News digest for June 3

Pressure on the family of politician Dmitry Gudkov, sentences against Jehovah's Witnesses and lawsuits against supporters of Alexei Navalny - we talk about the main news for June 3:

• The investigation requested a ban on certain actions for Irina Ermilova, the aunt of politician Dmitry Gudkov. Gudkov and Ermilova are defendants in the case of causing damage to the Moscow Property Department.
• Because of the cartridges in the award weapon of oppositionist Gennady Gudkov, father of Dmitry Gudkov, the police opened a criminal case against “unidentified persons.”
• Jehovah's Witness from Krasnoyarsk Andrei Stupnikov was sentenced to six years in prison. In the Amur Region, a court sentenced 78-year-old Jehovah's Witness Vasily Reznichenko to two years of probation.
• The court extended the arrest of ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal for a month. In May, the health of the former head of the region deteriorated sharply.
• In the Stavropol Territory, Ibragim Merzhoev, a defendant in the “Ingush case,” was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was found guilty of using violence against a government official. Due to the recalculation of the term of detention in the pre-trial detention center, Merzhoev was released in the courtroom.
• The VTimes publication is being closed due to political risks and economic problems associated with being labeled a “foreign agent.”
• The Penza police have reduced the amount of claims against the organizers of the January 23 rally in support of Alexei Navalny by 40% - now law enforcement officers are demanding 528 thousand rubles from local oppositionists.
• The St. Petersburg court found the activist of the Russian Socialist Movement guilty of violating the rules for organizing a public event - she was fined 20 thousand rubles because of a picket in support of the artist Yulia Tsvetkova.
• Because of FBK donations, a Moscow resident was summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. It is not yet known in what criminal case they are going to interrogate him.
• A resident of Vladivostok had a fine of 200 thousand rubles imposed due to a rally in support of Navalny on January 31 canceled . In St. Petersburg, the court canceled the fine of a participant in the April 21 rally and terminated the administrative case opened against an independent municipal deputy for distributing OVD-Info leaflets to detainees.