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- The Rubtsovsk City Court in Altai Krai sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to 1 year and 10 months in a penal colony on charges of disrupting the operation of a correctional facility. Taking previous sentences into account, her final sentence amounts to 2 years and 3 months in a general regime penal colony. According to the investigation, Ponomarenko refused to comply with the demands of officers at Correctional Facility IK-6 and attacked them; she denies any wrongdoing.
- In Nadym, a town in the Russian Far North, a criminal case was opened against Aleksandr Gudyushkin for allegedly financing terrorism (part 1.1, article 205.1 of the Criminal Code). Investigators claim that from 2021 to 2022 he transferred money to accounts associated with “Artpodgotovka.” Gudyushkin has been detained and placed in custody.
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs has declared Natalia Arno, president of the Free Russia Foundation, wanted. Her name has also been included in Rosfinmonitoring’s list of terrorists and extremists. It is not specified under which criminal article Arno is being sought. In 2024, her foundation was designated as an extremist organisation.
- The Pervouralsk City Court in Sverdlovsk Region on 3 June fined 27-year-old Ruslan Garifyanov 300,000 rubles (approximately US$3,350) under charges of financing extremism. Prosecutors said that in December 2021 he transferred 100 rubles (US$1) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which had already been banned by the authorities by that time.
- In Chechnya, Zelimkhan Movlayev, brother of Mansur Movlayev who is being held in detention in Kazakhstan, was abducted and subjected to violence, according to a support group for Mansur. Activists say that Zelimkhan ended up in hospital with serious injuries and link what happened to attempts to pressure Mansur.
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