Oyub Titiev. Photo: Maria Shyshchenkova / Novayagazeta.ru On January 11, the Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya arrested for two months the head of the local branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oyub Titiev, who was accused of storing drugs of a large scale (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona publishes a transcript of the meeting with some reductions, during which Titiev told how the police threw a marijuana package into his car. Secretary.

In Moscow, in the Basmanny Court, the trial of Temirlan Eskerkhanov, previously convicted of complicity in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, accused under Article 297 of the Criminal Code (contempt of court, expressed in insulting the participants in the trial), has begun, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. At the first meeting, the plot of the indictment was read out. Eskerkhanov refused to answer the judge's question whether he admitted guilt and asked to be provided with an interpreter.

In Murmansk, police detained two minor volunteers from the headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who were posting leaflets calling for a “voter strike,” OVD-Info reports , citing the coordinator of the local headquarters, Violetta Grudina. Grudina said that the teenagers were taken to police department No. 1.

In Moscow, the Basmanny Court until February 25 placed 58-year-old Viktor Tikhonov, who was driving a bus that drove into an underground passage on Slavyansky Boulevard, under house arrest, the reports .

In Omsk, a domestic gas explosion in a residential multi-storey building injured six people, reports , citing a source in the emergency services. Interfax The agency's interlocutor also noted that among the victims were four children. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed to the agency information about a gas explosion. Information about the victims is being clarified.

Two volunteers from the headquarters of Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign in Vladivostok were detained by police while posting leaflets about an action as part of a “voter strike,” which the politician announced after he was refused registration to vote. Polina Sidelnikova, a lawyer at Navalny’s local headquarters, told Mediazona about this.

In Syria, the Russian military killed militants who carried out a mortar attack on the Khmeimim airbase on December 31, TASS reports , citing the Ministry of Defense. The agency reports that a group of Russian special operations forces has established the location of a sabotage group of militants near the western border of Idlib province.

The head of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny's presidential campaign, Leonid Volkov, published on his Twitter a copy of the project of the Moscow Region Election Commission to hold a region-wide school referendum on March 18, the day of the presidential elections. The document is addressed to the chairmen of territorial election commissions. It says that the draft regional school referendum was adopted by the election commission of the Moscow region on December 28.

The governor of the Sakhalin region, Oleg Kozhemyako, in his speech at a gala event on the eve of Russian Press Day, accused the media of forming a “negative agenda” that led to “chaos” in Libya and Egypt. Quotes from the governor’s speech are provided by Sakhalin.info . Speaking about “the important role of the media in the life of the state, society, and every person,” Kozhemyako pointed out that the media influence the formation of political views and social stability.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint of Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov, the first person convicted under the article on calls for violation of the territorial integrity of Russia (280.1 of the Criminal Code), the international human rights group Agora told Mediazona.

In the Kurgan region, the Investigative Committee began an additional investigation into the criminal case of farmer Evgeny Vasilyev, accused of illegal trafficking in special technical means for secretly obtaining information (Article 138.1 of the Criminal Code) due to the purchase of a GPS collar for a calf, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the assistant manager Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the region Lyudmila Polovnikova.

The mother of one of the prisoners in the Udmurt colony told human rights activists that correctional officers forced her to completely undress before meeting her son, the human rights movement “For Human Rights” told Mediazona. A woman contacted the Udmurt branch of “For Human Rights” and said that she had come to visit her son in a correctional colony for a long visit. Upon arrival, prison officers forced her to take off all her clothes and shoes.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill that allows individuals to be classified as media outlets with the status of “foreign agent.” The meeting is broadcast on the State Duma website. 333 deputies spoke in support of the document, and one was against it. One more deputy abstained from voting.

A drunk resident of Novokuznetsk, who was refused to sell cigarettes at a store at night, broke down the door to another store, and when he noticed private security company employees, he hid and fell asleep. The sequence of the man’s actions is described in a message from the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The editor-in-chief of the Kursk newspaper "People's Journalist" and former regional Duma deputy Olga Li filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, Damir Gainutdinov, a lawyer for the international human rights group "Agora", told Moskovsky Komsomolets.