In Velsk (Arkhangelsk region), police detained former regional gubernatorial candidate Oleg Mandrykin, who was heading to the STOP-Shies coalition congress. Sota reports this. The detention was explained by targeting Mandrykin’s car, which allegedly may contain extremist literature. The police detained the politician when he parked at the hotel where he wanted to stay for the night. After searching the car, the police released Mandrykin.

Pavel Green-Romanov, a defendant in the “palace case”, sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime colony, was transferred from pre-trial detention center-4 in Moscow to pre-trial detention center-1 in Perm. This is reported by the Arresters 212 project. This information was confirmed by OVD-Info lawyer Artem Nemov, who represents the interests of the political prisoner.

YouTube warned of a possible blocking of channels that post links to Alexei Navalny's Smart Voting project. spoke about the warnings SOTA , Novaya Gazeta and politician Ilya Yashin . SOTA clarified in its Telegram channel that representatives of the video hosting equated the link to "Smart Voting" with "spam, deception and fraud." Journalists believe that in this way YouTube fulfills the requirements of Roskomnadzor.

In the Kirov region, the FSB opened a criminal case against a local resident Konstantin P. because of a comment about the remains of those who died in the Great Patriotic War. This is reported by the portal "Svokirovsky.rf" and "Idel. Realities" . The man was charged with an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on April 15, Konstantin P.

The city administration expels Tomsk artists from the premises. this . reports Andrey Serafimov, the publisher of the independent student media Aksioma, The creative association "ars kotelnaya" has occupied an abandoned building since 2018. On May 5, a representative of the owner of the land on which the building stands said that, on behalf of the city administration, he would restrict the association's access to the building.

1. A bill to amend the law on elections of State Duma deputies Deputies want to introduce a ban on the nomination of candidates for elections to the State Duma by citizens involved in the activities of an organization recognized as extremist or terrorist. OVD-Info lawyer Elena Lipatova commented on this initiative: “The bill concerns the restriction of passive voting rights for persons “involved in the activities” of extremist and terrorist organizations.

The defendant in the “palace case,” Valery Evsin, was found in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the city of Kizel, Perm Territory. This was reported by the project “Prisoners 212” with reference to Evsin’s wife. Earlier it became known that Evsin was being transported to an unknown direction. The prisoner is accused of violence against a National Guard member (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at the rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny.

Police officers in Seversk (Tomsk region) at the end of April drew up a report against local resident Andrei Gutov about disrespect for the authorities (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) because of posts on Odnoklassniki, he himself told OVD-Info. The police accuse Gutov of publishing pictures expressing disrespect for authorities and the state, including collages in which a dog defecates on President Putin, with Putin’s funeral service, and others.

Alexander Nalunin / Photo from the Personal Archive A resident of the village of OOK in the Irkutsk region Alexander Nalunin, who was fighting for the improvement of his settlement, was sent for a forced examination to a psychiatric hospital. This was reported to the ATD-Info by a relative of the activist Leila Erdman.

In Moscow, Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) operator Pavel Zelensky was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3 from pre-trial detention center-7. His wife Natalia Zelenskaya reported this on her Twitter. Pavel Zelensky was convicted under the article on calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) for two tweets written after the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina.

Jehovah's Witness Konstantin Bazhenov was released on parole from a colony in the Ulyanovsk region on May 5 and detained for deportation to Ukraine, since his Russian citizenship was revoked. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. On April 22, 2021, the Dimitrovgrad City Court of the Ulyanovsk Region granted the lawyer’s request for the parole of Konstantin Bazhenov.

On January 14, the justice of the peace of precinct No. 349 in Moscow dismissed the case on the distribution of fakes (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), which was brought against the publication Mash because of the publication about the opening of a department in a hospital in the Kaluga region. MBKh Media The corresponding decision was found by in the files of justices of the peace.

The FSB investigation in Crimea did not find the fingerprints of Krym.Realii journalist Vladislav Esipenko on the explosive device seized from his car. On May 5, lawyer Alexey Ladin, representing Esipenko’s interests, told Grata about this after a meeting with FSB investigator Vitaly Vlasov.

State Duma deputies Vladislav Reznik and Nikolai Valuev / The official website of the State Duma / CC BY 4.0 State Duma deputies introduced bills tightening legislation on extremist and terrorist organizations, as well as “unwanted” organizations. 1.