The Ministry of Justice has expanded the register of persons performing the functions of a “foreign agent.” The updated list is published on the department's website. In addition, the Ministry of Justice wrote a detailed report on the reasons for including organizations and individuals in the register of “foreign agents.” In most cases, criticism of Russian policies and military actions in Ukraine is indicated, as well as the dissemination of materials from foreign agents.

On December 16, 2022, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow imposed one year of forced labor on local resident Suren Atanasyan, who was detained after a rally against partial mobilization. Resolution on the court website. published The man was found guilty under the article on the use of non-life-threatening violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

Svetlana Petriychuk in Zamoskvoretsky District Court / Photo: Alexander Astakhov, "Mediazona"

Photo: Vitaly Ioffe in a single picket / Sergey Podolsky In St. Petersburg, the security forces detained Vitaly Ioffe and another activist because of single pickets in support of the defendant of the “anti-war case” by Olga Smirnova. This was announced by lawyer Sergey Podolsky, who cooperates with the ATS-Info. He went after the activists to the police department. Activists went into pickets at the Akademicheskaya metro station.

On May 10, a jury in the Moscow City Court will begin considering a case against a resident of the capital, Vitaly Koltsov, who threw Molotov cocktails into a paddy wagon on Revolution Square. It is reported by Mediazona with reference to the man's support group; information also appeared on the prisoner's Facebook page. Koltsov is being prosecuted under the article on encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer (Article 317 of the Criminal Code).

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English version On January 17 [2023], I went to the center of Kazan with a poster “Enough, damn it, be silent.” The action was thought up in five minutes after I saw that all the other activists were coming to the center with posters. I decided that I also wanted to take part. I wrote to the activist chat: “Who is in the center now?” Several people responded to me.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to arrest the Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian citizen Lenya Umerova under the article on espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). This follows from the case that is “blame”. cards drew attention On May 4, it became known that FSB officers had left Umerova from the temporary detention center in Vladikavkaz, where she had been in recent months.

Alexey Moskalev was transported from Smolensk to the Tula region. The support group became aware of this: the letter sent to Moskalev did not reach the addressee because he had left. Most likely, he will be placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Tula, reports the man’s lawyer Vladimir Bilienko. He doesn't have any additional information yet. The fact that Moskalev is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Smolensk became known on May 3.

Alexey Moskalev was transported from Smolensk to the Tula region. The support group became aware of this: the letter sent to Moskalev did not reach the addressee because he had left. Most likely, he will be placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Tula, reports the man’s lawyer Vladimir Bilienko. He doesn't have any additional information yet. The fact that Moskalev is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Smolensk became known on May 3.

Jehovah's Witnesses from Saransk Mikhail Shevchuk, Artem Velichko and Ivan Neverov were released from pre-trial detention center under house arrest. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses website. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Mordovia considered this appeal against the chosen preventive measure on May 3. The believers were detained and taken into custody on February 14. Then the FSB conducted at least 10 searches in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Security forces came to search the office of Stroyrynok LLC, which is headed by the chairman of the Vologda Yabloko, Nikolai Egorov, who is suspected in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). Egorov’s daughter reported this to OVD-Info. The details of the search are still unknown; Nikolai Egorov’s wife is present at it. On May 3, to a man’s home in Veliky Ustyug, after which he was taken away in handcuffs for interrogation.

The security forces again came to the mother of activist Leopold Banionis, they were looking for her son. Banionis himself told OVD-Info about this. The mother did not open the door to the security forces; the neighbor spoke to them. In May 2022, after the activist left Russia, his mother told OVD-Info that security forces came to her “almost every day,” knocked on the door, and asked about her son’s whereabouts.

The case against 47-year-old Mikhail Nikitin for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office on May 3 was received by the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg. This is what the “Solidarity Zone” is about. Nikitina reports on November 10, 2022 in a criminal case of preparation for a terrorist attack (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 with the use of Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).

The health of the Crimean Tatar civil journalist Amet Suleymanov is deteriorating in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to Suleymanov's wife, Lily Lyumanova. “He asked me to buy him important drugs that would ease his breathing, relieve spasms and shortness of breath. These days I was engaged in certificates for medicines, documentation, since everything is not so simple, ”Lyumanova said.