The court in St. Petersburg upheld the decision to arrest Victoria Petrova, accused of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), until June 30. This was reported by the publication "Paper". Petrova spoke in court with the words: “All the atrocities were presented in Russia under the guise of a so-called special operation, the fight against nationalism and other fairy tales.

In St. Petersburg, Sasha Skochilenko, arrested in the “fake” case, was sent to psychiatric hospital No. 6 for an examination. Fontanka reports this with reference to Skochilenko’s lawyer Yana Nepovinnova. According to the defender, the examination will take about three weeks. A criminal case was opened against the girl under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army ( clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code ).

The Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan reported on the transfer to court of the case of Khunar Agaev, Aidar Sageev and Amrakh Akhmedov. They are suspected of involvement in the activities of the banned organization Nurcular. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova".

A resident of St. Petersburg was charged under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). About this on the website of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the region. The man was reportedly taken into custody. Although the statement does not mention the name of the accused, it is likely that we are talking about the priest and doctor of theology Ioann Kurmoyarov, born in 1968.

Opposition blogger Sergei Komandirov announced the end of the hunger strike, which he began due to the failure to provide him with medical care in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Smolensk. This is reported by the telegram channel dedicated to the Komandirov case. In total, he spent ten days on a hunger strike. As a result, Komandirov was invited by the deputy head of pre-trial detention center No. 1 and accepted his complaints for consideration.

The Department of Private Security of the Russian Guard of Bashkiria demands to recover more than 114 thousand rubles from local activist Olga Komleva for the work of security forces at the rally on January 31, 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny. Komleva reported this on her Facebook page. Komleva points out that this is already the seventh lawsuit filed by law enforcement agencies against her. “There’s not much difference; they want 4.7 million rubles from me. or 4.8 million.

Police officers in Perm detained activists of the Other Russia E. V. Limonov - Andrei Keller and a minor teenager who were holding a campaign picket in the city center. This is reported by the telegram channel "Molotov!". During the picket, the activists distributed some leaflets, which the police called extremist.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) until August 12. This is reported by SOTA. The case against Kara-Murza was filed in April due to speech in the Arizona House of Representatives. Then the politician was arrested. Vladimir Kara-Murza faces from five to ten years in prison.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region demanded compensation from six activists for damage allegedly caused as a result of a rally in support of Navalny on January 23, 2021. This is reported by “Protocol. Samara". The defendants in the lawsuit were the ex-heads of Navalny’s local headquarters Marina Evdokimova and Egor Alasheev, editor-in-chief of the publication “Protocol.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow replaced Lyubov Sobol's sentence in the “housing case” from correctional labor to four months in a general regime colony. Lawyer Vladimir Voronin announced this on his Twitter. In April 2021, Sobol was sentenced to a year of suspended correctional labor with a deduction of 10 percent of her salary in the case of breaking into the apartment (Part 2 of Article 139 of the Criminal Code) of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court canceled the fine for picketer Zinaida Gorbatenko. This was announced by a lawyer from OVD-Info Vasily Dubkov. On March 15, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk fined a woman 5,000 rubles under an article on violation of “coronavirus” restrictions (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a picket in support of political prisoners, which she held in February .

The Supreme Court of Russia did not consider the complaints of journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya and activist Darya Apakhonchich against court decisions to recognize as legal their inclusion in the media register as “foreign agents”. this . reports Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Thus, the Supreme Court refused to submit their cases for judicial review. They are going to appeal to the ECtHR. The court of first instance, and then the city court of St.

The Moscow City Court left unchanged the preventive measure chosen for the accused in the Vesna case, Valentin Khoroshenin. This was reported by the First Department. On May 11, Khoroshenin was ordered to prohibit certain actions in a criminal case regarding participation in an NGO that infringes on the rights of citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code).

Political scientist Ekaterina Shulman, speaking on the “Status” program, said that she was included in the register of media “foreign agents” due to “indirect foreign funding” through Russian organizations.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against priest and doctor of theology Ioann Kurmoyarov under the article on disseminating “fake stories” about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Baza telegram channel is about this. ​ reports The case was opened because of a video that Kurmoyarov published in March. The video said that Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine will go to hell, not heaven.