Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / AP The shares held throughout the country on January 31 in support of Alexei Navalny put a new record for detentions - more than 5.6 thousand people were delivered to the police departments. This time, the security forces dispersed the rallies much tougher than last week - stampers, batons and even threats of weapons were used. Mediazone talks about a new tactic of suppression of protest, which the demonstrators had to face.

The Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to block several streets near the Moscow City Court on February 2, according to the department’s website. On this day, the court will consider the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace the suspended sentence of politician Alexei Navalny with a real one in the Yves Rocher case.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow placed municipal deputy of the Northern Izmailovo district Dmitry Baranovsky under house arrest on a “sanitary case.” This was reported by the Moscow news agency and MBKH Media with reference to the press service of the court. As reported on the telegram channel, Baranovsky is suspected of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards (part 4 of article 33, part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code) at the rally on January 23.

The Higher School of Economics has terminated its contract with visiting lecturer Anna Wellicock after she was arrested for 14 days for retweeting a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by HSE Press with reference to the press service of the university. According to the HSE, Wellicock was not a full-time employee; a civil law agreement was concluded with her to conduct a short course in a master’s program. Classes were planned for February 3, 4, 10 and 11.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow ordered former employee Nikolai Lyaskin to ban certain actions as a preventive measure in the case of violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards (Article 236 of the Criminal Code) during the rally on January 23. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. The investigation asked to place the activist under house arrest.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Leningrad Region, Tamara Litvinova, announced the decision to conduct an investigation into the mother of an 11-year-old schoolgirl detained during the rally on January 31. This is stated on the official website of the official. A resident of the village of Toksovo was detained at a protest in St. Petersburg. The commissioner’s office noted that “most likely <...> the girl came under the influence of dubious information” from social networks.

Police officers in the area of ​​the Krasnoselskaya metro station during the action on January 31, 2021. Photo: Pelagia Tikhonov / Kommersant All the current metro of Russia on January 31 limited the work for the duration of the shares in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. “Mediazona” studied how pretexts in different cities were closed the metro stations: the only place where transport officials openly admitted that the stations were closed at the request of the police was Moscow.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested Vyacheslav Igumnov in the case of hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code), the Mediazone was told in the press service of the court. According to investigators, during the rally on January 23 near Bolshaya Dmitrovka, he lit a "pyrotechnic signaling device and threw it into police officers." According to the UK, the 21-year-old young man pleaded guilty and repented.

A court in Krasnoyarsk arrested local resident Pavel Khokhlov under the article of repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. The police opened a case on January 30. That day, Khokhlov was searched, during which six mobile phones and two hard drives were seized. on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs A video of Khokhlov’s arrest was published .

A video of a man swinging a bat at a National Guardsman during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny was distributed by pro-government media at the direction of the presidential administration, reported , citing an employee of one of these publications. Open Media The news of the attack on the riot policeman was published by pro-Kremlin media: Vesti, NTV, Izvestia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Interfax.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow placed Alexei Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh under house arrest under the article about. The press service of the court reported about “Mediazona”. The oppositionist was detained on January 30 in a special detention center half an hour before her term of administrative arrest in the case of Yarmysh was taken out of the special detention center for a search on a “sanitary matter”; she was also interrogated as a witness.

The prosecutor's office asked the St. Petersburg district courts to ban eight anime on five websites. This was reported by the telegram channel of the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow will consider the FSIN's petition to replace Alexei Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one at an off-site hearing in the appeal building of the Moscow City Court. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the city court.

The Moscow City Court returned the case of Khachaturian’s older sisters Krestina and Angelina to the General Prosecutor’s Office for additional investigation. Angelina Khachaturyan’s lawyer, Marie Davtyan, told Mediazona about this; The information is also on the case file. The preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions for the sisters was left in force.

Vladimir Vedernikov, who was arrested in the case of the “Church of the Last Testament”, was tortured in the Novosibirsk pre-trial detention center-1. this on Facebook . reported Lawyer Ivan Khoroshev The defense attorney also published a statement from Vedernikov, in which he said that since January 21, he has been subjected to “mental and physical violence (torture)” by his cellmates, pre-trial detention center officers, and the FSB department in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.