The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa received another case from the rapper Face (name according to his passport - Ivan Dremin) about failure to provide a “foreign agent” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the case file . The musician was added to the register of “foreign agents” in April 2022: after he left Russia and spoke out against the war with Ukraine.

I once took part in Strategy-31 events in St. Petersburg, at Gostiny Dvor. I was detained twice. The second detention ended with a police officer hitting him (at a rally on July 31, 2011, Dmitry accidentally “kicked someone” , falling during the arrest - OVD-Info ).

A criminal case was opened against teenagers from the Stavropol Territory who burned the New Testament during a barbecue under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, News”. According to the telegram channel, a group of teenagers were barbecuing in Novoaleksandrovsk and decided to burn the New Testament on the grill.

The operator of the project “Beautiful Russia” Evgeniy Russkikh is a suspect in the case of libel (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) and dissemination of information constituting a family secret (Part 1 of Article 137 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti.

On May 2, the Pozharsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses from Luchegorsk Nikolai Dikhtyar, Andrei Lyakhov, Yuri Ponomarenko and Oleg Sergeev to suspended sentences. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. Ponomarenko was sentenced to six and a half years of suspended imprisonment, Sergeev - six years and four months, Lyakhov - two years and eight months, and Dikhtyar - two and a half years.

On May 2, the “Ingush Independence Committee” (Ğalğay Kortamuqalen Komitet) was included in the list of “undesirable organizations” of the Ministry of Justice, as follows from the updated register. The committee was created in January last year, and the first congress was held in Istanbul on January 7. The declaration adopted at it stated that the most important goal for the participants was to restore the sovereignty of the Ingush Republic and prepare for secession from Russia.

On April 23, the Southern District Military Court received a criminal case regarding comments about the war in Ukraine against a resident of Primorsko-Akhtarsk in the Krasnodar Territory, Gennady Vladimirov. The relevant information is published on the court's website. The initiation of the case became known in December 2022.

The State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation recommended for adoption amendments according to which “foreign agents” would be deprived of the right to be nominated as candidates for elective positions from the federal to local levels. The corresponding draft was published on the parliament website. The draft also proposes to consolidate the previously introduced ban on “foreign agents” to participate in elections as observers, authorized representatives and proxies of candidates.

In Moscow, four people were detained as suspects in organizing the activities of Falun Dafa, an organization of supporters of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. This was reported by the telegram channel “NO to Extremism!” The detainees are prosecuted under the article on organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Seven organizations associated with Falun Gong were banned in Russia as “undesirable” in the summer of 2020.

The prosecutor asked that anti-war blogger Sergei Veselov be sentenced to a year in prison in the case of discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) because of a video entitled “Do not confuse the Germans with the Nazis, and the Russians with the Putinites.” This is reported by SOTA. Veselova is also asked to be banned from administering websites for two years. A criminal case was opened in October 2023.

On May 2, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Volgograd headquarters, Evgeny Kochegin, 30 thousand rubles under the article on the absence of “foreign agent” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by Kavkaz.realii; the case file is available on the court’s website. The reason was the lack of labeling in the activist’s personal Telegram channel.

In Khabarovsk, police detained activist Zigmund Khudyakov. Rus News reports. Khudyakov is charged with repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the events of December 31, when a man came to the square wearing a T-shirt with a portrait of politician Boris Nemtsov. 10:40 The Central District Court of Khabarovsk arrested Khudyakov for 25 days, RusNews reports .

The 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk sentenced anti-war activist Angel Nikolaev to 15 years in prison. SOTA drew attention to the court's press release . Nikolaev will have to spend the first four years in prison, the rest of the term - in a maximum security penal colony. On May 2, the prosecutor asked to sentence the man to 18 years in prison.