Rosderzhava journalist Alexander Dorogov, sentenced to 10.5 years in prison, was transported from the Moscow region to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Ufa. This was reported in the telegram channel “Katelevsky and Dorogov Info”. Dorogov’s associates published his letter, in which he said that on April 25 he was sent on a large stage. This happened before the appeal hearing against his sentence, which was scheduled for May 28.

The Rtishchevsky District Court of the Saratov Region received a case against local resident Ilya Usoyan, who is accused of persuading a friend who was at the front to surrender. This was reported by Mediazona with confirmation from Usoyan’s lawyer Alexey Balalaikin. In 2023, Usoyan tried to persuade his friend to surrender to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Another protocol was drawn up against the politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in penal colony No. 7 of the Omsk region under the article on the lack of labeling as a “foreign agent” on social networks (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Kara-Murza support group. On May 14, representatives of Roskomnadzor came to the politician in the colony to draw up a protocol on an administrative offense.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed fines under the article on non-compliance with the duties of a “foreign agent” (Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) to the founder of the SOTA.vision publication Alexandra Ageeva and the host of the YouTube channel “Living Nail” Dmitry Potapenko . The relevant information was published by the press service of the regional courts.

On May 13, the Supreme Court of Chuvashia approved the suspended sentence assigned to 86-year-old Jehovah's Witness Yuri Yuskov. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". In mid-March, the Novocheboksarsk City Court sentenced an elderly man to five years of suspended imprisonment.

On May 14, the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan replaced Anatoly Kudryashov’s imprisonment with a fine of 150 thousand rubles under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info was told about this by the press service of the court. On April 16, the court of first instance sentenced Kudryashov to one and a half years in a penal colony; he was also banned from administering websites for a period of two years.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved a sentence of three years in prison in the case of Krasnoyarsk resident Igor Orlovsky on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). SOTAvision reports this. Orlovsky was sentenced by the 1st Eastern District Military Court in March 2023. In addition to the actual sentence, he was banned from posting on the Internet for two years.

The prosecutor requested nine years of imprisonment for 21-year-old Stavropol resident Mikhail Balabanov in the case of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office by a group of people (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Solidarity Zone, which provides support to the defendant. The case is being considered by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

The Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow sent 36-year-old streamer Alexander Sokolovsky into custody for two months, until July 13, 2024. SOTAvision reports this. The man is accused of inciting hatred (clause “a”, part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). The initiation of a case against the blogger became known the day before. Sokolovsky was detained in Zelenograd and taken to the Moscow police department in the Kryukovo district.

The Constitutional Court of Russia has established the “continuing” nature of administrative offenses on the Internet. “Network Freedoms” writes about this. The court refused to accept the complaint of former Moscow municipal deputy Elena Selkova, who challenged the constitutionality of the practice of applying the article on propaganda of symbols of banned organizations (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) for posts with symbols that were published even before the ban on these symbols.

The Neysky District Court of the Kostroma Region received a case against Roman Losyakin about the dissemination of military “fakes” based on political enmity (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info found information about this on the court’s website. The case appeared in court on May 3. The first substantive meeting will take place on May 29. Details are still unknown.

In the Chelyabinsk region, investigators completed the investigation of a criminal case against a 27-year-old local resident accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Information about this was published on the website of the IC department for the region.

In Murino (Leningrad Region), security forces detained a Belarusian doctor, Vladimir Martov, who is being prosecuted in his homeland for organizing an extremist community. Fontanka reports this. Why Martov was detained is not specified. Now he is in the 87th police department in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region. In Belarus, Martov was the head of the department of anesthesiology and resuscitation of the Vitebsk Emergency Hospital.

The Investigative Committee for Krasnodar reported on the completion of the investigation into the case of lighting a cigarette from the Eternal Flame, brought against a 47-year-old native of Maykop (Adygea). The woman is charged with desecration of symbols of military glory (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and damage to a memorial structure (clause “b” of Part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code).