The police, without explanation, are leaving Pussy Riot member Veronika Nikulshina and four of her friends, who were detained this afternoon, overnight in the Tverskaya police department. Lawyer Dmitry Dzhulay reported this to Mediazona. “Nika writes that they are detaining him until the morning. They don’t say why or what they’re charging,” Dzhulay reported. This afternoon, a dozen police officers came to the home of Nikulshina’s friends, several hours after the activist herself appeared.

The operational headquarters under the leadership of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Kurgan Region, Mikhail Machushkin, decided not to evacuate the prisoners of correctional colony No. 6 in the village of Ikovka, which residents are leaving due to forest fires, reports . Interfax “There is no threat of fire penetration. The fire is coming from the other side of the village.

In Makhachkala, on May 6, the ex-husband of one of the wards broke into the shelter for victims of domestic violence “Warm House on the Mountain” and took her two children, writes MBKh Media with reference to the project manager Evgenia Velichkina, and also reported on the organization’s Instagram. According to Velichkina, the man knocked down the iron door of the shelter, took two children, leaving the youngest with his ex-wife, and later returned, threatening to kill the woman.

In Moscow, two people who called themselves FSB officers came to the parents of Open Media journalist Yulia Koshelyaeva. Koshelyaeva herself told Mediazona about this. As the correspondent reported, her mother was at home at that moment. One of those who came introduced himself as an employee of the FSB department for the South-Western Administrative District, Artem Smyshlyaev.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested until July 6 21-year-old Daniil Bondar, who is suspected of creating a neo-Nazi group, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom Press secretary of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, Alexey Chernikov, later told Mediazona that suspect Kirill Uchenov was also sent to a pre-trial detention center. According to data on the court’s website, another person involved in the case, Vyacheslav Mukhin, was placed under house arrest.

Russia is expelling two Swedish diplomats, TASS reports citing Rasmus Eljanskog, a spokesman for the Kingdom's Foreign Ministry. According to the press secretary, the reason for the expulsion was the refusal of the Swedish authorities to extend the visa of the Russian diplomat. “Russia responded by asking two Swedish diplomats to leave Russia. We regret the decision of the Russian Foreign Ministry,” Eljanskog said.

In Irkutsk, police major Dmitry Pashkov filed a lawsuit against Radio Liberty for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. A copy of the lawsuit was provided to Mediazona by human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov.

The head of the public organization “Choice of Ingushetia” Ismail Nalgiev was detained at the Minsk airport, said the head of the Ingush branch of “Yabloko” Ruslan Mutsolgov. According to the Caucasian Knot, Nalgiev planned to fly to Prague. “He passed registration and inspection, but an hour before departure he was detained at border control, explaining that he was allegedly wanted,” Mutsolgov wrote.

Convicted pro-Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh was placed in the punishment cell of correctional colony No. 4 for the third time in the city of Torzhok, Tver region, the Crimean Human Rights Group reports , citing lawyer Olga Dinze, who visited Balukh in the colony on May 7. According to the lawyer, Balukh’s health condition has noticeably deteriorated. In the punishment cell he continues to eat only bread and drink water.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced the Zenit football player Alexander Kokorin to a year and a half of the colony of general regime, as well as the player of the Krasnodar football club Pavel Mamaev by the year and five months, the mediazone correspondent from the courtroom reports . Cyril Kirill received the younger brother of Kokorin a year and a half of the colony. Mamaev’s friend Alexander Protasovitsky received a year and five months of the colony.

The body of a judge of the Pribaikalsky District Court of Buryatia was found in a garage near the courthouse on the morning of May 8, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to preliminary data, he committed suicide. As the publication “Number One” writes , judge Alexander Byakov died. Investigators seized a video recording that shows that on the evening of May 7 he left the courthouse and went to the garage, from where he never left.

In Moscow, police officers came to an apartment where Pussy Riot member Veronika Nikulshina was staying with friends. They were later detained. Member of the punk band Pyotr Verzilov reported this to Mediazona. According to Verzilov, the police came to the home of the activist’s friends a few hours after Nikulshina appeared there.

The Council of Judges of the Stavropol Territory demanded to bring to disciplinary liability the judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol Alexander Korobaneikov, who staged a conflict with police officers, Interfax reports with reference to the chairman of the regional council of judges Andrei Kablo. The Council completed the audit, according to the results of which he came to the conclusion that Korobeinikov violated part 2 of Articles 4 and Article 6 of the Code of Judicial Ethics.

Scientific articles by Acting Governor Alexander Beglov contain the same email for feedback as in articles by head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino and 92 other authors, said Dissernet co-founder Andrei Zayakin. In the scientific publications of all these authors, the email OET2004@yandex.ru was mentioned . On May 6, Dissernet experts discovered undocumented borrowings in five scientific publications of Beglov. for the official , where Beglov defended his dissertation.

The mother of Daniil Bondar, detained in the case of a neo-Nazi group, said that her son, a disabled person of the third group, was severely beaten during his arrest. this . reports Valya Dekhtyarenko, coordinator of Human Rights Postcard, As the human rights activist writes, citing his mother, the 21-year-old student was brought in for questioning “blue and swollen from blows.” The detainee's mother was able to call an ambulance directly to the Investigative Committee.