The Nizhnekamsk City Court of Tatarstan sentenced five police officers in the case of torture, after which 22-year-old Ilnaz Pirkin committed suicide in October 2017. this with reference to lawyer Timur Miftakhutdinov .

In Yaroslavl against a 19-year-old local resident, a criminal case was instituted due to a spoiled banner with the letter Z. The Kommersant was reported to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Police officers installed a resident of Yaroslavl, suspected of damage to the banner, using paint, on Sovetskaya Street,” the department said.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Muslims from Bakhchisarai to 12 to 17 years in a maximum security colony in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. this . reports Crimean Solidarity Hairdresser Alim Sufyanov and builder Seyran Khairedinov were each sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of preparing for a violent seizure of power and participating in the activities of a terrorist organization.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa arrested Bashkir activist Ramilya Saitova for two months in the case of calls for anti-state activities (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code). this from the courtroom . reported A correspondent for the local publication Gorobzor RBC, citing the press service of the court , writes that the reason for the criminal case was Saitova’s appeal to the mobilized Bashkirs, published on the activist’s YouTube channel on November 11, 2022.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary fined cyclist Oleg Knyazev 30 thousand rubles for a photo with the hashtag #NoWar in the Strava application for athletes . attention to ruling . the court drew The “Angry Chuvashia” project The decision on the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was made on April 6. “Angry Chuvashia” writes that 63 people are subscribed to Knyazev’s Strava account .

The Gosuslugi portal called on Russians to share ideas “for the development of our country.” Vestkaya journalist Margarita Loginova proposed stopping the war and freeing political prisoners, but her application was rejected. about this The journalist spoke on Twitter. Mediazona has read the full text of the newsletter.

Employees of the Bureau of Special Technical Operations (BTSM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained administrators of telegram channels in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, who, according to security forces, extorted money for non-distribution of compromising information (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). this .

A guard with the “Trinity” icon at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, June 2022. Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters The most famous work of Russian iconography, Andrei Rublev’s 15th century “Trinity,” is being taken away from the Tretyakov Gallery by Putin's decision to hand it over to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). “For a large number of believers, this icon is a great shrine,” the Kremlin explains this measure.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the Maly Drama Theater (Theater of Europe) 15 thousand rubles under the article on violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards (Part 1 of Article 6.3 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. Prior to this, Rospotrebnadzor conducted an inspection, during which it recorded 18 violations.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced activist of the Solidarity movement Mikhail Kriger to 7 years in prison. A Mediazona correspondent reported this from the courtroom. Krieger was accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred with the threat of violence (Clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The state prosecution asked that he be sentenced to nine years in prison.

The departments of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Saratov region began inspections after a report of police beating a teenager near Saratov. This was reported by the press service of the regional IC and the local publication Vzglyad-Info . The day before, on May 16, Saratov human rights activist Boris Ushakov published on his YouTube channel an appeal from the mother of a beaten teenager, Olga Paratova.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow received materials from the administrative case against presenter Tatyana Lazareva. Mediazona found this information in the database of Moscow courts. The reason for drawing up the protocol was the absence of a “foreign agent” sign in the presenter’s publications (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). The materials were registered on May 16, the date for consideration of the protocol has not yet been set.

administration The Telegram has confirmed the existence of a vulnerability that allows, by introducing additional code into the program, to gain access to the user’s camera and microphone without his knowledge. about this Representatives of the social network wrote under a thread about the problem with the application.

journalist The New Yorker Masha Gessen decided to resign from the board of PEN America , a group dedicated to defending free speech around the world, after Ukrainian writers spoke out against Gessen’s team’s participation in the World Voices festival. This was reported by The Atlantic and New York Times . It was planned that Gessen would moderate one of the platforms, which included two Russians Ilya Venyavkin and Anna Nemzer, as well as the Chinese writer Murong Xuetsun.

Unknown persons set fire to a relay cabinet on the Melnichny Ruchey - Rzhevka section in the Leningrad region. The press service of Russian Railways reports that because of this, the schedule of commuter trains in the Finland direction has been disrupted. According to the carrier, the relay cabinet was set on fire today, May 17, at about 4 a.m. Edition 78.RU writes that unknown persons poured flammable liquid inside and then set it on fire. As a result, the cabinet burned down completely.