News digest for June 15

The court left the former director of Open Russia in jail, and the Yakut shaman’s health deteriorated. We talk about the main news for June 15.

• The court in Krasnodar refused to change the preventive measure for the former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov - he will remain in pre-trial detention. At the hearing, the defense provided evidence that the post on social networks, which formed the basis of the criminal case against the oppositionist, was not published by him.
• Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev announced a deterioration in his health while in a psychoneurological dispensary. He complains of dizziness, weakness and drowsiness.
• A resident of the Moscow region, Sergei Kuznetsov, who was arrested in the case of justifying terrorism, cannot be found in a pre-trial detention center. A criminal case was opened against the man because of a publication on VKontakte; during the search, the police beat him with a stun gun.
• Jehovah's Witness from Kazan, Konstantin Sannikov, who is in custody, is not allowed to see his wife. Over the past nine months, he has been denied a visit six times.
• The police came to the university to defend the practice of the Yaroslavl activist of “The Other Russia E.V. Limonov” to hand him a summons to draw up a protocol because of the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. The security forces threatened with expulsion from the university and criminal charges.
• The Ministry of Justice refused to exclude the Samara publication Gagarin Park from the register of “foreign agents”. He was included in the register due to a subsidy from the Russian Union of Journalists.
• Courts in Kursk and St. Petersburg dismissed administrative cases initiated due to protests in support of Alexei Navalny. The interests of the detainees were represented by lawyers from OVD-Info.