On the night of May 7, a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter of the Russian armed forces crashed in Syria, both pilots were killed, sources in the military authorities told the Kommersant newspaper. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense. According to the publication, the official version of what happened is a technical problem, the “unofficial” version is that it was hit by a MANPADS shell fired by radical Islamists during a patrol in eastern Syria.

Kolomna activist Vyacheslav Egorov received three days of administrative arrest after being detained at a rally near the settlement of Pervomaiskoye against the Volovichi landfill. Activist Irina Naletova reported this to Mediazona. This morning, police officers detained several people who were at a pedestrian crossing near Pervomaisky - local residents watch daily at the entrance to the landfill to prevent waste from Moscow and other cities from passing through.

The “Central Cossack Army,” one of the registered Cossack societies registered in Russia, explained the participation of its representatives in the harsh dispersal of protesters on May 5 in Moscow as an expression of their “civic position.” This is stated in a message on the organization's website. Representatives of the TsKV write that representatives of the organization were not involved in maintaining public order on Pushkinskaya Square or anywhere else in Moscow.

The “Charity Fund for Assistance to Convicts and Their Families” of journalist and human rights activist Olga Romanova is included in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of “foreign agents”. This is stated in a message on the website of the Ministry of Justice. “The decision to include a non-profit organization in the register was made based on the results of consideration of the application received from it,” the Ministry of Justice notes.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow authorized in absentia the arrest of the leader of the neo-Nazi black metal band M8L8TH Alexey Levkin in the case of participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). this to the Moscow agency A representative of the court reported . At the same time, the court spokeswoman told RIA Novosti that Levkin is also accused of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Toropetsky District Court of the Tver Region began to consider the merits of the criminal case of 51-year-old resident of Toropets Vladimir Egorov, accused of public calls for extremism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of a VKontakte post, a lawyer for the international human rights organization told Mediazona group "Agora" Svetlana Sidorkina, defending Egorov. Sidorkina said that at the meeting the prosecutor announced the indictment.

The action “He is not a king” in Moscow, May 5, 2018. Photo: Nikolai Vinokurov / Crowdspark / TASS Like six years ago, the protests on the eve of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin were accompanied by mass detentions and beatings of the demonstrators. During the action “He is not a king” on May 5, 1,600 people were detained in 27 cities of Russia - many of them complained about police violence.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained three Vesna activists on the Marse Field, hanging four mannequins on a tree, the mediazone correspondent reports. Activists Timur Rasulov, Nikolai Petrosyan and Oleg Usov took their passports, they are held next to the police car. The security forces do not specify the reason for the detention, noting that the activists were "a call." Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone Then the police decided to cordon off the venue. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Mikhail Tsakunov for two months, accused of knocking out the tooth of police officer Sukharukov at the “He is not our Tsar” rally on May 5. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Tsakunov's lawyer German Paranichev (representing his interests at the request of the human rights group Open Russia) asked the court to choose a preventive measure not related to deprivation of liberty.

The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Ingushetia transferred to court the criminal case of six employees of the Republican Center for Countering Extremism, headed by former chief Timur Khamkhoev, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, who represents the interests of several victims, told Mediazona. Sabinin added that the Investigative Committee did not notify them of the transfer of the case, and he learned about this from their press release.

A former law enforcement officer blew himself up with a grenade at the entrance of a residential building in Stavropol, reports . an Interfax source According to the agency's interlocutor, a 40-year-old man detonated a grenade while in the span between the eighth and ninth floors of a residential building, as a result of which he died. No one else was hurt. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the deceased is a former SOBR soldier.

The “Central Cossack Army,” whose representatives beat and whipped protesters on May 5 in Moscow, also received subsidies from the Ministry of Culture. about this with reference to the SPARK database. writes Dozhd Thus, the TV channel found out that in 2016 and 2017, the “Central Cossack Army” received 3 million rubles in subsidies from the ministry.

In Kolomn, the security forces detained the activists who did not let garbage trucks from other cities along the road, according to the group “There is no landfill in Kolomna”. Activist Irina Naletova told Mediazone that five people were detained. She noted that she was not at the scene, but receives information from other participants in the action.

In the Tverskoy District Court, journalists and listeners were not allowed to attend the hearing in the case of Vyacheslav Shatrovsky, who was detained on November 5, 2017 on suspicion of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), a Mediazona correspondent reports.

Judge of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg Vladimir Vasyukov expelled Mediazona correspondents Sasha Bogino and David Frenkel from the meeting to select a preventive measure for Mikhail Tsakunov, accused of assaulting a policeman (part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), the correspondents themselves told Mediazona. Before the hearing, the bailiffs said that, by order of the judge, only 10 people would be allowed into the trial, because “it would be stuffy” in the hall.