In St. Petersburg, police came to search the apartment of femme activists Yulia Karpukhina and Dara Shchukina. Lawyer Vera Ivanova from the human rights organization Apology reported this to Mediazona. According to , it is being carried out as part of a case of false e-mail mining of a branch of RANEPA - the North-Western Institute of Management (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code). On April 19, they received a letter about a bomb in the building with a ransom demand.

In Kazakhstan, the author of the travel blog on YouTube bald and bankrupt, Benjamin Rich, was detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. about this in a telegram. wrote The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, According to Rogozin, Rich and his companion, a citizen of Belarus, were detained in the evening “in the area of ​​launch pad 112 (the Buran complex owned by the Kazakhs)” and taken to the Baikonur police department.

, was detained leaving her house , a journalist for the publication Sota.Vision In Moscow , Anna Loiko reported . , the publication's editorial office At about 15:00 Moscow time, Loiko managed to tell her colleagues about the arrest and stopped answering calls. Four hours later, she got through to them and added that the police had taken her to the Khoroshevskoye police station and were going to draw up a report on her refusal to show her passport (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent 28-year-old Victoria Petrova to a pre-trial detention center in the case of spreading “fake news” about the army. This was reported by the Network Freedoms project of the human rights group Agora. The case was opened because of a video about the war in Ukraine, which Petrova posted on VKontakte (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Human rights activists do not cite its content.

In St. Petersburg, police conducted searches of activists of the “Spring” movement and their relatives. This was reported in the organization’s telegram channel. Security forces came to the home of activist Valentin Khoroshenin. All his equipment was confiscated, and the activist himself was detained. In addition, the parents of the federal coordinator of Viasna, Bohdan Lytvyn, were also searched. All equipment was also confiscated from the relatives.

In Moscow, soldiers who fought in Ukraine will take part in the Victory Parade. this . reports TASS Today a dress rehearsal for the parade took place on Red Square. The video is published by the Zvezda TV channel. As the announcer said, the paratroopers who fought in Ukraine rode in a column of military equipment on Rakushka armored personnel carriers. The agency's correspondent reported that the audience greeted them with applause.

The Goskosmos State Corporation temporarily changed the logo to the Red Star "in honor of the great achievements of the USSR in space and as part of the support of our armed forces in Ukraine." This was reported by the press service of the organization.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, large forest fires began, it is known about five dead. This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to the service, more than 16 settlements are burning in the region, fire covered about 200 buildings, including sawmills and kindergarten. Governor Alexander USS introduced an emergency regime in the region. The Ministry of Emergencies reports the five dead.

In the Omsk region, six streets burned out of a strong fire, more than 100 buildings were destroyed. This was reported by the regional department of the SK. The agency initiated the case of negligence (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). The fire began the day before, on May 6 in the city and the village of Novoaleksandrovka. The fires were also in the villages of camel, Azovo, Barsukovka, Petrovka, Rostovka, theologian and gardening "Radist-1", the Ministry of Emergencies said .

The lawyer of St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko, Yana Nepovinnova, spoke about the transfer of her client to another cell of the pre-trial detention center. This was reported in the telegram channel of the artist’s support group. According to Nepovinnova, during a visit to Skochilenko on May 6, the client spoke about being transferred to another cell with more comfortable conditions.

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested activist Olga Smirnova in the case of “fake news” about the army. Her comrades reported this in a telegram. The meeting was scheduled for 18:30 Moscow time, but began at 21:20 and lasted four hours. At the request of the investigator, it was closed. They came to search Smirnova and four other St. Petersburg residents on the morning of March 5, after which the rest were released as witnesses.

In the Italian city of Marina Di-Carrara, due to sanctions, Scheherazade , who was associated with President Vladimir Putin, was arrested due to sanctions. This was reported by the Ministry of Economics and Finance of Italy. Officials do not call who belongs to the yacht, and only “significant <...> the relationship of the nominal owner of the vessel with prominent representatives of the Russian government and other participants [sanctions list]” mention.