Jehovah's Witness Olga Ivanova from Astrakhan has been released from Penal Colony No. 7 in Stavropol Krai after serving her prison term. This was reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers of this denomination.

Vitaly Barinov, an English teacher from Kansk who was sentenced to two years and ten days in prison for shooting at a pro-war banner, has been released from penal colony No. 13 in the Sverdlovsk region. His relatives have already met him in Yekaterinburg. This was reported to OVD-Info by Barinov's correspondents. Barinov was detained on October 17, 2022.

The State Duma has adopted in the first reading a package of bills that implies the possibility of recognizing as "undesirable" organizations with government participation, and not just non-governmental ones. Information about this appeared on the website of the System for Supporting Legislative Activity. In its current version, the legislation on “undesirable organizations” provides for the possibility of recognizing only foreign or international non-governmental organizations as such.

On May 22, the Severodvinsk City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region sentenced local resident Alexander Malafeevsky to a fine of 100,000 rubles under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to OVD-Info by the court. The defendant fully admitted his guilt, and on June 7 the sentence came into legal force, since the parties did not appeal to the appellate court.

Emigrant journalist Andrei Zakharov was again fined 40 thousand rubles under the article on failure to submit a "foreign agent" report to the Ministry of Justice (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the united press service of the St. Petersburg courts. The last time he was fined the same amount and under the same article was in October 2023.

On June 10, security forces opened a criminal case on military "fakes" motivated by hatred or enmity (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against Moscow Region teacher Natalia Taranushenko. The reason for this was the content of a class hour that she held a month and a half after the start of the full-scale invasion. ASTRA writes about the criminal case. Taranushenko is a teacher of Russian language and literature at Secondary School No. 1 in Protvino.

On May 30, the Korenovsky District Court (Krasnodar Krai) sentenced a local student to a fine of 300,000 rubles in a case involving the transfer of a thousand rubles to the FBK. This was reported by the unified press service of the city courts; the case file is available on the court's website. The young man was found guilty under the article on financing extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Omsk Oblast reported on the initiation of a criminal case under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against two 17-year-old local residents. The corresponding press release was published on the department's website. The teenagers are accused of writing offensive graffiti on a memorial dedicated to servicemen who died during the Great Patriotic War.

The Moscow Regional Court has upheld a decision to apply compulsory medical measures to the 19-year-old defendant in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army, activist Maksim Lypkan. Information about this appeared on the court's website. Lypkanya was ordered to undergo compulsory hospital treatment on February 19.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow has sentenced Ilya Novikov, a lawyer who emigrated to Ukraine, in absentia: he was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison under the article on disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. In addition to the actual term, Novikov was given a four-year ban on practicing law and administering Internet pages.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan has approved correctional labor for Sterlitamak resident Yevgeny Shepelev in the case of military "fakes" (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Aidar Khyzyrov; the case file is on the court's website. In March, Shepelev was sentenced to five months of correctional labor with 5% of his salary withheld in favor of the state.

"The pressure was constant" A girl with long curly hair walks through the snow, with a black canvas with a scattering of white letters stretching behind her. This girl is Alisa Gorshenina, an artist from Nizhny Tagil. The letters form a phrase - "We are against war." For this action , Alisa sewed a costume on which she wrote these words in different languages ​​of the peoples of Russia.

The Moscow Regional Court approved the actual sentences in a maximum security colony for Rosderzhava journalists: nine and a half years for Yan Katelevsky and ten and a half years for Alexander Dorogov. RusNews reports this. In November 2023, the journalists were found guilty under articles of extortion on an especially large scale (clause “b”, part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code) and insulting an official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code).

The Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk sentenced NGS24.ru journalist Evgeniya Shelkovnikova to three years of forced labor under the article on the use of non-dangerous violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the publication itself.

In Murmansk, people in masks came to the editorial office of the publication "Arctic Observer", editor Vyacheslav Gorodetsky managed to report this. "Judging by the masks, it's the FSB. I'll switch off and let you know how things are going," he wrote. It is unknown what the security forces' visit is connected with. 21:50 Vyacheslav Gorodetsky was released after the search, he himself told about this in a circle on the editorial office's Telegram channel.