Canada has imposed sanctions on two Russians and six Russian companies. The list is published on the government website. Vladimir Mikheychik and Vladimir Shastin were subject to restrictions. Among the enterprises included in the sanctions list are Sovfracht, 224th Flight Squad, and shipping companies MG-Flot, Marine Trans Shipping, Asia, and Asia Shipping.

YouTube has unblocked two videos about evading military service. The administration of the video hosting site reported this to The Bell . The day before, on May 20, it became known that YouTube, at the request of Roskomnadzor, blocked a video from the YouTube channel "School of the Conscript" called "Criminal Code Will Help Not to Serve" .

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has appointed his 18-year-old son, Akhmat, to the post of Minister of Physical Culture and Sports of the republic. Before that, since the winter of 2024, Akhmat Kadyrov was the regional minister for youth affairs . On the day of his appointment, February 17, the young man was awarded the republic's highest award, the Order of Akhmat Kadyrov.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the Okko streaming service one million rubles under the protocol on "LGBT propaganda" (Part 3 of Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. As Daria Lebedeva, press secretary of the St. Petersburg courts, clarified in her Telegram channel, the protocol was drawn up because of the film "Yves Saint Laurent".

Владимир Кара‑Мурза на видеозаписи в суде 9 октября 2023 г. Фото: Александра Астахова / Медиазона The Moscow City Court today rejected a complaint by convicted politician Vladimir Kara-Murza against the inaction of the Investigative Committee, which failed to investigate two attempts to murder him. The hearing was held without the representatives of the Investigative Committee present, but Kara-Murza himself spoke at the hearing via video link from penal colony No. 7 in Omsk.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya until August 3. She is accused of participating in the activities of an "extremist community" (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. At the hearing, the journalist was represented by her appointed lawyer Valentina Filipenkova.

The Chairman of the Chechen Government Muslim Khuchiev has resigned "in connection with his transfer to another job." This was announced by the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov did not specify where Khuchiev will work now. Isa Tumkhadzhiev, Khuchiev's first deputy, was appointed acting chairman of the Chechen government. Khuchiev has headed the Chechen government since June 2018. Before that, he was the mayor of Grozny twice.

In March, the Central District Military Court sentenced a resident of Perm to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony. Representatives of the regional FSB department reported this to the publication Properm.ru and the TV channel Vesti Perm.

The 235th Garrison Military Court has arrested Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Army of the Russian Armed Forces, in a case of fraud on an especially large scale, TASS reports , citing the court's press service. The court said that Popov was remanded in custody on May 17 for two months. According to Kommersant, another person involved in the case, whose name has not been disclosed, was arrested along with the major general.

The Ministry of Justice, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, has added the Ukrainian foundation "Come Back Alive" to the register of "undesirable" organizations. This follows from an update to the register , which was brought to the attention of the OVD-Info project. The fund has been operating since 2014.

The Rtishchevsky District Court of the Saratov Region sentenced local resident Ilya Usoyan to three and a half years in a general regime penal colony for inciting his friend at the front to surrender. This was reported by OVD-Info. Usoyan's lawyer, Alexei Balalaikin, told Mediazona that in 2023, a resident of Rtishchevo tried to persuade his friend, who had gone to war in Ukraine, to surrender.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone Over the past ten years, at least 623 people have been under criminal prosecution in Russia due to street protests, the OVD-Info project calculated. It is not only about those who were detained on the street, but also about activists, journalists and bloggers who illuminated these shares. Mediazona says what human rights activists found out. Human rights activists from the OVD-Info have been collecting cases of violation of freedom of assembly since 2011.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor has appealed to the Oktyabrsky District Court with a demand to recognize publicist Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lidiya as an "extremist association" and to confiscate their property. This was reported by lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov and the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. "The claim was filed to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and an unspecified group of persons," the court described the essence of the claims.

The magistrate of Moscow's judicial district No. 268 fined stylist Pavel Babak, a participant in Anastasia Ivleeva's "naked party," 200,000 rubles. This was reported by the press service of Moscow courts. Babak was found guilty of “LGBT propaganda” (Part 3 of Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). As Baza writes , during a party at the Moscow club “Mutabor”, he removed a sock from the penis of rapper VACÍO (Nikolay Vasiliev).

EU member states have adopted a plan to use revenues from frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky. Under a plan announced in March by EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, Borrell proposed to channel 90% of the income from frozen assets, about 3 billion euros a year, into the European Peace Fund created in 2021, which is currently allocating money for military aid to Ukraine.