Based on anonymous testimony, a Moscow court sentenced an anarchist mathematician to six years behind bars over a broken window Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court recently sentenced mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov to six years in prison for his alleged role in an attack against a campaign office that belongs to United Russia, the country’s ruling political party.

Nordwind Airlines said on Instagram that it did not take action against an employee who accused politician Alexei Navalny of the fact that due to the closure of Vnukovo airport on the day of his return to Russia, some of the aircraft almost ran out of fuel. According to the results of the audit, no violations were found, no measures were taken against the airline employee. The pilot continues to perform flights in the normal mode.

Following widespread reports of police officers issuing warnings to opposition figures and activists across Russia, law enforcement officials in Moscow have arrested several of Alexey Navalny’s closest associates. This comes ahead of countrywide protests opposing his detention planned for Saturday, January 23.

The Russian Interior Ministry responded to protest TikToks that appeared after the arrest of Alexei Navalny . In Balashikha, Moscow Region, as reported by OVD-Info , Interior Ministry representatives questioned a 9th-grade student at School No. 23 for about four hours because someone at the school had swapped a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin for a portrait of Alexei Navalny.

Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of January 21, the Moscow police detained several associates of the founder of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny. At the Leningrad station, an employee of the department of investigations of the FBK Georgy Alburov was detained , he was taken away at the Avtosak in the police department in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow. The police also came home to the press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh.

Police have detained Georgy Alburov, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation's investigation department. He was detained at the Leningradsky railway station in Moscow, Alburov reported on Twitter. Kira Yarmysh, press secretary of FBK founder Alexei Navalny, was also detained . Earlier, the police detained FBK employee Lyubov Sobol.

Politician Alexei Navalny has not received a single letter during his stay in the Moscow pretrial detention center Matrosskaya Tishina since January 18. This was reported to Meduza by his lawyer Olga Mikhailova, who visited Navalny in the detention center. He hasn't received any letters, not a single one. Visits with relatives and parcels are prohibited due to the coronavirus. He is in an information vacuum. He asked me to say hello to everyone.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on EU member states to “significantly strengthen” sanctions against Russia and stop work on completing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to the arrest of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.

The development team, which includes the founder of smart watch company Pebble, Eric Migikowski, introduced the Beeper application, which combines 15 instant messengers. The Verge writes about it. Beeper is expected to run on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS and Android mobile operating systems. The messenger, according to its developers, supports telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram messenger, SMS and MMS exchange in Android, as well as iMessage for Apple devices.

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Russian opposition activists face official crackdown ahead of planned protests in support of Navalny Immediately after opposition figure Alexey Navalny was remanded in custody on January 18, his team called for countrywide rallies the following Saturday to protest his detention. Since then, the Russian authorities have been taking preventative measures to stop the demonstrations.

"Medusa" tells how Alexey Navalny and rallies collapsed to the Russian Tiktok - and whether the tickcers themselves plan to go out into the streets Ilya Kinus / Kommersant Aleksey Navalny, after returning to Russia, is in the investigative insulator. The shares not agreed with the authorities in its support, scheduled for January 23, became one of the main trends in the Russian Tiktok segment. The video, one way or another associated with Navalny, watched more than 200 million times.

The legal service "Apology of Protest" reported an attack on its lawyer, who came to the Danilovsky police department to see the detained FBK lawyer Vladlen Los. Los himself reported that he was left at the station until the morning of January 22 and that a report was drawn up against him for disobeying a lawful demand of a police officer. Earlier, Los said that he (he is a citizen of Belarus) was ordered to leave Russia by January 25, with a subsequent ban on entry for two and a half years.

Rosreestr hid data on the real estate of the Mazaraki businessmen from the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRRE). Open Media writes about this, citing extracts from the USRRE. Valerian Mazaraki is the first deputy director of the Moscow State Budgetary Institution Ritual, and Lev Mazaraki is his younger brother. Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov wrote about them in an investigation into the funeral business.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on EU countries to impose sanctions against Russia and halt construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline due to the arrest of politician Alexei Navalny. 581 members voted for the resolution, 50 voted against, and 44 abstained, the parliament's website reports.