A monument to doctors who died in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic was unveiled in St. Petersburg, but not everyone was happy with the ceremony. “I am grateful that I was invited to the opening of the memorial. This is the memory of those doctors, nurses, orderlies who gave their lives in the fight against the pandemic. Here, on the Karpovka embankment, next to the First Medical University, there are always a lot of people - students, doctors, just passers-by.

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, included in the register of foreign media agents, filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He demands to cancel this status through the court. Interfax reports that the appeal was received by the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow. Ponomarev* and four other people were added to the list on December 28, 2020.

Hello, it's still Navalny! But not from the "Kremlin Central", but from SIZO-3 "Kolchugino" of the Vladimir Region When a prisoner next to the stage is told: “Vladimir region”, he becomes sad, such is the reputation of local institutions. But everything is fine with me, there is even a horizontal bar in the exercise yard. I have not yet received any letters, and I know even less about what is happening in the outside world than when I was in Moscow.

The editor-in-chief of Pskovskaya Gubernia Denis Kamalyagin*, who was entered by the Ministry of Justice into the register of media-foreign agents, appealed to the court, demanding that the status assigned to him be recognized as illegal. According to Open Media , in his lawsuit, the journalist notes that he was never explained what messages and materials caused him to be included in the register of foreign agents.

Following the Ministry of Finance, the US Department of Commerce published a list of organizations that fall under sanctions in connection with the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Export restrictions were imposed on the 27th Scientific Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the companies Himmed, Femteko, Interlab, Labinvest, Analyt Products, Intertech Instruments, Pharmcontract, Rau Pharm and " Regionsnab".

The independent trade union of medical workers "Alliance of Doctors" of the Ministry of Justice entered into the register of foreign agents According to the Ministry of Justice, the Alliance of Doctors * has repeatedly received foreign funding, while engaging in political activities. Specific facts are not given in the message of the department, which was distributed by the agencies. Union spokeswoman Alexandra Zakharova said the organization has not yet received notification.

In Kursk, former police officer Ruslan Agibalov, who spoke publicly in support of Alexei Navalny and was fired, is trying to reinstate his job. According to Kommersant , the court has not yet accepted the application for proceedings. In the lawsuit, Agibalov asks to recognize the dismissal order as illegal and to recover from the Ministry of Internal Affairs the monetary allowance not received during the forced absenteeism.

Denis Karagodin, who was investigating the death of his repressed great-grandfather, was filed with the police. The statement was written by Alexei Mityushov, the son of an NKVD officer who signed the act of execution. Mityushov believes that information about his father's activities in 1938 will discredit him.

For the authorities, on the one hand, social networks are such a systemic evil. But, on the other hand, willing cooperation with the authorities and readiness for dialogue noticeably change the situation. It is interesting how foreign social networks behave differently in Russia, which also affects the attitude of the authorities towards them. For example, TikTok is clearly making an effort to fit into the Russian rules of the game.

Tver prison (SIZO-1) met me like a fascist concentration camp An epic picture: more than 20 guards with dogs, legs wide apart, like the Gestapo, yelled like slashed, moronic teams. It is 14 degrees in the cell at night, we sleep in down jackets, there is one lamp instead of three - it is impossible to read. To the anthem at 6:00 they must stand in line, as in the morning and evening checks (2 hours each inside the cell, waiting for the jailers to enter).

Repression against doctors during the epidemic MAIN • The Alliance of Doctors, an independent trade union of medical workers, has been added to the register of foreign agents, according to the Ministry of Justice , the organization has repeatedly received foreign funding while engaging in political activities.

In the Irkutsk region, the head of the operational department of pre-trial detention center No. 1 and the head of correctional colony No. 6 were detained. They are suspected of involvement in violence against convicts. Thus, the head of IK-6 was detained on the case of torture against prisoner Takhirjon Bakiyev. Earlier it was reported that in January other prisoners abused him for several weeks, beating and raping him.

70 thousand employees are required in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for normal work, said the head of the department Vladimir Kolokoltsev at an expanded meeting of the collegium of the ministry. “The tasks set before us were solved in conditions of increased workloads, associated, among other things, with a significant shortage. Today it is about 70 thousand people, ” TASS quotes Kolokoltsev .

Alexei Navalny was transferred to SIZO-3 "Kolchugino" in the Vladimir region. This was reported on the politician's Twitter account. “Today, defenders met with him. He is in a great mood and says hello to everyone,” it says . The oppositionist's blog on Instagram notes that he does not receive letters, and the library and products from the prison stall are also not available to him. “You won't believe it, but we dry crackers, and I never thought that it could be so exciting.

Ruslan Kostylenkov, convicted in the New Greatness case* (recognized as extremist), complained to the ECHR about torture after detention. According to the Zona Prava organization, courts in Russia have three times denied Kostylenkov a criminal case for beatings, despite a certificate of bodily injuries. The UK started the check, but nothing is known about its results. The complaint alleges that his rights not to be subjected to torture and to an effective remedy were violated.