Blogger Jan Katelevsky, arrested for 12 days, has been on a dry hunger strike for seven days (since the court decision was made). Katelevsky considers his detention illegal, and the trial does not comply with Russian legislation, since listeners and witnesses were not allowed to attend. Katelevsky believes that he was never able to exercise his right to defense - the defense lawyer was not allowed into the courtroom.

The Chelny-TV television company did not renew the contract with the deputy of the city council of Naberezhnye Chelny Ruzil Mingalimov, who announced his desire to participate in the elections to the State Duma with the support of the Open Russia movement. On May 3, in an interview with the Dozhd TV channel, Mingalimov said that the employer had terminated the five-year cooperation, pointing to the active opposition activity of the deputy.

The leader of the Ryazan branch of the PARNAS party, Yuri Bogomolov, filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against a fine for a solitary picket against the development of the Naval Glory Park in Ryazan. about this He wrote on May 4 on his Facebook page. According to the document cited by Bogomolov, the complaint was registered with the ECtHR in March. Bogomolov was fined 10,000 rubles for holding the picket.

The Tomsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk, which sentenced civil activist and video blogger Vadim Tyumentsev to five years in prison on charges of inciting extremism and inciting ethnic hatred. This was reported on May 4 by the online edition "In Tomsk" with reference to the press service of the regional court.

On May 2, in Saratov, the police detained anti-Maidan supporters. In addition to the planned picket, they held an uncoordinated procession. About 20 members of various political groups gathered at the monument to Yuri Gagarin on Cosmonauts Embankment to take part in a rally dedicated to the memory of those killed in the fire in the Odessa House of Trade Unions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has begun considering a complaint against the verdict against Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev.