Gleb Viktorov, frontman of the Russian rock band Tri Dnya Dozhdya, was hospitalized and is receiving treatment after delivering a political speech against the war in Ukraine during a concert in Yekaterinburg, which his management dismissed as the "raving of a drugged man."

A Russian journalist has been sentenced to 10 years in absentia for stating that 20% of Georgia is occupied by Russia. This marks the first instance of Russia's 'fake news' law being applied to a case unrelated to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.