In St. Petersburg, two non-party members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Komsomol were detained when they were distributing leaflets on Vasilievsky Island with the slogans "Ilyin will not pass. Join the fight of the Russian State University for the Humanities" and "no to fascism." Their fellow Komsomol members told OVD-Info about this. The detainees were taken to OP No. 30. Vladislav Sosensky, a lawyer from OVD-Info, is on his way to help them.

Security forces in Moscow have detained a French citizen in connection with a case of failure to provide documents for inclusion in the register of foreign agents by a person collecting information in the area of ​​military activity of Russia (Part 3 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

A new criminal case has been opened against convicted anti-war blogger from Shuya Sergei Veselov, he is charged with treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the security forces-affiliated Telegram channel "Operativnye Sudovki".

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction upheld the sentences of former spouses Alexander Martynov and Lyudmila Razumova - they are being prosecuted under articles on military "fakes" and vandalism . This was reported by their lawyers from OVD-Info Maria Varaeva and Andrey Donskoy. The convicts took part in the hearing via video link. During the hearing, the judge constantly interrupted their lawyers, Varaeva said.

Crimean Kirill Barannik was transferred to Rostov-on-Don pretrial detention center No. 1. This was reported by Avtozak LIVE. He is in a "basement" designed for 10 people - but instead it holds 34. Barannik is waiting to be transferred to a regular cell, he was promised that this will happen in two weeks. According to the young man, the prisoners do not have enough food and water.

A criminal case was probably opened against Sergei Salazkin, a lawyer from Buzuluk in the Orenburg region, for "fakes" about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code): an investigator told him about this over the phone, calling him in for questioning. Salazkin told OVD-Info about this. The man is currently awaiting questioning at the Buzuluk Interdistrict Investigative Department. He does not yet know his status in the alleged criminal case.

Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov, sentenced to four years in a maximum security penal colony, was transferred from a pretrial detention center in Yekaterinburg to Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 in the city of Irbit (Sverdlovsk Region), where he will await an appeal. This was reported by the support group for the defendant in the case.

An administrative case under the article on participation in an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against Moscow political activist Anastasia Bryukhanova was received by the Khoroshevsky District Court. Mediazona drew attention to the case card on the Moscow courts website. It is not yet known why the case was opened. In December 2023, the girl was put on the international wanted list.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved a referral for compulsory treatment in the case of Nizhny Novgorod pastafarian Alexei Onoshkin, who was accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army and calling for terrorism. His lawyer reports this. A criminal case about military “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against Onoshkin was opened in August 2022, and later it was reclassified to the more lenient first part of the article.

The Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction upheld the sentence of Adygea resident and native of Ukraine Viktoria Goncharova (Kuts), convicted in the case of participation in the Right Sector and dissemination of "fakes" about the Russian army. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info Maria Spasibukhova. On May 30, 2023, the Maykop District Court sentenced Goncharova to six and a half years in prison.

The preventive measure for 63-year-old journalist from the city of Chaikovsky (Perm Krai) Natalia Balyakina was softened - she was released from the pretrial detention center under a ban on certain actions. This was reported by Perm 36.6. Balyakina had been in custody since February 9. That day, she was detained in Tchaikovsky on charges of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

On June 5, the Omsk Regional Court granted the regional prosecutor's office's claim to recognize the "Omsk Civil Association" as an extremist organization and ban its activities in Russia. This was noted by "7x7". "The decision has not yet entered into legal force. We will appeal, we will prolong this pleasure," said the co-founder of the association Nikolai Rodkin.

The courts in Khabarovsk and Makhachkala received reports on violations of “foreign agent” legislation – against Aleksandr Kushnar and Idris Yusupov, respectively. On June 5, the Krasnoflotsky District Court of Khabarovsk received a case against Kushnar for failure to submit a “foreign agent” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Dagestan, porn blogger Matvey from Moscow, who works under the nickname USSRboy, was detained again upon leaving a special detention center. This was reported by the Crisis Group SK SOS. Presumably, the man was detained by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism, for an unknown reason. He was not allowed to see his lawyers and relatives, who were waiting for him near the detention center. "I had an agreement with his relatives to accompany him.