In Crimea, in the morning, the police, Center "E" and the FSB inspected the house of a member of the public association "Crimean Solidarity" Zidan Adzhikelyamov. This is stated on the website of the movement. Inspection of the dwelling "in fact turned out to be a search," the activists write. “They themselves checked the furniture and rooms, which they have no right to do during the inspection,” emphasize the members of the association.

The administration of Krasnodar did not give permission for the installation of a tablet in memory of the victim of Stalinist repressions. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to a local activist of the "Last Address" movement Yevgeny Tarabrin. The participants of the movement were going to set up a sign at 26 Krasnaya Street in memory of student Rodion Pak, who was shot in 1938 on charges of espionage.

Vasily Efanov was detained in Moscow - he was standing with a poster "Freedom to political prisoners #FreeNavalny" in front of the State Duma building. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. After the arrest, the man was taken to the police department in the Tverskoy district. There, the picketer was “checked at the bases” and released. In March 2021, Alexei Navalny was transferred to correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov to serve his sentence in the Yves Rocher case.

The investigation brought to court the case of Petrozavodsk resident Alexei Chesnokov, who is accused of insulting an FSB officer because of a comment about the persecution of Ekaterina Muranova, convicted in the case of justifying terrorism. The newspaper “CAPITAL on Onego.ru” writes about this. The man was charged under the article of insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). The comment he is accused of was published in October 2019 on Muranova’s Facebook page.

On April 27, I had to go to the office of the Meshchansky District Court. I also needed to discuss something with [human rights activist, board member of the Memorial human rights center] Sergei Davidis, so I came to the consideration of his case , without being a lawyer in the trial. I sat quietly, the judge, in my opinion, did not pay attention to me. I was in the conference room, and the bailiff demanded that I leave there. He motivated this by the fact that they have anti-Covid measures.

The prosecutor requested a sentence of 6 years in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witness from Krasnoyarsk Andrei Stupnikov. This was reported on a website dedicated to the persecution of believers. The prosecutor also asks to deprive Stupnikov of the right to engage in leadership activities in public associations for five years and limit his freedom for a year and a half after serving his suspended sentence.

The State Duma adopted in the third final reading a bill that toughens the punishment for disclosing the data of the security forces. This was reported by MBH Media with reference to the database of the lower house of parliament. Amendments were made to Article 320 of the Criminal Code. Initially, this article envisaged punishment for officials of law enforcement or regulatory bodies, as well as their relatives, who made the publication of data in order to obstruct official activities.

In the Primorsky Territory, 74-year-old Jehovah's Witness Lyudmila Shut was sentenced - the believer was given a suspended sentence of four years in prison. This is stated on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Shut was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The believer did not admit her guilt. The decision was made by the Nadezhdinsky District Court.

The Constitutional Court recognized as unconstitutional the practice of considering single pickets held on different days as one collective event. The court also considered that it is impossible to bring the organizer to administrative responsibility when he does not submit a notification about such an event. The decision with the corresponding decision is published on the website of the court.

In Pskov, bailiffs initiated enforcement proceedings against journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva due to a fine of 500 thousand rubles in the case of justifying terrorism, which she had already paid. This was reported by MBKH Media from the words of the journalist herself.

The prosecutor, at the debate in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, asked to sentence the defendant in the “palace case,” Evgeniy, who was arrested after the action on January 23, to 5 years in prison. About this "media" with reference to the press service of the court. Yessenov reports MBKH The man is accused of using violence dangerous to health against a government official (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, the justice of the peace of court district No. 359 fined the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta 200 thousand rubles for an article by Tatyana Yurasova about possible provocations at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. The editor-in-chief of the publication, Dmitry Muratov, was fined 60,000 rubles. This was reported on the publication's website.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced political scientist and leader of the movement “For New Socialism” Nikolai Platoshkin to 5 years of probation with a probationary period of 5 years and a fine of 700 thousand rubles. The online publication Sota.Vision talks about this from the courtroom, as well as TASS.

Daria Polyudova, the leader of the Left Resistance, at a meeting of the 2nd Western District Military Court announced that on the evening of May 18 she announced a “wet” hunger strike. This was reported to OVD-Info by a listener of the meeting. At the last meeting, which took place on the afternoon of May 18, Polyudova asked the judge not to schedule hearings every day, because because of this she does not get enough sleep and cannot take a shower in the pre-trial detention center.

On May 18, the person involved in the case of the fourth Bakhchisaray group of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Seyran Khairetdinov, was given a translation of the case materials on sheets completely covered with black paint. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity portal. Khayredinov filed a motion to attach to the materials of the criminal case the translation of the case materials on four pages, which cannot be read due to the distortion of the seal.