The Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo has ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay 700,000 rubles to the family of murdered student Vera Pekhteleva. This was reported by the human rights project Travmpunkt. The court awarded the Kemerovo resident's father and mother 600 thousand rubles, and her uncle 100 thousand rubles. They demanded significantly more compensation - 7.5 million rubles. Vera Pekhteleva, 23, was killed by her boyfriend Vladislav Kanyus in January 2020.

The Krasnokamensk City Court of Zabaikalsky Krai sentenced 21-year-old participant in the war in Ukraine Yevgeny Kargin to six years in a strict regime penal colony in a case of violent carjacking. The publication "Sibirsky Express" drew attention to the verdict. The Transbaikalian and his older sister grew up in an orphanage.

Transport police from two regions reported today the arrest of suspects in the arson on the railway. Cases have been opened against both of them for committing a terrorist act (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). A 22-year-old man was detained in Yaroslavl, in the Frunzensky district. He is suspected of arson on the stretch between the Moscow railway station in Yaroslavl and the Dunayka station.

In the Ostankinsky District Court, Anna Bazhutov was interrogated, who is accused of distributing military “fakes” (paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The girl said that in her stream she spoke out against the massacre in Bucha, being in a serious emotional state and under the influence of new drugs.

The press secretary of the Minister of Defense Rossiyana Markovskaya left her post. She announced this on her Instagram. "I'm moving to another position. Almost 7 years as the press secretary of the Minister of Defense flew by like a MiG-31. I will remember this time with pride!" the girl wrote. Russian Markovskaya took up the post of press secretary to the Minister of Defense in 2017, when she was 26 years old.

The Moscow District Court of Tver has denied parole to former Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov. This was reported to TASS by the court's press service. They noted that the grounds for the refusal were Urlashov's outstanding fines and poor character reference. The convict himself did not participate in the hearing. Yevgeny Urlashov is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 1 in Tver.

China is preparing or has already begun to supply Russia with lethal weapons that could be used in a war against Ukraine. This was announced at a conference in London by British Defense Secretary Grant Sharps, his words are quoted by Reuters and the Independent . “I can say today that we have evidence of cooperation between Russia and China in the area of ​​weapons that are used on the territory of Ukraine,” Sharps said, adding that he relies on data from American and British intelligence.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined retired police officer Vadim Pankratov two thousand rubles for disobeying police officers (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) during a one-man picket against the development of a park. This was reported by the publication It's My City. Pankratov went out with a picket against the construction of the 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol Park the day before, on May 21.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kazan resident Mikhail Balabanov to 4.5 years in prison for the case of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported from the courtroom by a SOTAvision correspondent. The 21-year-old young man was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 30, paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). Balabanov was detained in December 2022.

The Ministry of Defense has proposed changing Russia's borders in the Baltic Sea by updating the list of points from which the width of the territorial waters off the coast of the country's mainland and islands is measured. The document was published on the official portal of draft regulatory legal acts, and then disappeared from there.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined urban conservationist Oleg Mukhin 25,000 rubles under a protocol on organizing an uncoordinated rally (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by participants of the SOS SPb Demolition movement. The reason for the administrative case was the October 7 action in defense of the Schroeder House on Vasilievsky Island. The building was built in 1796 and began to be demolished in February 2024.

Former prisoner Roman Chernikov from the Moscow region, who surrendered to Ukrainian captivity during the war, died. Information about his grave was found by Mediazona using a service for searching for burials in the Moscow region. According to Mediazona, Chernikov's date of death is listed as September 6, 2023, and he was buried in early November. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Stanislav Shminke, an artist from Yekaterinburg and the founder of the Uralnash website, on the wanted list. The publication Verstka drew attention to the wanted list card in the department's database. At the end of 2023, a criminal case was opened against Schminke for repeated "discrediting" of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). It is unknown what exactly was the reason for the prosecution.

The assassination attempt on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was carried out by “globalist totalitarian-liberal elites,” the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said in a statement .

The Central Election Commission has approved the final version of the logo for the September 2024 elections. This was reported by the body itself. The draft logo, which the Central Election Commission presented on May 15, featured a red exclamation mark, reminiscent of the symbols of Alexei Navalny’s “Smart Voting” project.