In the Irkutsk region, traffic police officers on May 4, 2020 drew up a report on Alexander Alekseenko, a follower of the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev. About this writes “Siberia. Realities".

The personal page of Ruslan Nurtdinov, an activist from the village of Chekmagush of the Republic of Bashkortostan, who wrote about illegal dumps in the region, was hacked by unknown people and posted a provocative post there. About this writes “Idel. Realities". After the hack, a post appeared on Nurtdinov’s page with information that armed forces could be involved in large cities of Bashkortostan to control compliance with the self-isolation regime.

Riz Omerov, Enver Omerov and Ayder Dzhepparov, defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Belgorod, were transferred from Simferopol to the pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by the human rights movement "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyer Nazim Sheikhmambetov.

The magistrate of court district No. 226 of the Shcherbinovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory refused to defer the execution of a compulsory medical measure against Maxim Sokolov. Sokolov himself informed OVD-Info about this.

The ex-coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in St. Petersburg, Denis Mikhailov, was attacked by spambots. The activist connects this with the anniversary of the “He is not our king” action, which took place on May 5, 2018. about this Mikhailov spoke on Twitter. According to Mikhailov, his mobile receives calls from unknown numbers.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, demanded that the authors of the videos about detentions in connection with the self-isolation regime be found and sent to public works. such a statement Kadyrov made during a broadcast on the Grozny TV channel, his words were translated by the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

In Moscow, police officers detained journalist Sergei Poznyakov near the editorial office of the Kommunisty Rossii newspaper. Eduard Rudyk, a human rights activist, reported this to OVD-Info on the hotline. Poznyakov was detained when he approached the office window. The reason for this was the alleged refusal of the journalist to present documents.

In Vladikavkaz, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Ramis Chirkinov, a supporter of COVID-dissident Vadim Cheldiev. The human rights project “Apology of Protest” writes about this in its Telegram channel. The case was opened under the article on organizing hooliganism (Part 3 of Article 33, Article 213 of the Criminal Code) at a national gathering against the self-isolation regime. Today, May 5, the investigation plans to petition for Chirkinov’s detention.

The Investigative Committee in Novosibirsk opened a criminal case under the article on insulting a representative of the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) against a local resident Alexei Baranov. This is reported by the publication "Taiga.info" with reference to Baranov himself. Now Baranov is in the status of a suspect. Today, May 5, the security forces have already interrogated him as part of a criminal case.

Three anarchists were detained in St. Petersburg. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by their friend. Kirill Kovalenko, Artem Mikhin and their underage comrade are in the 28th police department. They managed to inform a friend that employees of the Center for Combating Extremism had arrived at the department and that their phones were being taken away. The reasons for the detention are unknown. 02:15 The minor was taken from the department by his parents.