The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region has seized Russian assets and real estate of three Western banks — the Italian UniCredit and the German Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank . This was done as part of a lawsuit filed by Ruskhimalliance, a joint company of Gazprom and Rusgazdobycha.

The Libertarian Party reported that police officers came to their board game evening at the Open Space in Pleteshkovsky Lane in Moscow and demanded that participants show their passports. An unnamed visitor to the evening told the human rights project OVD-Info that 10 people were taken away from the coworking space, including party member Georgy Belov and two minors.

Russian military attacked a private sector in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkov with an aerial bomb, the regional prosecutor's office claims . "As a result of the shelling, five people were injured, including two men aged 47 and 74, a 47-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. An 8-year-old girl suffered an acute stress reaction. At least five private homes and a car were damaged," they write. Yesterday afternoon there were also explosions in Kharkov.

Apple has released a "transparency report" on its app store for 2023, revealing the number of requests from government officials to remove certain apps. According to the report, 12 apps were removed at the request of the Russian authorities in 2023. In 2022, which was the subject of the first report on the work of the AppStore , their requests were satisfied for seven apps.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg has arrested Sergei Gladkiy and Sergei Perkson in the case of the arson of the MTS base station. This was reported by the head of the united press service of the city courts, Darya Lebedeva. The communications tower, which is located next to the Farforovskaya railway station in the Frunzensky district, was set on fire during the day on May 14. The fire was quickly extinguished. The investigation estimated the damage at 5 thousand rubles.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region has published the operative part of the decision on the claim of the tax service (FTS) against the Russian legal entity IKEA - OOO Torg. RBC and Kommersant drew attention to this. At the end of April, the Russian subsidiary of IKEA was ordered to pay 12.922 billion rubles in favor of Russia under this lawsuit, but the details of the decision were not known. The Federal Tax Service challenged IKEA's deal after they left the Russian market due to the war.

French company Danone announced the completion of the deal to sell its Russian division. The buyer was the company OOO Vamin R. According to the register of legal entities, 99% of the company belongs to the milk producer Vamin Tatatarstan, and 1% to Ruslan Alisultanov, the former deputy minister of agriculture of Chechnya. "Vamin" in turn belongs to 29-year-old Mintimer Mingazov, the son of former senator from Tatarstan Vagiz Mingazov.

Ukrainian citizen Sergey Gulko, who was arrested three times and ordered to be expelled from Russia because of posts about the war in Ukraine, was able to leave Russia. Gulko himself told Mediazona about this. In a conversation with Mediazona, Sergey said that he flew to Georgia at his own expense, but was not allowed through at the border. Now Gulko is in another country with his girlfriend, but asks not to disclose his location.

A new criminal case has been opened against dissident Alexander Skobov, who was arrested for a post about the Crimean Bridge, for participating in a "terrorist community." This was reported by his wife, archaeologist Olga Shcheglova, after visiting him in the pretrial detention center.

The Kirillovskaya electrical substation located on the northern outskirts of Novorossiysk caught fire, Mayor Andrei Kravchenko reported . According to him, 26,000 residents of the city and suburbs lost power. The mayor does not write about the causes of the fire. The Astra publication, citing unnamed local residents, writes about the "sounds of drones" heard there at night. The Russian Defense Ministry wrote about only one drone that night, it was shot down over annexed Crimea.