On May 31, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ulyanovsk fined Viktor Gus, a member of the Ulyanovsk branch of the Revolutionary Workers' Party, fifty thousand rubles for an administrative offense under Article 20.18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Blocking transport communications, the maximum sanction is a fine of up to one hundred thousand rubles or compulsory work for up to one hundred hours).

The Leningrad Regional Court overturned the decision of the Vsevolozhsk City Court, which fined civil activist Andrei Orlov 5,000 rubles, who was detained along with St. Petersburg truckers on February 20 near the MEGA-Dybenko shopping center on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov told OVD-Info about this. On Orlov, as well as on other detainees, protocols were drawn up under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 and Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

The European Court of Human Rights registered two joint complaints - from Ildar Dadin and Vladimir Ionov, and from Alla Frolova and Elena Zakharova. Lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation Nikolai Zboroshenko spoke about this on his Facebook on May 31. According to Dadin and Ionov - a complaint regarding the episode of September 13, 2014, when activists held single anti-government pickets on Manezhnaya Square.

The Moscow City Court agreed with the decision of the Presnensky District Court that the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalya Sharina, must be kept under house arrest until July 29, while the investigation is ongoing, the reported on May 31.

In Vladimir, the Oktyabrsky District Court issued a verdict in a criminal case against local resident Mikhail Pekin, accused under Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities committed using the Internet), the SOVA information and analytical center reported on May 31.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found flaws in the case of Irina Kalmykova, and decided to return it to the prosecutor's office to correct the deficiencies, May 31, RIA Novosti. reported “The search for Kalmykova will continue, the preventive measure will remain unchanged,” the news agency quotes the words of judge Maria Sizintseva.

Judge Karpov of the Basmanny District Court extended the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, until September 5. “Grani” reported this on Twitter. RU". Karpov rejected the defense's request to hold the hearing behind closed doors. On May 20, the Moscow City Court, during an appeal against Panfilov’s previous arrest, granted a similar request.

According to the May 6 Committee on Twitter, in the Basmanny Court, a woman who came to support the person involved in the Bolotnaya case, Maxim Panfilov, was issued an administrative protocol for applause. The bailiffs announced that applause is prohibited in the courthouse. Earlier in the same court there were already similar stories in January and April . January 27 Protocol under Art.

The Supreme Court of Russia ruled that it was legal to confiscate a computer for distributing Nazi symbols on the network by its owner. on May 30 This was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

On May 31, the Moscow Regional Court upheld the decision of the Ramensky City Court, which arrested blogger Yan Katelevsky for 10 days in a case of disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina.

On May 30, the Vologda Regional Court reduced by five days the term of arrest for Yevgeny Domozhirov, leader of the Vologda branch of the Progress Party, sentenced to 10 days of arrest under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The politician announced this on his Twitter. On May 26, Domozhirov was sentenced under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - to 10 days of arrest, according to Art. 19.3 - by 5 days .

On May 31, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia is obliged to pay Elena Nadtok, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Chastnaya Lavochka, about six thousand euros. We are talking about compensation in the case of insulting the former mayor of Novocherkassk, Anatoly Volkov.

The Berdsk City Court sentenced Maksim Kormelitsky to one year in prison in a colony-settlement for a picture published on the VKontakte social network and inciting hatred on the grounds of attitude to religion (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). Three more months will be added to this period due to Kormelitsky's outstanding criminal record. This is reported by the site "Radio Liberty".

Police officers investigating a new case against Alexei Navalny appeared at the Ekho Moskvy radio station. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov on his Twitter. On May 17, it became known that, at the request of former police officer Pavel Karpov, a criminal case was opened against Navalny under Parts 2 and 5 of Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander). Navalny himself wrote on Twitter that he had been summoned for interrogation on June 1.

The city court of Taganrog found the anarchist Elizaveta Tsvetkova guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (“incitement of hostility towards a group of people on the basis of belonging to a social group -“ police officers ”) and sentenced her to 1 year of corrective labor with a deduction of 15% of her salary to the state. Information about this was posted on the website of the court on May 31.