In St. Petersburg, at a gathering against the alluvium of territories in the north of Vasilyevsky Island, a local resident Elena Zaretskaya was detained and has already been released. Eyewitnesses reported this to OVD-Info. The woman was detained because of a conflict with a provocateur who filmed her face, an eyewitness said. Zaretskaya was taken to police department No.

The police detained the director of the St. Petersburg Russian PEN Club, Natalia Sivokhina, along with her three-year-old daughter. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky reports this in his Telegram channel. Sivokhina and her child were detained after visiting a doctor. The police said that they received a complaint about KUSP . They were taken to police department No. 2, the daughter was already released, as her father came to pick her up.

A second criminal case was opened against an activist from Sovetsk (Kaliningrad region) Igor Baryshnikov under the article on fakes about the Russian army (clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Local activist Vadim Khairullin reported this to OVD-Info, and Baryshnikov himself also posted this on his Facebook. confirmed The reason was Baryshnikov’s posts about the war in Ukraine on his Facebook page, according to the resolution of investigator E.

In Kopeisk, Jehovah's Witness Andrei Bolotov was searched under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. Early in the morning of June 16, Bolotov was detained and taken home for a search. Law enforcement officers seized smartphones, a laptop, CDs and flash drives.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol blocked the website Newsru.com, which had ceased operation, due to a publication about the illegality of conscripting Crimeans into the Russian army.

In Moscow, a protocol was drawn up against Evgeniy Lebedev for demonstrating the symbols of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of a post about “Smart Voting”. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The materials of the administrative case (available to OVD-Info) say that Lebedev’s post on Facebook was discovered by an employee of Center “E”.

Municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, accused of “fake news” about the army, had money missing after a search. The deputy’s support group reported this on their Telegram channel. The cash was in Gorinov’s jacket; there were no strangers in the apartment before the search, the authors of the publication note. The deputy filed a statement about the crime, and his wife demanded that an investigation be carried out and a criminal case initiated.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal in a criminal case under the article on “fakes” (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against the arrest in absentia of journalist Michael Naki. This was reported by Naka’s lawyer Vladimir Voronin. The lawyer said that the defense insisted on holding the hearing in open mode. However, the judge granted the prosecutor's request to close the trial.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption recommended the adoption of 14 amendments to the draft law on tightening “foreign agency” legislation. about their content RBC tells .

The Stavropol Territory until September 25 extended the arrest of the person involved in the "Ingush case" Akhmed Pogorov. This is reported by the republican media "Fortanga". The prosecution did not motivate the need to extend the arrest, only stated that Pogorov could hide or influence other defendants in the case, lawyer Magomed Gagiev noted. The court ignored the arguments of the defense that the accused had coronary heart disease.

A court in Moscow fined the owner of a strip club, a showman and a fighter for the peaceful unification of Korea, Lucky Lee, under the article on inciting hatred (Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". On June 8, the Tagansky District Court brought Lucky Lee to justice for his post on VKontakte.

The Central District Court of Orenburg declared illegal the transfer of Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the Network case, to a punishment cell and canceled the penalty. The RUPRESSION project reports this. This is Filinkov’s ninth penalty overturned by the court. On June 16, the court declared illegal the other placement of a convict in a punishment cell (punishment cell) and PKT (cell-type premises) .

Khabarovsk street artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad) was finally charged in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the telegram channel “Maxim Smolnikov’s Case” reported on June 12. The hearing of the case will begin on June 29 in the 1st Eastern District Military Court.

On June 1, a resident of Krasnoyarsk, Semyon Oreshkin, was fined 10,000 rubles under the administrative article on inciting hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of an obscene comment addressed to the police, the SOVA Information and Analytical Center . reports Oreshkin left a comment in July 2021 under a video on VKontakte showing police in Naberezhnye Chelny detaining a minibus passenger due to a mask coming off his nose.

On June 21, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Anatoly Gorbunov. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. The Oktyabrsky Court of Krasnoyarsk in February found 64-year-old Anatoly Gorbunov guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to six years in a general regime colony. The case against Gorbunov was opened in March 2020.