A court in Arkhangelsk found local resident Ruslan Akhmetshin guilty under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a comment on VKontakte. It is reported by MBH Media with reference to lawyer Oksana Vladyka. Akhmetshin was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

The Kirovsky District Court of Astrakhan, during a hearing on June 11, found guilty under the article on participation in an uncoordinated rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), 72-year-old local resident, member of the PARNAS party, Sergei Shcherbakov, who held a rally in support of Alexei Navalny 4 June. Caucasian Knot reports this.

Meeting of Park Defenders in the Otradny area / Photo: Denis Parfenov In Moscow, on June 15, near the Otradnoye metro station, police officers detained the assistant to the State Duma deputy Denis Parfenov Ilya Kiselev during a meeting of the defenders of the local park. Kiselev himself told OVD-info about this. The deputy’s assistant was already detained at the end of the event and delivered to the Sviblovo Department of Internal Affairs.

DOXA editors Masha Bezverkhoy and Tima Mutaeva were given subpoenas for questioning by the Investigative Committee in the status of witnesses. The student publication itself reports this. They tried to serve another editor, Katya Martynova, with a summons, but the girl was not at home, and her mother refused to receive the document instead of her daughter.

Yevgeny Pleskachev, a human rights activist from the Orenburg region, who was sentenced to forced labor, told OVD-Info that he was being pressured in the correctional center. The Mednogorsk city court of the Orenburg region in December 2020 sentenced Pleskachev to 1 year and 3 months of forced labor with a deduction of 10 percent of earnings. To serve his sentence, the human rights activist was placed in a local correctional center.

The court extended the measure of restraint for the defendants in the "sanitary case", the police sued the Kirov activists for hundreds of thousands of rubles, and the Perm communist was sent to a mental hospital because of a complaint against the judge. About the main news of political pressure for June 16 - in the OVD-Info digest. The prosecution requested five years in prison for St. Petersburg anarchist Alexander Merkulov.

The magistrate of the 39th district court in St. Petersburg dismissed the administrative case against Anastasia Kuznetsova, a participant in the Municipal Russia forum and a former assistant to the municipal deputy of the Finnish District. It is reported by "Pravozashchita Postcards". Kuznetsova was charged with an article on participation in the activities of an "undesirable" organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The prosecutor requested a fine of 80 thousand rubles for Artem Sazonov, accused of attacking a security officer at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23 in Kursk. A listener of the meeting reported this to OVD-Info. During the interrogation, the injured policeman asked to give the accused a lenient sentence. Sazonov admitted guilt.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the preventive measure in the form of house arrest for those involved in the “sanitary case”: Alexei Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, former coordinator of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters Oleg Stepanov and municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky. This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to the press service of the court.

In Voronezh, police came to the home of the elderly mother of former designer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Anatoly Kravchenko. An ex-FBK employee reported this on Twitter. Kravchenko’s mother recently suffered a heart attack; due to a visit from the security forces, she became ill and had to call an ambulance. The police asked the pensioner and her husband about Kravchenko. At the same time, law enforcement officers did not present a summons to the former FBK participant.

Jehovah's Witness from Kursk, Artem Bagratyan, sentenced to two and a half years in prison, was released on June 15. He served his sentence while in custody in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported on a website dedicated to the persecution of believers. On June 4, Bagratyan, his wife Alevtina, as well as believer Andrei Ryshkov were found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill banning the display of images of Nazi criminals. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. Speeches and images of leaders of groups, organizations or movements recognized as criminal in accordance with the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as leaders of organizations that collaborated with them, will be considered prohibited.

Alexander Merkulov in court / Photo: Sota In St. Petersburg, during a meeting of the First Western District Military Court, they requested a punishment in the form of 5 years in prison to LGBT activist and anarchist Alexander Merkulov, accused of publicly justification of terrorism. This was reported by "MBH Media" with reference to the lawyer Leonid Krikun. “They studied evidence from the prosecution, from the defense.

The Southern District Military Court refused to re-acquaint with the case materials the defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir Ruslan Suleymanov, Osman Arifmemetov, Rustem Sheikhaliev, Enver Ametov and Yashar Muedinov. This is reported by "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyer Lilya Gemedzhi.

Journalist of the YouTube channel RusNews and local activist Maria Ponomarenko were detained in Barnaul, the channel reports . The reasons for her detention are not known; she is charged with repeated violation of the procedure for holding an action (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).