The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested for two months the head of the central information and technical department of the Federal Customs Service, Dmitry Vasiliev, suspected of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). this TASS reported in court. The meeting was held behind closed doors. Vasiliev faces up to 15 years in prison. The chief IT specialist of Russian customs was detained the day before.

The Sovetsko-Gavansky City Court of the Khabarovsk Territory arrested local resident Zakhar Zaripov in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). A friend of the man told OVD-Info about this. According to the human rights project, today Zaripov was sent to a pre-trial detention center in Khabarovsk, the period of detention is unknown.

The Ministry of Justice recognized as “foreign agents” . the lead singer of the Little Big group Ilya Prusikin and the representative of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance Daria Serenko The unified register also includes journalist Fidel Agumava, the official representative of the 14th Dalai Lama in Russia and the Supreme Lama of Kalmykia Erdni Ombadykov, Tatar national activist Rafis Kashapov, the Philosophy of Nonviolence organization and the Digital Rights Development Fund.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered Latvian Ambassador Maris Riekstins to leave Russia within two weeks. This is reported on the ministry's website.

Sakharov Center in Moscow January 26, 2023. Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS The Moscow government has terminated the gratuitous contract for leasing the premises of the Sakharov Center, which has been operating for more than 20 years. "Sugar", which has become familiar to defenders of human rights, space in the center of Moscow - will soon cease to exist. Mediazona talked about this with the chairman of the board of the center Vyacheslav Bakhmin.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined the head of the Sakharov Center, Sergei Lukashevsky, three million rubles under ten protocols for violating the legislation on “foreign agents.” Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. The decisions were made on January 20. For each of ten protocols on failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code), Lukashevsky was fined 300 thousand rubles.

The Kirovsky District Court of Saratov fined Selimat Aslanova, a doctor at the Clinical Perinatal Center, 30 thousand rubles because of a conversation with colleagues about the war in Ukraine. The text of the decision was published attention to it . drew on the court’s website, and the publication NeMoskva Speaks Aslanova was found guilty under the administrative protocol of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

The Sovetsky District Court of Bryansk sent a 25-year-old resident of the city of Surazh to a pre-trial detention center for two months in the case of arson of a relay cabinet on a railway. This is reported on the court's website.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Sasha Kosareva, a transgender girl and LGBT activist from Kazan, 50 thousand rubles because of the yellow and blue ribbons on her backpack. She told Mediazona about this. Judge Alesya Orekhova found Kosareva guilty under the administrative protocol for “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3). The activist was detained on January 21 in the Kitai Gorod district of Moscow.

Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of the CIA , FBI , as well as US State Department programs in the field of national security, the fight against terrorism and cybercrime (Rewards for Justice) . attention to this . drew Interfax The regulator told the agency that the blocking of “a number of resources belonging to state structures of hostile countries” is associated with the dissemination of materials “aimed at destabilizing the social and political situation” in Russia.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny said that employees of the Vladimir penal colony No. 6 installed a lamp with three powerful lamps in his punishment cell, which hurt his eyes. The politician linked this to the fact that Alexei Melnikov, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, who visited him on January 16, noted in his post “insufficient lighting” in his PKT cell . Melnikov denied Navalny's other complaints about conditions of detention.

The Leninsky District Court of Vladimir dismissed the case of blocking the news website UN news agency and the Turkish Anadolu , told TASS. the court's press service The proceedings were terminated “due to the plaintiff’s refusal of the administrative claim,” the court explained. that access to the UN website and Anadolu be restricted demanded On January 14 , the 19th Military Prosecutor's Office of the Vladimir Region . The department also asked to block the inactive domain fmnews.ru .

The Leninsky District Court of Barnaul transferred RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko to a pre-trial detention center from house arrest, lawyer Dmitry Shitov told Mediazona. Ponomarenko is accused of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army because of her March post on the “No Censorship” telegram channel about an airstrike on a drama theater in Mariupol (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

In the city of Balashov, Saratov Region, investigators charged 67-year-old municipal deputy of the village of Khoperskoye from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Oleg Nepein in the case of spreading “fake stories” about the army based on political hatred. He told Mediazona about this. The pensioner is charged under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, the maximum penalty for which is ten years in prison.

The Finnish Migration Service has temporarily suspended consideration of decisions on granting political asylum to Russians who fled the country due to mobilization, Juha Similä, a representative of the Finnish agency, told newspaper the Helsingin Sanomat .