Demonstration in St. Petersburg (archive photo) The defendants in criminal cases due to participation in street shares since 2015 became 623 people. Among them are activists, journalists and bloggers who illuminated protest promotions. The statistics of criminal prosecutions for protests were collected and generalized by the ATS -INFO analysts together with the Mediazone.

Nine people were arrested in Poland, they are suspected of sabotage and the commission of sabotage by order of Russian special services. This was on the air of the TVN24 television channel by the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. According to the prime minister, we are talking about an attempt to aim the factory for the production of paints in Wroclaw, sabotage in Lithuania and arson of the IKEA warehouse.

A group of Russian sociologists Exodus-22 conducts a study of a new wave of Russian emigration in Tbilisi. The correspondent of the North. Realiy spoke with one of the participants in the study by sociologist Ekaterina Chigaleik about what is happening with Russian emigrants after two years of the war and how to study the process within it. "We are an independent group of social researchers, who studies the mass departure of Russians from the country.

Ivan Popov The 235th garrison military court arrested the former commander of the 58th combined arms army, Major General Ivan Popov on charges of fraud on an especially large scale. He was removed from his post in July 2023 after the report on the poor condition of the Russian army and high losses. The arrest was the first to report to the two Majors channel and the Greey Zone Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel .

Ministry of Justice of Russia The Russian Ministry of Justice included in the register of “undesirable organizations” the movement for the independence of Karelia “Stop Occupation of Karelia” and the fund for assistance to the Ukrainian military “Turn Around Alive”. "Stop Occupation of Karelia" was created in 2012. The organization preceded the Karelian National Movement, a nationalist separatist organization founded in 2021 on Mount Vottovaara in Karelia.

Anatoly Maslov The court in St. Petersburg sentenced the 77-year-old scientist Anatoly Maslov to 14 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty in the case of Gosizmen. This was reported in the United press service of the city courts. The case was obeyed in closed mode due to the "Top Secret." The prosecutor's office requested a scientist 17 years in prison. Maslov did not plead guilty.

Human rights activists analyzed the position of LGBT people in Russia in 2023 on the basis of a sociological study. As follows from the report they published, 43.5% of respondents were subjected to one or more types of violence or pressure due to their sexual orientation or transgenderness. Last year, this share was only 30%. “In other words, we see a significant increase in cases of violence or pressure on the basis of hatred.

The European Union approved the use of income from frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia to help Ukraine. This will allow Kyiv this year to get up to 3 billion euros ($ 3.3 billion), of which 90% will go to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "90% of income will go to military support. Russia must pay for the damage caused by its aggressive war," wrote the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Yang Lipavsky on his Twitter, explaining the decision of the European Union.

Oleg Mukhin In relation to the St. Petersburg, city defender Oleg Mukhin drew up a protocol on the organization of an unauthorized rally. Earlier, criminal investigators detained him near their own house and delivered him to the police department without explaining the reason. This was reported by the telegram channel "SOS St. Petersburg". The reason for the detention of Mukhin was a post with photographs of the action in defense of the meat processing plant.

Alexander Nevzorov The prosecutor of St. Petersburg filed an administrative lawsuit in the Oktyabrsky District Court with a demand to recognize Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lydia with an “extremist association”. According to lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov, this is done in order to turn the property of the family couple in favor of the state. “Of course, the extremists need to be selected, and the prosecutor demanded that the prosecutor be removed to the state’s income.

Alexander Lukashenko The Investigative Committee of Belarus opened criminal cases against all 257 citizens of the republic who participate in the elections to the Coordinating Council - the opposition parliament in exile, established by the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. The department announced their property. "According to the established algorithm, information about real estate and property belonging to the defendants has already been received in our country.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the beginning in the Southern Military District of the first stage of exercises to increase the readiness of non -strategic nuclear forces. The authorities announced the plans to conduct such exercises on May 6.