The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has published a vivid statement on Tbilisi. In it, the agency accused Great Britain of organizing "subversive activities" in Georgia and attempts to overthrow the ruling Georgian Dream party.

В отношении Арега Щепихина, которого 3 июня похитили на Ярославском вокзале Москвы и позже отпустили, возбуждено уголовное дело о призывах к экстремистской деятельности. 

The Zheleznovodsk City Court sentenced a resident of Stavropol Krai, Oksana Kazantseva, to two years and six months of probation. She was found guilty of public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Russian Armed Forces.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told his team that Russia ordered the Armenian Apostolic Church to fight the authorities. According to the local publication Hraparak, the Armenian leader said that Moscow ordered the clergy to make anti-government statements.

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over the kidnapping of businessman Areg Shchepikhin in Moscow. The department reported that the defendants were taken to the Moscow division.

A court in Kazan arrested a local resident, Ruslan Tavdiryakov, for 10 days. He was found guilty under an administrative article for a post comparing nationalists at the religious procession with participants in the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced a serviceman named Shkhagapsoev to one year in prison. He was accused of unauthorized abandonment of his unit.

A prosecution witness, former employee of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Crimea (SAMC) Ruslan Bairov, was questioned in the Southern District Military Court. He said that he was not aware of the involvement of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir in terrorist acts and violence. He also did not know why the organization was included in the list of terrorist organizations in Russia.

On June 3, the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) held an extraordinary meeting to examine the situation in Tbilisi. The European Parliament's rapporteur on Georgia, Rasa Juknevičienė, stressed that she does not have time to make additions to the report on the country's democratic backsliding – the government acts so quickly.

The Minister of National Policy and Information of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, stated that blogger Areg Shchepikhin was not kidnapped, but detained in Moscow by law enforcement officers from the Chechen Republic. He "publicly and repeatedly called for ethnic cleansing and Nazism, insulted religion and God, and also expressed clearly extremist views," Dudayev said.