News digest for September 24

The verdict in the “Ingush case”, the next “undesirable organizations”, visits of security forces to the participants of the Communist Party rally and arrests of the National Bolsheviks - briefly about the main thing for September 24.

• Murad Gorbakov, a defendant in the “Ingush case,” was sentenced to 11 months in prison. He was found guilty of using violence against a National Guard member during protests in Magas. Taking into account the time served in the pre-trial detention center, Gorbakov will spend about two months in the colony.
• For the second day in a row, police officers are coming to the homes of participants in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation rally against election fraud. The security forces threatened to cut down one activist’s door if he did not accept a summons to the department to draw up a report.
• The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises and the Ron Hubbard Library as “undesirable.” Both organizations are registered in the USA.
• The Ministry of Justice, through the court , demanded the liquidation of the association of lawyers and human rights activists “Astrea”. The reason for the lawsuit was that when changes were made to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founder of the fund, Lyudmila Polshikova, indicated that she was at her registration address, but at that time the woman was in a different place.
• In St. Petersburg, two police officers filed a claim for compensation for moral damages against former AgitRussia participant Pavel Ivankin. Law enforcement officers’ claims are related to the activist’s picket, after which a criminal case was opened against him for insulting security forces: in January, Ivankin came out with a poster “Garbage is worse than shit.”
• Four Jehovah's Witnesses from Volgograd - Sergei Melnik, Igor Egozaryan, Denis Peresunko and Valery Rogozin - were sentenced to sentences of up to six years and five months in prison. The believers were found guilty under articles of organizing and financing the activities of an extremist organization.
• The court left in custody the person involved in the case of sabotage on the Crimean gas pipeline, Asan Akhtemov. The man is suspected of committing crimes under articles of sabotage and possession of explosives by a group of persons.
• Five National Bolsheviks, who on September 22 held a rally against the official election results near the State Duma building, were sentenced to 10 to 25 days of arrest. The police classified their actions under three different articles.
• VKontakte blocked the accounts of Kaliningrad associates of Alexei Navalny. One of the activists plans to appeal the blocking.
• In Rostov-on-Don, Kirill Skripin, accused of vandalism motivated by political hatred, was released from a pre-trial detention center. According to investigators, the activist, together with his accomplices, wrote “PUTIN IS A THIEF” on one of the city buildings, thereby expressing “obvious disrespect for society” and, “disregarding moral standards,” desecrated the appearance of the building.