News digest for September 28

A verdict under the “Dada” article, restriction of freedom for posts about the January rallies and a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny and his associates. We tell you the main news for September 28.

• The ex-coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Khabarovsk, Alexei Vorsin, was sentenced to three years probation. He was found guilty under the “Dada” article.
• The defendant in the “palace case” from Verkhnyaya Pyshma was sentenced to four months of restricted freedom. The court equated posts about the January rallies to calls for mass riots.
• The Investigative Committee opened a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny and his associates. The oppositionists were charged with an article about the activities of an extremist community.
• The Ministry of Justice included Important Foreign Agents LLC in the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents.” The organization was created by journalists from Important Stories, a publication that was included in this register in August.
• Maxim Ivankin, a defendant in the “Network” case, who is in prison, was not allowed to visit his wife. FSIN employees stated that the prisoner was allegedly not in their institution.
• Arkhangelsk eco-activist Andrei Khristoforov (Drevarkh the Enlightened)was given an indictment. He is being prosecuted under the article of violence against a government official.
• Muslim Aliyev, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, sentenced to 19 years, was placed in a punishment cell for 10 days. The colony administration extended his stay in the isolation ward several times: in the end, the prisoner spent four months there.
• A resident of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Larisa Babaeva, was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on “disrespect for authority.” Unknown people complained to security forces about the woman’s messages on Viber, where she compared Putin with Hitler.
• A court in Ufa rejected the Ministry of Internal Affairs' claim against Olga Komleva, a participant in the January 31 rally. The ministry demanded compensation of 1,106,008 rubles for the work of security forces at the rally.
• The ECHR ordered Russia to pay more than 9 thousand euros in compensation to pensioner from Mari El Evgeniy Shevelev, convicted because of his speech at a rally in 2014. A Russian court found the protester guilty of libel for speaking against the head of the region.