The Vysokogorsky District Court of Tatarstan sentenced local nationalist Airat Shakirov, who was accused of inciting hatred, to a fine of one hundred thousand rubles and released him from payment due to the statute of limitations. This is reported by "Frontiers. RU". The reason for opening the case was a video from a rally in Makhachkala on February 8, 2013, posted on Shakirov's page on the VKontakte social network and recognized as extremist.

The Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation approved amendments to the bill equating meetings of deputies with voters to rallies. The bill was passed in the first reading on 5 April.

The Central District Court of Volgograd fined entrepreneur Oksana Potolovskaya 10,000 for participating in a march in defense of small businesses and against the closure of the Voroshilovsky market. This was reported on May 15 by the "Caucasian Knot". Earlier, the same fines were issued to two other participants in the procession, Irada Ibragimova and Alexander Savin. The participants in the procession were heading to Governor Andrei Bocharov and carrying a coffin and a shovel.

On May 15, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the organizer of the New Opposition walk, Alexander Rastorguev, ten thousand rubles. About this “Fontanka. RU". The procession took place on April 16, then there were about thirty people. reports detained The publication, citing defense attorney Dinar Idrisov, who represents the interests of Rastorguev, reports that the meeting lasted about eight hours. It is a rare case that victims participated in the proceedings.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the 150 thousand activists of another Russia Alexander Kulakov. As reported on the “other Russia” page on the VKontakte social network, Kulakov was the first activist in St. Petersburg, involved in “repeated violation of the procedure for conducting public events” (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Committee on Law, Order and Security of the Government of St. Petersburg refused to agree on May 17 "Rainbow Flash Mob", dedicated to the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia in Societies. It is reported by Kasparov. RU". The organizers planned to hold the event on the Champ de Mars.

The Leninsky District Court of Samara terminated the proceedings in the cases of the organizers of the March 26 action, Ekaterina Gerasimova and Yegor Alasheyev. Kommersant-Samara reports this. The publication, referring to Alasheyev, writes that the Leninsky court was based on the fact that the Samara Regional Court had previously overturned its decisions on fines issued against the participants of the March 26 action, Alexander Savin and David Akopdzhanyan.

The trial on the merits of the case of Alexander Shpakov, accused of attacking a policeman on March 26 in Moscow, is scheduled to begin in the Tverskoy District Court on May 24. About this agency "Moscow". reports Shpakov is accused of striking two battalion commanders of the operational regiment, Valery Gonikov, who was previously a victim in the Bolotnaya case, when he was detained at an uncoordinated protest against corruption in the center of Moscow on March 26.

An Orthodox priest from the village of Ugut, Aleksey Ekimov, may be held liable for insulting the feelings of believers. It is reported by "URA.RU" with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The incident occurred after Yekimov accused Pentecostals, Baptists and Jehovah's Witnesses in his speech at a rally on May 9 in honor of Victory Day for hindering Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the coordinator of the Open Russia movement Maria Baronova 20 thousand rubles under part 1 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by the organizer of a public event of the established procedure for organizing or holding it). It is reported by Interfax. The court found Baronova guilty, since the action #tired on April 29, took place along a route inconsistent with the city authorities.

Children of Jehovah's Witnesses are under pressure from teachers and police. In addition, new cases of vandalism against those professing this religion became known . This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. In Ufa, district police officer Rozhkin came to the house of Jehovah's Witnesses and, in the absence of his parents, asked the eldest son for a written explanation about the religious views of the family.

The Simferopol authorities did not allow the activists to hold a picket on May 19 near the building of the Crimean government against "political persecution on ethnic and religious grounds." This was announced on Facebook by one of the picket organizers, activist Nariman Dzhelyalov. According to him, activists in Sudak were also denied permission to hold such an event.

Ruslan Zeytullayev, recognized as the organizer of the Crimean cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia by the court, began another hunger strike to protest against the verdict and persecution of activists. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov reported this to the Caucasian Knot. The lawyer also said that Zeitullaev is going to renounce Russian citizenship.

Viktor Khutorsky, an activist who streams on political topics, has been searched. Now he is being taken to the Investigation Department for the South-Western Administrative District. this He announced on his Facebook page. Khutorsky’s flash drive was searched for “Strike of the Russian Gods,” a neo-pagan anti-Semitic book published under the pseudonym Vladimir Istarkhov.

Lev Severukhin, a minor activist of the unregistered Other Russia party, was taken to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee in Moscow for questioning about the March 26 anti-corruption rally. This was reported by Open Russia with reference to the head of the Moscow branch of the party, Olga Shalina. According to Shalina, Severukhin said on the phone that he was in the Investigative Committee.