legislation under aggravating circumstances, the Finnish television and radio company Yle reports . Suspects are students of the Kainuu professional school in the city of Kayai in the central part of Finland.

The FSB officers reported on the murder of a suspect in the preparation of a series of terrorist attacks in Russia in the Leningrad Region. According to state media, citing the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of the Russian Federation, the alleged saboteur acted on the instructions of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Julia Navalny The Deutsche Welle prize "For freedom of speech" in 2024 was awarded to Julia Navalny and the Corruption Fund. The prize winners were announced on May 3 - on World Freedom Day. The award will be presented on June 5 in Berlin.

Treasurer of Enlightened (Andrey Khristoforov) In Arkhangelsk, activist Andrei Khristoforov died, who was better known by the name of Treasury Enlightenment. Information about his death appeared on his page on VKontakte, close activists confirmed her publication 29.ru. Presumably, Khristoforov died of cirrhosis of the liver. On April 25, in a commentary 29.ru, he said that he was in the hospital due to an exacerbation of this disease.

Lyudmila and Marianne Lyudmila and Marianne before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine lived in St. Petersburg. In March 2022, Lyudmila's mother suffered during the shelling of the city Rivne, where she always lived. Saving it from bombs, the three of them ended up in Sweden, where Lyudmila and Marianne got married.