In the Krasnodar Territory, Sergei Baldanov, a follower of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, was fined for mass distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29). This was reported on the website of the IAC "Sova". On May 31, the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi fined Baldanov 3,000 rubles and confiscated Li Hongzhi's book Falun Dafa from him.

The director of Radio Kotovsk, Sergei Stepanov, was fired due to the fact that he attended the action #tired on April 29 in Tambov. This was reported on the Open Russia website. On March 29, Stepanov arrived in Tambov from Kotovsk and broadcast the action at the reception of the President of the Russian Federation on his Facebook. According to him, he himself is not involved in politics, but he considers it the duty of a journalist to cover socially significant events in the region.

Police officers inspected the apartment of Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Kostyuchenko in connection with the suspicion that a criminal was hiding there. Kostyuchenko wrote about this on Facebook. After the head of the Tekstilshchiki police department arrived, as well as lawyer Kostyuchenko and her sister, the door was opened with keys and the police, accompanied by a lawyer and sister, inspected the apartment in search of criminals - they also looked into the cabinets.

The video “Maddyson about Islam, the Quran and Muslims” by video blogger Ilya Maddyson (Ilya Davydov) was recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Prohibited Materials. This was reported on the Chechnya Today website. On March 16, the Zavodskoy District Court of the city of Grozny ruled that the video was extremist. On May 26, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation entered the video in the register of extremist materials.

Police officers plan to open the door to the apartment of Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Kostyuchenko. this She announced on her Facebook page. Kostyuchenko herself is on a business trip. Today, the Tekstilshchiki district police department called her and said that a crime had been committed at the entrance and in connection with this, the police would now open the door to the journalist's apartment. District police officer Kostyuchenko did not provide details.

The leader of the organization “Russians in Astrakhan”, Igor Stenin, has been released from the Federal Public Institution of the Tambov Region. "Caucasian Knot" is about this. IK-3 reports that Stenin was released after the original court order to terminate criminal proceedings against him was brought to the colony. On May 30, the Presidium of the Astrakhan Regional Court considered the cassation appeal against the sentence imposed on Stenin.

The Perm authorities approved only one of the seven applications submitted for anti-corruption campaigns on June 12. about this on her Facebook page . wrote Activist Alexandra Semenova Applications were submitted to seven different downtown locations.

Valentina Cherevatenko, the head of the Novocherkassk human rights organization “Union “Women of the Don”” was charged with “malicious” failure to comply with the requirements of the law on “foreign agents” (Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona writes about this. The organization was included in the register of “foreign agents” in 2014. “The investigation lasted for a whole year. I absolutely do not admit my guilt. We defended ourselves and continue to defend ourselves.

On June 2, the Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined one of the detained equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies for 10,000 rubles. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the St. Petersburg City Court. Tatyana Simonova was found guilty of violating the order of the action by the participant (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Earlier, Simonova was taken to the hospital after a day of protest hunger strike.

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On June 2, it became known that the Investigative Committee in Ulyanovsk closed the affairs of the 24-year-old Left Bloc activist Danil Alferiev, who was accused of initiating hatred "on the basis of belonging to representatives of the authorities." About this writes "Mediazona".

On May 30, the organizer of the anti-corruption action on June 12 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Alexander Ivanov, was first summoned to the office by the First Vice-Rector of Yugra State University (USU) and tried to persuade him to refuse to organize the rally for an hour. The rector of the university and an unknown person in civilian clothes joined the conversation. about this Alexander Ivanov wrote in the Vkontakte action group.

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