In Belgorod, Ilya Potemkin, a lawyer from OVD-Info, who represents the interests of student Mikhail Dyachenko sent to the army, is not given the materials of the case against his client about participation in an unapproved action on April 21 in support of Alexei Navalny. Potemkin himself told OVD-Info about this. According to Potemkin, court officials refer to his lack of authority to familiarize himself with the case, although he has a notarized power of attorney for this.

The last defendant in the case of Oleg Sentsov, historian Aleksey Chirniy, who remained in prison, was released. This happened on May 7: as reported , he was at the Melovoe checkpoint in the Lugansk region. Grati Chirniy served seven years of strict regime in colony No. 12 in the city of Bataysk (Rostov Region). In 2014, it became known about a criminal case brought against residents of Simferopol who were trying to fight against the transfer of Crimea from Ukraine to Russia.

The Melekessky District Court of the Ulyanovsk Region sent Jehovah's Witness Konstantin Bazhenov to a temporary detention center for foreign citizens for 2 months. During this time he must be deported to Ukraine. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. The court made the decision to imprison the believer in the TsVSIG on May 7.

In the village of Shalya, Sverdlovsk Region, police detained social activist Maxim Ezdakov because of a single picket near the administration of the city district. This is reported by the publication "Vecherniye Vedomosti". Ezdakov stood up with a banner at the administration building on the day of the visit of Senator of the Federation Council Eduard Rossel. On the poster, he wrote: “Uv. Senator Rossel!

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the case of Pavel Chuprunov, a member of the election commission, who was removed from the polling station for voting on amendments to the Constitution and accused of disobeying the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the "Apology of Protest". Chuprunov was detained on July 1, 2020 at a polling station where he worked as a voting member of the commission.

In St. Petersburg, traffic police officers Vladislav Lomachenko and Dmitry Fedorov demanded to recover 200,000 rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage from the defendant in the "palace case" Nikolai the Ninth. It is reported by ZakS.ru. The police spoke of "physical and mental suffering" allegedly caused by the Ninth's attack.

The Industrial District Court of Perm sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses accused of involvement in the activities of an extremist organization and its financing. Ural writes about this. MBH Media".

A court in Murmansk imposed a fine of 350 thousand rubles on local resident Vladimir Boboshin under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for comments on VKontakte to posts about the explosion in the FSB building that occurred in Arkhangelsk in 2018. A Murmansk resident spoke about this to the publication “Sever.Realii”.

The military court of appeal (located in the village of Vlasikha near Moscow) upheld the verdict on the articles of justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) against Karim Yamadayev, author of the YouTube series “Judge Gramm” . The “Network Freedoms” project reports this on its Telegram channel.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court recognized the legal termination of the case against civil activist and protest participant Yana Drobnokhod under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding public events (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). Anna Romashchenko, coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, reports this. The court refused to satisfy the prosecutor's appeal: the state prosecutor dismissed the case and imposed a court fine.

The Central District Court of Khabarovsk sent the artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad) to a pre-trial detention center until July 10. The artist’s relatives reported this to OVD-Info. A criminal case was opened against Smolnikov under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The reason was a post on VKontakte, published in the Xadad group on October 31, 2018, the day of the explosion committed by Mikhail Zhlobitsky in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk.