At a meeting of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, the prosecutor asked Natalya Sharina, director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, to be sentenced to a five-year suspended sentence. This was reported by the Moscow City News Agency. The state prosecutor also asked to deprive Sharina of the right to hold positions in the civil service and in local governments for three years. The verdict will be announced on June 1 at 11:00.

Detained in Makhachkala on May 27, participants in an anti-corruption rally Patimat Gadzhiyeva, Luiza Suleymanova, Abdulla Gabibulaev and Zagalava Somoev were released from the police on the same day. Administrative protocols were drawn up against three of them, reports .

Dmitry Berdnikov, chairman of the coordinating council of injured clients of Tatfondbank, Intekhbank, Timer Bank and Tatagroprombank, told OVD-Info that he was beaten by police officers during his arrest and while in the police department. The detention took place on May 26 at Svoboda Square in Kazan. Berdnikov said that the police used force against him both during the arrest and after he was brought to the police station.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad arrested for two months the former leader of the Baltic Vanguard of Russian Resistance Alexander Orshulevich, who was detained on May 27 on suspicion of organizing an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). reports Klops . Ru. According to investigators, on March 9, 2011, the suspect created an extremist community, and involved two comrades in his activities, the newspaper writes.

On May 29, Nikolai Bondarenko, a participant in an anti-corruption rally in Saratov on March 26, was charged with an administrative protocol. This is reported by the news agency Svobodnye Novosti. Bondarenko is charged with Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Violation by a participant in a public event of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing).

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined 10,000 rubles for two activists who were detained on May 11, when they planned to submit appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office in connection with the persecution of gays in Chechnya. This was reported to OVD-Info by Denis Shedov, lawyer of the Memorial Human Rights Center. Judge Alesya Orekhova found Alexander Alekseeva and Nikita Safronov guilty of an offense under Part 5 of Art.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow decided to leave 25-year-old mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov under arrest until June 30. Mediazona reports this. Bogatov is accused of attempting to organize mass riots and calls for terrorism. In court, a representative of the Investigative Committee said that the investigation period had been extended until June 30 and asked that Bogatov be kept under arrest for this period, since the Investigative Committee was still obtaining evidence.

Deputy commander of the OMON battalion, Colonel Vladimir Kotenev, who is a victim in the case of Stanislav Zimovets, was injured during training before the rally on March 26, and not at the rally itself. Zimovets announced this before the start of the hearing in the Tverskoy court on May 29, writes Mediazona. Publication of a protocol of interrogation of the victim, which confirms the words of Zimovets.

One of the leaders of the Ethnopolitical Association “Russians” banned in Russia, Alexander Potkin (known as Belov), convicted in the case of extremism and legalization of funds stolen from Kazakh investors, was transported from the “Matrosskaya Tishina” pre-trial detention center. “Rosuznik” wrote about this on Twitter. BTA-banka write Information about the transfer was confirmed by Potkin’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Now the convict is in Nizhny Novgorod in.

In Kemerovo, the coordinator of Open Russia, Dmitry Ulitin, was searched by FSB officers at 7 a.m. Open Russia writes about this. The search was related to the posting of a video on social networks with a call to come to the “Fed up” rally on April 29. As Ulitin told RBC, three laptops were confiscated from him, “all the gadgets of his wife and children with SIM cards,” as well as empty laser discs.

Ruslan Zeytullayev, accused of organizing a Hizb cell in Crimea, ended his second hunger strike in order to fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The portal “Events of Crimea” reports this with reference to lawyer Edem Semedlyaev. ut-Tahririz-za reports According to the lawyer, Zeytullayev thanks everyone for their support and reports that his health is more or less normal.

Stanislav Zimovets, accused in the March 26 Case, was arrested until November 10. This was reported by an OVD-Info correspondent from the courtroom. Zimovets said in court: “I will never stoop to run away” The prosecutor demanded to extend the detention for six months. Zimovets's lawyer, Svetlana Sidorkina, emphasized that her client would not be able to put pressure on the witnesses, since he did not know them personally.

In Russia, attacks on places that are associated with “Jehovah's Witnesses” continue. In the village of Zheshart in the Komi Republic, unknown people set fire to the house where worships were held, and in Izhevsk a man, with the help of a “heavy metal object”, began to spoil the meeting room of the local community. This was reported by the site "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia." In the same time in the burned house, the remains of a bottle of incendiary mixture were found.