News digest for October 8

New “foreign agents”, a request for a real sentence under the “Dada” article and the detention of an incel by Center “E”. We tell you the main news for October 8.

• The prosecution requested three years in prison for Kolomna eco-activist Vyacheslav Egorov. He is being persecuted under the “Dada” article.
• The Ministry of Justice included nine more people and three companies in the register of “foreign agents”. Among them are Bellingcat , MNews and Caucasian Knot publications, journalists from Radio Liberty and other independent publications, as well as the head of the Center for the Protection of Media Rights Galina Arapova.
• The Federal Penitentiary Service has begun transporting ex-official Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was found guilty on charges of fraud, money laundering, illegal entrepreneurship and bribery. The Memorial human rights center connects Shestun’s case with his criticism of local government reform in the Moscow region.
• The court upheld the sentence of the head of the “Left Resistance” Daria Polyudova, convicted under articles of justifying terrorism and extremism on the Internet. The activist was sentenced to six years in prison.
• Security forces came with massive searches to Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kurgan region. Investigative actions were carried out, among other things, on the believer who buried his mother that day. Immediately after the funeral, the man was forced to go for interrogation.
• In Nizhny Novgorod, employees of Center “E” detained a representative of the incel movement, Alexei Podnebesny, and took him to a psychiatric hospital. According to the detainee, he was charged with commenting on VKontakte about a student who committed a shooting at a Perm university.
• Moscow resident Mark Prozorov, who went out on a solo picket in support of the arrested Rosderzhava journalists, was fined 20 thousand rubles. The interests of the peaceful protest participant were defended by lawyer from OVD-Info Ilya Utkin.
• In Simferopol, the court fined Crimean Tatars Raim Seitkhalilov, Mir Ibragim Ibragimov and Abdumalin Susanov due to a spontaneous gathering near the FSB building. The latter did not participate in the gathering. “In fact, the basis for his involvement was concern for the fate of his compatriots,” the lawyer commented on Susanov’s case.
• The editor-in-chief of a news portal in Mari El, Sergei Mameev, was fined four thousand rubles under an article on violating the law on “foreign agents.” The journalist was charged with publishing a photograph of a Meduza photographer without indicating the publication’s “foreign agency.”
• In Yekaterinburg, policecharged four National Bolsheviks who were already serving arrest for distributing leaflets with another offense. The activists were charged with demonstrating prohibited symbols.