The Ministry of Justice explained the accelerated approval of the all-Russian action against terror after the explosion in St. Petersburg by the fact that the authorities can organize rallies without prior notice and other restrictions, since the federal law does not say anything about state bodies as applicants for mass events. It is reported by RBC. The provisions of the federal law on rallies and processions do not apply to public events organized by state and municipal bodies.

Sergei Plenkin, a participant in the tractor march, who was detained this afternoon in Krasnodar for unfolding a poster in front of the president's motorcade, was released from the Prikubansky police department, taking an explanation from him. This was announced to OVD-Info by the coordinator of the tractor march Andrey Sandakov.

Maryana Izotova, Nikita Smirnov and Lidia Osipova were detained for a series of one-man pickets near the Duma. The detention was justified by the insufficient distance between the picketers and the building. When the activists went to look for another place to picket, they were detained. Now they are in the Tverskoy police department.

Photo: Alla Frolov, Khimkinsky City Court The Khimkinsky City Court fined the leader of the association of Russian carriers Andrei Bazhutin for 30 thousand rubles. He was accused under part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization or a public event without submitting a notification in the prescribed manner). This was reported to the OTD-Info by human rights activist Alla Frolova. In addition, the court fined Sergei Ponezh for 500 rubles under Art.

A resident of the city of Berezniki in the Perm Territory was given 4 days of administrative arrest for posting a video with a banned song by the Kolovrat group on his page on the VKontakte social network. This was reported on the website www.business-class.su. The court considered that the actions of the man fall under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

The prosecutor's office asks to give the defender of the park "Dubki" Dmitry Boinov a suspended sentence of 3 years and 6 months on charges of battery (part 2 of article 116 of the Criminal Code) and hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website activatica.org.

The defendant in the March 26 case, Stanislav Zimovets, refused the special procedure for considering the case. This was reported by a member of the OVD-Info team, who is at a hearing in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow.

A participant in the tractor march, Sergei Plenkin, was detained in Krasnodar during a solitary picket - he unfolded a poster when the motorcade of Russian President Vladimir Putin passed by. Plenkin's comrades reported this by telephone to the OVD-Info hotline. Alexey Volchenko, the leader of the Krasnodar Territory farmers' protest , reports on his Facebook that today the protesters staged a picket against the "lawlessness" of the local authorities.

Truck drivers Alexey Borisov, Igor Finkovsky and Igor Sharapov were fined 500 rubles under Art. 19.3 of the Administrative Code and for 10,000 rubles under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of each. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. Also in court is Sergei Ponezha, who was brought from the police department along with Borisov, Finkovsky and Sharapov. Four more remain in the police department.

In Tomsk, Moscow activist Oleg Kozlovsky was detained at the local airport. about this He wrote on his Twitter. According to Kozlovsky, police officers questioned him in detail about his activities in Moscow, as well as about what the activist was doing in Tomsk. Kozlovsky refused to undergo fingerprinting. The police took down the serial number of his phone and released him.

The four truck drivers detained on May 21 were brought to the Khimki City Court. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. Sergei Ponezha, Alexey Borisov, Igor Finkovsky and Igor Sharapov were brought to court. Borisov, Finkovsky and Sharapov were brought into the hall; the meeting had not yet begun. On May 21 in Khimki, several people were detained at a truckers’ protest parking lot.

All day on May 23, law enforcement agencies conduct searches in the apartments of famous cultural figures in Moscow and on the territory of the art sites of the city. Procedural actions take place at home at the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov and in the Gogol Center itself, as well as in the apartment at the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofia Apfelbaum. A search is also reported on the territory of the Center for Contemporary Art "Vincuvod".

Stanislav Zimovets (left) and Alexander Shpakov Last week, the first case of an attack on a policeman on March 26 in Moscow, Yuri Kuli, who pleaded guilty and agreed to a “special order”, that is, without studying the evidence, gave eight months of a colony-settlement . This should be held at two more accused: earlier they also agreed to a special order, but they may also refuse it.