In Krasnodar, a solo picket participant Olga Chebotareva and activist Artem Andriasov, who was filming the picket on camera, were detained near the FSB building. Andriasov himself reported this to OVD-Info. According to Andriasov, the arrest took place around 18:00. Chebotareva stood with a poster dedicated to the problem of housing demolition in the Krasnodar Territory.

In St. Petersburg, the regional coordinator of the movement Alexander Vereshchagin and activists Konstantin Pokhilchuk and Petr Trofimov were detained near the office of the Vesna movement. This was reported on the Twitter account of "Spring". Today, activists found that the lock on the door of the movement's office was filled with polyurethane foam. They began to try to clean the lock and then install a new one, but then the police came up and detained them.

In Moscow, the police detained the head of the election headquarters for the nomination of FBK director Ivan Zhdanov to the Moscow City Duma. Zhdanov wrote about this on his Twitter. According to Zhdanov, Boris Zolotorevsky is being taken to the police department in the Airport district. On May 22, police detained five volunteers from Zhdanov’s company under the pretext that they might have extremist materials. Later, all the detainees were released from the police without drawing up reports.

The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Natalya Barinova, a candidate for municipal deputies, 11,000 rubles, whose arm was broken by police officers during a May Day demonstration. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. “The position of Barinova’s defender was based on the fact that Barinova participated in the procession, during which she was injured.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested the chairman of the Alliance for Animal Defenders, Yuri Koretsky, for 15 days under an article on repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Olga Rozhkova. “All applications, except for the inclusion of explanations, were rejected, as usual,” Rozhkova said.

In Saratov, in Gribov Square, during an environmental picket, an activist of Navalny's headquarters, Ivan Khokhlov, was detained. About this OVD-Info was told by an eyewitness of the incident Alexander. According to Alexander, the police did not make any demands and did not explain the motives for the detention. Khokhlov was taken to the 5th police department in the city of Saratov.

Roman Udot, member of the board of the Golos movement, sent under house arrest, was denied a trip to the store. This was told to OVD-Info by his lawyer Maxim Pashkov. Udot called the investigator Kazakova with a request to allow him to go to the store for essential products, hygiene products and medicines. The man explained that he lives with his 78-year-old mother and father, who needs treatment and has difficulty moving.

In Kursk, an activist of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (RRP), Yegor Chukharev, was summoned for a conversation by employees of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He told OVD-Info about this. On May 22, they knocked on the young man's apartment and said that they wanted to ask questions about the activities of the organization in the region. “The police came to my house when there was only one grandmother at home.

In the Tyumen region, the coordinator of the local branch of Open Russia, Anton Mikhalchuk, was put on the wanted list after lectures about Putin and an online conference with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Mikhalchuk is charged with carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Currently, the man is in Europe, where he is undergoing training.

In the city of Kimovsk, Tula region, police detained activist and blogger Stanislav Skidan, as well as his girlfriend Yekaterina Firstova. Skidan told OVD-Info about this. The policemen came to Skidan's house and took the young people to the police station. There they asked them to give explanations in connection with the recent arson of 31 garbage containers. After Skidan and Fristova explained that they were in a different place during the fire, they were released.

Activist Marina Tolkacheva at her burned house / photo: press service of the Tula regional committee of the Communist Party Since the beginning of the year in Tula and the Tula region, people protest against raising tariffs for garbage collection, as well as against the construction of a new landfill and import of garbage from Moscow. The Tula branch of the Communist Party joined these protests. This caused a nervous reaction from the authorities. OVD-Info talks about the situation.