21-year-old Togliatti resident Konstantin Muratov was detained on charges of using violence against police officers (Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny on January 23, the Investigative Committee reports . He told the camera that he pushed the policeman in the back while running. “I won’t do this again, for this I apologize to all police officers and other services,” the young man says in the video.

In Belgorod, a criminal case was opened against the coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Maxim Klimov, for insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code), reports 7x7. “His lawyer Ruslan Lapshin said that Klimov allegedly insulted police officers on social networks more than six months ago,” the publication clarifies.

In St. Petersburg, a case was opened regarding the use of violence against a National Guardsman on Pionerskaya Square near the Theater for Young Spectators (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. As part of the case, a participant in the rally on January 31 has already been detained; he is in the status of a suspect.

In Chelyabinsk, after a rally in support of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, the police opened a case under the article about. This was reported by the human rights organization Apology of Protest. As part of this case, those detained at the rally today are being interrogated, human rights activists specified. According to preliminary estimates by OVD-Info, 23 people were detained there.

In St. Petersburg, security forces came to the home of the parents of femme activist and artist Lelya Nordik. She herself told Mediazona about this. The girl clarified that she is registered with her parents, but lives in another place. The search lasted two hours, the security forces did not seize anything. “My parents were told that a criminal case was being opened against me.

Roskomnadzor threatened that it would charge distributors with “fakes” with an inflated number of participants in rallies or with information about violence and clashes. This was reported in the department’s telegram channel.

The publication of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, MVD Media, published an apology from a 34-year-old resident of Moscow, who on TikTok offered to “come out with bats” in response to the beating of “women and children” by police. “We must come out with bats, because they beat our women and children <...> We must also come out with batons, like these trash. These are Putin’s rats,” the man says in two videos posted, according to the description, on January 28.

Employees of the Investigative Committee detained former employee Nikolai Lyaskin as a suspect in a criminal case for violating sanitary and epidemiological standards (Article 236 of the Criminal Code) during the rally on January 23. This was reported by OVD-Info. Lyaskin today at 18:30 left the special detention center, where he was serving an arrest under the article on repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

"Mediazona" contacted a participant in the action, which in Moscow several times hit by a electric shocker during detention. The man's name is Soso Glonti. He leads a blog about sports on Instagram.