This was reported on Twitter by one of the observers, Alla Novichenko. According to her, an employee of the local investigative department called her and invited her to a conversation, “the topic: a trip to Ukraine and observation of the elections.” She added that, as an employee named Alexander Vladimirovich told her, they were acting on orders from Moscow and, following the results of the conversation, he would need to report to a certain general.

On June 5, the Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude began a new consideration of the case under part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of social hatred) against local activists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Sttsura. Nizovkina told the OVD-Info that, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations in this case, they were not threatened with punishment, but the court may become a prelude to a new criminal case against her.