In Moscow, the police are pounding on a man's door after being told by an ambulance that he is a citizen of Ukraine. The security forces also turned off the light in his apartment. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. After rendering assistance, the doctors told the police that the man was “a big strong guy from Ukraine.” The security forces are going to check the legality of his stay in the apartment. They also threaten to call the Ministry of Emergency Situations to break the door.

St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) demanded that any mention of the university be removed from the description and heading of the student publication Lupa i Pupa. Previously, the university administration put forward similar requirements to the Studen magazine. The authors wrote about the incident on VKontakte and the telegram channel .

The Pskov City Court fined municipal deputy from Yabloko Nikolai Kuzmin one thousand rubles because of a post with a photo of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the publication “Idel.Realii”. The deputy was found guilty under the administrative article of demonstrating the symbols of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).

The Smolensk Regional Court left unchanged the preventive measure for blogger Sergei Komandirov, accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Information about this in the telegram channel “Politzek-Info” appeared At the end of April, the Leninsky District Court of Smolensk sentenced Komandirov to a pre-trial detention center for another two months; he has been in custody since October 2021.

Sasha Skochilenko participated in a meeting on video communication / Photo: Telegram channel illuminating the persecution of the artist The City Court of St. Petersburg refused to change the measure of restraint by the artist Sasha Skochilenko, accused of spreading "fakes" about the Russian military. The girl will remain in the pre-trial detention center until June 1, according to a telegram channel covering the pursuit of the girl. Skochilenko participated in a meeting on the video.

The Krasnoyarsk police officers who did not allow the lawyer from OVD-Info to see their client were punished for misconduct. It is reported by "Lawyer Street". The publication sent requests to several regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose employees did not allow defenders to visit the detainees. Among them was the Krasnoyarsk department, which approached the issue most responsibly and conducted an internal audit.

The St. Petersburg City Court dismissed the criminal case under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Pavel Okulov. The joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts reports this. reports According to the press service, on May 5, 2020, Okulov posted the name, surname and photograph of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on the Immortal Regiment Online website.

On May 16, the Tomsk Regional Court upheld the sentence for 52-year-old Jehovah's Witness Evgeny Korotun - seven years of real imprisonment in a general regime colony. This is a website covering the persecution of believers. Korotuna reports in January guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

On May 17, the Barnaul mayor's office approved the picket "Against price increases!", announced by the city committee of the Communist Party. The city authorities complied with the decision of the Barnaul court, which declared the refusal to approve the event illegal. This was reported on the website of the regional committee of the party. After the refusal to agree on the action, the communists filed a lawsuit.