The Ministry of Justice included six people, two publications and one non-profit organization in the registers of “foreign agents”. This is reported on the department's website. The “foreign agents” were: Philip Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, left Russia in 2022 after pressure from the authorities. According to the Ministry of Justice, he disseminated false information about the Russian authorities and opposed the war in Ukraine.

The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk found Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Dolzhikov guilty and convicted under the article on participation in extremist activities (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The believer was sentenced to three years in prison, but the court found it possible to replace the punishment with forced labor for the same period with a deduction of 10% of his salary. This was reported by the press service of the court.

The apartment of a resident of Sevastopol was examined because of a comment on VKontakte about an explosion on the Crimean bridge. The woman herself told OVD-Info about this. The security forces came to the apartment in the morning, conducted an examination and seized the system unit and telephone. The woman was taken to the department and questioned.

The Khamovnichesky District Court left in pre-trial detention until September 10 the authors of the play “Finist the Clear Falcon” Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona reports this. On the same day, the Ministry of Justice admitted that “destructological” examination cannot be used as evidence in court. It was on its basis that a criminal case was opened against Berkovich and Petriychuk.

Blogger from Shuya Sergei Veselov was finally charged in the case of insulting a judge (Part 2 of Article 297 of the Criminal Code). The man himself told OVD-Info about this. This case against Veselov was opened on December 21, 2022.

The Pavlovsky District Court of the Voronezh Region convicted 41-year-old Evgeniy Tronev in the case of repeated discrediting (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). He was given a non-custodial sentence. The man’s lawyer, Andrei Ovsyannikov, told OVD-Info about this. This information was confirmed to the project in court. The meeting took place on May 29.

The Central Military District Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Alexei Gashev, a Permian, to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony, finding him guilty in the case of arson of a military registration and enlistment office in Perm. This is reported by the regional portal Properm.ru. The case card is also published on the court's website.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has completed the investigation of the criminal case that was opened against Jehovah's Witnesses from the village of Krasnogvardeyskoye. This is reported on the department's website. Two believers are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The social network “VKontakte” blocked the public page of the independent media “Solid Sign Tambov” in Russia. Project participants talk about this in their telegram channel. wrote: The Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the page be blocked. You can access the “Hard Sign” public using a VPN.

Retired officer Timofey Rudenko, who was placed under administrative arrest for the seventh time in a year, spoke about torture and threats from security forces. “Mediazona” is about this. writes For more than a year, Rudenko has been detained on far-fetched charges of petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), because of what he is actually being persecuted, he does not know.

The Vladivostok garrison military court sentenced an air traffic controller to two years and ten months in a penal colony due to his refusal to participate in the war. About this in the telegram channel “Military Lawyers”. Andrey K. reported The man was found guilty under the article on failure to execute an order in an armed conflict (Part 2.1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code).

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow fined OVD-Info co-founder Grigory Okhotin 30 thousand rubles. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, representing his interests in court. Okhotin was found guilty under the article on the absence of “foreign agent” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) in OVD-Info posts on Odnoklassniki. On June 25, Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, created the project page on this social network.

Municipal deputy from Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region, Anatoly Arseev, was finally charged in a criminal case for repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). He himself reported this to OVD-Info. On June 28, a criminal case of more than 700 pages and an 18-page indictment were handed over to the Kotlas interdistrict prosecutor, who approved the conclusion. Arseev is the father of three children; since June 9 he has been under recognizance not to leave.

In the Leningrad Region, a criminal case was opened against a resident of Sosnovy Bor for discrediting the Russian army and “state bodies” (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). The man was placed under house arrest, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee. reported The reason for initiating the case was posts on social networks, the exact content of which was not given in the press release.

In Irkutsk, unknown persons shot at the car of human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov, who represents the interests of victims of torture. He also reported this. “To the People of Baikal” “Sibir.Realii” Earlier, Khromenkov spoke about the incident in his Telegram channel - judging by the date of publication, they shot at the car on June 24. At that time, he did not provide other details of the attack.