The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the hotel administrator and artist Ilya Pershin in the case of using violence against a riot policeman (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny on January 31. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts.

Director Ivan Zhdanov said that fund operator Pavel Zelensky, who was arrested because of two tweets, admitted guilt and refused a lawyer due to pressure in the pre-trial detention center. “Pavel Zelensky is obviously under some kind of pressure in the pre-trial detention center. And we really fear for the possibility of his legal protection. The fact is that he refused a lawyer <...> he refused a lawyer in writing and fully admitted his guilt,” he said.

Five activists detained at the Shies station are accused of unauthorized occupation of forest areas (Article 7.9 of the Administrative Code), Novaya Gazeta reports , citing protest participants. The public page “News from Shies” reports that the police came to the “Banya” post at about ten o’clock in the morning. five activists there There were : Olga Barsova, Pavel Nechaev, Andrei Zhgilev, Erofey and Pavel (their names were not specified). All of them were detained.

HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov said that he does not see “neither political persecution nor a violation of the employee’s labor rights” in the termination of the contract with visiting teacher Anna Wellicok. This is stated in Kuzminov’s response to the authors of the letter in support of her; Wellicoke posted a screenshot of it on Twitter. On January 30, Wellicoke was arrested for retweeting Alexei Navalny’s address before the January 23 rally from the page of investigator Georgy Alburov.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Instagram that employees of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center put him on preventive registration as “prone to escape.” “[The guards] come into the cell and take me to a room on another floor: <...> “We are having a meeting of the preventive commission. It has been decided to put you on the preventive register as prone to escape,” he described what was happening.

Estonia expelled the Russian diplomat, Russia in response made the same decision regarding an employee of the Estonian embassy in Moscow. about this at a briefing . spoke Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova According to Zakharova, the Russian diplomat, “dealing with issues of culture and education,” was expelled “recently” and “absolutely without reason.” The Estonian Foreign Ministry did not announce the decision on its website.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced former policeman Vadim Boyko, known as, in the case of. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. 45-year-old Boyko was detained in September 2020 after a fight in a diner on Kosygina Avenue. During an interview at the police department, he hit a policeman, who was then discovered by doctors to have a closed craniocerebral injury and a contusion of the lower jaw.

did not interrogate FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev during the investigation into the case of infiltration of the producer of the Navalny Live YouTube channel , Lyubov Sobol. about this Her lawyer Vladimir Voronin spoke after familiarizing himself with the case materials.

Anastasia Shevchenko with her son. Photo: AP The Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Anastasia Shevchenko to the four years of conditional terms, which was the first in Russia accused under the article on the “implementation of the activities of an unwanted foreign organization”. The prosecutor's office requested her colony for five years.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced 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. Member of the Moscow POC Marina Litvinovich and Ekho Moskvy journalist Tatyana Felgengauer reported that it was almost impossible to understand the judge’s speech during the announcement of the verdict.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov denies that FSB general and Vladimir Putin assistant Anatoly Seryshev is involved in the persecution of Karelian historian Yuri Dmitriev. this . reports Meduza “Saw this post. It’s all wrong... As for Seryshev, it’s all wrong. This is either a deliberate or unintentional mistake,” the publication quotes Peskov as saying about the journalists’ investigation.

The head of the FSIN department for the Belgorod region, Igor Vidashev, filed a claim for protection of honor against the coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Maxim Klimov. about this Representatives of the headquarters spoke on Twitter. They clarified that the lawsuit concerns their December 17 video about Vidashev entitled “How to become a millionaire?

The head of the Doctors' Alliance trade union, Anastasia Vasilyeva, and the brother of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, Oleg, were changed to serve house arrest for a “sanitary matter.” This was reported by lawyers Dmitry Dzhulay and Nikos Paraskevov . Vasilyeva’s lawyer had previously twice asked the investigator to transfer her to the apartment where her two children live. Yesterday, due to allergic edema in her daughter, Vasilyeva broke house arrest and came to her.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the ECHR's demand to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny “illegal” and “clearly biased.” A recording of his speech at the briefing is provided by Mayak radio. “The decision is unlawful and is a very serious attempt to interfere in domestic Russian court cases, which, from our point of view, is unacceptable,” Peskov said.

Employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard detained the alleged participants of the Islamic Party in ten regions. The FSB press service reported this by TASS. The detentions were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Crimea, Primorsky, Krasnodar Territories, the republics of Bashkortostan and Dagestan, as well as in the Oryol, Kaluga and Ivanovo regions. In relation to seven people initiated criminal cases.