A resident of the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk region, Dmitry Lazarev, was charged with insulting the authorities (Article 5.61 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a post on VKontakte about the quality of hot water, in which he mentions Mayor Grigory Tonkikh. About this writes "Ural. MBKh Media.

Employees of the Investigative Committee came to the home of Vladimir Kara-Murza, chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, to summon him for questioning as a witness in a criminal case. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the lawyer Vadim Prokhorov. According to the lawyer, Kara-Murza has not been in this apartment for two months, and now he is away. Vadim Prokhorov went to the UK himself.

Journalists from the political department of the Kommersant newspaper, who decided to quit after the dismissal of two of their colleagues, had limited access to the editorial building. Maria-Louise Tirmaste, an employee of the publication, wrote about this on her Facebook page. On May 20, it became known that special correspondent Ivan Safronov and deputy editor of the politics department Maxim Ivanov were fired because of an article about Valentina Matvienko.

Stanislav Zimovets, convicted in the case of using violence against a National Guard member at the “He’s not Dimon for you” rally, has been on a hunger strike since May 14 in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. This was stated by lawyer Ilya Pavlenko, who represents the interests of Zimovets from. OVD-InfoThe prisoner verbally reported the hunger strike to the staff of correctional colony No. 12 in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has fined animal rights activist Zoya Nikolskaya 10,000 rubles for a solitary picket in front of the State Duma building against the amputation of cats' claws. Zoya Nikolskaya told OVD-Info about this. “The court did not take into account that I agreed in advance the place where I would stand with the duty officer in the State Duma,” said the animal rights activist.

The Kislovodsk City Court on May 18 expelled Vladimir Tymoshenko's conviction. He was convicted and served two years for inciting hatred against officials on social networks (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the IAC "Sova" with reference to the lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov of the international human rights group "Agora". The basis for the decision to remove the conviction was the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code.

In Moscow, police officers detained a supporter of Alexei Navalny, a member of his team, Leonid Volkov. Volkov wrote about this on his Twitter. Then Volkov wrote that he was taken to the police department in the Danilovsky district. Later it turned out that the detention was connected with the action against raising the retirement age on September 9th.