In St. Petersburg, seven members of the Forum Theater troupe were detained during a rehearsal of a play about Soviet repressions. This was reported to OVD-Info by the husband of one of the detainees, Bulat Gilmanov. “Today at 19:00 there was supposed to be a performance, somewhere at 17:30 everyone who participated in the production was detained. Six people were taken to police station No. 2, where another person was taken, unknown.

The investigation refused to give Yuri Zhdanov, the father of the former FBK director Ivan Zhdanov, all volumes of his case for review. This is reported by Open Media. Volumes of cases began to be issued one at a time, starting not from the first, but from the seventh. Yuri Zhdanov's lawyer, Vladimir Voronin, tried at a meeting with the investigator who is in charge of his client's case to convince the security official to hand over all the materials of the case in its entirety.

On June 4, the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don extended the term of detention for five defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Seitveli Seitabdiev, Remzi Bekirov, Ruslan Suleymanov, Rustem Seitkhalilov and Asan Yanikov will remain in the pre-trial detention center until September 15. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity".

In Rylsk (Kursk region), on June 3, security forces came to a local blogger and businessman Igor Starostin with a search. this He announced on his page on VKontakte. Within the framework of what case the investigative measure took place, OVD-Info is not known. Starostin himself said that the searches are connected with his opposition views - the activist fights corruption, advocates fair elections, criticizes the city government and United Russia.

On the evening of June 4, two people were searched as part of the case of causing damage to the Moscow Property Department, which was brought against politician Dmitry Gudkov and his aunt Irina Yermilova. this on his Twitter . announced Gennady Gudkov, the father of Dmitry Gudkov, On the morning of June 1, security forces searched the home and dacha of Dmitry Gudkov, the apartment of his former assistant Alexander Solovyov, and the head of Gudkov's headquarters, Vitaly Venidiktov.

On June 4, the Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen issued a fine of two thousand rubles to local resident Alexei Knyazhev for publishing the video “Let's remember crooks and thieves their manifesto-2002” (in 2013, the video was added to the list of banned in Russia). This was reported to OVD-Info by human rights activist Yuri Ryabtsev. The activist was found guilty under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The defendant in the “palace case”, member of the PEC Roman Pichuzhin, was transferred from pre-trial detention center-2 to pre-trial detention center-4 in Moscow. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Dmitry Zakhvatov. Pichuzhin is accused of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place on January 31.

The murder of a native of Uzbekistan by FSB officers during searches in Crimea, the sentences of those involved in the “palace case”, the dissolution of Open Russia and the closure of the media - OVD-Info tells the main thing about political pressure from the authorities in May 2021. All Russia Open Russia announced its liquidation due to political pressure. The leaders of Postcard made this decision to protect their supporters after the law on “undesirable organizations” was tightened.