Former executive director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov was removed from the plane at Pulkovo airport. The politician himself reported this on Twitter. According to Pivovarov, he was going on vacation abroad, went through passport control at the airport, and then boarded an international flight. Former Open Russia coordinator Tatyana Usmanova writes in her telegram channel: “Andrei Pivovarov is allegedly on the wanted list, this is what caused the arrest.

The month ends not only with trials and arrests - we talk about the main news for May 31: “Swelling face, yellow eyes”: the mother of a Crimean man convicted in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case spoke about the critical condition of her son, who has been kept in a punishment cell for more than a year.

On May 26, at a meeting of the Birobidzhan District Court, the prosecutor requested four years in prison for 58-year-old Jehovah's Witness Irina Lokhvitskaya. The prosecution also demands that the believer’s freedom be restricted for two years—she will be prohibited from changing her place of residence and traveling outside the city. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

At a meeting of the 2nd Western District Military Court, the prosecutor requested seven years in prison for the leader of the Left Resistance, Daria Polyudova. In addition, he demanded that she be banned from publishing information on the Internet for four years. This is reported by "Network Freedoms" with reference to the activist's lawyer Leonid Solovyov.

On May 28, the Omsk Regional Court upheld the verdict of local Jehovah's Witnesses Anastasia and Sergei Polyakov, Gauhar Bektemirova and Dinara Dyusekeyeva. This was reported by the press service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

On May 27, the Sunzhensky District Court found Mufti of Ingushetia Isa Khamkhoev guilty under the article on illegal missionary activity (part 4 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) - he was fined five thousand rubles. This was reported by the Human Rights Center "Memorial". The reason for drawing up the administrative protocol was a sermon that Khamkhoev read in February in a mosque in the city of Sunzha.

The mother of Teymur Abdullayev, Dilyara Abdullayeva, convicted in the case of the first Simferopol group Hizb ut-Tahrir, said her son was in critical condition due to pressure in the colony. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". A relative of a political prisoner who has been held in a punishment cell (ShIZO) for a year and two months in Colony No. 2 in Bashkortostan managed to get a personal meeting with her son: “A short meeting with Teymur shocked me.

Picketer Yana Antonova was detained in Moscow, who went out with a picket in support of the Russian woman Sofya Sapega, detained in Belarus, to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Antonova's husband informed OVD-Info about the detention. On the girl's poster was written "Freedom for Sofia Sapieha." Now the detainee is being taken to Police Department No. 3 on the Moscow Metro. 14:49 Lawyer Alexander Salamov, cooperating with OVD-Info, went to the detainee.

Andrei Borovikov, convicted of possessing a Rammstein video, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Kirov region. This happened before the appeal was considered. This was reported by Network Freedom with reference to lawyer Alexey Kychin.

The Elista city court appointed blogger Maxim Tsedenov fifty hours of compulsory work due to coverage of the Chuulhn Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people. He was found guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for organizing a public event (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the publication "Caucasian Knot".

Newsru.com has announced its closure. This is stated in a message published on the website. “We stop working for economic reasons, but they are caused precisely by the political situation in our country. After 2014, it became clear that not only geography and foreign policy, but also the domestic economy were radically changing, journalists write.

In Cheboksary, on May 30, a member of the Marxist Tendency, Alexander Ivankov, was detained; the police subsequently confiscated the leaflets from him and released him. After the activist returned home, unknown people in civilian clothes began to break on his door, Ivankov himself told OVD-Info. The communist was detained while posting leaflets that contained statements against the police state and the current political system, as well as criticism of the authorities.