In the Cherkessk court, the state prosecution requested five years in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witness with a disability, Elena Menchikova. She is accused of participating in an extremist organization.

Last year, the military court in Grozny considered 78 criminal cases. It is noteworthy that most of them are about unauthorized abandonment of a military unit and desertion in conditions of hostilities and mobilization. In 2022 there were 23 of them, in 2023 - 47.

In Baku, the police stopped an uncoordinated protest action announced under the slogan “No to fake elections!” It was announced the day before by a political emigrant in Europe, activist Tural Sadygly.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia terminated the administrative case against local resident Eduard Kerashvili, whom security forces accused of discrediting the army. The court actually refused to allow the leadership of the Center for the Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to consider the case due to the lack of corpus delicti.

“Crimean Solidarity” activists from Bakhchisaray Seydamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov, Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov and Remzi Nimetulaev were left in pre-trial detention until April 22. This decision was made by the Kiev District Court in Simferopol.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Ryazan region, Maxim M., for the “rehabilitation of Nazism” (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He faces up to five years in prison for “disrespect” for the holidays of February 23 and May 9.

On January 20, 2022, police officers from Chechnya arrived in Nizhny Novgorod and took Zarema Musaeva away. After being taken to Grozny, she was accused of using violence against a police officer. According to investigators, the woman scratched his face.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan, at the request of the prosecutor's office, added an additional six months of restriction of freedom to the term assigned to Ruslan Abdullaev. Previously, he was found guilty of participating in the extremist movement of “citizens of the USSR.”

Asker Tokbaev received one year in a general regime colony. The serviceman was sentenced by a court in Nalchik under Art. 337 of the Criminal Code on unauthorized abandonment of a unit during the period of mobilization.

Crimean Tatar Arsen Abkhairov was transferred from the Yeniseisk prison in the Krasnoyarsk Territory to a maximum security colony in the Republic of Buryatia. Moreover, he should have been transferred to a colony more than six months ago.