A bill that equates meetings of deputies with voters to public actions requiring approval was adopted in the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the second reading. This was reported on May 19 by Kommersant. Earlier, the amendments to the second reading were approved by the relevant committee. Now the deputy will be able to hold meetings with people without approval only indoors and “inside the yard territory” - now there are no restrictions on choosing a place for such a meeting.

The Samara prosecutor's office declared it illegal for schoolchildren to show the film “Another Revolution? And what's next.?" about the protests on March 26, shown to children at the No to Extremism forum. This was reported on the website of Ekho Moskvy.

The detained municipal deputy of the Cheryomushki district, Vyacheslav Vaneev, was released from the Cheryomushki police department without consequences. Oleg Eliseev, a lawyer for Open Russia, who represented the interests of Vaneev, told OVD-Info about this. According to him, Vaneev was not allowed to attend a meeting of officials with residents of the district, dedicated to the renovation program, at which he was declared as a participant.

Vyacheslav Vaneev, a municipal deputy of the Cheryomushki district, was detained in the South-West of Moscow. This was reported by Aleksey Vilents by phone to the OVD-Info hotline. According to him, Vaneev was detained when he tried to get to a meeting of residents of the Cheryomushki district with the government about the renovation program. The police said that the deputy swore. Vaneev has now been brought to the Cheryomushki police station.

On May 15, the Perm Regional Court recognized as legal the refusal to approve LGBT actions on November 7, 2016 in Perm. This was reported on the website progorod59.ru. The activists filed an appeal against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Perm, which recognized the refusal of the city administration to coordinate the procession along Lunacharsky Street and the rallies in Theater Square and Friendship Square as justified.

In Gorno-Altaysk, during a protest rally against a criminal case against the mayor of the city, unknown people in civilian clothes tried to detain activist Vasily Romanov, now he is not in touch. This was announced by the OVD-Info on the hotline by the hotline by Pavel Pastukhov.