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- The Ministry of Justice has added political analyst Andrey Nikulin, activist Inna Kurochkina, and writer Elvira Baryakina to the list of “foreign agents.”
- On 29 May, the Ostankinsky District Court in Moscow sentenced Gleb Stovbun, former photographer for the Dynamo football club, to three and a half years in a general regime penal colony. He was found guilty of financing extremist activity over donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
- Political prisoner, saxophonist, and person with disabilities Andrey Shabanov has reported severe censorship of his letters—according to him, he does not receive many letters and cannot reply to them. In February 2025, Shabanov was sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of inciting terrorism, due to pacifist posts on social media.
- In Dagestan, a republic in the North Caucasus, two women were fined for displaying the Instagram logo, as the authorities consider the parent company extremist. Diana M. was penalised over a video featuring the social network’s logo—she received a fine of 2,000 roubles (about US$22) and had her phone confiscated. A business owner from Makhachkala was fined 1,000 roubles (about US$11) for a shop sign and the sign was confiscated.
- The Kaduy District Court in the Vologda region sentenced a 26-year-old resident of the village of Kaduy to 10 days' arrest under the article on displaying banned symbols. According to the court, on 19 May he wrote “Glory to the heroes” on a house wall using blue and yellow paint.
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