The wife of politician Alexei Navalny, Yulia, spoke about the surveillance. Yulia published a photo of a car parked near her house, specifying that the car had been there “for 24 hours.” Earlier, the politician’s ally Lyubov Sobol also complained about surveillance in the store. In a video about his alleged poisoners, Navalny talked about surveillance officers who “follow” him. The oppositionist returned to Russia on the evening of January 17 after rehabilitation in Germany.

Moscow police have begun an investigation into the beating of Vesna movement activist Ekaterina Bushkova, who was hit by a police officer during her arrest at Vnukovo airport. This was reported by the human rights organization “Apology of Protest”. Bushkova said that during the arrest, a police officer hit her face on the handle of the paddy wagon. Doctors diagnosed her with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and hemorrhage in her left eye.

The Magas District Court released from criminal liability the former editor of the FortangaORG publication Rashid Maysigov, accused of calls for separatism (Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code). this Reports . Judge Ruslan Kotiev granted the petition to dismiss the case due to the decriminalization of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code. Maysigov was added to the list of extremists and terrorists on February 27, 2020.

In Moscow, on Prechistenskaya Embankment, a rally was held in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were shot by neo-Nazi from the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” Nikita Tikhonov in 2009. Mediazona correspondents report this. Those present laid flowers near the murder scene.

In St. Petersburg, during pickets at the Gostiny Dvor, six people were detained against the development of city parks and squares. This was reported by OVD-info and Sota.Vision . According to the project, the security forces were taken to the auto -zak of the Coordinator of the Green Petersburg movement, Ksolir Vranks and a participant in the pickets of Svetlana Utkin.

The Penza Railway Court commuted the sentence of the former head of the regional Ministry of Health, Vladimir Stryuchkov, who was sentenced to three years and three months in a general regime colony for raping a doctor. This was reported by the press service of the court. The court decided to transfer the convict from a general regime colony to a settlement colony.

The United States has imposed sanctions against the Fortuna vessel, which is laying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. This was reported on the website of the US Department of the Treasury. In addition, sanctions were imposed against the owner of the vessel “KVT-Rus” and the company “Rustanker”. In December 2020, a year after being stopped due to US sanctions, construction of the gas pipeline resumed .

At a meeting in the Sovetsky District Court of Vladikavkaz, the prosecutor requested 19 years in a maximum security colony for former police officer Vadim Tekhov on charges of ex-wife Regina Gagieva. This was reported to Mediazona in the Law Zone. Tekhov is also accused of, , and . The prosecutor asked to discontinue proceedings under the first two articles due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg returned for consideration the claim of philologist Alexander Kobrinsky for the protection of honor and dignity against Kholod journalist Sofya Volyanova over the article “The Brilliant Professor” about harassment of female students. Information about this was published in the court file.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk fined activist Maria Poroshina 5 thousand rubles under the article on , reports . the press service of the court The activist went to the picket on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

(FBK) published an investigation about the “palace” of President Vladimir Putin near Gelendzhik on Cape Idokopas. According to FBK estimates, construction cost 100 billion rubles, it was paid for by Rosneft and Transneft. FBK posted photographs of the buildings and site from above. They show that the largest building is undergoing renovation. “Everything was really ready a long time ago, but then a disaster happened. Its name is mold,” the material says.

The mother of eight-year-old Aisha Azhigova, Lidiya Azhigova, has withdrawn her appeal against the verdict of the Sunzhensky District Court of Ingushetia in the case of her daughter’s torturers. Press secretary Ksenia Babich reported this to Mediazona. As Babich notes, after the Legal Initiative learned about the withdrawal of the appeal, Lidiya Azhigova stopped communicating with human rights activists.

The Taganrog City Court of the Rostov Region arrested local resident Zhora Khachunts for two months on charges of equipment intended for the evacuation of the country's leadership during the war. about the decision of January 6 RostovGazeta His lawyer Olga Boyarkina told . The loss of radio stations worth more than a million rubles from the cargo compartment of the plane was discovered in early December, when it was being repaired at the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Volgograd demanded through the court to block the account of LGBT activist Alina Smolyakova on VKontakte. This was announced by the head of the human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov.

In Cheboksary, a court sentenced a police patrol officer to two years of suspended imprisonment in the case of a detainee. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia. As the investigation established, on September 24, 2020, police arrived at the cafe due to a report of petty hooliganism. The officer detained a 28-year-old man, “who was not aggressive or resisting.” Despite this, during the arrest, the police officer hit him five times with a stun gun.