On May 16, the Leninsky District Court of Perm ruled in connection with the violations revealed by the police at the city's May Day procession. The organizer of the event, the Perm association of trade unions, was fined the maximum possible amount - 100 thousand rubles, reports .

On May 16, 2016, the Taganrog City Court held a debate between the parties in a criminal case on inciting hatred and enmity on the basis of belonging to the social group “police officers” (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) against anarchist Elizaveta Tsvetkova, her lawyer Yevgeny Chupilkin reports. The prosecution asked the court to sentence Tsvetkova to imprisonment for a term of 1 year to be served in a colony-settlement. The defense asked the defendant to be fully acquitted.

The prosecutor demanded that actionist Pyotr Pavlensky be found guilty of vandalism in connection with the pro-Ukrainian rally "Freedom" on the Malo-Konyushenny Bridge in St. at night and release from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. As reported in the online broadcast of Mediazona from the courtroom, the state prosecutor stated this on May 16 during the debate of the parties at an off-site meeting in the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow.

Crimean Tatars receive refusals from the regional administrations of the peninsula to coordinate mourning events dedicated to May 18, the day of memory of the victims of deportation. It is reported by the portal "Crimea. Realii”, referring to the first deputy of the Mejlis (a public association banned in Russia) Nariman Dzhelyalov. “In Sudak, an application was submitted to hold a mourning event, they were denied.

In the Sharai district of the Chechen Republic, Kenha was numb, where Ramazan Jalaldinov lived, who posted on YouTube a video message to Putin with criticism of Kadyrov and Chechen officials. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to the villagers. Video showing Ramazan Jalaldinov According to the villagers of Dzhalaldinov, from Saturday access to the settlement is limited - at the entrance there are machine gunners and equipment.

The leader of the “Russian Astrakhan” movement, Igor Stenin, must go, according to today’s verdict of the Sovetsky District Court of Astrakhan, to two years in prison. The prosecution requested the same punishment during the debate. Convict will be the decision. colony-settlement to appeal against Stenin for committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

On May 16, a man was detained in Krasnodar, who went out to a solo picket with a poster criticizing the actions of the mayor of the city, Vladimir Evlanov. State Duma deputy Sergei Obukhov wrote about this on Twitter. According to Obukhov, today civil activists are holding a series of single pickets against the policy of the mayor of Krasnodar. UPD. As Sergei Obukhov said on Twitter, activist Sergei Khodyakov was fully acquitted by the court.

The implementation of the amendment to the federal law "On Communications", according to which operators are required to store data on subscribers, calls, sent messages and images for three years, will cost, according to experts, that is, more than 5.2 trillion rubles.

Activist Roman Roslovtsev received 20 days of administrative arrest for several walks in a Vladimir Putin mask and a poster "I'm not afraid of 212.1" near the Kremlin. (Meaning the criminal article punishing repeated violations at rallies). Now the 8th part of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (for "repeated violations" when participating in a public event). In April, the Tverskoy Court fined Roslovtsev a total of 30,000 rubles for two previous outings.

Residents of several houses of the Treparevo-Nicolino district in the south-west of Moscow report the hacking of mailboxes in their entrances. Discussion of this plot is carried out in the Troparevo-Nicolino neighbors on Facebook.