Pavel Sharoiko, staff correspondent of the Ukrainian radio in Minsk, was found guilty of espionage - creating an undercover network and conducting intelligence activities - and convicted by the Supreme Court of Belarus. The trial was secret, and the Belarusian KGB did not publish any press releases.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central District of St. Petersburg filed a lawsuit against the coordinator of Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, demanding that the post on Facebook be recognized as untrue and removed. this Pivovarov himself announced on a social network. According to Fontanka , the police strive to "ensure public confidence in themselves and the support of citizens," while Pivovarov's publications reduce it.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) for the Kaliningrad region announced the detention of eight people from Central Asia on suspicion of having links with the Jamaat Tawhid wal-Jihad organization, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. It is a structural subdivision of the Islamic State (the organization is also banned in Russia), writes RIA Novosti. According to the FSB, the members of the group were engaged in "recruitment work" in the interests of terrorists.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic found no violations in the actions of police officers during the arrest of the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev. The response of law enforcement agencies was published on Facebook by the head of the investigation department of the Committee against Torture, Sergei Babinets.

Activists of the Open Russia movement in Moscow staged a rally in support of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is on a hunger strike for 10 days, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners from Russian prisons. “Freedom for Oleg Sentsov!” - activists hung such a poster on the Bolshoi Ustyinsky Bridge near the high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.

Former Yalta mayor Andrei Rastenko was detained on suspicion of fraud with the ground. Why is this business - political Andrey Rostenko. Photo: Alexey Pavlishak/TASS On Tuesday, May 22, the employees of the Investigative Committee detained the former mayor of Yalta Andrei Rostenko in Moscow. He is suspected of fraud with the Earth of the Sanatorium "Alupka" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Yulia Skripal, a survivor of poisoning by an unknown nerve agent in Salisbury, Britain, gave the first interview after the incident to Reuters. She said the treatment was "invasive, painful and deeply depressing." Yulia noted that she would help her father, former GRU colonel Segrey Skripal, who was poisoned along with his daughter, until he fully recovered. She then hopes to return home to Russia.

A response campaign has begun against the authors of the Telegram channel Database: provocateurs, strikebreakers, hirelings, where people who staged provocations and brawls at protests on May 5 in Moscow are being identified, writes Nezavisimaya Gazeta .

Most of the foreign citizens who were detained on the evening of May 22 at the exit of the Multifunctional Migration Center (MMC) in Sakharovo were released from police stations. Boboev Sulton Murot Mirzoevich, a citizen of Tajikistan, continues to remain behind bars, deportation awaits him. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by human rights activist Marina Pavlova. According to her, the regime of stay was violated for a citizen of Tajikistan.

Deputies will not go on vacation to countries that are "unfriendly" to Russia, said State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. Most of the deputies, he said, "spend their holidays in our country." “It is clear that politicians, deputies - if we talk about the State Duma - will not go to places where they treat us unfriendly (...) I prefer to rest in my homeland - on the Volga and in the Crimea - to rest abroad. And I recommend it to others, ”Interfax quotes him.

The city council of Vilnius decided to name the square after the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov in front of the Russian embassy, ​​Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, said in telegrams. According to him, 32 people voted in favor, one opposed, and one abstained. The decision will come into force on May 24, after the mayor's signature, said Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., deputy chairman of the Open Russia movement, on Twitter.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the ex-head of the Financial Leasing Company (FLC) Nail Malyutin to six years in a penal colony and a fine of 950 thousand rubles, accused of embezzling 253 million rubles allocated for the purchase of aircraft. Malyutin was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The head of the analytical division of Sberbank CIB, Alexander Kudrin, was fired after a report criticizing Gazprom and Rosneft. A day earlier, on May 22, the co-author of the report, a senior analyst at the division, Alexander Fek, was fired, Interfax reports citing the press service of Sberbank.

The press secretary of the politician Alexei Navalny, Kira Yarmysh, was arrested for 25 days. this She announced herself on Twitter. “25 days is nonsense when you know that you are right and the support of so many people is with you. Everyone is happy to stay, see you at the appeal, ” added Yarmysh.

Experts of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the crash of the Malaysian Boeing on May 24 will publish new data on the investigation of the tragedy in the Donbass. The press conference will be held in Utrecht, Holland.