In Moscow, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) regarding the defacement of a sign for the World Cup, which is located on the territory of Moscow State University. Human rights manager of Open Russia Valentina Dekhtyarenko wrote about this in her Telegram channel. Three Moscow State University students were detained due to suspicions of damaging the sign. Two of them were taken straight from the exam.

In St. Petersburg, a member of the Democratic Petersburg and Solidarity (St. Petersburg) movement, Vsevolod Nelayev, was detained because of his participation in the May Day procession. Aleksey Sergeev reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. The police detained Nelayev when he was standing near a picket in support of the convicted director Oleg Sentsov. UPD 21:38 Mediazona, citing local activist Varya Mikhailova, writes that Nelayev was taken to police department No. 43.

In St. Petersburg, police detained two participants in single pickets. This was reported by one of the detainees, Vladimir Ivanyutenko. OVD-InfoMuzhchina said that he stood with a single picket in support of director Oleg Sentsov, who on May 19 declared an open-ended hunger strike demanding the release of 64 Ukrainian political prisoners convicted in Russia. According to Ivanyutenko, the police detained him because the picketer did not have registration.

In Moscow, police detained another MSU student. Members of the university’s initiative group wrote on their VKontakte page that they were threatening him with a criminal case: the day before, unknown persons had damaged the sign for the World Cup, which is located on the territory of Moscow State University. Activists report that the detainee’s name is Dmitry. Earlier, he received a call from the police.

The criminal case against oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev was transferred to the Nazranovsky District Court of Ingushetia. This was reported by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Andrey Sabinin, representing the interests of Khazbiev.

The head of Altyn Urda, Danis Safargali, in his explanations to the authorities of colony No. 5 of the Kirov region, spoke about assault by an inspector of the security department. “Idel” writes about this. Realities." Safargali wrote that on May 22 his detachment was taken to a bathhouse. At the entrance, a colony employee said that the entire detachment must enter the bathhouse at the same time.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court arrested Mikhail Alferov for five days. OVD-Info was informed about this by Ruslan Lutsenko. Alferov was found guilty under part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event). The picketer was detained on May 30.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan rejected the complaint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and upheld the decision of the court of first instance to dismiss the case of Dmitry Berdnikov, a participant in the protest of depositors and the leader of the movement Against Crime and Lawlessness. He himself reported this to the OVD-Info hotline.

Two students of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University were taken from the examination of suspicions of spoiling the index to the World Cup. About this manager of human rights “Open Russia” Valentina Dekhtyarenko was informed by a friend of the detainees. Because of theocolo two hours ago, the head of the part and the “man in uniform”, Dekhtyarenko, came to the exam. The students managed to report that they were allegedly calculated by video cameras and accused of vandalism.

On May 31, the Izberbash court of Dagestan sentenced Ilgar Aliev, a follower of a Muslim theologian, to eight years in a general regime colony on charges of organizing the activities of an extremist cell and involving him in it. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The young man was detained in April 2017, at that time Ilgar Aliyev was 20 years old.

The medical record of Ruslan, a defendant in the case of the extremist organization “New Greatness,” recorded hematomas and multiple bruises. This was reported by member of the Public Monitoring Commission Evgeny Enikeev. The OVD-InfoHuman rights activist visited Kostylenkov in pre-trial detention center No. 3 “Krasnaya” on May 31. Then he looked at his medical record. The certificate dated March 16—the day he was brought to the pre-trial detention center—states that he had bodily injuries.

At the police department of the city of Vlasikha, Moscow region, police officers threatened Artem Novikov, a participant in the “He is not our king” action, with Center “E”. He reported this to OVD-Info. After the rally, a protocol was drawn up against Novikov under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a rally).