In the Ulyanovsk region, a section of the Radishchevsky District Court in the village of Staraya Kulatka sentenced deputy Gazinur Timushev and local coordinator of the Defenders of the Fatherland state fund Ildar Kurmakaev to 3.5 and 3 years in prison, respectively, in the case of large-scale fraud (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the BBC with reference to the court.

The Magistrate's Court No. 374 of the Tagansky District of Moscow received three protocols on “LGBT propaganda” in the media or on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) against the founder and editor-in-chief of the website “Guys+” (“Guys Plus”) Evgeniy Pisemsky, Mediazona noted . All protocols were received by the Magistrates' Court on February 2. It is unknown what exactly Pisemsky is charged with.

On February 1, the Rossiya 1 TV channel published the film “Betrayal” by journalist and Moscow City Duma deputy Andrei Medvedev about Russians who were convicted of terrorist and extremist cases. One of the heroes of the film was Daria Trepova, who in January 2024 was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the murder of Z-blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) in St.

The Ukrainian human rights organization Regional Center for Human Rights ( RCHR ) and the American International Women in the Media Fund ( IWMF ) have been added to the register of “undesirable organizations” maintained on the Ministry of Justice website. According to the register, the Prosecutor General's Office decided to ban on January 19.

The Kiev district court of Simferopol in annexed Crimea decided to send Crimean woman Alexandra (Sakha) Mangubi, who was detained in the fall of 2024, to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the Ukrainian telegram channel “Tribunal” with reference to the human rights initiative Irade .

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Orthodox blogger Claud Rommel to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of child rape (clause “b” of Part 4 of Articles 131 and 132 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. According to investigators, the blogger committed sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl from September 2022 to February 2024.

Nikita Afanasyev in court. Photo: SOTAvision In December 2024, 36-year-old Chita resident Nikita Afanasyev was supposed to be released after serving his sentence in the case of participation in the Right Sector. Instead, he was charged with new charges: mercenaryism and promoting terrorism. The reason was the testimony of other prisoners and correspondence ten years ago with a stranger who turned out to be an FSB officer.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 36-year-old prisoner Nikita Afanasyev to 25 years in prison for six counts of mercenary activity and promoting terrorism. This was reported by his lawyer Natalya Tikhonova. He will spend the first 7 years in prison, the rest of the term in a special regime colony. The state prosecutor asked to sentence him to 27 years of strict regime.

The Department of the Ministry of Justice for St. Petersburg demanded that two LGBT initiatives be recognized as “extremist” - the Russian LGBT Network and the initiative group Coming Out. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The lawsuits to ban the LGBT Network and Coming Out will be considered behind closed doors by the St. Petersburg City Court due to the “secret” stamp on the materials.

Five people were detained in northern Germany on charges of supplying goods to Russia in circumvention of sanctions, the country's prosecutor's office reported . All five have German citizenship. Moreover, two of them, Nikita S. and Daniel A., have dual citizenship of Germany and Russia. Another one, Artem I., has citizenship of Germany and Ukraine. They were detained in Lübeck, a port city on the Baltic Sea, and in the nearby city of Lauenburg.

The FSB prohibits adding to the “white list” of websites the resources of banks that have not installed SORM for storing customer correspondence. Because of this, during Internet outages, the main applications of Sberbank, T-Bank and Gazprombank are unavailable, RBC reports , citing sources. According to the publication, in October 2025, the FSB demanded that several banks install SORM, citing the fact that they fall under the criteria of information dissemination organizers (ORI).

From 2020 to 2024, the incidence of depression, anxiety and stress disorders increased by 21.5% in Russia. Kommersant reports this with reference to Rosstat. According to the statistical agency, 281 thousand new cases of such diseases were recorded in 2020. By 2024, this figure has reached 341.4 thousand. Over the same period—from 2020 to 2024—the incidence of primary mental illnesses overall increased by 18%.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined the publishing house No Kidding Press , which closed at the end of 2024, for a comic book about the female body “The Fruit of Knowledge” by Liv Strömquist. This is stated in the published court decision, to which Mediazona drew attention. The fine under the article on “LGBT propaganda” (Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) amounted to 800 thousand rubles.

Prosecutor Olga Allaeva asked 36-year-old prisoner Nikita Afanasyev to serve 27 years in prison in the case of six counts of mercenary activity and promoting terrorism. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the hall of the 2nd Western District Military Court. The state prosecutor asked to send him to prison for the first 8 years, the rest of the term in a special regime colony.

The Ministry of Education and Science sent a letter to universities and research institutes recommending that they report their employees’ participation in events in “unfriendly” countries “to assess the feasibility of participation.” This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to sources at two universities.