A court in Rostov-on-Don fined Alexei Navalny’s volunteers for organizing a meeting of a group of voters in support of the politician’s self-nomination. The press secretary of the headquarters, Timofey Martynenko, told Mediazona about this. “One of our volunteers, Boris Papayan, was fined 75 thousand rubles by the well-known judge Tapchanyan.

An inpatient psychiatric examination found that Boris Grits, who attacked Echo of Moscow radio station journalist Tatyana Felgengauer, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, TASS reports citing Open Russia lawyer Sergei Badamshin, who represents the interests of the victim. “As a result of the examination, the commission found that Grits suffers from paranoid schizophrenia with a continuous course,” the doctors’ conclusion says.

The basis for launching an inspection of the Fifth Season of the Year fund, which provides support for the work of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters, was a letter from the governor of the Kemerovo region, who, in turn, was approached with a complaint by anonymous tenants of premises in Kemerovo. this Navalny reported on his blog.

In Cheboksary, police officers came to the headquarters of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, the coordinator of the headquarters Semen Kochkin, who is conducting a direct broadcast of what is happening, told Mediazone. Now the police recalculate and seal all campaign materials at the headquarters to seize them. They said that they were taking all the materials in order to check them for extremism.

Back in December, the Moscow Pardon Commission unanimously refused to include former Senator Izmestyev, who was sentenced to life in prison, on the pardon list, RIA Novosti reports , citing the deputy chairman of the commission, Maria Kannabikh. "No. Unfortunately... (human rights activist Andrei - MZ) Babushkin spoke about this list, (head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila - MZ) Alekseeva spoke for this list, they are not together, they are apart, really.

A court in Sochi sentenced Anton Shilov, accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred and enmity on the basis of nationality, race, language and origin), to 2 years in a penal colony for publishing videos on social networks, according to the website of the Investigative Committee’s department for the Krasnodar Territory. The court and investigation established that the accused published four videos from his personal laptop from December 2014 to February 2016.

Police officers again came to Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Veliky Novgorod to inspect the premises; the day before they seized leaflets and equipment there. According to assistant coordinator of the headquarters Yaroslav Putrov, the police explained their current visit by an anonymous call they received. “The police say that they received an anonymous call on 02. They reported that there might be leaflets of an extremist nature at the headquarters.

On January 16, employees of department “M” of the FSB detained the head of the department for the implementation of Center “E” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Tugushev, suspected of receiving a bribe (Article 290 of the Criminal Code), reports , without disclosing its sources.

Employees of the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok searched the student’s room in search of campaign materials for Alexei Navalny’s campaign, after which he was taken to the police station, where they threatened to draw up an administrative report on illegal campaigning. A young man who wished to remain anonymous told Mediazona about this. At approximately 12 o'clock in the afternoon there was a knock on the student's room; at that moment he was sleeping.

In Cheboksary and Tambov, local coordinators of the Open Russia movement Dmitry Semenov and Vladimir Zhilkin were detained, human rights manager Polina Nemirovskaya told Mediazona. MBKh Media writes that Semenov was detained as he exited the trolleybus.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow returned to the prosecutor the case of the owner of the Forum company, Dmitry Mikhalchenko, accused of participating in alcohol smuggling (Part 3 of Article 200.2 of the Criminal Code), reports . Interfax The question of returning the case was raised by the judge himself. Lawyers supported his position. The prosecutor's office objected to this decision.

The Shakhunsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region sentenced former MIA operative Andrei Tumanov to 4 years in prison, who tortured detainee Denis Kramchaninov to confess to theft, reports . the Committee Against Torture Tumanov was found guilty under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence). Previously, the State Prosecution requested six years in a general regime colony for the former operative.

The local doctor of the village of Iengra, Neryungri district of Yakutia, Vladimir Naumov, who hit a patient who came to remove the beating, has the status of a deputy of the local government, according to the website of the department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow refused to accept a counterclaim against the Ministry of Justice of the Fifth Time of the Year Foundation, which is responsible for ensuring the work of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters, told RAPSI. court spokeswoman Alena Gorbenko The agency's statement does not mention the reasons for this decision. The Ministry of Justice's lawsuit to liquidate the Fifth Time of the Year fund based on the results of an audit will be considered on January 22.

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court upheld the cassation submission of the Deputy Prosecutor General and returned for a new appeal the case of nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov), convicted in a case of extremism, TASS reports . The judge explained that when making the appeal decision to commute Potkin’s sentence, “minor violations” were committed, which should be corrected during reconsideration.