The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region reported on the completion of the investigation into the case against ten Jehovah's Witnesses from Kingisepp. The case materials were transferred to the court. This is stated on the website of the regional IC. There are ten defendants in the criminal case. Sergei Ryabokon, Kirill Khabrik, Andrei Morozov, Evgeniy Poveshchenko and Igor Zhmyrev were detained after searches at the end of February last year.

The Krasnoyarsk District Court of the Samara Region sentenced lawyer Vyacheslav Bunakov to ten months of correctional labor with the withholding of 20 percent of his salary to the state in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Network Freedom. The case came to court on January 26.

At the debate in the Kaliningrad Regional Court on May 7, the state prosecutor demanded that three years of a penal colony be imposed on lawyer from Mamonovo Sven Nordin in the case of humiliating the honor and dignity of a WWII veteran on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of a post on VKontakte. SOTAvision writes about this. The prosecutor also demanded that Nordin be banned from publishing posts on the Internet for two years.

On May 3, a court in Vladivostok released 19-year-old Jehovah's Witness Kirill Chekolaev from a pre-trial detention center under a ban on certain actions. This is reported by the website “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". Chekolaev has been in custody since the beginning of December 2023.

On April 23, the First Western District Military Court sentenced Cherepovets resident Oleg Antipov to a fine of 600 thousand rubles under the article on public calls for terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment about the Crimean Bridge. Information about this was published by the press service of the city courts; The case file is on the court website.

A protocol under the rally article (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was drawn up against the head of the Ukhta city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the mother of a police officer, Svetlana Zvereva, who held a rally with posters against the head of the Komi Republic. This was reported by Govorit NeMoskva.

A protocol was drawn up against the head of the Ukhta city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the mother of a policeman, Svetlana Zvereva, who held a rally with posters against the head of the Komi Republic (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). NeMoskva Speaks reports this. During the May Day rally, which was held in honor of Workers' Solidarity Day, Zvereva showed posters criticizing the head of the republic, Vladimir Uiba.

The Volgograd administration refused to coordinate a rally against the construction of multi-storey buildings on the banks of the Volga. SOTAvision reports this with reference to local environmental activists. The organizers filed a complaint against the authorities’ decision, and on May 7, the Voroshilovsky District Court of Volgograd recognized the refusal to approve the action as legal .

The prosecutor requested 26 years in prison for 24-year-old Novosibirsk resident Ilya Baburin, who is being prosecuted on several criminal charges. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone. The case against Baburin became known at the end of September 2022. In March 2023, it became known that we were talking about Baburin. On March 23, the “Solidarity Zone” reported that the administration of pre-trial detention center No.

The Moscow City Duma decided to early terminate the powers of opposition deputy and human rights activist Yevgeny Stupin, previously recognized as a “foreign agent.” Stupin wrote about this in his Telegram channel. 28 deputies voted for depriving Stupin of his deputy status, five people voted against. The politician noted that deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, from which he was expelled last year, ignored the vote.

On May 7, the Krasnodar Regional Court approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Sochi, Danil Suvorov, to six years in a general regime colony for talking about the Bible. This is reported by a website covering the persecution of believers.

The case of 61-year-old ex-deputy from Glazov Andrei Yedigarev on calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) was received by the Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg. This is reported by his support group. It is clarified that today, May 8, the second substantive meeting will be held.

The investigative department for the city of Sergiev Posad opened a criminal case under the article on the dissemination of “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against activist Alexei Nikitin. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The reason was a certain comment published on VKontakte on November 5, 2022.