Human rights activist and Memorial member Bakhrom Khamroev, sentenced to almost 14 years in prison, has suffered from deteriorating health in the Polar Owl colony on Yamal. His wife reported this on Facebook. Memorial drew attention to the post. As his wife noted, Khamroev’s health worsened due to the lack of medical care and difficult conditions of detention.

Нефтеперерабатывающий завод в Сызрани Самарской области, который входит в структуру компании «Роснефть», приостановил работу после атаки украинских беспилотников 21 мая. Reuters writes about this, citing two industry sources. Работу приостановили из-за повреждения установки для первичной переработки нефти, на которую приходится более 70% мощности завода. Repairing the installation may take more than a month, the agency notes.

Relatives of 45-year-old elevator electrician from Anapa Maxim Ovchinnikov, who disappeared after the “carousel arrests,” learned about the man’s whereabouts - he is being held in Krasnodar pre-trial detention center-1. RusNews writes about this with reference to the mother of an Anapa resident. Ovchinnikov is in a four-bed cell containing 10 people.

The High Qualification Board of Judges deprived former Supreme Court judge and ex-chairman of the Council of Judges Viktor Momotov of the status of a retired judge and judicial immunity. This was reported by TASS and RIA Novosti . The decision was made unanimously by secret ballot. Momotov is deprived of all the privileges that a judge retains after leaving office. Now criminal cases can be brought against him, and he himself can be taken into custody.

Last Sunday, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Hilarion (in the world Grigory Alfeev) was detained in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary. This was reported in the hierarch’s telegram channel. Hilarion's relatives write that the bishop's car was stopped at the exit from the Orthodox Church of Peter and Paul. Along with the cleric, his operator was in the car. During the search, police found “four small containers with a white substance” in the trunk.

The Moscow City Court has begun to consider the case of high treason against 37-year-old resident of the Moscow region Georgy Pirogov, the trial will be held behind closed doors, a Mediazona correspondent reported from the court. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Pirogov moved to Georgia and worked as an industrial climber. In the summer of 2024, he went on a business trip to Uzbekistan and disappeared on July 6 in the city of Kungrad.

The AppStore app store has published a transparency report for 2025. According to it, at the request of the Russian authorities, 1,213 applications were removed - more than half of all 2,045 cases of censorship. At the same time, in terms of the number of requests sent, Russia was not included in the top 10 countries (China is in first place here). The AppStore does not provide a breakdown by country, for what reason and from what category the applications were removed.

Judge Pavel Smirnov of the Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg began considering the case against 48-year-old Rosreestr employee Sergei Supteli about “fakes” about the army (clauses “c” and “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona became aware of this. According to the indictment of prosecutor Danilov, on October 15, 2022, in an unnamed telegram channel, Suptelya wrote a comment about the strikes on Belgorod.

Irkutsk anti-fascist Anton Kalakin, convicted in the case of justifying terrorism, was placed in punishment cell IK-14 in Angarsk. This was reported by his support group. The anti-fascist was transferred to the Angarsk colony on May 7. On May 21, the quarantine was supposed to end, and his mother went to see Kalakin for an hour. At the reception department of IK-14, the woman was informed that her son was sent to a punishment cell on May 19. For what exactly and for how long is unknown.

Mines were found on the gas carrier Arrhenius, which called at the port of Ust-Luga in the Baltic Sea, the FSB and the Investigative Committee claim . The tanker, which flies the Liberian flag and is managed by the UAE-based Maple Mariner Holding , arrived late in Ust-Luga on May 20.

A criminal case was opened against the founder and editor-in-chief of the Astra publication, Anastasia Chumakova, for evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). The publication itself reported this. Ulyanovsk investigators opened a case on January 26, but it became known only today. Astra was declared a “foreign agent” in October 2024.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent 27-year-old war veteran Sergei Mikhailov, who poured acid on his ex-girlfriend, to a pre-trial detention center. The press service of the court reported this. Footage from the court, taken by correspondents from Fontanka and Beware, Petersburg , shows injuries on Mikhailov’s face and himself. He himself said at the meeting that he was promised medical care, but the doctors did not come to him.

Deserter Artem Vovchenko was deported from the United States and arrested in Russia. The former military man told the Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR) project that he was able to escape from the pre-trial detention center and left Russia for the second time. Vovchenko served in military service at a Russian military base in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Roman Sergienko, a native of the city of Rubezhnoye in the Luhansk region, to 18 years of maximum security, Mediazona learned. Sergienko was accused of participation in a terrorist community and training in terrorist activities.

In Kuntsevo, in Moskvoretsky Park, on the evening of May 24, several participants in a gathering against tree cutting were detained. Об этом сообщил корреспондент RusNews . The cutting down of trees and the construction of a road between the Medic stadium and the Moscow Ring Road were noticed the day before - on Saturday, May 23. «Вчера вечером мы здесь слушали птиц. Сегодня идет варварская рубка», — писали в районном паблике.