Civil activist Leopold Banionis left Russia due to threats from security forces. He himself told OVD-Info about this. He was threatened with the initiation of a criminal case under the article on knowingly false reporting of an act of terrorism (Article 207 of the Criminal Code). There are also leaflets on the door of Banionis’ apartment threatening his life and the life of his dog.

In St. Petersburg, the court closed the hearing on choosing a preventive measure for Peaceful Resistance activist Olga Smirnova, accused of spreading fake news about the army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by SOTA. The reason was “the need to maintain the secrecy of the investigation.” Journalists were not allowed into the hearing, and the only listener in the room, human rights activist Dinar Idrisov, was kicked out of the courtroom.

The Ministry of Justice replenished the registers of "foreign agents". Updated departments. Lists are published on the site in the register of individuals - “Foreign Agents” was a rapper Morgenstern.

The Ministry of Justice excluded four people from the register of media “foreign agents”: Vladimir Zhilkin, Alexander Lyutov, Alexander Grezev and Ilya Pigalkin. About this on the department's website. Zhilkin, Lyutov, Pigalkin and Grezev are reported to be regional coordinators of the movement to protect the rights of voters “Voice”.

In St. Petersburg, Victoria Petrova was detained in the case of “fake stories” about the Russian army. The investigation intends to petition for her detention, “Network Freedoms”. The girl is accused of nine videos about the Russian army on VKontakte. The investigation believes that she disseminated deliberately false information motivated by political hatred (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Central District Court of Volgograd arrested the ex-coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, Evgeny Kochegin, in absentia for two months. The news agency “City News” reports on this. reports The oppositionist is accused of distributing “fakes” about the actions of the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), he was put on the federal wanted list. Kochegin himself left Russia last year.

The court in Mozhaisk extended for 30 days a ban on certain actions for Andrei Kiesewalter, who is a suspect in the case of vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) because of a poster with the letter Z covered in paint. This is reported by lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova, who represents Kiesewalter’s interests. . Security forces believe that he poured yellow paint on a poster with the letter Z.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision on the basis of which the security forces conducted a search of the chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, Ruslan Zinatullin. “Idel.Realities” talks about this with reference to the politician himself. reports Thus, the court partially satisfied Zinatullin's complaint, canceling the permission of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan to conduct a search and sending the case materials for review.

A court in Blagoveshchensk arrested human rights activist Vladislav Nikitenko for 15 days under an article on displaying Nazi symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a video he published in 2016. This is reported by the publication "Sibir.Realii". In this video, Nikitenko includes an audio recording of the court session, which the human rights activist calls “Nazi”.

The Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced Jehovah's Witness Galina Abrosimova to six years of probation. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. The prosecutor reports to sentence the believer to seven years in prison under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Nurse and civil activist Irina Danilovich, who disappeared on the morning of April 29, is in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the head of the Crimean Tatar resource center Eskender Bariev. Danilovich stopped communicating on the morning of April 29, when she was returning from work from Koktebel.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested journalist Alexander Nevzorov in absentia in the case of “fake stories” about the Russian army, SOTA. reports on May 4 that Nevzorov is on the federal wanted list. In March, the Investigative Committee announced a criminal case against Nevzorov under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

​ In Yekaterinburg, Anna Plyusnina, a lawyer at the LGBT Resource Center and the Let's Cope Together project, was fined twice under an article about promoting non-traditional sexual relations among minors (6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). reports SOTA . The total amount of fines amounted to 100 thousand rubles. The reason was posts that, according to SOTA, Plyusnina did not write.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested blogger Svetlana Sokova in absentia under articles about calls for terrorist and extremist activities on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), as well as under articles of inciting hatred with the threat of violence (p. “a” part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and calls for mass riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code). Sokova herself reported this to OVD-Info.

Human rights activist Evgeny Pleskachev was released from the correctional center at IK-3 in the Orenburg region. He fully served his sentence of forced labor, Orenburg News portal. reports 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.