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In the outgoing week, the court again remembered the events on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 - the trial on the merits of the case of Maxim Panfilov , the accused in the Bolotnaya case, who was declared insane, began. During the meeting, it turned out that the prosecution attached to the Panfilov case materials related to the case filed against PARNAS activist Natalya Pelevina on the illegal circulation of special technical equipment. Pelevina, according to the investigation, is also involved in the Bolotnaya case - she is suspected of organizing and financing mass riots. However, "special technical means", namely a pen with video recording functions, Pelevina got a few years after the events on Bolotnaya Square.

A pen with video recording functions also appeared in the case of Yekaterinburg blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, accused of inciting hatred and insulting the feelings of believers for videos with rude criticism of the Orthodox Church.

In addition, two Crimean residents, Enver Bekirov and Vadim Siruk , who are accused of being members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, groundlessly banned as a terrorist organization, were charged with preparing for a violent seizure of power.

Lack of freedom of assembly

In Moscow, about 30 builders were detained , demanding payment of salaries.

At rallies in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, people were detained in Moscow , Murmansk and St. Petersburg .

Detentions continue at the Boris Nemtsov memorial in Moscow, but usually explanations are taken from people and released, and on January 16, almost for the first time, protocols were drawn up against the detainees on holding an uncoordinated picket .

In St. Petersburg, they refused to agree on a rally against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the ROC, and in Moscow they did not even agree on a picket of the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement near the US Embassy. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation complains about regular obstacles in coordinating events in Khakassia.

The Krasnodar Regional Court lost the complaint of the artist Alexei Knedlyakovsky to arrest for 15 days in the case of installing a cross on the bust of Dzerzhinsky.

Other detentions

Andrei Bazhutin, the head of the Association of Russian Carriers , was detained early in the morning near his house when he was going to take the children to school. He was taken to court and fined 1,000 rubles under the petty hooliganism article in connection with an attempt to inspect a barrier on a toll road.

Extremism and missionary work

Arkhangelsk sectologist Denis Danilov was fined for distributing a video about the similarity of fascist and pagan symbols.

The court in St. Petersburg dismissed the case of illegal missionary work brought against a local resident Dmitry Ugay for a lecture on yoga.

A new case has been opened against a former school teacher from the Oryol region, Alexander Byvshev, and again because of poems about Ukraine.

In the same Oryol region, activist Anna Dulevskaya was summoned to the Investigative Committee because of a critical post about the opening of a monument to Ivan the Terrible.

Yevgeny Kort, a resident of Zelenograd, was given a mitigated sentence in the case of incitement to hatred, replacing a year in a colony-settlement with a fine of 200,000 rubles. The reason for opening the case was a picture on social networks depicting people similar to Pushkin and the nationalist Tesak.

The Moscow City Court dismissed the Jehovah's Witnesses' complaint against the Prosecutor General's Office's warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity issued to their Administrative Center.

Criminal prosecutions

The Yaroslavl Regional Court upheld the sentence of the former Mayor of Yaroslavl Yevgeny Urlashov, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 60 million rubles in the case of taking a bribe.

Better late than never: the Supreme Court overturned all decisions on the arrest and extension of the arrest of National Bolshevik Pavel Zherebin, taken in 2009. This happened because the European Court of Human Rights found Zherebin's arrest illegal. Zherebin was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of hooliganism, and the attack by unknown people on the National Bolsheviks was the reason for initiating the case.

Ildar Dadin's wife, Anastasia Zotova, was banned from seeing her husband in the colony: she was told that the next meeting would be possible only in May.

Other types of harassment

Alexei Navalny was denied a complaint that the Investigative Committee did not start a case against employees who were monitoring his family.

was recognized as legal The dismissal of Associate Professor of Irkutsk State University Alexei Petrov . He was fired for absenteeism, although their fact was not proven in court, and an activist of the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement wrote a complaint against him.

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Evidence of torture, abuse and poor conditions in the colonies continues to come in: letters from Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov and Russian nationalist Vitaly Shishkin have been published .

What awaits us (22.01 - 28.01)

On January 24, the Constitutional Court intends to consider a complaint against Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code on “repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events,” under which Ildar Dadin is serving his sentence.

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