On May 15, Ruslan Akhmetshin, a former cameraman and photographer of Navalny’s Arkhangelsk headquarters, was brought to penal colony No. 3 in the village of Talagi in the Arkhangelsk region. This is reported by SOTA. On October 26, 2022, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court sentenced Akhmetshin to two and a half years in a penal colony. In addition, the convict was ordered to pay 180 thousand rubles for the work of expert psychologists and historians as part of the investigation into the case.

The defendant in the "palace case" Valery Lavrov was released from penal colony No. 9 in the Vladimir region. This was reported by "Dovod" with reference to his son Yaroslav. writes on September 29, 2021, Lavrov was sentenced to one and a half years in a penal colony. He was found guilty of using violence against a police officer that was not life-threatening (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, the security forces were removed from the train and detained an activist who laid a wreath to the Prosecutor General’s Office during the day. She herself told the OVD-Info about this. The woman was taken to the police department in the Tver district. What is charged with the detainee is still unknown. A lawyer from the OVD-info Leysan Mannapov came to her aid.

The Raduzhninsky City Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug sentenced a local resident to two years and four months in a penal colony because of a knife attack on opponents of the war. Information about this appeared on the website of the court, paid attention to it.

In Vladivostok, the Frunzensky District Court fined freshman Anna Vakhrameyeva 45,000 rubles for failing to inform law enforcers about a comment “calling for terrorism” written by an acquaintance of hers. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Primorsky Territory, drew the attention of Mediazone.

The materials of the criminal case of espionage against Ukrainian citizen Lenya Umerova have been classified. Ukrinform reports this; Crimea.Realii drew attention to the news. “We are not given any details of the case, all materials are classified. They took a non-disclosure agreement from the lawyer. We cannot contact her directly, communication is exclusively through a lawyer. All messages to her are checked by the special services, and any messages from Lenya are also checked.

In Krasnoyarsk, the head of the NPO "Interra" Elena Bobrovskaya was charged with a protocol under the article on participation in the activities of an "undesirable organization" (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by Siberia.Realities. The administrative case was transferred to the Leninsky District Court. The reason for the persecution was a post on the Interra website about an urban environment project for teenagers.

In Kotlas, a search was conducted at the home of Shies activist Vladimir Kotov under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). About this with reference to Kotov SOTA himself. writes The man said that a search in his apartment took place in the morning, after which he was taken away for interrogation. The activist's mobile phone and SIM cards were confiscated.

Against a 39-year-old resident of Yevpatoria, a criminal case was opened on the rehabilitation of Nazism because of a comment on a social network. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea. The reason for the persecution was an “offensive” comment written on the community page under a photo of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

The Southern District Military Court granted the prosecutor's request and returned the case of the Crimean Tatar activist Ansar Osmanov to the stage of judicial investigation. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The judicial investigation was resumed to interrogate Andrey Martynkin, head of the department of history and international relations at Moscow State University in Sevastopol.

Askhabali Alibekov, the author of the YouTube channel “Wild Paratrooper”, convicted under an article about repeated discrediting of the army, said that he was beaten by employees of the pre-trial detention center. About this with reference to the wife of the convicted person Patimat "Kavkaz.Realii". they write Patimat said that her husband last got in touch at the end of April, when he reported the beating - and the conversation ended there.

The military appeal court in Vlasikha confirmed the sentences of Crimean Tatar activists and defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Tofik Abdulgaziev, Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, Izzet Abdullaev, Medzhit Abdurakhmanov and Bilyal Adilov. Crimean Solidarity reports this. During the meeting, Abdullaev called the court “dependent.” “Our innocence was completely proven during the trials,” he added.

The Rostov regional court sentenced programmer Evgeny Kotikov to three years in a penal colony and a fine of 800 thousand rubles in the case of a cyber attack on the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Presidential Administration. This was published on the website with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB “City N”.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the case of taxi driver Vladimir Zolotarev, accused of setting fire to the building of the Russian Guard, was sent to court for consideration on the merits. Telegram channel “Solidarity Zone” is about this. reports The criminal case will be considered by the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk starting from May 19.

Illustration to the statement of the AGRICulture Club team / social networks Employees of the Agriculture Club art space, which worked for 8 years in Petrozavodsk, announced the closure of the site on May 17. They published the corresponding message on the project page on VKontakte. Earlier, the club did not extend the rental. In April, the founder of Agriculture Club, a journalist and female, Natalya Ermolin, was included in the register of “foreign agents”.