The court in St. Petersburg replaced the activist Kirill Korolev for a 10-month period in a colony-settlement for conditional punishment in a criminal case on the application of violence to a representative of power during an anti-war action. About this writes Zaks.ru with reference to the lawyer Mark Alekseev. Protection in the appeal demanded to cancel the sentence or change the type of punishment to not related to deprivation of liberty. The court satisfied the claim partially.

Arthur Smolyaninov, Archive photo Russian actor Arthur Smolyaninov, who publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine, is included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. Almost simultaneously, the former adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, Alexei Ardrovtovich, got into the same list. In January, the Ministry of Justice recognized Smolyaninov as a foreign agent.

Protests in Belarus The court in Minsk sentenced to 13 years the colony of the creator of the Belarusian merchant Symbal.by Pavel Belousi, BelTA reports . He was accused of four criminal articles, including in state treason. Belouses were also found guilty of a rude violation of order, causing harm to the national security of Belarus and the leadership of an extremist formation.

The Russian authorities are going to add to the legislation on foreign agents the category of "third parties", TASS reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Sviridenko. According to the official, the new category will concern persons who are not “foreign agents” and are not affiliated with them.

View of the Cathedral in Kaliningrad Not Kaliningrad, but Krilevets, and not the Kaliningrad region, but Krilevetskaya - such a decision was published by the Polish Government Commission for the standardization of geographical names outside Poland. The Russian authorities did not like it extremely .

Detention of participants in an anti-war action in St. Petersburg, February 27, 2022 Two defendants in the criminal case against the Russian youth movement "Vesna" tightened the charge. Now Evgeny Zateev and Valentin Khoroshenin are charged not by participation in the "NPO, encroaching on the rights of citizens", but the creation of such an organization. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-info".

Vladislav Kraval The prosecutor requested 6 and a half years in a colony for a resident of Ukhta Vladislav Kraval, who is accused of false report on the arson of the military commissariat and vandalism based on political enmity. This was reported by North. Reali was reported by Kraval's acquaintances present in the courtroom. The defense asked for a punishment not related to imprisonment. The debate is over, the last word is scheduled for the next meeting on June 5.

Goods worth more than one billion dollars sent in 2022 from the countries of the European Union to Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan "disappeared" during transit through the territory of Russia. It is reported by Financial Times. The publication calls the situation "ghostly trade." According to open data, after the start of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine from the EU countries to Russia, under the pretext of transit, they imported goods for two billion dollars.

Nikita Tushkanov in court, May 10, 2023 Teachers of history from the city of Mikun in the Komi Republic of 29-year-old Nikita Tushkanov were sentenced to 5.5 years in a general regime colony on charges of “re-discrediting” and justifying terrorism for posts and comments on the VKontakte social network. It took the court for about nine hours for consideration of the criminal case - all the materials were studied in one day. North.

On May 9, the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin recorded the next denunciation of the Russian military leadership video in which he complained that his group was given only 10% of the necessary ammunition. He again threatened to withdraw his fighters from Bakhmut if he was not provided with shells, and said that the soldiers of the Ministry of Defense were running, "exposing" the front. Prigozhin insists that "industry is stroking shells", but they are accumulated in warehouses.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Russia terminates the agreement with Poland on cooperation in the field of science and technology. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this on Thursday. A message from the ministry published on the official Internet portal of legal information notes that the agreement was terminated last week, on May 3. The agreements have been in effect since August 1993.

Small Drama Theater in St. Petersburg The court in St. Petersburg registered an administrative case against the Small Drama Theater (MDT) under an article on violation of sanitary rules. This was reported in the United press service of the city courts. The case was opened under part 1 of Article 6.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - violation of sanitary standards.