In Georgia, Russian citizen Andrei Rautberg was detained in a criminal case due to his participation in local protests against the law on “foreign agents.” This is reported by local blogger Nikolai Levshits. The IMEDI TV channel also wrote about Rautberg’s arrest on Facebook, without mentioning his citizenship. Later, the publication with the name of the detainee was deleted. According to Levshits, the Russian is accused of assaulting a police officer and damaging CCTV cameras.

As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two women, residents of the Kursk and Belgorod regions, were killed. This was reported by governors Roman Starovoyt and Vyacheslav Gladkov . The governor of the Kursk region writes that today Ukraine shelled the region several times - attacks were recorded in the Belovsky, Glushkovsky, Korenevsky and Sudzhansky districts.

A criminal case was opened against a 17-year-old resident of Sosnovy Bor in the Leningrad region, who called Daria Trepova, convicted in the terrorist attack case, a hero. This was reported by Fontanka and 78.RU. The minor is suspected of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on the evening of April 3, 2023, in one of the public pages about St. Petersburg, he left an approving comment about Trepova.

Residents of a five-story building in disrepair on Narimanov Street in Rostov-on-Don broke the locks and entered the building, contrary to a ban from local authorities, to take away personal belongings. 161.RU writes about this. After this, as the publication reports, the police and the head of the administration of the Voroshilovsky district of the city, Viktor Berezhnoy, arrived at the scene.

The police detained and took for a medical examination a convicted participant in the war in Ukraine from Petrozavodsk, Dmitry Evdokimov, who climbed onto the roof of the entrance with a knife and was scaring the neighbors. Karelia news reports this. According to the publication, during a medical examination Evdokimov admitted that he used drugs, after which he was released. The detention itself took place on May 4th.

The Bataisky City Court of the Rostov Region arrested six people for three days under reports of an unauthorized gathering at school No. 4 in the village of Koisug (Part 1 of Article 20.2.2 of the Administrative Code) on April 25. This was reported by the press service of the court. The decision was made on Tuesday, May 7.

Former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin movement “Nashi” Kristina Potupchik and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov worked on the image of blogger Anastasia Ivleeva after the “naked” party. Journalist Yulia Taratuta spoke about this with reference to her own sources in her program on Dozhd. According to Taratuta, the project to “return Ivleeva” was supervised by the head of the public projects department (POP) of the presidential administration, Sergei Novikov.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and former President Petro Poroshenko can no longer be found in the search service on the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Mediazona drew attention to this. The wanted cards for the heads of Ukraine disappeared shortly after they were accidentally found by employees of the state agency RIA Novosti on May 4. Now, according to the personal data of both presidents, the site produces zero results.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list of rapper Oksimiron (Miron Fedorova). Attention to the search card was drawn by the Mediazona. According to information in the basis of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the musician is wanted "under the article of the Criminal Code." In connection with which a criminal case was opened against him, the security forces do not specify.

The head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, reported on his telegram channel about a drone attack on the Gazprom neftekhim Salavat enterprise in the south of the republic. According to him, the company continues to operate despite the fire. There is no information about casualties yet. Emergency services are on the scene. The authors of the Baza telegram channel write that the drone hit the catalytic cracking unit of the plant. A fire broke out, but the company's employees were not evacuated.

The Leningradsky District Court of Kaliningrad registered the materials of the administrative case against publicist Oleg Kashin. Mediazona drew attention to the card in the court database. Kashin is charged with failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). The case materials were received by the court the day before, on May 8, but a hearing on it has not yet been scheduled.

In the city of Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, two pensioners were killed as a result of Russian shelling - a 65-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man. This was reported by the head of the region Sergei Lysak Two more people, according to his information, were injured. The shelling damaged five apartment buildings, a store and two shopping pavilions. The Ukrainian State Emergency Service also writes about a Russian drone attack on a former cultural center in the Nikolaev region.

Eight residents of Belgorod, including an 11-year-old girl, were injured as a result of overnight shelling from Ukraine. This was announced by local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, five people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, the rest were treated on the spot. Gladkov adds that 19 apartment buildings and one private house, as well as 37 cars, were damaged by the shelling.