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- The Rubtsovsk City Court in Altai Krai sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to 1 year and 10 months in prison on charges of disrupting the activities of a penal colony. Taking into account her previous sentences, her total sentence now stands at 2 years and 3 months in a general regime colony. According to investigators, Ponomarenko refused to comply with the demands of staff at Penal Colony No. 6 and attacked them; she denies any wrongdoing.
- In Nadym, a northern city in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets region, a criminal case has been opened against Aleksandr Gudjushkin for financing terrorism (Article 205.1, section 1.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). Investigators allege that from 2021 to 2022, he transferred money to the accounts of “Artpodgotovka.” Gudjushkin 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 added to the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists. The specific criminal article under which Arno is being sought has not been specified. In 2024, her foundation was declared an extremist organisation.
- On 3 June, the city court in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk region (in the Urals), sentenced 27-year-old Ruslan Garifyanov to a fine of 300,000 roubles (about US$3,300) on charges of financing extremism. According to prosecutors, in December 2021 he transferred 100 roubles (about US$1.10) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which at that time had already been banned by the authorities.
- In Chechnya, Zelimkhan Movlayev—the brother of Mansur Movlayev, who was arrested in Kazakhstan—was abducted and subjected to violence, according to a support group for Mansur. Activists report that Zelimkhan was hospitalised with severe injuries and believe the incident is connected to attempts to pressure Mansur.
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