A court in Sevastopol found Crimean Vitaly Slavikovsky guilty of inciting hatred against “groups of people based on nationality,” as well as against fans of the Spartak football club, Open Russia reports , citing the press service of the Nakhimovsky District Court. According to the investigation, from November 2014 to May 2015, Slavikovsky published posts of an “aggressive nature, containing profanity” on his VKontakte page.

Politician Alexei Navalny submitted a request to the Federal Treasury of Russia to file a recourse claim against judge Sergei Blinov, who made the first decision in the Kirovles case, said the head of the legal service of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov. Zhdanov recalled that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the Russian authorities to pay Navalny compensation in the amount of 3 million 419 thousand rubles for an unfair trial in the Kirovles case.

The man whose body was found in Odessa is not the assistant to Oksana Sokolovskaya’s lawyer Sergei Fedosenko, a witness in the murder case of lawyer Yuri Grabovsky. This was reported by the publication Censor.net with reference to the speaker of the Odessa regional police Alena Voitenko. According to Voitenko, it has been established that the body found does not belong to Fedosenko.

A military man from Tatarstan, captain-artilleryman Marat Akhmetshin died in Syria in the summer of 2016, RBC reports with reference to the military commissariat of the Novo-Savinovsky and Aircraft Construction districts of Kazan. The funeral of a military man killed during the Syrian operation took place in August 2016. Akhmetshin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia, and one of the schools in the Novo-Savinovsky district of Kazan was named after him.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated a complaint against the arrest of Astrakhan resident Maxim Panfilov, accused of participating in mass riots and using violence against a police officer in the case of the events on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012. this with reference to Panfilov’s lawyer Sergei Panchenko. reports Interfax “The ECHR accepted Maxim Panfilov’s arrest complaint,” the lawyer said.

In Irkutsk, children from low-income families received candy with worms as a New Year's gift from the governor, IrkutskMedia reports . Parents of benefit children filed complaints with Rospotrebnadzor, the regional Ministry of Social Development and the candy manufacturer. “We had three complaints before the New Year. Residents of Irkutsk reported that the free candies that were received in Irkutsk through social security contained white worms.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission for the Kurgan Region did not find confirmation of the report of the beating of Ruslan Sayfutdinov, convicted of participating in hostilities in Syria, by employees of correctional colony No. 1. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Convict Saifutdinov died on January 7 in a medical correctional institution.

Former State Duma deputy of the sixth convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Konstantin Shirshov, convicted of attempting to sell his mandate, was released on parole. this with reference to the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. reports Interfax “Konstantin Shirshov left after just over two years,” Zyuganov said at a faction meeting.

Unknown persons beat journalist Vladislav Ryazantsev on Soviet Square in Rostov-on-Don. Ryazantsev himself reported this to Mediazona. The journalist said that before the attack he was walking around the city center with his wife. The attack occurred in front of a public transport stop, where they were already planning to leave. According to Ryazantsev, there were five attackers.

A court in Omsk sentenced 31-year-old Kanat Adyrbaev to 23 years in a maximum security colony for the murder of two people, attempted murder and causing minor harm to health (clause “a” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code, article 30, part 1 of article 105 of the criminal code and article 115 UK). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee.

Alexey Navalny will represent the interests of Anton Nosik and Alexey Kungurov, convicted for posts about Syria, in the European Court of Human Rights. He wrote about this on his blog. Both of them are going to appeal the violation of their rights in Strasbourg.

The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow remanded Omar Omarov and Islam Murtazaliev in custody until March 6, reports RAPSI . They are suspected of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). On January 6, one of the suspects was detained after the publication of a shooting video in which a young man fired a weapon similar to an assault rifle into the air; there were two more next to him. Life wrote that the incident occurred in Medvedkovo.

In Odessa, they found the body of a man who bears a strong resemblance to Sergei Fedosenko, a witness in the murder case of lawyer Yuri Grabovsky. this on her Facebook. reported Lawyer Oksana Sokolovskaya, who together with Grabovsky represented the interests of “GRU fighters” Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev in a Ukrainian court, According to Sokolovskaya, on January 5, she received a call from the search service asking her to come to identify a body similar to her assistant Fedosenko.

Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Nadezhda Savchenko published lists of Russians who are in Ukrainian prisons, and Ukrainians who are in Russian prisons, and also held by separatists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. The deputy proposed an exchange of “all for all,” according to her Facebook page. Savchenko outlined two categories of exchange: one of them included 44 Ukrainian prisoners who are being held in Russian prisons, including in Crimea.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of lawyers from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture regarding the death of convicted Vladimir Tkachuk in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Orsk in 2013. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the human rights organization.