A criminal case has been opened against 24-year-old resident of Otradny Vitaly Kolesnikov under the article on justification of terrorism. According to the telegram channel “Caution, News”, the court sent him under house arrest. According to the channel, Kolesnikov is the founder of the Radical Patriotic Union, a right-wing movement “with elements of Bolshevik ideology.” The detention may be related to public posts.

The Plesetsk District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region imposed a four-year suspended sentence on Justice Major and former Investigative Committee investigator Valery Lantsov on charges of abuse of power and illegal detention of a person. As follows from the text of the verdict , which was discovered by Mediazona, Lantsov illegally detained the mother of minor children for nine hours.

The head of the food department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Viktor Tarazevich, was sent to a pre-trial detention center. According to two RBC sources in law enforcement agencies, a criminal case has been opened against the colonel under the article of fraud on an especially large scale. According to the publication's interlocutors, Colonel Tarazevich was detained on May 20.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined the former heads of pre-trial detention center No. 1 in a case of negligence. According to the press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region, ex-chief Alexey Kiselev and his deputy Andrey Kvon will have to pay 80 thousand rubles each, and the former head of the duty service department Andrey Zatsepin - 90 thousand rubles. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the escape of two prisoners convicted of terrorism.

In May, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Latvian IT specialist Viesturs Kavacs in absentia in a criminal case for damaging a monument dedicated to defenders during the Great Patriotic War (clause “b” of Part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona learned.

On May 26, the magistrate court of the Moscow Tushino district fined Damir Mukhetdinov, first deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, 150 thousand rubles under the protocol on the desecration of religious objects (Article 5.26 of the Administrative Code), the press service of the Moscow courts reported .

On May 27, the Northern Fleet Military Court sentenced Rafael Mamedov, a student from Murmansk, to 15 years in prison in the case of treason and participation in a terrorist organization, his support channel reported on Telegram, OVD-Info noted . He will have to spend the first three years in prison, and the remaining term in a maximum security colony.

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk fined animal rights activists Tatyana Tayurskaya and Yulia Shakiro for participating in an uncoordinated picket against the bill on killing stray dogs. As Shakiro told Mediazona, she was fined 15 thousand rubles, and she appealed the decision . Tayurskaya was fined 12 thousand rubles, the publication 7x7 reported .

The Southern District Military Court pronounced a verdict against two captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers - 30-year-old Dmitry Kishchenko and 32-year-old Vsevolod Shirokikh. Kishchenko received 19 years in prison, Shirokikh received 20 years, the press service of the court told Mediazona.

In the Southern District Military Court, the prosecution representative requested punishment for five defendants in the case of blowing up the head of the occupation administration of the village of Mikhailovka in the Zaporozhye region, Mediazona learned.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Kirill Prisyazhnyuk on charges of murder and attempted murder 20 years ago. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. According to investigators, on the evening of February 24, 2006, Prisyazhnyuk and “unidentified persons” with knives attacked two girls on Khlopin Street in St. Petersburg. As a result, one of the girls died on the spot, and the second was hospitalized.

On May 20, the Ulan-Ude Garrison Military Court sentenced contract soldier Alexander Khoroshikh to 16 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles in the case of attempted murder, damage to property and drunk driving, the court’s press service reported . According to the prosecution, in October 2025, a drunken military man, “out of personal hostility,” beat strangers with a poker and fists in an apartment.

At the end of May, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia Russian trauma surgeon and member of the Russian Forces Platform at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Andrei Volna, Mediazona learned. The doctor is accused of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and organizing the financing of terrorism (Part 4 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

The 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced Altai activist Aruna Arna to 5 years in prison in the case of calls for terrorism, Mediazona learned. She was also given an additional ban on website administration for two years. The state prosecution requested 6 years in prison for Arn. As the Voice of Altai channel previously wrote , a case was opened against the activist due to the publication of two revolutionary anthems in her personal telegram channel: “Varshavyanka” and “International”.

The Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of a criminal case after the beating of a 14-year-old girl in Moscow. A criminal case was opened under the article of hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code). The names of the suspects are still unknown. Last Tuesday, May 26, in the Moscow residential complex Salaryevo Park, two women attacked a 14-year-old girl from Buryatia. As the parents of the minor said, she went to visit a friend. A woman noticed the child at a friend's house.