News digest for June 22

Actionist Pavel Krisevich was charged in the case of a performance with a shot on Red Square, Bard College, which collaborated with St. Petersburg State University, was recognized as an “undesirable organization,” and Pussy Riot participants were detained by Moscow police. We talk about the main news for June 22.

• Actionist Pavel Krisevich, sent to a pre-trial detention center, was charged with hooliganism. Because of the performance with a shot on Red Square, he faces up to seven years in prison.
• The court approved the verdict of Ildar Ibragimov, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case from Kazan. In March, he was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony. Crimean Tatar activists Lenur Seidametov and Timur Yalkabov are also being persecuted on suspicion of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir; their detention was extended until mid-September.
• Jehovah's Witnesses from Kemerovo, Alexander Bondarchuk and Sergei Yavushkin, were sentenced to four years probation - they were found guilty of participating in and financing an “extremist organization.” The court sentenced their co-religionist from Birobidzhan, Evgeniy Egorov, to two and a half years of probation.
• The sentence of the defendant in the “palace case” Sergei Pavlyutkin was left unchanged - earlier the court sentenced him to a year in a penal colony. According to investigators, he sprayed a gas canister towards police officers at the rally on January 23.
• Despite the closure, the educational project “Laboratory of Social Sciences” was included in the register of NGOs-“foreign agents”. Another educational institution was also subjected to political pressure - the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized Bard College, which collaborated with St. Petersburg State University, as an “undesirable organization.”
• The court rejected the appeal of Rosderzhava journalist Yan Katelevsky - he will remain in pre-trial detention. Katelevsky declared no confidence in the court; he considers the criminal case brought against him and his colleague Alexander Dorogov to be ordered and fabricated.
• Prosecutor's office officials summoned the former coordinator of Navalny's Chelyabinsk headquarters, Alexei Tabalov, to “give an explanation.” The security forces stated that they had received materials from a case of extremism against him.
• The police detained members of the art group Pussy Riot Alexander Sofeev, Lyusya Stein, Anna Kuzminykh, Maria Alyokhina and the head of the Moscow branch of the unregistered party “The Other Russia E.V. Limonov” Olga Shalina. The Moscow City Court also upheld the decision to arrest Pussy Riot activist Veronika Nikulshina for 15 days.
• A resident of the Sverdlovsk region, Sergei Usoltsev, was fined 60 thousand rubles under the article of insulting the authorities. The reason for drawing up the protocol was a comment on VKontakte, allegedly insulting Vladimir Putin and Valentina Tereshkova.
• In Samara, security forces detained blogger Aidar Kamaletdinov. The activist’s friend suggests that this is related to his journalistic activities.
• In St. Petersburg, the administrative case filed against Dmitry Yeltsov, a protest participant in support of Navalny, was stopped , and in Kazan, the court overturned the decision to fine activist Ilya Egorov for the April 21 rally. Egorov’s interests were defended by lawyer Venera Safina, who collaborates with OVD-Info.