The Partisan City Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced local Jehovah's Witness Irina Buglak to two and a half years of suspended imprisonment. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. The woman was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, she convened and held religious meetings, which was considered to be organizing activities.

A criminal case was opened against the convict from PKU T-2 in the Vladimir region (prison known as “Vladimir Central”) under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 1 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). “Vladimirskie Vedomosti” is about this. According to investigators, in February 2022, a man, in the presence of other convicts, spoke approvingly about the actions of Adolf Hitler and his supporters during World War II.

A 56-year-old resident of Cheboksary was sentenced to eight months of correctional labor for damage to the Z-symbol. The “Angry Chuvashia” telegram channel is about this. reports The man was found guilty of vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). He did not admit guilt, but partially compensated for the damage. 10 percent of his earnings during correctional labor will be withheld in favor of the state. A resident of Cheboksary was charged with two counts.

in Zheleznogorsk On April 22 , my wife and I opened an anti-war exhibition . We positioned it as a presentation of my still lifes; no one expected that there would be a political context. People came to the exhibition and were very surprised, but they sent mostly positive reviews. They said that we were great and heroes for not being afraid to speak out. My wife and I left Russia shortly before the opening of the exhibition because we realized that we might face persecution.

Protocols were drawn up against the co-founders of OVD-Info, Daniil Beilinson and Grigory Okhotin, under the article on the lack of marking as a “foreign agent” (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Information about this appeared on the Moscow City Court website . The protocol against Beilinson was received by the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow on May 31, the hearing is scheduled for July 12. Okhotin’s case was registered by the Khamovnichesky Court on June 5.

The Petrodvortsovy District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced local student Viktor Melnikov to one year and six months in a penal colony in the case of attempting to set fire to a building with a “military registration and enlistment office” sign. The United Press Service of the City Courts reports this. reports In addition, the court ordered Melnikov compulsory outpatient observation and treatment by a psychiatrist at the place where he was serving his sentence.

The defendant in the case of arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Alexei Rozhkov, was taken from Kyrgyzstan to Russia at the end of May, the human rights project “Solidarity Zone” reports about this. reports Participants of the “Solidarity Zone” write that they do not yet know the details of this event. Now Rozhkov is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Yekaterinburg, his case was resumed in the Berezovsky city court.

The Ukhta City Court of the Komi Republic sentenced local resident Vladislav Kraval to 6 years and 3 months in a general regime colony in the case of false reporting of the arson of a military registration and enlistment office (Part 3 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code) and vandalism motivated by political hostility (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) ). The decision is on the court website. published The charge for him is seven years in prison.

The European Court of Human Rights found that Russian authorities did not conduct an effective investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in 2020, and ordered them to pay the oppositionist 40 thousand euros. The corresponding decision was published on the court's website.

A protocol was drawn up against Samara deputy and Left Front member Mikhail Abdalkin on the dissemination of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the SOVA information and analytical center. The protocol was drawn up on May 19, 2023, at the Novokuibyshevsk police department. The reason was the publication of the composition of the group “Electric Partisans” “Star and Automatic (RAF)” on VKontakte.

A magistrate in Moscow fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports Wikipedia, three million rubles under the article on failure to remove prohibited information (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code). Interfax reports this. The fine was imposed by the magistrate of court district No. 422 of the Tagansky district. The reason for this was the refusal to delete information about the Ukrainian Azov regiment banned in the Russian Federation, RusNews clarifies .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Zheleznogorsk resident Roman Balyasin on the wanted list, who is being persecuted for attempting to paint over the letter Z - Balyasin is accused of using violence against a police officer. On the decision to search for SOTA. drew attention to Balyasin from Russia in April, after which the court considered his case.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Tula due to a post two years ago. He is accused of rehabilitating Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This is what Baza is about. reports In June 2021, a man used Photoshop to attach a portrait of Adolf Hitler to a photo with members of the “Immortal Regiment” and published it on VKontakte. The security forces became interested in the post only now. During a search of the suspect's house, all equipment was confiscated.

Photo: a screenshot from a video published by the Telegram channel "Crimea 24"

In Syktyvkar (Komi), security forces came to search Dmitry Pavlyuchenko. His common-law wife reported this to OVD-Info. The search took place as part of a case on justification of terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a comment on VKontakte about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. Pavlyuchenko’s status in the case is still unknown. During the search, law enforcement officers seized all the equipment. Now the search is over, the man was brought to the FSB for interrogation.