Wikimedia Foundation , the owner of Wikipedia, filed an appeal against the decision of the magistrate of the 422nd precinct of the Tagansky District Court, who at the end of April fined the foundation five million rubles due to its refusal to remove articles about the war in Ukraine. This is stated on the organization's website.

The Izvestia newspaper reported that an appeal on behalf of First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko appeared on their website due to the hacking of employees’ work accounts. “They officially deny the existence of an appeal on behalf of <…> Sergei Kiriyenko, as well as the fact of publishing such an article on behalf of the editors,” the media group said in a statement.

In May, the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar fined Nikolai Otradnov 30 thousand rubles for tearing off a poster in support of the war in Ukraine on camera. about this . The man himself told the Caucasian Knot According to Otradnov, in early May he filmed on his mobile phone how he tore down the “For Ours” poster in the elevator and posted the video on his private Instagram page. He captioned the video “I’m fighting zealotry as best I can,” noted .

Vladislav Nikitenko. Photo: personal page of Vladislav Nikitenko on Facebook Annunciation Vladislav Nikitenko provokes Russian courts and law enforcement agencies for not the first ten years. He is a self-taught lawyer who, for the sake of complaints in all kinds of organs, does not spare either his time or civil servants. As soon as he was released after five and a half years of the colony, he became the first to be brought to the Criminal Code to “discredit” the army.

The Krasnoyarsk Garrison Military Court appointed two years a conditional term, who served on a contract to Sergeant Roman Plotnikov for a fight with police officers in a bar. This was reported by the press service of the court. The fight occurred in January in the bar of the closed city of Zheleznogorsk. According to the investigation, when the drunk Plotnikov began to interfere with the bar visitors and refused to pay the bill, the police tried to take him to the street.

Moscow police drew up and submitted to the court a report against Pussy Riot member Lyusya Stein under the article on “discrediting” the army (20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Information about this appeared in the court database. It is unknown why the case was opened. The protocol against Stein will be considered by a judge of the Ostankino District Court of Moscow; the hearing has not yet been scheduled.

President Vladimir Putin removed Natalya Poklonskaya from her post as deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo. The document was published on the official legal information portal. According to Poklonskaya herself, the dismissal is due to “her transition to another job.” Which one is still unknown. In April, Poklonskaya called the letter Z , used to support the war, a symbol of "tragedy and grief" for Russia and Ukraine. She was appointed to the post of head of Rossotrudnichestvo on February 2.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced 19 and 18 years in prison to residents of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Alexander Kozin and Arseny Lesnoy in the case of a “terrorist community.” Lawyer Alexander Dydo, who is defending Lesnoy, reported this to Mediazona. Kozin was sentenced to 19 years, five of which he will spend in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. Lesnoy was sentenced to 18 years in prison, of which he will spend four years in prison.

The BBC asked Russian deputies who publicly supported the war about whether they want to go to the front-due to a hasty change in legislation, the age bar for contractors was increased, now all men under the age of 60 can participate in the war.