On May 25, Chairperson of the Moscow City Court Olga Yegorova, at a meeting of the Commission on Judicial Practice and Improvement of Legislation, within the framework of the Council of Judges taking place in Moscow, proposed a change in the procedure for trial in criminal cases. Egorova's proposal applies only to cases where the defendants systematically do not come to their court session, and at the same time they are being tried for a crime of small or medium gravity, reports .

On May 25, the Yekaterinburg Railway Court dismissed the administrative claim of student Yuri Izotov against the fifth (Lenin) police department. Izotov is trying to prove the illegality of the detention of participants in a picket dedicated to the birthday of Ukrainian pilot and political prisoner Nadezhda Savchenko. The head of the police department Dmitriev, who was recognized as the defendant in the case, did not appear in court.

On May 25, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Yaroslavl considered the complaint of Yaroslavl Regional Duma deputy Vasily Tsependa about the illegality of bringing him to administrative responsibility for installing a memorial plaque “Boris Nemtsov, a citizen and patriot of Russia, lived in this house.” “The court overturned the decision of the Administrative Commission and agreed with the arguments of illegality,” Tsependa writes on Facebook.

On May 24, the Supreme Court of Russia adopted amendments to the Plenum resolution “On the practice of courts’ application of legislation on the selection of preventive measures.” According to the amendments, the formal words of the investigator are not enough for an arrest, writes RBC.

On May 25, the Sovetsky District Court in Orel dismissed six administrative cases under part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Violation by a participant in a public event of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing). This was reported to OVD-Info by a court employee.

A 21-year-old resident of Berdsk has been prosecuted for inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of his attitude to religion (under the first part of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment on the VKontakte social network to a photograph of people swimming in an ice hole.

The Russian Ministry of Justice filed a complaint against the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to compensate Alexei Navalny and Petr Ofitserov in the Kirovles case. this on May 25 The politician himself announced . “It is interesting that the authorities literally jumped on the departing train - a couple more days, and the decision would have finally come into force,” Navalny explained. The complaint was registered on 23 May.

The general director of the Gorod media holding, journalist Denis Kuchmenko, was beaten on the morning of May 25 at the entrance of his house in Bratsk. As reported on the website of the media holding. Two masked men attacked the journalist around 9:30 am on May 25 on the ground floor of the house, beat him with a stun gun, and fled after the neighbors reacted to the noise. Kuchmenko was taken to the hospital, he had a broken arm, numerous abrasions and bruises.

A member of the executive committee of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Ervin Ibragimov, disappeared in Bakhchisarai on the evening of May 24. As Aishe Umerova, an employee of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, reported on May 25, his parents reported that his car was found open near the house where he lives.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison on charges of murdering Russian journalists in Ukraine, flew from Rostov-on-Don to Kyiv on May 25. This was reported by Reuters, citing a source close to the exchange, as well as the Ukrainian agency UNN, citing an unnamed source in diplomatic circles.

On May 25, the Krasnodar Regional Court refused to overturn the ten-day arrest for LGBT activist Nina Solovieva for posting Boris Sevastyanov's song "This, baby, is rashism" on a social network. about this on Facebook. writes Her defender Andrei Sabinin According to him, the court considered the complaint within five minutes, and part of the time in the dimmed light. The prosecutor was not present during the hearing.

Journalist Anastasia Zotov is released from the Fili-Davydkovo police department, where she was taken to investigative actions in connection with a hacking of her apartment. She writes about this on Twitter. She was awarded the agenda, called for interrogation for investigative actions in the criminal case on May 25 at 10:00, but it does not say what status it is. She told the OWD-info that she was sitting in the ATS building and waiting for her to be taken home, as they had previously promised.

Anastasia Zotova, whose birthday is May 24, is in the police department. She said that the investigator asked her to sign a confession that she had come up with the idea of ​​staging a hack to attract attention to herself and asked activist Mikhail Barbotkin to carry out the staging. The investigator threatened her that if she did not sign a confession, Barbotkin would be imprisoned for a long time. Earlier, Zotova was convinced that Barbotkin had already confessed.

On the night of May 25, police detained Mikhail Barbotkin in connection with breaking into an apartment rented by journalist Anastasia Zotova, wife of Ildar Dadin, reports . Mediazona According to Zotova, who refers to information from police officers, Barbotkin will be taken to the Fili-Davydkovo police station. But the duty unit of this department did not confirm that Barbotkin was taken there.