News digest for September 14

Extension of the house arrest of MP Ketevan Kharaidze, the hunger strike of the head of the “Left Resistance” in a pre-trial detention center and a huge fine for “Nasiliyu.net”. We tell you the main news for September 14.

• Moscow MP Ketevan Kharaidze, accused of fraud, has had her house arrestextended for two months. The politician connects the persecution with his plans to be elected to the State Duma.
• The leader of the Left Resistance, Daria Polyudova, sentenced to six years in prison because of posts on VKontakte, went on a hunger strike in a pre-trial detention center. The activist is under pressure: fellow inmates steal her personal belongings and threaten to kill her.
• The ECHR declared illegal the refusal of the Ministry of Justice to register the National Bolshevik Party, as well as its liquidation. The court ordered Russia to pay 10 thousand euros in compensation to the children of Eduard Limonov, who founded the party.
• Jehovah's Witness Viktor Stashevsky, sentenced to six and a half years in prison for organizing the activities of an extremist organization, was taken to the colony. The FSB conducted massive searches of his co-religionists from the Primorsky Territory. Security forces seized electronic devices, religious literature and personal notes from believers.
• The former head of Navalny’s headquarters in Arkhangelsk, Andrei Borovikov, was transferred to a colony. In April, he was sentenced to actual imprisonment for publishing a Rammstein video on VKontakte.
• The Nasiliyu.net center was fined 300 thousand rubles for the absence of the “foreign agent” label in the publications of the Utopia publication. The court considered that the media is connected with the center, although Utopia representatives deny this.
• The Ministry of Justice revealed the reasons for including journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky in the list of media outlets performing the functions of a “foreign agent.” Officials listed Rozhdestvensky's articles about protests, corruption and the case of Ivan Safronov. At the same time, the Ministry of Justice did not provide evidence that the journalist received money from abroad.
• In Krasnoyarsk, the court revoked the license of the independent Channel 8, which released a story about pressure on the media from the head of the local department of Roskomnadzor. Channel employees called the court's decision political.
• The Ministry of Justicedemanded that the Sitting Russia Foundation, which helps prisoners, abandon the logo and issued a warning about “signs of desecration” of the Russian coat of arms. Officials said the double-headed eagle, with a warden's baton on one side and prison shackles on the other, was an insult to the state symbol.
• In St. Petersburg, the court dismissed the cases of five participants in the action on April 21: Alexander Volykhin, Andrei Lyulyakin, Yana Gafarova, Kirill Ponomarenko and Denis Bondyakov. In the protocols of all protesters, the police indicated a non-existent address where the offense was committed. The interests of the detainees were defended by lawyer from OVD-Info Elena Fadeeva.