News digest for October 28

Cancellation of the decision to close the public “Vagina Monologues”, blocking of the “Project” website and extension of the arrest of the father of the ex-director of FBK. We tell you the main news for October 28.

• The court in Khabarovsk overturned the decision to close the public page of artist Yulia Tsvetkova “Vagina Monologues”. In May, a group that published drawings of female genitalia was banned for “distributing pornography.”
• Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Proekt publication. In July, the organization that is the legal entity of the publication was recognized as “undesirable,” and Project journalists were added to the register of media “foreign agents.”
• The elderly Yuri Zhdanov, the father of ex-director of FBK Ivan Zhdanov, had his term of detention in a pre-trial detention center extended . Yuri is accused of fraud and forgery; Ivan is sure that the case against his father is a method of putting pressure on him.
• The former head of Team 29, lawyer Ivan Pavlov,was put on the wanted list. The project closed in July, which was preceded by the blocking of the site.
• The prosecutor asked for 10 months in prison for blogger Ruslan Bobiyev and his girlfriend Anastasia Chistova because of a photograph of simulated oral sex near St. Basil's Cathedral. The young people are charged with insulting the feelings of believers.
• Programmer and former prisoner Sergei Savelyev, who handed over a video archive of torture of prisoners to the Gulagu.net project, was arrested in absentia. The investigation considers him guilty of unlawful access to computer information.
• The charges against Jehovah's Witness from Vlasikha, Sergei Ohanyan, were changed : the article on involvement in the activities of an extremist organization was excluded, leaving the points on participation and organization of extremist activities. In Chelyabinsk, his co-religionists Vadim Gizatulin and Irina Mikhailenko were searched .
• A court in Rostov-on-Don fined Adygea resident Daniil Ershov 30 thousand rubles because of a comment about an explosion at the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. He was found guilty under the article on justifying terrorism on the Internet.
• The court in Kuban upheld the verdict of the deceased architect Mikhail Kalyamin. In July, he was given a two-year suspended sentence in a case of incitement to extremism due to statements on the Internet.
• The Investigative Committee of Dagestanopened a criminal case for participation in an extremist organization against a resident of Izberbash. He is suspected of involvement in the Nurcular religious association.
• The court in Simferopol extended the detention period of Nariman Jelal, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, defendants in the gas pipeline sabotage case.