In Moscow, Roman Udot, a member of the council of the Golos movement, was detained. He is suspected of threatening to kill (part 1 of article 119 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Elena Makarova told OVD-Info about this, Udot's lawyer Maxim Pashkov told her the news. The case is connected with a conflict between a Golos board member and an NTV journalist at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. In March 2018, Udot was detained before departure on suspicion of stealing a correspondent's mobile phone.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined two more participants in the action against the import of garbage from Moscow and the construction of a landfill in Shies. It is reported by 29.ru. Daria Borovikova was fined 14 thousand rubles, Antonina Obednina - 13 thousand rubles. The women were found guilty of violating the rules of the event (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Both fines were handed down for participation in the procession on April 7.

In Moscow, FSB officers talked with the employer of a participant in the gathering “In defense of the new generation: against torture and repression!” Alina Ivanova. She wrote about this on her Facebook page. The girl said that she works at a state enterprise servicing cosmodromes.

The Moscow City Court reduced the fine from 20 to 10 thousand rubles to the co-chairman of the Trade Union of Journalists and activist Igor Yasin, who was detained during the procession in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. This was reported to OVD-Info by public defender Irina Yatsenko, who represented Yasin in court.

On May 18, the Central District Court of Volgograd placed four followers of Jehovah's Witnesses in custody until July 13. The Caucasian Knot reports this. On May 16, FSB and police officers detained seven people. Sergei Melnik, Valery Rogozin, Igor Egozaryan and Vyacheslav Osipov were placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Volgograd. Ivan Valkovsky, Denis Peresunko and Vladimir Tarasov are at large.

In Yekaterinburg, the director of the Ural College of Music threatened students with problems due to attending protests in the square near the Drama Theater. On May 16, the administration of the educational institution held a meeting instead of a lesson. about this Znak.com writes with reference to student Olga Beloglazova. On one of the days of the protest, she performed in the square, playing the cello. “The police are not scary, what is there to be afraid of.

Police in Moscow on Nikolskaya Street detained a street musician and a member of the COO of Russian composers Sergei Sadov. This was reported by the OWD-Info by Sadov himself. A musician playing on a unique string instrument of his own invention called Sador was taken to the police department in the Kitay-Gorod region. Law enforcement officers are going to only draw up a detention protocol.

Kommersant Publishing House journalists Ivan Safronov and Maxim Ivanov were fired due to the publication of an article about the possible resignation of Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko. In this regard, 11 more employees of Kommersant’s political department wrote their resignations. Ivan Safronov and the deputy editor-in-chief of the publication’s magazine, Gleb Cherkasov, wrote about this on their Facebook.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Mikhail Tsakunov 100 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of using non-life-threatening violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at the “He is not our king” rally. “Human Rights Postcards” is about this. Since the man spent 11 months in a pre-trial detention center, the court released him from paying a fine.

Edge “You can set fire to some trash can, a wall, a window, a window sill, a door, and for this you can actually go to jail for 10–20 years,” artist Pyotr Pavlensky commented on his demand to be tried for terrorism after the action of setting fire to the door of the FSB office. The FSB then did not succumb to Pavlensky’s trolling, and soon the actionist was released, but many are much less lucky.

Political criminal cases, according to OVD-Info, have been increasingly filed under “terrorist” charges in recent years. There are also significantly more “terrorists” on the list of Rosfinmonitoring. At the same time, it is often difficult to understand why law enforcement officers interpret this or that act as related specifically to terrorism. People who have engaged in non-violent activities are regularly charged with terrorism offences.