The head of the Moscow branch of the Progress Party, Nikolai Lyaskin, who received 25 days of arrest for participating in a rally in Moscow, was released. Politician Alexei Navalny announced this on Twitter. Lyaskin was detained on March 26 during a procession on Tverskaya Street. According to the activist, he was beaten in the paddy wagon.

In Tyumen, 17-year-old Polytechnic College student Gleb Sh., who was facing administrative punishment for putting up posters for the film “He’s Not Dimon for You,” was acquitted due to the lack of evidence of an offense. The student himself told Mediazona about this. According to the young man, he arrived at the announcement of the verdict with a lawyer, since his guardian had left.

The Supreme Court granted the request of the Ministry of Justice to recognize the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as an extremist organization, liquidate it and ban its activities. The meeting was broadcast on the organization's website. The lawsuit was filed after a February inspection of the organization, which the center regarded as preparation for a liquidation lawsuit.

The Prosecutor General's Office is considering a request for the extradition of Montenegrin citizen Ananija Nikic, according to the department's response to Mediazona's appeal. Nikic was named among the alleged participants in the plot to carry out the coup attempt that failed last fall. “We inform you that the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation is currently considering a request from the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro for the extradition of A. Nikic,” the document says.

A citizen of Ukraine detained in Samara on suspicion of working for Ukrainian intelligence was deported to the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, TASS reports citing the press service of the regional department of the FSB. “A citizen of Ukraine, previously detained in Samara on suspicion of working for Ukrainian intelligence, was deported to the territory of the DPR for further proceedings,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the Moscow renovation program, which gives the capital's authorities emergency powers to resettle residents from houses subject to demolition. 397 deputies voted for the document, four voted against, reports .

In Tatarstan, two employees of the department for combating organized crime of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan in Naberezhnye Chelny were charged with assault on lawyers, illegal trafficking in weapons and falsification of evidence.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow, until June 3, arrested Akram Azimov, the older brother of Abror Azimov, who is suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. During the hearing, the man said that he was not involved in the terrorist attack and objected to being taken into custody.

The bill introducing amendments to deprive Russian citizenship for terrorist activities has been withdrawn from the State Duma, sources in the parliamentary apparatus told the BBC. According to one of the BBC’s interlocutors, the bill was contrary to the Constitution, so “they came from [State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav] Volodin and ordered it to be removed urgently.” Now the bill card has been removed from the Duma database.

Another envelope with white powder of unknown origin was found in the mail of the Novaya Gazeta editorial office. The envelope says that it is also addressed to the newspaper's management. As reported on the newspaper’s website, the editorial office is now staffed by the operational services of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the police. After the envelope is seized, it will be sent for examination, the results of which will be ready in a week.

In Tyumen, a 34-year-old man was detained who stole a car in order to get to neighboring Tobolsk and bury his cat. As reported on the website of the regional traffic police department, the car was stolen the day before: the driver left the car running and went into the pharmacy, which the suspect took advantage of. In the morning, the stolen car was recorded by video cameras at the entrance to Tyumen, after which the driver was detained.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against employees of the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection due to the death of schoolchildren during a storm on Syamozero, according to the response of the Federal Antimonopoly Service to the appeal of the head of the Yabloko party, Emilia Slabunova.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, investigators have completed a criminal investigation into two teenagers aged 16 and 17 years old, accused of torturing a 30-year-old acquaintance. According to investigators , on December 15, 2016, four minor residents of the village of Aginskoye saw their 30-year-old acquaintance.

The FSB office in the Pskov region has charged 44-year-old resident of the city of Dno Boris Yakovlev with calls for extremism, lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Mediazona. Yakovlev composes satirical songs about power, which he posts on YouTube .

The Kurgan Regional Court released from custody two of the four employees of the Iris paid rehabilitation center, accused of illegally imprisoning more than 30 drug addicts. “The court decided to release from custody representatives of the Iris rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug addiction, Pavel Torokhtiya and Dmitry Yushkov,” the court office told Interfax. According to the agency's interlocutor, during the investigation they will remain under recognizance not to leave.