The State Duma adopted in the second and in the third, final, reading a law defining the concept of “political activity” of non-profit organizations. It was proposed at the end of February by representatives of all four Duma factions. The law is intended to concretize the concept of political activity of NGOs.

The State Duma in the second reading adopted a government bill that allows participants in a trial to send petitions, statements, complaints, presentations and evidence attached to them in electronic form to the court. The draft law was developed by the Ministry of Justice and submitted to the State Duma at the end of 2014. Appropriate amendments were proposed to be made to the Criminal Procedure, Arbitration Procedure and Civil Procedure Codes.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg has completed an inspection of the circulation of the book of the Polish publicist Jan Nowak-Jezioransky "Oriental Reflections" seized at the Beresta printing house. The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case on the publication of the book, because it did not find any signs of extremism in it. The circulation was seized for verification at the request of the public organization "Russian Way".

Sergey Parkhomenko, a journalist and one of the founders of the Dissernet community for combating plagiarism in scientific works, gave an explanation to the police about the activities of the organization. Parkhomenko wrote about this on May 20 on his Facebook.

The Moscow City Court considered the complaint of Maxim Panfilov, a person involved in the Bolotnaya case, against a court decision to arrest him until June 7 and rejected it. this Human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky announced on his Twitter. At the request of the defense, the meeting was held behind closed doors. On April 8, Panfilov was arrested for 2 months.

The defense of Olga Li, deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma and editor-in-chief of the People's Journalist newspaper, received a response from Dmitry Dymov, head of the Kursk Center E, that there were no signs of extremism in the suspect's videos criticizing the Russian judicial system and Putin's policies. This was reported by lawyer Roman Lyzlov, representing the interests of an independent deputy.

Yaroslav Nikitenko, a witness in the case of Dmitry Buchenkov, was unable to obtain permission from the investigators to review the record of his interrogation in order to make comments or clarifications. about this The eco-activist wrote on Facebook on May 20. According to him, on April 28, in the presence of his lawyer, he was additionally questioned by the investigator in the case of Buchenkov (he was taken into custody in connection with the events of May 6, 2012 on Bolotnaya Square).

In the Mezhdorechensk of the Kemerovo region, the priest of the Association of Christian Eucharistic Commons, opened by Gaia and antimilitar, Alexander Khmelev was charged with extremism (he does not have accurately information about the OVD-Info accusation), which he reported on his Facebook page. On May 19, Khmelev received a summons at the ATS from a criminal investigation officer.

The court extended the arrest of the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz until July 22, reports on his Twitter. lawyer Nikolai Polozov Chiygoz is a defendant in the “February 26 Case” about clashes between supporters and opponents of Euromaidan in Crimea and is accused of organizing mass riots (part 1 of article 212 of the Criminal Code). Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermendzhi are also in custody in connection with the February 26 Case.

On May 19, people who introduced themselves as FSB officers came to the university to a Novosibirsk activist and threatened her with expulsion from the university for posts about the fate of Vladislav Sokolik, who was detained on May 18 at his home. on the social network VKontakte This was reported by the group of the Union of Anarchists of Siberia.

The Tverskoy District Court fined Viktor Kapitonov, who was detained on May 5 for protests against Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code wearing a Putin mask, 10,000 rubles. this The activist announced on his Facebook page. The activist was found guilty under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov, who spent more than 9 months in a pre-trial detention center on charges of organizing the activities of an extremist community, turned to the Commissioner for Human Rights with a request to check the actions of a group of investigators for legality. This was announced on May 20 by the representative of the defense, the mother of the journalist Natalya Sokolova.

On May 13, the Petersburg activist Krasimir Vranks chained himself handcuffs to the gates of the construction near the Alexandrino Park, opposing illegal construction. He was detained. The activist told the ATS-Info how it was. Since 2012, the struggle of the residents of the Ulyanka quarter in St. Petersburg has not stopped against illegal sealing development, which is in place in the territory adjacent to the Alexandrino Park (a cultural heritage object of federal significance).