In Makhachkala, porn blogger Matvey Volodin, known by the nickname USSRboy , was detained again upon leaving a temporary detention facility after administrative arrest. This was reported by the crisis group "SK SOS". A relative and two lawyers were waiting for him at the exit, as well as an ambulance whose employees wanted to take Volodin for examination. The police took him away without explanation.

Vladimir Putin cited data on the number of prisoners of war in Russia and Ukraine. His speech at a meeting with heads of international news agencies is quoted by RIA Novosti. "I can tell you the exact numbers of those held by both sides, those who are in captivity. Our soldiers, officers on the Ukrainian side - 1,348 people... We have 6,465 [people] Ukrainian soldiers," he said.

In Moscow, seven people were detained in the case of the extremist community, the metropolitan administration of the Investigative Committee reported . The press release briefly provides a plot of business.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has arrested activist Vladimir Malakhov for 13 days. He was detained the day before, on June 4, at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka Square with a poster reading "Putin's Place is in Prison." This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Ryzhova. A report was drawn up against Malakhov for disobeying security forces (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). After his arrest, the activist was taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station.

Photo: André Luís Alves for 1843 / The Economist At the end of spring, Russia launched a new offensive on Kharkov. They could not advance far, but the second largest city of Ukraine began to be subjected to even more intense and destructive shelling. On the day when Russian troops crossed the border of the Kharkov and Belgorod regions, the Economist correspondent Wendell Stevenson came to Kharkov.

The Chitai-gorod store in Voronezh has marked Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's novels The Golden Temple and Confessions of a Mask with "foreign agent" labels, the Ostrogozhno Novosti Telegram channel reported . Mishima died in 1970. Yukio Mishima's novels were translated into Russian by Grigory Chkhartishivili, better known under the pseudonym Boris Akunin as an author of detective stories and popular books on history.

The Basmanny District Court has stopped considering the complaint of lawyer Fedor Sirosh against the investigator’s refusal to allow Antonina Favorskaya to visit her family in the pretrial detention facility. The court was supposed to consider this complaint on May 27, but the hearing was postponed. On the same day, the investigator in Antonina Favorskaya's case signed permission for the journalist's mother and grandmother to meet for the first time while her lawyers were in court.

German investor Ralf Novak, who did not show up at the Moscow court for the announcement of the verdict in the fraud case (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), voluntarily appeared at the FSIN inspectorate. His lawyer Ivan Gilev told RIA Novosti about this. On Monday, May 3, a Moscow court sentenced Novak to five years in prison.

Lawyer Fedor Sirosh, who, by agreement, defended SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya in the case of cooperation with the FBK, was removed from the case. Sirosh himself told Mediazona about this. As Mediazona learned, the investigation motivated the recusal by the fact that Fedor Sirosh had previously been present as a defense attorney at the interrogation of one of the witnesses in the FBK case and the investigation considers this a conflict of interest.

The Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of a criminal case against a resident of the Moscow Region for collecting money for an "undesirable" organization (Part 2 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code); he was detained. As RIA Novosti clarifies , the man is suspected of organizing a fundraiser for the public movement "AllatRa".

Moscow's Ostankino District Court sentenced streamer Anna Bazhutova to 5.5 years in prison in the case of military "fakes." This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Earlier, the prosecutor's office requested 6 years in prison for her. "Fuck! Disgusting! Disgusting!" - Bazhutova responded to the verdict.

Moscow's Lyublinsky District Court fined world champion in Thai boxing Yaroslav "Thai" Remyga 40 thousand rubles for a photo on Instagram with the caption "Glory to Ukraine". This follows from the ruling on the website of the capital's courts, attention was drawn to it by "Beware, News". The court ruling states that on May 22, 2022, Remyga posted a childhood photo of himself on his Instagram page, which he captioned with the words "Glory to Ukraine" and added an emoticon with the Ukrainian flag.

On May 18, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Aleksandr Stalberg to pretrial detention in the case of attempted confidential cooperation with foreigners (Part 3 of Article 30, Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). On June 4, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision. Mediazona drew attention to the case cards on the courts' websites. It is unclear what exactly Stalberg is accused of. His lawyer declined to comment on the case in a conversation with Mediazona.

The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced residents of the village of Selyatino, Yevgeny Zaichkin and Kirill Gorkov, in the case of creating a sabotage group and involving teenagers in arson of relay cabinets. This was reported to TASS and RIA Novosti by the court's press service. Gorkov was sentenced to 22 years and three months in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of 200,000 rubles.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Dmitry Lobovikov, who was mobilized from the Sverdlovsk Region, to 23 years in a strict regime penal colony for detonating a grenade in the barracks. This was reported to TASS by the court's press service. The serviceman was also fined 70,000 rubles and stripped of his rank of junior sergeant.