In Yevpatoria, media artist Bogdan Ziza was detained because of an action in support of the people of Ukraine. A friend of his told OVD-Info about this. On the afternoon of May 16, Ziza allegedly poured yellow and blue paint on him and tried to set fire to the facade of the Yevpatoriya city administration building. The security forces posted a video with his “admission of guilt” online.

The investigation transferred the case of local Jehovah's Witness Nikolai Saparov to the Maykop City Court. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. reports The believer is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he organized and coordinated meetings at which speeches and services of Jehovah's Witnesses were held.

Security forces come to the mother of activist Leopold Banionis and ask where her son is. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. The woman said that security forces visit her “almost every day,” knock on the door, and ask about the whereabouts of her son. In addition, her neighbor was given a warning addressed to Leopold Banionis about the inadmissibility of violating the “rally” legislation (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

On April 28, the Volzhsky District Court of the Samara Region fined Rustam Dadabaev, a supporter of the Citizens of the USSR community, 10,000 rubles. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The man was found guilty under the administrative article on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a leaflet with an appeal from the “Soviet deputy” Yuri Slepnev.

On May 15, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, 33 resources were added to the register of sites banned in Russia. Information about this is available on the website of the Roskomsvoboda project. Among the resources there are 8 specific web pages, 13 domain names and 12 sites “by mask”, that is, with subdomains. Websites are blocked in accordance with five different decisions of the prosecutor's office.

The Moscow City Court did not commute the sentence of 20-year-old defendant in the “palace case” Konstantin Lakeev. The initiative group “Prisoners 212” talks about this. reported The young man was sentenced to imprisonment in a colony for a period of 2 years and 8 months. According to investigators, Lakeev threw snowballs and kicked an FSB car during 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny.

The Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent to a pre-trial detention center Ukrainian citizen Yegor Kazants, accused of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) for painting the inscription “Glory to Ukraine!” on the facade of the house. The United Press Service of the City Courts reports this. reports The preventive measure has so far been chosen until June 9.

The Moscow City Court approved the extension of the arrest of the former coordinator of Navalny's Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, until July 9. About this in the telegram channel, which covers the case of the oppositionist. reported Thus, the court upheld the Basmanny District Court's decision on April 4 to extend Chanysheva's preventive measure. decision “The authorities want to isolate me from society and my family. After all, if you are alone, then you are not a threat.

Ruslan Abasov, a defendant in the “Left Bloc” case, was transferred from the Butyrka pre-trial detention center to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. The reason for the transfer is not yet known. This was reported by lawyer Alexander Salamov, who collaborates with OVD-Info. In addition to Abasov, Lev Skoryakin is being persecuted in the “Left Bloc” case.

The military court of appeal in the Moscow region upheld the sentence of the defendant in the case of the “Kan teenagers” Nikita Uvarov. Lawyer Pavel Chikov, head of the human rights group Agora, spoke about this in his Telegram channel.

Novosibirsk activist Yana Drobnokhod was fined 20 thousand rubles for wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “I/we are Sergei Furgal.” She herself reported this to OVD-Info. The court found her guilty of failure to comply with the high alert regime (Part 1 of Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code). A shotgunner wearing a T-shirt in support of ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal was detained on April 2 on Lenin Square.

The magistrate of the 370th judicial district of the Tverskoy district of Moscow sentenced the defendant in the “palace case” Maria Chugunova to eight months in a general regime colony. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Anton Taroyants.

On May 13, the Chegemsky District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria decided to transfer to prison the Crimean anarchist Evgeny Karakashev, convicted in the case of calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This is what SOTA is about. In April , the administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian correctional colony No. 1 Karakashev announced the appointment of a court to tighten the regime.

The Krasnodar Center for Contemporary Art “Typography” on its Instagram page announced the closure of the project due to the status of a “foreign agent”. announced Representatives of the center explained that they stopped exhibition activities on February 24, the day the war began, but wanted to maintain their premises “as a safe space for many people in Krasnodar.” “Typography” register of NGOs-“foreign agents” May 6. “We can no longer view this space as safe,” the statement said.

The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok has remanded a woman who, according to investigators, poured paint on a monument to Richard Sorge on the night of May 10 to a pretrial detention center. This was reported by the Primorsky Krai prosecutor's office. reported The measure of restraint was chosen for 1 month 25 days. According to the prosecutor's office, the criminal case is being investigated under the article on vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code).