In the evening in Moscow near the metro station "Profsoyuznaya" after blocking the road as part of the monthly action "Strategy-17" underage activist Timofei Umerenkov was detained. At the moment, his mobile phone is not answered, and it is not known to which police department he was taken. upd. According to the detainee's friends on the phone, Umerenkov is in the Cheryomushki police department, and his parents are coming for him.

At about 20:00 on the Arbat in Moscow, activist Ayten Yakubova was detained, who was distributing leaflets after the end of a flash mob in defense of LGBT rights. Two women approached the activist, read the leaflets and turned to the police with a complaint about the promotion of “non-traditional family values”. After that, Ayten Yakubova was detained and, together with the women, was taken to the Arbat police station. UPD.

On May 17, activist Igor Andreev was detained in St. Petersburg during a people's gathering in support of freedom of speech and the RBC TV channel. As lawyer Dinar Idrisov told OVD-Info, Andreev arrived at the venue of the people's gathering before anyone else and stood up with a poster.

Moscow investigating authorities opened a criminal libel case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the request of former police officer Pavel Karpov. This is reported by the publication Life. There is no confirmation of this information yet. UPD. On May 19, Karpov confirmed to Interfax that a criminal case had been initiated against Alexei Navalny.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic held a debate in the case of Ukrainians Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, who are accused of participating in hostilities against federal troops during the First Chechen campaign, as well as in the murders and attempted murders of Russian servicemen and law enforcement officers .

In the Preobrazhensky District City Court of Moscow, the parties of the parties in the criminal case on the action of the artist Peter Pavlensky “Freedom” were held, Mediazona reports . The verdict will be announced at 10:00 on May 19. On February 23, 2014, Pavlensky and five more activists held an action on a slightly-adultery bridge in St. Petersburg, wanting to express support to the Kyiv Maidan.

In Kuban, on May 16, the police detained the organizer of the Polite Farmers rally, Alexei Volchenko, at the moment, an administrative case is being considered in the Tbilisi District Court under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer), Kommersant . reports “They were detained allegedly for disobedience to police officers. But it's not.

The Central District Court of Sochi found Hussein Makhauria guilty under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 (justification of terrorism) and Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting hatred or enmity) and sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison to be served in a colony-settlement. This was reported on the official website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Krasnodar Territory.

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Alexey Navalny wrote on Twitter that at the ANAP Airport, people who were dressed in the form of Cossacks attacked him and other employees of the Corruption Fund. There were about 30 attackers. They threw Artem Torchinsky to the land of the leading television channel and beat him with his feet, his temple was broken. Several police officers who were nearby, according to Kira Yarmysh, spokeswoman, intervened only after the brawl overgrown with the beating of those lying on the ground.

The profile committee of the State Duma on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural legislation introduced serious amendments to the bill of the Supreme Court on the decriminalization of a number of articles of the Criminal Code and at a meeting on May 16 recommended that deputies adopt it in the second reading, reports . Pravo.ru In accordance with the amendments to Part 3 of Art.