On the evening of May 14, the police, at the request of an employee of the Arbat district council, detained the clown Oleg Skrypnikov, who drew caricatures on passers-by for free. At the police department, personal belongings were confiscated from him, including the ball on which he was sitting and the clown suitcase. As the police officers told him, these things were sent to the administration of the Arbat district.

The editorial office of the opposition newspaper Listok in Gorno-Altaisk was searched. Its editor-in-chief, head of the Altai branch of PARNAS, Sergei Mikhailov, writes about this on Facebook. According to him, the formal basis for the search was a comment by a visitor to the newspaper’s website , in connection with which a case of incitement of hatred was opened. “Why the investigators decided that the comment was made from the editorial office is a mystery,” writes Mikhailov.

Roman Roslovtsev, who was detained on May 14 on Red Square wearing a Putin mask, was subject to a report on repeated violation at a public event - under the eighth part of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code, which provides for a fine of 150 to 300 thousand rubles or up to 30 days of arrest. As activists located near the police department said, they plan to keep him in custody until Monday.

Activist Roman Roslovtsev in a Putin mask was detained on Red Square, as was Yuri Merzlov, who was holding a Putin mask in his hands. They were taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station.

On May 13, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined three participants in the “Day of Silence” action held on April 15 on Nevsky Prospekt in memory of the victims of homophobic crimes 10,000 rubles each on charges of violating the procedure for holding a public event. This was reported on the page of the social network "Vkontakte", dedicated to the consideration of these cases.

Igor Burdyga, a journalist for RBC-Ukraine, was detained on May 11 in Simferopol while preparing a report from the Supreme Court of Crimea. This is stated in his material, published on May 13 on the website of the publication. According to the journalist, he was detained by police officers in civilian clothes during a break in the court session, which he was going to cover. The police checked his documents and said that he looks like a man who robbed a store about an hour ago.

A search is being conducted in the village of Mushash (Vyshennoye) in the Belogorodsky district of Crimea. This was announced on the evening of May 13 by a member of the CEC of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, Zair Smedlyaev, with reference to the head of the regional Majlis, Mustafa Asaba. In connection with what the search is carried out, it is not reported. There was no information about this from other sources at the time of writing.

Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights reported on checking the conditions of detention at the Ramensky police station, where blogger and activist Yan Katelevsky, who was detained earlier, was kept.

Hello! May 6 marked the four-year anniversary of the clashes on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, in the wake of which a still-unclosed criminal case was opened. On May 6, 2016, people came to Bolotnaya to remember those events. Eight people were detained , two of them were kept in the police department overnight , one of them was given five days of arrest , and the other was fined 150 thousand .