On May 18, police officers detained a St. Petersburg trucker, chairman of the Association of Carriers of Russia, Andrey Bazhutin. This was reported to OVD-Info by the trucker himself. It is worth noting that Bazhutin was one of the leaders of the camp of drivers in Khimki protesting against the Platon system. According to Bazhutin, the police motivated the detention by the need to check his passport details, as well as involvement in certain crimes.

Today, May 18, a preliminary hearing was held in the Sevastopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir against four Crimean Tatars accused of terrorism. Four people are involved in the case - Ruslan Zeytullayev, Nuri Primov, Rustem Vaitov and Ferat Saifullaev, who are charged under article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in the activities of such an organization). The meeting was held via videoconferencing between Simferopol and Rostov.

On May 18, Saratov journalist Sergei Vilkov received an indictment from representatives of the local prosecutor's office in a case initiated against him for slandering regional Duma deputy Sergei Kurikhin. According to the journalist himself on his Facebook page, now the criminal case will be transferred to the world court.

In Sudak and the village of Lgovskoye, Kirovsky district of Crimea, eight participants in a motor rally timed to coincide with the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the deportation of Crimean Tatars were detained. this Zair Smedlyaev, a member of the CEC of the Crimean Tatar Kurultai, reported on his Facebook page.

The justice of the judicial section No. 6 of the Central District of Chelyabinsk, on May 18, terminated the case against the organizer of the rally of memory of Boris Nemtsov Vyacheslav Kislitsin due to the lack of an offense. This was reported by the International Human Rights Group "Agora" with reference to the lawyer Kislitsin Andrei Lepikhin. Vyacheslav Kislitsin was the organizer of a rally of memory of Boris Nemtsov, held in Chelyabinsk on February 27, 2016.

On May 18, police detained participants in the rally in Bakhchisara, dedicated to the day of memory of the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. According to the Internet publication "Arguments of the Week-Crimea", motorists were detained along the way from Simferopol as part of the Anaconda operation. “They didn’t have time to stop the whole column, about half of the cars remained,” the publication quotes one of the participants in the action.

On May 18, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the draft law “On the troops of the national guard of the Russian Federation”. 345 deputies voted for the draft law, 14 voted against. A total of 359 out of 450 people voted. The only faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation that criticized the document did not vote, reports . RBC Communist MP Vyacheslav Tetekin said that the measures proposed in the bill appear to be insufficiently elaborated.

Anarchist Vladislav Sokolik was detained on the morning of May 18 at his home. As reported in the group "Union of Anarchists of Novosibirsk" in the social network "Vkontakte", in the morning unknown people knocked on his house and, without showing any certificates, detained him.

On May 18, the Supreme Court of Russia refused to satisfy the appeal of an air traffic controller from Sochi, who was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony on charges of high treason (under Article 275 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by RIA Novosti. “The verdict against Petr Parpulov is left unchanged, the appeal is dismissed,” the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court announced the decision.

In the Taganrog City Court on May 18, anarchist Elizaveta Tsvetkova, accused of distributing a leaflet insulting the police, stated that she wrote a confession under pressure from the police, reports . Kavkazsky Uzel “CPE employees told me that it was already a crime that I had downloaded it [the leaflet — OVD-Info], and that it was better for me to confess in order to pass as a witness. They said that if I did not write a statement, they could put me in a “monkey house” and keep me there.

On May 18, the Tverskoy District Court found Yuri Merzlov, who was detained on April 30 while walking along Red Square wearing a Putin mask and a T-shirt with the inscription "I'm not afraid of 212.1", guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event (under the fifth part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court ruled to fine Merzlov 10,000 rubles and to “destroy” the mask and T-shirt confiscated from the activist during his detention.

On May 18, the Moscow City Court upheld the Tverskoy District Court’s arrest of Roman Roslovtsev for 20 days for “repeatedly” wearing a Putin mask on Red Square. decision to walk Roslovtsev was brought to the court hearing from special detention center No. 2, where he has been under arrest since May 16.

On May 17, the court found Yelena Nikitina, organizer of a picket against the liquidation of a pedestrian crossing in the Lazarevskoye microdistrict in Sochi, guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event (under the first part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and fined her 15,000 rubles. This was reported on May 18 by the "Caucasian Knot". Nikitina declared her innocence in court and is going to appeal the court's decision.

Ramzan Dzhalaldinova, the author of the video message to Vladimir Putin with criticism of Ramzan Kadyrov, tried to kidnap at the exit from the mosque in Dagestan. As the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper writes on May 18 with reference to unnamed sources in the republic, the incident occurred on May 15. Residents of the Tsumadinsky district of Dagestan, who came along with Jalaldin to the mosque, tried to “capture Jalaldinov for sending to Chechnya,” MK reports.

All those detained on the morning of May 18 at the White House before and during the single pickets in defense of the residents of the dormitories were released from the Presnensky police department without drawing up protocols.