The Demsky District Court of Ufa has ordered RusNews journalist Olga Komleva to pay 125,000 rubles for overtime police work at protests in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by RusNews.
The court satisfied the claim of the Beloretsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan. This is one of 18 claims that the security forces brought against the journalist. The total amount of all claims against Komleva exceeded five million rubles, some of which have already been satisfied by the courts.
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies regularly file lawsuits against Komleva, sometimes other activists act as defendants. In January 2023 alone, the number of such lawsuits reached seven. The courts have already satisfied some of the lawsuits. Thus, at the end of July, the woman was ordered to pay 23 thousand rubles in favor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs medical unit. After this lawsuit was satisfied, the bailiffs also confiscated Komleva's car.
- The police filed similar claims for compensation for work at the protests on January 23 and 31, 2021, in Yaroslavl , Penza , Kirov , Kemerovo , Omsk , Chelyabinsk , Novosibirsk , Murmansk , Tambov , Arkhangelsk , Abakan , Samara , St. Petersburg , Krasnoyarsk , and Yekaterinburg .
- Following the arrest of politician Alexei Navalny in January 2021, a series of protests took place across Russia, with mass rallies taking place on Saturday, January 23, Sunday, January 31, and February 2 (the day Navalny's suspended sentence was replaced with a real one). Security forces responded harshly to the protests: more than 4,000 people were detained on January 23, more than 5,500 on January 31, and more than 1,400 on February 2. More than 2,200 people were detained in connection with the April 21 protest, including at least 363 on CCTV cameras.