In the Moscow City Court, a jury found the former general director of the Menshevik confectionery factory, Ilya Averyanov, not guilty of the murder of a security guard, a Moscow agency correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The security forces searched the activist Asinat Aushev, whose card was transferred money to help families arrested after protests against changing the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, writes the Caucasian Knot with reference to Aushev itself. According to the activist, the security forces arrived in the early morning and were about to break the door, but she decided to open it herself. As a result, she took her phone and laptop.

In Kaluga, the concert of the ska-punk band Distemper was canceled after a warning from the regional prosecutor's office, the group reports on VKontakte.

sentenced to six years in prison a man who kidnapped a wheelchair user so that he would beg, reports 63.ru. The Tolyatti Avtozavodsky Court The publication does not name names, but according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the kidnapper and his partners are called Roman Doiko, Alexander Ivanov and Georgi Ibrian, and the disabled person is Ildus Khametov. As 63.ru writes , in November 2018, Doiko and his partners kidnapped Khametov, pushing him into a car.

The Chkalovsky District Court arrested Sergei Zykov, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission in Yekaterinburg, for two days. about this in his Telegram channel Activist Nikita Tomilov wrote . Earlier in the day, he announced the arrest of Zykov.

The servers of the Dozhd TV channel were subject to DDoS attacks for two weeks, the publication writes with reference to the provider Mastertel. The first DDoS attack occurred on January 9, the two largest attacks were on January 13 and 14. Their capacities are about 38 and 24 gigabits per second, the publication clarifies. On January 22, another attack occurred with a capacity of almost five gigabits per second.

The Moscow District Court of Cheboksary sentenced former City Duma deputy from United Russia Evgeny Andreev to nine years in prison in the case of contract murder, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee and Pravda Volga Federal District . According to investigators, Andreev, out of “personal hostility” towards his business partner, collected data about his personal life from December 2016 to January 2017.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region from United Russia Andrei Alabushev was found dead, TASS reports citing a source. According to the agency's interlocutor, the parliamentarian was killed in his home. The agency adds that the preliminary version of the murder was robbery. the same information with reference to the source . publishes Interfax According to Baza , in addition to Alabushev, his wife was also killed.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory returned for further investigation the criminal case regarding the rally with a dummy of President Vladimir Putin, reports with reference to lawyer Anastasia Shardakova. MBKH Media “The prosecutor’s office did not approve the charges, the case was returned back to the Investigative Committee. Investigations will still be carried out.

A district police officer from Tula used someone else’s bank card, found when leaving on a theft complaint, to pay for an online movie theater, the regional prosecutor’s office reports . According to investigators, in April 2019, a police officer came to the office on a complaint of theft. He found a bank card on the table and wrote down the details. Then the district police officer came home and, using the details, paid for watching films in an online cinema for 599 rubles, the report says.

In Moscow, Demyan Moskvin, accused in the case of the former head of the Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer, who was on the federal wanted list, was detained. This was reported by 7x7 with reference to Moskvin’s lawyer Sergei Safronov. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the head of Komi Gaizer in September 2015.

The Moscow City Court replaced the preventive measure from house arrest to a ban on certain actions for schoolboy Kirill Kuzminkin, accused in the case of storing and manufacturing explosives. this Activist and former defendant in the “Moscow case” Vladislav Barabanov reported from the courtroom. The young man was prohibited from using the Internet and mobile communications, leaving home from 10 pm to 7 am and attending public events, the activist reports .

The Christmas episode of “Evening Urgant” was removed from the program’s YouTube channel and from the Channel One website, drew attention to this. Open Media Soon the video was returned to both the YouTube channel and the channel’s website. What the restriction was related to is not specified. Earlier, Ivan Urgant had to apologize to Orthodox activists for the same issue.

There was news here about an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (), which claimed to have discovered luxury real estate from the sons of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. On February 18, 2022, Roskomnadzor demanded that Mediazona completely remove the news, citing the fact that it quoted materials from FBK, which was recognized as an “extremist organization” (the news was written on January 28, 2020, a year and a half before the FBK ban).

The Memorial human rights center has recognized the alleged leader of the Russian branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Eduard Nizamov, as a political prisoner, according to the organization’s website.