Russian documentary director with British citizenship Irina Putilova was detained in Armenia. This is stated in an appeal on the online petition website Change.org , which Putilova published on her personal Instagram. The petition states that she was detained on May 29 at the Georgia-Armenia border, where she had gone for a short vacation. “I was stopped at the border: it turned out that I was wanted in Russia. I was detained overnight.

The Central District Military Court sentenced a Samara resident born in 1990 to 16 years in prison in a case of cooperation with a representative of Ukraine. TASS and Interfax write about the court's decision with reference to the regional department of the FSB. The man was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Justice Department found foreign funding in only 4% of those designated as “foreign agents” in 2025. Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Sviridenko spoke about this at a meeting of the Federation Council commission for the protection of sovereignty.

The 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow arrested 37-year-old FSB officer Evgeny Sosonkin, who appeared in The Insider's investigation into the activities of Russian intelligence services in African countries. The petition for Sosonkin’s arrest was granted on June 3, Mediazona noted. It is unknown on what charges he was arrested; the press service of the court could not clarify the article of the Criminal Code. The phone number that Sosonkin constantly used has been switched off.

In the Southern District Military Court, lawyers and an investigator were interrogated, whom the defendants in the case of attempts on the lives of collaborators in Melitopol are accused of falsifying their testimony, Mediazona learned.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Mikhail Kuzin, a native of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, to 15.5 years in a maximum security colony on charges of treason, justifying terrorism and participation in a terrorist organization. Mediazona became aware of this. The prosecutor's office asked for 17 years of strict regime for Kuzin.

Rosfinmonitoring added Memorial and its “structural divisions” to the list of extremist organizations. According to the authorities, Memorial’s subsidiaries include the independent projects OVD-Info and Revolt Center. The decision to recognize Memorial and its units as extremist was made by the Supreme Court on April 9. Earlier, the Ministry of Justice filed a corresponding lawsuit in court; the case was considered behind closed doors.

Judge Nadezhda Kalashnikova imposed 2 years of forced labor on 21-year-old 4th-year student of the Republican Party of Justice of the Ministry of Justice Fedor Sidushkin under the article on financing extremism. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Kuntsevo courtroom in Moscow. The young man was released in the courtroom. The state prosecution asked him for 5 years in a general regime colony.

Employees of the Nizhny Novgorod Line Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport detained a 24-year-old native of Cherkessk in the case of arson of a relay cabinet. This was reported by MDV Media. A case of terrorist attack was opened against the young man (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the detainee, acting on instructions from scammers, set fire to a relay cabinet on the Pochinki-Varya stretch in Nizhny Novgorod.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former deputy head of the state corporation Rusnano, Andrei Malyshev, in absentia to 12 years in prison for the theft of more than one billion rubles, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom. Malyshev was charged with embezzlement on an especially large scale and especially large-scale fraud in the field of lending.

Taxi driver from Kazan Igor Zubrilin, who was tried for poisoning passengers with water containing medication for schizophrenia, died in the war in Ukraine. Mediazona became aware of this. Zubrilin died on February 25, 2026, and was later buried in Tatarstan. The Ukrainian project “I Want to Live” reported in April that he had signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Judging by these data, at the time the contract was concluded, the man could have been in a colony in Bashkortostan.

On May 29, the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod arrested in absentia sociologist and publicist Igor Eidman, cousin of politician Boris Nemtsov. According to OVD-Info, he is accused of three counts: military “fakes,” evading the duties of a “foreign agent,” and participation in a terrorist organization. The Investigative Committee accuses Eidman of participating in a terrorist organization because of a repost about raising money for drones for the Freedom of Russia Legion.

The Kaluga Garrison Military Court sentenced Russian army sergeant Ruslan Demenkov to three years of suspended imprisonment under the article of abuse of power. As stated in the verdict on the court’s website, which was noticed by Mediazona, Demenkov shot at the soldiers with an air pistol to motivate them to work. The sergeant partially admitted his guilt. According to him, in the evening, military personnel arrived to him and were supposed to dig a trench.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced the former head of the Russian Pension Fund in Dagestan, Sagid Murtazaliev, in absentia to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. A press release about the verdict was published on the court's website. Murtazaliev was found guilty of organizing murder and attempted murder, financing terrorism and attempting to kill a law enforcement officer.

The judge of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ryazan, Alexander Loginov, imposed a fine of 350 thousand rubles on the former chief editor of YA62.ru, Alexander Moiseyuk, in the case of financing an extremist organization, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The court took into account the period that Moiseyuk spent in a pre-trial detention center, so the final amount of the fine was 100 thousand rubles. Moiseyuk was released from custody in the courtroom.