Five people were detained near the Drama Theater in Yekaterinburg. This was reported to OVD-Info by Olga Ivantseva from the scene. The names of two detainees are known: Pavel Zavialov and Mikhail Ivanov. Zavyalov and another man, who did not introduce himself, were taken to police station No. 11. According to OVD-Info, police detained more than 100 people in Yekaterinburg during the three days of the protest. We monitor the trials of the protesters.

In Volgograd, on May 16, FSB and police officers detained seven followers of Jehovah's Witnesses, some at their workplace, according to the organization's website. Sergey Melnik, 46 years old, Valery Rogozin, 57 years old, Igor Egozaryan, 54 years old, Vyacheslav Osipov, 48 years old, Ivan Valkovsky, 36 years old, Denis Peresunko, 41 years old, and Vladimir Tarasov, 81 years old, were detained. They were taken to the Investigative Committee building on Gagarin Street.

Arrested for 15 days for an action against the construction of a temple in a park in Yekaterinburg, the ex-coordinator of Navalny's Magnitogorsk headquarters Timofey Filatov went on a hunger strike. this on his telegram channel . announced Boris Zolotarevsky, coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Chelyabinsk, Filatov was detained on the night of May 15-16. He was charged with a repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Detection of Asta carpet photo: David Frenkel In St. Petersburg on International Day against Homophobia, Transfobia and Bifobia, the police detained five participants in the rainbow flash mob, lawyer and another woman. This was reported by the OTD-Info by one of the detainees Asta Kovrov. Activists went with paper crane and flags on Lenin Square.

The treatment was simply terrible. I walked into the park by chance and stood next to lawyer Roman Kachanov. The Russian Guards infiltrated the crowd in raids. And then they came running, but for some reason I didn’t run. They grabbed me and dragged me away. I say: “Let go of your hand, it hurts.” And one of them answers me: “If you struggle, we’ll break it.” I walked and all the way I persistently asked to let go of my hand.

In the court district No. 370 of the Tverskoy district, the magistrate ruled on administrative cases of members of Open Russia. The head of the Moscow branch of the movement, Tatyana Usmanova, and council member Alexander Solovyov, were found guilty of carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). They were ordered to pay five thousand rubles each. About it writes "MBH Media".

In St. Petersburg, the police are holding preventive talks with participants in single-person pickets in support of Ukrainians detained, arrested or convicted in Russia. This is reported by "Crimea. Realii” with reference to activist Ilyas Eshref. According to him, the police come home to the picketers: “Personally, I did not let them into the house, but they continue to come, and those who let them in are now called to the police for further explanations and conversations.

In the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, the house of one of the protest leaders, Akhmed Pogorov, is being searched. This was reported by the FortangaORG channel, lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov confirmed the information on his Twitter. Akhilgov notes that this is the fourth search in the activist's house. It is also reported that several neighborhoods in Karabulak have been cordoned off: law enforcement officers are searching the houses of Pogorov's neighbors.

In Moscow, the security forces came to the participant of the Association of Popular Resistance (ANS) of Lilia Osipova. The girl reported this to the hotline of the OWD-Info. Osipova suggests that law enforcement officers can be employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. On May 16, ANS held a promotion at the Patriarch's residence. The participants in the movement hung a banner on her fence with the inscription “Sorry for the ECB” and scattered the smoke bombs nearby.

Roman Kochanov, lawyer, chairman of the Interregional Center for Human Rights / Photo: Mila Lukasheva On the evening of May 13, a daily confrontation between citizens and security forces began in Yekaterinburg. People protest against the cutting of the square in the city center for the construction of the temple. From the beginning of the gathering, more than 100 people were detained. On the evening of May 16, the authorities suspended the construction until a survey of residents was conducted.

Andrey Skorogorodnikov-Earlich / Photo from the page of Andrei in VKontakte Musician Andrei Skrogorodnikov-Erlich organizes in Krasnoyarsk promotions “For Clean Sky” dedicated to the problem of air pollution. He told the OVD-Info how the authorities are trying to prevent them in the city center: at first, in all squares, other pickets were declared from 9 a.m. to 9 pm, now city squares are allegedly transferred to private property.

On May 13, protests against the construction of the temple in the square began in Yekaterinburg. When the protesters, the police applied the power to them: they broke their hands, beat with batons, drove on the ground. OVD-Info recorded the story of one of the detainees. The appeal was just terrible. I went into the square by accident, stood next to lawyer Roman Kachanov. The Russian Guards were introduced into the crowd with raids. And so they ran, but for some reason I did not run.