In St. Petersburg, the commission on juvenile affairs issued a warning to the mother of 11-year-old schoolgirl Varvara Elena. this with reference to itself. reports Fontanka According to the publication, the meeting of the commission on minors lasted just over an hour. On it, Varvara and her mother were asked about how on January 31 the schoolgirl left Toksovo in the Leningrad region for St. Petersburg, where she was detained along with the demonstrators.

In Nizhny Novgorod, two natives of Chechnya, Saleh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who were helped by the Russian LGBT Network, were detained. This “Mediazona” was reported by the organization itself, the information was confirmed by lawyer Alexander Nemov. According to human rights activists, today, February 4, one of the detainees called the organization’s coordinator, David Isteev, asking for help. During the call, the Russian LGBT Network claims, Isteev heard screams.

The Kazan Executive Committee agreed on a rally against detentions and repressions. This was reported by Kommersant-Kazan with reference to the head of the local branch of the Yabloko party, Ruslan Zinatullin, and a copy of the authorities’ decision. As Zinatullin noted , the application stated that the rally was against “political repression, corruption, for changing election legislation and against election fraud.” The action is scheduled for February 14.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region opened a criminal case regarding the torture of prisoners in pre-trial detention center-6. This was reported by “For Human Rights”. According to human rights activists, a case was opened against employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service who “tortured and raped prisoners after a protest rally by prisoners in IK-15 in Angarsk.” The suspects are still unknown.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested Alexander Glushkov in the case of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the court told Mediazona. The Kremlin Laundress telegram channel published a video of a man hitting a police officer twice on the back and helmet during the protest. The channel claims that this is happening during the protests on January 23, and the man’s name is Alexander Glushkov.

Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Makarov presented letters of gratitude to the National Guard soldiers who guarded the Mariinsky Palace during the rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny on January 31. this reports Znak.com with reference to the press service of the Legislative Assembly.

In Moscow, security forces again came to the home of “Navalny LIVE” producer Lyubov Sobol, according to her Twitter. Sobol's husband also reports that he hears negotiations between employees outside the door. “She has a daughter, she’s afraid for her. We’ll knock hard on the door and it will open,” they talk. Later, lawyer Vladimir Voronin reported that the police brought Sobol a ruling from the Simonovsky District Court on an administrative case for the action on January 23.

Photos of those arrested from overcrowded cells in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens (TSVSIG) in the village of Sakharovo “are not an objective reflection of the situation,” the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow reports .

At a hearing in the court of Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor requested 5 years in prison for Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko in the case of carrying out the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Shevchenko became the first accused under the article. A criminal case was opened against the activist for organizing political debates and publishing a post about a lecture by Open Russia.

The Moscow Office of the Investigative Committee has charged municipal deputy of the Basmanny District Lyusa Stein with taking part in the rally on January 23. This was reported by the human rights organization Apology of Protest.

The Solntsevsky District Court of Moscow fined Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer and host of the Navalny Live YouTube channel, a thousand rubles for an article about the meeting of politician Alexei Navalny at Vnukovo airport. RBC was informed about this by the press service of the court. On the day of Navalny’s return, January 17, police, without explanation, removed Sobol and other oppositionist associates from a table in the Coffee & Beer House cafe in the Vnukovo waiting area.

The head of the Doctors' Alliance, Anastasia Vasilyeva, was re-qualified for attending a rally in support of politician Aleksey Navalny on January 23. Her lawyer Dmitry Dzhulay reported this to Mediazona. “Apparently, the investigators realized that she was not the subject of this crime. That is, the subject can be an official or a person sick [with coronavirus] who has violated epidemiological norms,” the lawyer said. Vasilyeva was charged.

Alexander Chernikov, a participant in the rally on January 31 in Voronezh , said on the YouTube channel of Navalny’s local headquarters that he was taken away from the rally by unknown people and beaten. On the day of the rally, the headquarters published a video of five men in down jackets and medical masks carrying a protest participant in their arms to the basement of a house on Koltsovskaya Street, where the kitchen of the Umami sushi delivery service is located.

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that more people were detained at the protests than could be "processed in a short time." An audio recording with his commentary is published by the telegram channel of the Mayak radio station.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Moscow, Tatyana Potyaeva, went to the temporary detention center in Sakharovo on February 3 and reported that there had been no complaints about the placement from those arrested. about this RAPSI writes with reference to the Ombudsman. She assured that “not a single paddy wagon was there,” and there were empty spaces in the cells. “There have been no complaints about the accommodation.