News digest for September 13

Pressure on Alexei Navalny in the colony, a complaint from the prosecutor's office about the release of the artist Hadad from a pre-trial detention center, and an administrative case for praying in a grove. We talk about the main news for September 13th.

• The court rejected the appeal to extend the arrest of Rosderzhava journalist Yan Katelevsky. He is accused of extortion, insulting an official and damaging property for hooligan reasons. The journalist connects the persecution with his professional activities. Katelevsky, while in jail, broke his collarbone.
• The prosecutor's office demanded that the Khabarovsk artist Maxim Smolnikov (Hadad), accused of justifying terrorism, be returned to the pre-trial detention center. Last week he was released under a ban on certain activities after being held in custody for about four months.
• Alexey Navalny, who is serving a sentence in the Yves Rocher case, said that the colony administration is interfering with his meetings with his lawyer. According to him, FSIN employees are trying to prevent politicians from calling for participation in the September 19 elections and “killing United Russia.”
• Civil activist from Novorossiysk Anton Deinega left Russia due to pressure from the security forces. After his arrest at a rally on January 23, the FSB threatened him with criminal charges.
• A resident of the Voronezh region was sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles for a post on VKontakte about an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. He was found guilty under the article on justifying terrorism.
• In the Amur Region, the court approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Konstantin Moiseenko: he was given six years probation under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization. His co-religionist from Udmurtia, Maxim Derendyaev, accused under the same article, had his house arrest replaced by a ban on certain actions.
• Philatelist from the Krasnodar Territory Sergei Ryazantsev was fined two thousand rubles for auctioning stamps with Nazi symbols. The collector was found guilty of displaying Nazi symbols.
• The Ministry of Emergency Situations opened an administrative case against the priest of the Mari national religion Vitaly Tanakov after holding a prayer in the grove. A man lit candles in memory of the victims of Stalin's repressions: he was accused of violating fire regulations.
• In Buryatia, the court returned for further investigation the case against local oppositionist Bair Nimaev, accused of insulting a judge. According to investigators, the activist spoke obscenely at the judge during a hearing on an administrative case, at which he acted as a defense attorney.
• The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case against the director of the Novosibirsk college, Sergei Chernyshev, who spoke critically about the possibility of renaming the city square in honor of Alexander Nevsky. An unknown person wrote a statement against the teacher demanding that a criminal case be opened under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism.