In Moscow, two pensioners were removed from the train and taken to the police, who during the day brought a funeral wreath to the building of the Prosecutor General's Office on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. This was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”. At the Tverskoy District Department of Internal Affairs, a protocol was drawn up against the women regarding participation in an uncoordinated action and released (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Former Wagner PMC mercenary Andrei Medvedev, who fled to Norway in the winter, spoke about plans to return to Russia. Yesterday he posted a video about this on his YouTube channel, but today he deleted it. Quotes from the video are provided by Reuters and Radio Liberty . The authenticity of the video was confirmed project, which helped Medvedev by Vladimir Osechkin’s Gulagu.net . “There are a lot of strange things going on. I feel like some kind of boy in some big game of big guys.

Smoke rises above a burning building in Bakhmut on 26 March 2023. Photo: Libkos / AP For many months now, Bakhmut has been the place of the most severe fights of the war in Ukraine. Russian troops, mostly Wagner mercenaries and inmates, slowly, house by house, advanced here until the beginning of May, when Ukrainian forces were able to counterattack. By the spring of 2023, most of the residents of the besieged city had fled the fighting.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Crimea brought charges against a 39-year-old resident of Yevpatoria, who wrote a comment on the page of the literary community on VKontakte that “humiliates the honor and dignity of a veteran.” This is reported on the department's website.

At the debate in the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, the prosecution asked for 8 years in prison for the administrators of the telegram channels “Project SCANNER” and Riddle , Alexey Slobodenyuk, Evgeny Moskvin and Vladislav Malushenko, the press service of the court told Mediazona. In addition, the prosecutor demanded that all three be fined one million rubles and restricted freedom for 2 years.

The Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok fined Anna Vakhrameeva, a first-year student at a local educational institution, 45 thousand rubles because she did not report to the police that her friend had written a comment in the messenger “with calls for terrorism.” This is stated on the website of the Primorsky Territory courts. Judge Natalya Derevyagina found Vakhrameeva guilty in a criminal case of failure to report a crime on February 20 (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code).

A protocol was drawn up against the poet and musician Boris Grebenshchikov for “discrediting” the army (Part 1, Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona found information about this on the website of the Moscow courts. The case will be considered by the Tverskoy District Court of the capital; the hearing date has not yet been set. What exactly was the reason for drawing up the protocol is unknown.

The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill allowing for the forcible “displacement” of residents of the partially occupied regions of Ukraine. The corresponding document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament.

In Finland, 1,109 Russian citizens applied for asylum, fearing conscription into the army. Migration Service told Yle The that the authorities cannot give them refugee status without the EU's position on this issue. Director of the Finnish Migration Service Sanna Sutter said that the authorities of other Northern European countries are also waiting for the European Union’s position on the issue of granting asylum to men of military age from Russia.

The Rostov regional court sentenced programmer Evgeniy Kotikov to three years in a penal colony in the case of DDoS attacks on the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the presidential administration. The local publication “Gorod N ” was told about this by the press service of the regional FSB department. The man was also ordered to pay a fine of 800 thousand rubles.

In Cheboksary, young people on the evening of May 9 repainted the Soviet flag on graffiti with a Ukrainian grandmother in white, blue and white colors.

In St. Petersburg, early the previous morning, security forces came to search the home of 23-year-old cat shelter employee Daria Nikolaeva and her husband Artem, lawyer Nikifor Ivanov told Rotunda. The reason for the investigative actions was a criminal case about justifying terrorism and inciting mass riots (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), the spouses are witnesses in it.

The owners and staff of the karaoke bar “Cho-Cho” in Yevpatoria were subject to protocols for “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) after refusing to play the Russian anthem for a visitor. this to Kommersant Law enforcement agencies reported . In addition, according to the publication, one and a half tons of illegal alcohol were seized from the establishment.

During the debate in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, the state prosecution requested a fine for the ex-mayor of the city, Evgeny Roizman. The meeting is E1.ru. broadcast by The prosecutor asked Roizman to be fined 280 thousand rubles, but taking into account the circumstances it should be reduced to 260 thousand rubles. Roizman is accused under Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code (“discrediting” the army).

Singer Alla Pugacheva and Naina Yeltsin, the wife of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, sent positive references to Yevgeny Roizman to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, where the third hearing in the case of “discrediting” the army against the former mayor of the city is taking place, reports .