During the debate in the Leninsky District Court of the Volgograd Region, the prosecutor requested three years of a penal colony for human rights activist Igor Nagavkin in the case of disruption of the work of a pretrial detention facility (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The case was opened because of an incident last May in the regional pretrial detention center No.

In Saransk, lawyer Marat Ashimov was sent into custody - before that, he was under house arrest on charges of attempted fraud (Part 2 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code with the application of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). This was written on his channel by Ruslan Nagiyev, who is defending him. The new measure of restraint was chosen for 1 month and 5 days, RusNews reports . Ashimov was detained on March 27.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow received a case against Kristina Lyubashenko for participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and for disseminating military “fakes” motivated by hatred or enmity within a group of people (subparagraphs “b” and “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info found information about this on the court’s website. It is currently unknown what the girl is accused of.

The Ukrainian charity foundation "Povernis Zhivim" ("Come Back Alive"), as well as the Karelian national movement "KKK - Stop the Occupation of Karelia", whose headquarters are registered in Estonia. Both organizations were included in the relevant register of the Ministry of Justice; the Prosecutor General's Office made decisions back in late April, but did not report them.

In Yekaterinburg, police detained activist Vadim Pankratov (known as "Grandfather Picket") during a meeting between the city's mayor, Alexei Orlov, and volunteers who were helping to hold a vote on park improvements. This was reported by It's My City. The activist came out to the delegation of officials with a poster with poems in defense of the 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol Park and the birch grove. He was detained and taken to OP No. 5.

The dataset is a fragment of our previously published database of politically motivated criminal prosecutions .

This dataset is part of the OVD-Info political pressing database . As in the database, here we describe and count persecutions specific people within criminal cases. This means that if a person has more than one case against them, they will have more than one prosecution. Because of this, the number of prosecutions and the number of people in the dataset differ. We explain the problem of counting repressions in more detail in the methodology . Why did we include events since 2015 in the dataset?

The Rtishchevsky District Court of the Saratov Region sentenced Ilya Usoyan, who tried to persuade his friend at the front to surrender, to three and a half years in a general regime penal colony. This was reported to OVD-info by the court.

A report was drawn up against Meduza correspondent Svetlana Reiter for participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Mediazona reported . The case materials were sent to a justice of the peace, although according to the law, this article should only be considered by district courts.

The Troitsky District Court of Moscow has upheld the decision to deport from Russia Ukrainian Sergei Gulko, who was expelled from Moscow State University because of his posts; information about this is available in the court’s file. As Gulko himself told OVD-Info, he left the country on May 15. He was taken to the airport in handcuffs straight from the Sakharovo Central Temporary Detention Center, and when he arrived in Georgia, he was denied entry and was going to be sent back to Russia.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office filed an administrative lawsuit with the Oktyabrsky District Court demanding that publicist and former State Duma deputy Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lidiya Nevzorov be recognized as an "extremist association." Lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov reported this on his Telegram channel. In the lawsuit, the agency representative demanded that the family's real estate be confiscated for state use. According to Pryanishnikov, the couple owns only three plots of land.

On May 20, a social activist from the city of Kogalym in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Vadim Adamenko called an explanation to the police because of the post with a photograph taken in the style of Leonardo da Vinci's painting “The Secret Supper”. This is written "7 × 7". Photo by Vadim Adamenko and the painting by Leonardo da Vinci "Secret Office" The security forces decided to conduct an examination and find out if in the publication there is an insult to the feelings of believers.

St. Petersburg urban conservationist Oleg Mukhin was detained by the criminal investigation department near his home. This was reported by the SOS SPb SNOS Telegram channel. The man is being taken to the police department in the Moskovsky district; the reasons for his detention were not explained to him.

The prosecution has requested three years in a penal colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles for Kazan activist Zulfiya Sitdikova, who is being prosecuted under two criminal articles because of two anti-war posters. This was reported by Idel.Realii. Earlier, the jury decided that the activist did not deserve leniency.

On May 16, the Samara Regional Court upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Tolyatti Alexander Chagan in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia".