Members of the Free Word association, the St. Petersburg PEN Club and the Free Historical Society demanded that Russia release the convicted Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, the Troitsky Option newspaper reports . The statement was signed by 130 people. They recalled that on May 14, Sentsov declared an indefinite hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners, and demanded that he be sent to Ukraine.

In the Samara region, the criminal case of the head of the economic security and anti-corruption department of the Syzranskoye municipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ruslan Biktayrov, was transferred to court, reports the local department of the Investigative Committee. Biktayrov is accused of receiving a significant bribe for inaction (Part 3 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The Riga District Court changed the preventive measure for pro-Russian politician Vladimir Linderman to one not related to imprisonment, reports the local publication Delfi , citing the Leta agency . Earlier, the court of the Vidzeme suburb of Riga arrested Linderman, who was detained on May 8 in connection with his March speech at the All-Latvian Parents' Meeting. In his speech, Linderman opposed the refusal to teach in Russian in schools.

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov filed a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny in the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow for the protection of honor and dignity due to an investigation into the purchase of an Italian villa from Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin at a price three times higher than its market value. this to TASS .

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, arrested in the Penza case, filed a statement in which he demanded to check the investigators who refused to open a case of torture. about this on his Facebook page . wrote Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov The application was submitted to the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Western Military District.

In Moscow, at the Presidential Administration, single pickets are held in support of the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev, accused of storing drugs on a large scale (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the telegram channel of the organization. Police and FSO officers check the documents with some participants. The detentions have not yet been reported.

The magistrate of court district No. 1 of the Leninsky district of the city of Cheboksary imposed a fine of 6 thousand rubles on the local coordinator of Open Russia, Dmitry Semenov, for carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). Aleksey Glukhov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this.

Dmitry Pchelintsev with his wife Angelina. Photos provided by relatives The defendant in the case of the “terrorist community“ network ”, who was publicizing torture in the Penza pre -trial detention center, tells how the FSB officers forced him to declare his certificate in a lie invented“ in order to avoid criminal liability ”.

In Tatarstan, in the city of Almetyevsk, an investigation has been completed against a criminal investigation officer who got behind the wheel drunk, hit a pedestrian and fled the scene of the accident, according to the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee. The website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs says that the accident occurred on February 3. A drunk policeman hit a man at a pedestrian crossing at about 5 a.m. and fled the scene of the accident.

In the Kemerovo region, young people got lost in the taiga and were only able to catch a mobile network in a tree where a bear drove them. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the department, around midnight the call center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Berezovsky received a call. A 15-year-old teenager and his 20-year-old friend reported that they were lost in the taiga.

Yabloko party member Maxim Kats filed an appeal to the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Tagansky District Court to immediately block the Telegram messenger at the request of Roskomnadzor. The text of the complaint is at the disposal of Mediazona. The Moscow City Court registered the complaint on May 21. The document says that the politician actively uses the messenger “for both personal and work and socio-political correspondence,” and also maintains his own Telegram channel.

The Moscow City Court rejected the defense's complaint and left under house arrest the artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov, the director of RAMT Sofya Apfelbaum and the former general director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Mathematician and programmer Dmitry Bogatov received a decision to terminate criminal prosecution in the case of attempting to organize mass riots (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and public calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) through messages on the Sysadmins.ru forum. A copy of the document is at the disposal of Mediazona.

The Moscow City Court overturned the verdict and sent for a new trial the case of neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed “Tesak,” who was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security colony, TASS reports . The court made the same decision regarding Evdokim Knyazev, but left him and Martsinkevich under arrest until August 21. In addition, the court commuted the sentences of four more defendants in the case, reports .

Vladislav Kuleshov, accused in the case of calls for mass riots, which previously involved mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, pleaded guilty. Lawyer Marina Efimenko told Mediazona about this. She claims that her client “does not want” to file a complaint against the arrest. The defender was unable to provide any other information, citing a non-disclosure agreement. On May 21, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested Kuleshov until June 30.