News digest for June 23

Roskomnadzor demands that the Smart Voting website be blocked, and the courts arrest several Pussy Riot members for 15 days. About the main thing for June 23 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• The decision to arrest Rosderzhava journalist Alexander Dorogovwas upheld - he is now in a pre-trial detention center. On June 22, the court also extended the preventive measure for his colleague Jan Katelevsky. The journalists claim that the criminal case brought against them is fabricated.
• The court extended the period of detention of the defendant in the “Ingush case” Akhmed Pogorov, despite health problems. The elderly activist is charged with participation in an extremist community and organizing life-threatening violence against police officers.
• Roskomnadzor demanded that Google block the Smart Voting website created by Alexei Navalny and his team. The reason for contacting the corporation was a statement from a Yekaterinburg lawyer who claims that the site transfers personal data of Russians to the United States.
• Members of the Pussy Riot art group Alexander Sofeev, Lyusya Stein and Anna Kuzmin were arrested for 15 days. Sofeev’s friend, photographer Dmitry Vorontsov, received the same sentence. Protocols were drawn up against the girls under the article of disobedience to police officers, and Sofeev and Vorontsov were found guilty of petty hooliganism.
• The court imposed fines on former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov and the organization Open Petersburg registered in his name. Administrative cases were initiated due to failure to voluntarily include Open Petersburg in the register of “foreign agents.”
• Political activist from the Tver region Vladimir Egorov left for Lithuania due to criminal prosecution. Another political emigrant, the former coordinator of Navalny’s Irkutsk headquarters Sergei Bespalov, was started looking for by FSIN employees - he left the country back in February.
• Due to suspicions of extremism, the leader of the Uzbek diaspora from the Altai Territory, Batirzhon Kambarov, was deprived of Russian citizenship. According to the intelligence services, he organized a hostel for representatives of Central Asian countries and hid there a citizen of Tajikistan who was put on the international wanted list.
• The court changed the preventive measure for lawyer Mikhail Benyash to a written undertaking not to leave the place. A case was opened against him under the article of violence against a government official. Benyash's defense insists that the purpose of the criminal prosecution is to disbar him.
• In Chuvashia, the case of Idel.Realii journalist Daria Komarova was sent for a new trial. She is charged with a “rally” article due to her participation in a meeting with voters, which was held by the former coordinator of Navalny’s Cheboksary headquarters in August 2020.
• The ex-coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Tver, Andrei Prokudin, was fined because of a live broadcast on Instagram in which “Putin’s palace” and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny were discussed. Prokudin was found guilty of disseminating fake information.