On May 16, Ekaterina Makarova, the common-law wife of blogger and member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition Rustem Adagamov, as he calls her, was searched by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. The next day, May 17, the house of Adagamov's 77-year-old mother was searched.

On May 17, the Kaluga District Court denied the first deputy mayor of Kaluga, Pavel Suslov, a claim against the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Kaluga Vechernyaya, blogger Sergey Fadeev, regarding his publication in LiveJournal under the heading “From July 1, the city transport of Kaluga will be destroyed by fools ". Shock in Kaluga! In our city it is not customary for officials to lose in the courts.

About the last film by Alexei Balabanov Alexey Balabanov created the myth of his last film. The director stated that the painting “I also want”, whose premiere took place at the Venice festival and which was released on December 13, 2012 - his last work. On May 18, 2013, Alexei Balabanov died in the village of Solnechnaya Leningrad Region.