News digest for October 22

Six years in prison for faith, a hunger strike because of “arrest carousels” and two more criminal cases against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory. We tell you what October 22nd will be remembered for.

• Jehovah's Witness from Sevastopol Igor Shmidt was sentenced to six years in prison under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization. His co-religionists from Moscow and the Moscow region were searched. Three believers - Anatoly Marunov, Roman Mareev and Sergei Tolokonnikov - were placed in a temporary detention facility.
• Syktyvkar resident Elena Rodvikova was fined 350 thousand rubles for calling for the destruction of “Putler” and “Gosdura”. She was found guilty under articles of incitement to terrorism and extremism; the case was based on comments on VKontakte.
• National Bolshevik Kirill Imashev, who is on a hunger strike because of the “arrest carousels,” was hospitalized in the hospital and after an examination was returned back to the special detention center. The court approved the decision to re-arrest the activist and his fellow party members - they were found guilty of displaying prohibited symbols.
• In the Moscow region, security forces came to search the blogger Igor Grishin and journalist Roman Ivanov. The search in Ivanov’s apartment is taking place as part of the case regarding the disclosure of preliminary investigation data.
• Two more criminal cases were opened against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal. The former head of the region is charged with organizing a criminal community and fraud on an especially large scale.
• The authorities did not approve a rally in support of a resident of Baikalsk, against whom, according to local activists, a criminal case was fabricated. Kirov activists also received a refusal to approve the action - according to the city administration, an event in memory of the victims of political repression near the building of the regional drama theater would interfere with the staging of the Swan Lake ballet.
• The court in St. Petersburg rejected the appeal of Daria Apakhonchich, an artist recognized as an individual performing the functions of a media “foreign agent.” The girl tried to appeal the court’s decision on the legality of including her in the register of “foreign agents.”
• An examination by the FSBfound signs of extremism in the book “The Unknown Northern History” about repressed Finns and Norwegians.