The author of the telegram channel “Protest MSU”, Dmitry Ivanov, was charged in the case of “fake news” about the Russian army. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, who is defending the activist. Ivanov is accused of publicly disseminating deliberately false information about the use of the Russian armed forces based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity against any social group (clause “e”, part 2 of Art. 207.3 CC).

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow replaced in absentia the former coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, Oleg Stepanov, with a real term of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary matter”. Interfax reports this. Stepanov is not in Russia. In January he was put on the federal wanted list. “In general, it turned out to be a pretty good deal ~ 5 months were replaced by 2.5.

Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of the Armenian service of Radio Liberty, Radio Azatutyun, and the Finnish television and radio company Yle, Roskomsvoboda reports . RKN blocks the Russian-language version of the Radio Azatutyun website; the English-language version has not been blocked. Since the end of February, media and social networks have been massively blocked in Russia. Blocked social networks include Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Lawyer Artem Nemov, who is working on the case of the Vesna movement, said that police stopped him on the street twice a day under the pretext of checking his documents. Earlier, lawyers Daniil Berman and Mikhail Biryukov, who also defend the defendants in this case, spoke about the attention from the security forces, writes the Lawyer Street project.

Members of the Yabloko party and Pskov politicians Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin appealed to the Constitutional Court on May 30 to challenge the provisions of the “law against FBK.” This was reported on the website of the Institute of Law and Public Policy, whose lawyers prepared the complaint. In June 2021, the State Duma adopted a law that deprives those “involved” in the activities of extremist organizations of passive voting rights for a period of five years.

The defendants in the second Bakhchisarai case of Hizb ut-Tahrir were transferred to a pre-trial detention center in the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan. Crimean Solidarity reports this. “I received a letter from my husband on May 27, in which he writes that on April 23 he arrived at pre-trial detention center-1 in the city of Ryazan, and on May 23 he already arrived in a “Stolypin carriage” at pre-trial detention center-1 in Bashkortostan, in Ufa,” said the wife political prisoner Seyran Saliev.

VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the personal pages of Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy of the St. Petersburg parliament from the Yabloko party, and opposition politician Maxim Reznik. This was reported by SOTA.

On May 31, the First Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction left the appeal decision regarding Jehovah's Witness Rustam Seidkuliev unchanged. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. On May 20, 2021, the Leninsky District Court of Saratov sentenced the believer to two and a half years in prison. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld the decision of a lower court to fine the Deputy Chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC) Galishan Nuriakhmet because of his speech at a rally in memory of the defenders of Kazan from the troops of Ivan the Terrible, held in October 2021. The decision of the court is reported by the Idel.Realii publication.

On June 1, the Novgorod Regional Court dismissed the appeal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and awarded 15,000 rubles in compensation to City Duma deputy Anna Cherepanova due to unlawful persecution. about this She wrote in her telegram channel.

On June 1, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court approved the decision to forcibly place Nizhny Novgorod activist Alexei Onoshkin in a psychiatric hospital. This was reported by local blogger Alexey Podnebesny. Onoshkin was detained for a compulsory examination on April 28, and later the court sent him for compulsory treatment.

The Khamovniki Court in Moscow imposed a fine of 200 thousand rubles on deputy Sergei Mitrokhin under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding actions (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the lawyer who defended him from OVD-Info Sergey Telnov. On June 1, Moscow City Duma deputy from Yabloko Mitrokhin was detained during a meeting with residents of the Khamovniki district.

The Moscow City Court denied the Memorial Human Rights Center's request to suspend the liquidation of the organization until the ECHR ruling on the complaint against the law on “foreign agents” comes into force. This was reported by the telegram channel “Full PC 2.0” (formerly the Center channel).

Caucasian scholar Khadzhi-Murad Donoy was fired from his post as deputy director of the National Museum of Dagestan named after A. Takho-Godi after a complaint about his participation in "anti-Russian" and "separatist" meetings and conferences. This is reported by the publication "MK in Dagestan". The "Association of Veterans of Special Forces" complained about the scientist to the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, in an open letter.

At the debate in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk, the prosecutor asked to sentence Jehovah's Witness Evgeny Zinich to six years in a general regime colony. The man has been diagnosed with group II disability, reports the portal covering the persecution of believers. Zinich is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).