Report on Human Rights violations in Ingria Republic
May 2026
5 of May, A year in a penal colony for the comment “Glory to Ukraine”
The Vyborg City Court of Leningrad Oblast handed down a verdict against pensioner Oleg Mamporia for a repeated offense in the form of the comments in social media. 61-year-old Oleg was sentenced to one year in a penal colony, minus time spent in pre-trial detention, under Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code (repeated display of prohibited symbols). It is reported that on December 10, 2024, Mamporia had already been arrested for 10 days under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code for a publication on VKontakte with slogans of support for “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!”
The investigation records that on August 3, 2025, Mamporia was charged with 3 years for a comment reading “Glory to Ukraine” posted in the Telegram channel “Time of the Sharikovs,” but at that time the man was placed under house arrest. The “recidivist” committed the last episode while under house arrest, and due to the repeated nature of the “crimes,” the resident of Vyborg was sent to a penal colony for one year under Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code (repeated display of prohibited symbols).
https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2025/04/d51360
7 of May, The case on heterosexuals and LGBT will be heard in closed session
The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit with the St. Petersburg City Court to initiate proceedings to recognize the Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality as an extremist organization; this became known on May 7, 2026.
The hearing of the lawsuit will take place in closed session.
According to a Human Rights Watch report dated June 5, 2026, the lawsuit is still under consideration.
https://www.hrw.org/ru/news/2026/06/05/russia-lgbt-rights-groups-further-criminalized
https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2026/05/d53685
8 of May, The court imposed a fine of 300,000 rubles (about 3400 Euro) under Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code
On May 8, 2026, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg passed a verdict regarding a financial subscription for donations to a community banned in the Russian Federation (Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) ). The accused, Kirill Blinov, made transfers via a paid subscription from August 5, 2021, to February 5, 2022, totaling 700 rubles (about 8 Euro). The man fully admitted guilt under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremism). The court ruled to impose a fine of 300,000 rubles on the defendant.
https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2026/05/d53688
9 of May, 85-year-old anti-war activist detained at the “Solovetsky Stone”
Anti-war activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva was detained during a picket in front of the “Solovetsky Stone.” The siege survivor of Leningrad of the WW2 period, came out with a poster reading: “Do not cover up your crimes with the People’s Victory.” The siege survivor was taken to Police Department No. 43.
85-year-old Lyudmila Nikolaevna was detained during an attempt to hold a picket at the Solovetsky Stone, but after being released from the police station, she repeated the picket in a small park.
Lyudmila Nikolaevna shared her attitude toward May 9:
“During the siege,” Vasilyeva said, “my grandmother, grandfather, mother’s brothers died in the war, my mother’s sister with two children died during the siege, my husband’s uncles died. In short, many people of my family died. For me, this is not a holiday, for me it is grief.
I came to the Solovetsky Stone to lay flowers and light a candle in memory, not for this victorious roaring. They did not give their lives for this, but for a peaceful life, so that there would be peace, so that this would never happen again, so that young people would have a future, not what is happening to us now.
The whole country lives in a GULAG, everything is forbidden, whatever you take, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. That is why we live in a GULAG.”
https://t.me/politzekinfo/9369
https://www.currenttime.tv/a/lyudmila-vasilyeva-detention/33753301.html
9 of May, St. Petersburg activist Polina Amelina, who fell victim to “carousel” arrests, has been charged with participation in a terrorist community
Polina Amelina, detained on April 30, 2026, to whom the court had assigned 10 days of administrative arrest, disappeared from sight. The 43-year-old activist was supposed to be released from the special detention center on May 9, but from there she was again sent to the FSB pre-trial detention center, and nothing has been known about Polina since.
It has become known that Polina was taken to a police station, where a protocol on an administrative offense under the article on petty hooliganism was fabricated against her. On May 9, 2026, instead of being released, a criminal case was opened against the activist for participation in a terrorist community under Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The details of the case and the charges are unknown. Polina spent her 43rd birthday in pre-trial detention.
https://t.me/politzekinfo/9372
https://t.me/arestspb/4719
https://enbv.org/person/polina-amelina https://www.threads.com/@memorial_pzk/post/DYPV6tvjfmM
18 of May, Criminologist blogger detained in Ingria on suspicion of attempted terrorist attack
The 1st Western District Military Court handed down a verdict against criminologist blogger Diana Alekseevna Chistyakova. Chistyakova was detained after throwing a Molotov cocktail at a vehicle belonging to the police regiment responsible for escorting suspects and defendants.
On May 18, 2026, Chistyakova was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg and sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment under Part 1 of Article 205 (via Part 3 of Article 30). The 30-year-old St. Petersburg resident herself justified her actions by claiming that she had fallen under the manipulation of scammers.
Human rights defenders from the Memorial PZK believe that the verdict against Chistyakova “shows signs of political motivation and a serious violation of the law.”
https://memopzk.org/figurant/chistyakova-diana-alekseevna/ (фото) https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8672094
19 of May, It became known about the detention of a man accused of financing an American non-profit organization recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation
“The suspect voluntarily provided financial assistance to an American non-profit organization whose activities are directed against the security of the Russian Federation,” reads a statement from TASS.
The investigative service of the FSB of Russia has opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (financing of extremist activities). The identity and details of the transfer are still unknown; the man has been placed in pre-trial detention.
The man faces either a fine of 300,000 to 700,000 rubles or imprisonment from 2 to 5 years.
https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/27456719
https://mr-7.ru/articles/2026/05/19/fsb-zaderzhala-peterburzhtsa-po-delu-o-finansirovanii-ekstremizma-news
21 of May, 20 months of imprisonment for a pacifist slogan by a Muscovite in Ingria
On May 21, 2026, the Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced a resident of Moscow, Alexander Arsenev, to 1 year and 8 months of imprisonment under articles for vandalism committed on grounds of political and ideological hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and discreditation of the armed forces of Russia resulting in property damage (Part 2 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The street artist was arrested in Moscow and brought to a pre-trial detention center in St. Petersburg after an action carried out in February 2025 in St. Petersburg. His action was timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. Arsenev used a spray can to write the inscription “I don’t want to get used to war” on a fence near Gazprom Arena and on Koniushennaya Square, and “applied an inscription on the lighthouse enclosure,” causing damage to the owner in the last episode of at least 10,000 rubles (about 115 Euro).
Arsenev was released from the courthouse after the verdict was announced, as he had fully served his entire sentence in the St. Petersburg pre-trial detention center.
https://zona.media/news/2026/05/21/arseniev
https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2025/03/d51198
https://memopzk.org/news/hudozhniku-aleksandru-arsenevu-naznachili-pochti-2-goda-lisheniya-svobody-za-graffiti-ne-hochu-privykat-k-vojne-v-peterburge-ego-osvobodili-v-zale-suda
The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg on May 21, 2026, ordered the detention of Boris Rudnitsky
The reason for the arrest was a comment Rudnitsky made on social media: “Good news this morning,” which the man left under a news story about an explosion in the “Alie Parusa” residential complex in Moscow. The explosion claimed the life of an Armenian criminal authority and the founder of the “ArBat” battalion from Donetsk.
Boris is charged under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; it is known that the detention will last until July 5, 2026.
https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/27501339
https://memopzk.org/figurant/rudniczkij-boris/
https://zona.media/news/2026/05/22/rudnickiy
25 of May, St. Petersburg resident fined 550,000 rubles for a 7,000-ruble transfer to a banned organization
The press service of the city bailiffs reported that a St. Petersburg resident, Konstantin Egorov, was found guilty under the article on financing extremist activities (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and was fined 550,000 rubles (according to ZAKS.RU), which is approximately 6200 Euro.
It is known that Egorov was subscribed to donations to the FBK since August 2021, when the organization had already been recognized as undesirable. The total amount of donations was 7,000 rubles (about 80 Euro).
“Egorov, acting intentionally, followed a link […] where he transferred 1,000 rubles from his bank account and enabled further systematic debiting of funds,” the press service stated, citing the messenger Max.
https://www.zaks.ru/new/archive/view/266907
https://max.ru/SPbGS/AZ5flyrUSE0
A Rosreestr employee who claimed on social media that NATO had not shown up for the war with Russia was accused of spreading “fake news about the army”
The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg on May 25, 2026, began hearing a case against 48-year-old Rosreestr employee Sergei Suptelya. Sergei is a native of Druzhkovka (Donetsk region) and lives and works in Ingermanlandia.
“NATO has still not appeared at the war, and residents of Belgorod are already sitting in basements” — for this comment on social media, Suptelya became a defendant under clauses “c” and “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on “fakes” about the army.
https://t.me/inkerinmaanseura/886
https://zona.media/news/2026/05/25/suptelya
Initiation of a сriminal сase against trash bloggers for desecration of the Russian passport and bare buttocks against the background of the george ribbon
A criminal case was initiated against two trash bloggers, Olga Bryntsеva and Alena Vasilyeva, under Article 329 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Desecration of the State Emblem of the Russian Federation or the State Flag of the Russian Federation”) and Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Rehabilitation of Nazism” committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy using mass media).
The reason for initiating the criminal case was an act by Vasilyeva, filmed and published by Bryntsеva in her Telegram channel on the night of 28 May 2025, in which the blogger, swearing obscenely, urinated and wiped herself with the emblem of the Russian Federation located on the main page of her own passport.
All this took place at night near the Alexander Nevsky Square metro station.
The reason for initiating the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism was the fact that next to the pavilion where the video was being recorded, there was a poster with images of the george ribbon, the monument “The Motherland Calls!”, and photographs from the Great Patriotic War period: “Combat”, “We Remember 1945–2025”, and “80th Victory”.
Also, against the background of these posters, Alena Vasilyeva bared her buttocks, and Olga Bryntsеva, as the investigators noted, “repeatedly cynically touched Vasilyeva’s bare buttocks.” This is how the rehabilitation of Nazism turned out.
The head of the “Safe Internet League”, Ekaterina Mizulina, gave impetus to the start of the process by filing a complaint with law enforcement agencies.
The Sova Research Center, while acknowledging the violations committed by citizens Bryntsеva and Vasilyeva, disagrees with the criminal articles brought by the investigation, believing that the case can only be characterized as minor hooliganism under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation.
“In our opinion, in this case, law enforcement officers could have limited themselves to drawing up an administrative protocol,” the Sova Center reports.
Link: https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2025/05/d51680/
27 of May, Case for transferring funds to an extremist organization in Ingria
On May 27, 2026, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced a 38-year-old resident of Ingermanlandia, Evgeny Alexandrovich Vereshchagin, to three years of imprisonment suspended. The man was found guilty under the article on financing an extremist organization (FBK) under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code.
According to the investigation, Vereshchagin was subscribed to monthly donations to the FBK, which amounted to 300 rubles (about 3,5 Euro) monthly. The subscription lasted from August 5, 2021, to February 5, 2022, and the total amount of donations was 2,100 rubles (about 24 Euro), which was deemed sufficient for criminal prosecution.
https://memopzk.org/figurant/vereshhagin-evgenij-aleksandrovich
https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2026/05/d53830