On April 29, four Christians were fined by the peace court of the Kirovsky district of Kazan, Russia, for “illegal missionary work.” They were each fined 15,000 Russian rubles (about $200). Ivan Moshechkov, Mikhail Dresvyannikov, Anton Guberbernov, and Farhat Aitov are members of the International Union of Evangelical Baptist Christians, a group that refuses to register with the state. On Feb. 22, the four preachers conducted a service inside a private house. While it was going on, an assistant prosecutor and three security officers entered, waited until after the meeting, and then arrested them.