The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested a native of Kyrgyzstan, Obid Abdyraimov, who is suspected of recruiting militants to Syria, according to a message in the official Telegram channel of the St. Petersburg City Court. 39-year-old Abdyraimov, suspected under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code, was arrested until June 13.

Activists of the unregistered party “The Other Russia” held an action in the assembly hall of Smolny, where the government building of St. Petersburg is located, unfurling a banner “The guard is tired,” the head of the regional branch, Andrei Dmitriev, told Zaks.ru. Several activists entered Smolny as part of an excursion group of tourists.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region began checking reports of the death of a 78-year-old pensioner, who died after being detained and taken to the police department for stealing food from the Pyaterochka store. A notice about the start of the inspection is posted on the department’s website. According to preliminary data, store security guards suspected the pensioner of stealing food and called the police.

on the website of ChGTRK Grozny The Union of Journalists of Chechnya posted a statement , which refers to a “feeling of professional rejection” in connection with Novaya Gazeta reports about threats to journalists for publishing about the persecution of gays in Chechnya. “Just in order to understand that retribution must sooner or later overtake those who sow confusion and discord among people, it is not at all necessary to adhere to certain radical, fanatical views.

The police began the detentions of the participants in the racket of the Association of Carriers of Russia on Nevsky Prospekt in support of the truckers' protests, photographer David Frenkel told Mediazone. Photo: David Frenkel According to him, the police had a conflict with one of the participants in the action that doubted the documents they provided. The man was taken into a car for a 15-minute conversation during which his comrades surrounded the police car.

The Minister of National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, Dzhambulat Umarov, posted on his Instagram an appeal to the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, calling on him to “apologize to the Chechen people” for articles about the persecution of gays and “get acquainted with the mental specifics of the region” . “Don’t worry, the Chechens don’t touch unarmed people, even if they are scoundrels,” Umarov begins.

Former employees of the Kharkiv special forces "Golden Eagle" Alexander Kostyuk, Vladislav Master, Artem Voilokov and Vitaly Goncharenko, accused of murders and abuse of authority in relation to Euromaidan activists, left Ukraine to Russia on April 13, their lawyer Valentin Rybin said.