On May 30, the Smolensk Regional Duma amended the regional law "on offenses" and introduced fines for "incitement to abortions," RusNews reports . Now, for “inducing” someone to terminate a pregnancy, citizens will be fined from 3,000 to 5,000 rubles, officials from 25 to 50 thousand rubles, and legal entities from 100 to 200 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Justice added the following to the list of “foreign agents”: — the movement of wives of mobilized soldiers “The Way Home”; - his activist Maria Andreeva; — former presidential candidate Ekaterina Duntsova; — municipal deputy of the Basmanny district Pavel Ivanov; — journalist, human rights activist, former member of the Moscow POC Marina Litvinovich; — SOTA Internet project; — the "Republic" project.

St. Petersburg resident and hairdresser Anna Aleksandrova, accused in a case of anti-war statements, said during an appeal against a preventive measure that she had received threats from witnesses. This was reported by the publication MR7. The hearing took place in the St. Petersburg City Court. Aleksandrova filed a complaint against the extension of her detention in the pretrial detention center from April to May 16.

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow has arrested left-wing activist Alexei Shichkov for 10 days for a comment about a search of Mikhail Lobanov's home and for 10 days for a photograph with the numbers "1312" painted on the wall. The terms of administrative arrests are calculated simultaneously, so Shichkov must spend a total of 10 days in the special detention center. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Dorogomilovsky District Court.

St. Petersburg resident and hairdresser Anna Alexandrova, accused in the case of anti-war statements, said during her appeal against the preventive measure that she received threats from witnesses. This was reported by MR7. The hearing took place in the St. Petersburg City Court. Alexandrova filed a complaint against the extension of her detention in the pre-trial detention center from April to May 16.

The Primorsky Regional Court has found Vladivostok resident Alexey Chernyansky not guilty in the case of rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). He is the brother of one of the judges of the Primorsky Regional Court. The Sova Research Center reports on the acquittal.

The criminal case of writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar about "fakes" about the Russian army has been submitted to the Basmanny Court of Moscow. RusNews has drawn attention to this. In April, Zygar was arrested in absentia as part of this case, and before that he was put on the wanted list.

Marina Melikhova, a resident of Krasnodar Krai who was convicted for anti-war publications, is not being released from the pretrial detention center, although she has already served her sentence. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, Maria Spasibukhova. In December 2023, Melikhova was sentenced to one year and five months in a general regime penal colony. Since her arrest in June 2023, she has been held in SIZO-2 in Armavir.

On April 21, 2023, a court in Dzerzhinsk sentenced Pavel Bashkurov under the article on "fakes" about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) to 10 months of correctional labor with a 10% deduction of income in favor of the state. This was reported to OVD-Info by the Dzerzhinsk City Court.

The Abakan City Court of the Republic of Khakassia fined a local resident five thousand rubles for reposting videos from the Yoshkin Krot project. Information about this was published on the court's website. The woman was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared the non-governmental organization Dekoder — gGmbH (Dekoder — gGesselschaft mbH, Dekoder) — an online platform dedicated to discussing public life in Europe, Belarus and Russia — "undesirable." This is stated on the agency's website. "Dekoder — gGmbH, in fact, publishes materials that contradict common sense, accusing the Russian leadership of "distorting history, totalitarianism and expansion," the prosecutor's office writes.

The sentence of three and a half years in a general regime penal colony for Rybinsk resident Sergei Streknev, who was accused of making protest graffiti, was left unchanged. This was reported to OVD-Info by the Yaroslavl Regional Court. The appellate court made its decision on May 7. Strekhnev was sentenced on February 15.

The Kalininsky District Court of Ufa sentenced truck driver Yevgeny Bukarev to eight years in a general regime penal colony under the article on dissemination of "military fakes" motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the publication "Mediazona". Bukarev was also banned from administering websites for four years. It is still unknown why the case was opened.

On May 13, the Kizlyar City Court of Dagestan fined local resident Saaduly Zakaryaev 20,000 rubles under the article on organizing a public event without notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Kavkaz.Realii drew attention to the case file. As stated in the resolution, Zakaryaev published a video on Instagram in which he invited his subscribers to take part in filming a video about drifting at the Cheryomushki bus station in Kizlyar.

On May 30, the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary (Chuvashia) received a case under the article on repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against Alexander Pavlov. The corresponding card appeared on the court's website. It is still unknown what was the reason for initiating the criminal case.