In Crimea, actionist artist Bogdan Ziza was sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Simferopol. The publication “Grati” is about this. The artist's security forces after the action on May 16. According to the FSB, Ziza allegedly poured yellow and blue paint on the façade of the Yevpatoria administration building and threw a Molotov cocktail through the window, but the incendiary mixture went out and there was no fire.

In Krasnoyarsk, the police detained Alexander Kapustin, who went to a single picket in support of Alexandra Skochilenko and other political prisoners. He himself told the OVD-Info about this. The man was delivered to the Department of Internal Affairs No. 1, then they took an explanation from him and released with an obligation to appeal to draw up a protocol. Photos provided by Alexander Kapustin In relation to the St.

On May 18, the defendants in the second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Server Mustafayev, Edem Smailov, Server Zekiryaev and Timur Ibragimov, were transported from the Ryazan pre-trial detention center towards Bashkortostan. The specific institution in which they will serve their sentence is not yet known. Crimean Solidarity reports this. Seyran Saliev, Memet Belyalov and Marlen Asanov, convicted in the same case, remain in the Ryazan pre-trial detention center.

In Yekaterinburg, the Central District Military Court fined Ufa songwriter Andrei Masalsky 300 thousand rubles under articles on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The musician’s student reported this to OVD-Info. The man was charged with calls for violence against law enforcement officers, for committing violent acts against Muslims and calls for terrorist activities on the Internet.

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Roskomnazdor provided the document on the basis of which the decision to block Meduza was made, but there is no mention of the publication in it. Meduza reports this. During the meeting on the publication’s complaint about the blocking, the RKN showed the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office to restrict access to information resources (number 31.27.2020/Id2145-22 dated February 24, 2022).

Adyghe activist of the Mayak movement, Roman Taganov, had his house arrest extended until December 3 in the case of using violence not dangerous to life and health against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). His wife Ekaterina reported this to OVD-Info. The Maykop City Court allowed Taganov to leave his house for two hours in the morning and evening to take his children to and from kindergarten, and also to buy groceries.

On Lenin Square in Khabarovsk, security forces detained activist Valery, who spoke in support of the ex-governor of the region Sergei Furgal. This is reported by Activatica. The activist placed a structure on the square with the inscription “I/We are Sergei Furgal” and stood next to the USSR flag. A protocol was drawn up against him regarding the organization of an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

It became known that the founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team, Ruslan Leviev (Karpuk), and journalist Michael Naki are charged with discussing the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. This is what “Network Freedoms” is about. reported The reason for initiating a criminal case about military “fakes” was the video “War. Results of the ninth day”, published on Michael Naki’s YouTube channel.

The Naberezhnye Chelny City Court of Tatarstan fined rapper Alisher Morgenstern 100 thousand rubles due to cannabis tattoos. TASS reported this on May 20. The rapper was found guilty of promoting drugs (Part 1.1 of Article 6.13 of the Administrative Code). The court found that footage from Morgenstern’s videos “New Wave”, “El problema” and “Yung Hefner”, where cannabis tattoos are visible on his body, contain drug propaganda.

The leadership of Moscow State University canceled a lecture at the Faculty of Physics dedicated to the 101st anniversary of the birth of physicist and human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. This was reported by the "Initiative Group of Moscow State University".

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory has initiated a criminal case under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. reported As a result of searches in the apartment and office, the men seized “a laptop, two system units, five mobile phones, SIM cards, storage devices and other items of evidentiary value,” the security forces report.

On May 20, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow extended the detention of Lev Skoryakin and Ruslan Abasov, defendants in the Left Bloc case, in a pretrial detention facility for another month, until June 20. Information about this was provided by Alexander Salamov, a lawyer from OVD-Info who represents the interests of the activists.