The head of the Rostov-on-Don administration signed a resolution to exclude activist and expert Nikolai Larin from the city's Public Chamber. This was reported by the BezFormata.Com publication. Larin reports that this exclusion is connected with a search that was conducted on him by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism several days ago.

The St. Petersburg City Court case against Leonid Svetlov for uploading to the Immortal Regiment website a photograph of the German doctor Joseph Mengele, who conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners. stopped the prosecution of Anatoly Bykovsky on May 23, he was accused of adding to the Immortal Regiment website a photograph of the Soviet military commander Andrei Vlasov, who went over to the Nazi side.

In the Metallurgical District Court of Chelyabinsk, the prosecution requested a sentence of eight years in prison for Jehovah's Witness Pavel Popov. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. A criminal case under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) against Pavel Popov was opened in April 2021.

Two Astrakhan Jehovah's Witnesses, Evgeniy Ivanov and Rustam Diarov, were transferred to IK-4 in the Republic of Tatarstan. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. ‎ reports: At the moment, the believers are already in place. This colony is located 1,500 kilometers from their home. Upon arrival, the convicts were refused their personal belongings. Another Jehovah's Witness convicted in the same case, Sergei Klikunov, is still on his way to IK-4.

A Moscow Region court has fined Sergei Kuznetsov, a resident of the Berezka gardening community, 300,000 rubles for a comment about the explosion in the FSB building. This was reported in a Telegram channel dedicated to his case. Kuznetsov was reportedly found guilty under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a comment about the suicide bombing of anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky at the FSB Directorate of the Arkhangelsk Region.

The justice of the peace of court district No. 100 of the Yakimanka metropolitan area appointed Anastasia Korshunova 22,000 rubles in compensation for illegal prosecution under the "rally" article. Korshunova was represented by Ivan Shurupov, a lawyer from OVD-Info.

Activists Alan Chernousov and Rafail Sibagtulin, who are fighting against the development of the Bitsevsky forest, were detained in Moscow. This was reported to OVD-Info by other activists who participated in the gathering. Chernousov and Sibgatulin were detained when they asked to see documents authorizing the installation of a fence at the entrance to the natural and historical park. The detainees are in the Konkovo ​​police station.

On May 23, the Pavlovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witness Lyudmila Shchekoldina to four years and one month in a general regime colony. About this on the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. reported The believer was found guilty under articles on participation and involvement in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 and Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to place local resident Sergei Vasiliev in custody until June 18. According to investigators, he painted the inscription “Glory to Ukraine!” on the playground slide. Glory to heroes!". The joint press service of the city courts reports this. reports A criminal case was opened against Vasiliev under the article on vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code).

Police in Nizhny Novgorod searched the apartment of relatives of Pussy Riot member Anna Kuzmin, and detained her father and sister. Kuzminykh herself reported this to OVD-Info. The search and detention became known from neighbors and relatives of the Kuzmins. After the police arrived, the apartment was found open. Currently, the activist’s father Alexey Kuzminykh and her sister Varvara Kuzminykh are detained. The sister is in police department No.

Dmitry Pelevin was detained in Tver at a one-man picket in support of Alexei Navalny. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The detainee was taken to the OP "Central". He held a poster in his hands, demanding the release of Alexei Navalny and the phrase "To be against the authorities does not mean to be against the motherland." Dmitry was released from the department without drawing up a protocol. 19:38 Pelevin was released without drawing up a protocol on an administrative offense.

Former coordinator of the Protest Kuzbass movement, editor-in-chief of Skat media, Lev Gyammer, had his account blocked in the Sberbank app. this The publication itself reports . Linked to the account are the accounts that Gammer used to collect donations for Skat activities. The blocking took place on May 17th.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill allowing the closure of media outlets without trial in response to restrictions on the work of Russian journalists abroad, Center for the Protection of Media Rights. reports As a “mirror” response to restrictions on the work of Russian media abroad, the bill proposes to enable the Prosecutor General’s Office, in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ban any foreign media.

Roskomnador, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the websites of the publications “That’s So,” “Sukhumi.info” and “Interfax-Ukraine.” This is what the Roskomsvoboda project is about.

The Basmanny District Court arrested in absentia the journalist and expert of the “What? Where? When?" Rovshana Askerov in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism. About this on the court's website. It is said about the case against Askerov under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) on April 27 - the reason for criminal prosecution was a post by an expert on Facebook.