All the detainees brought to the Presnensky police department were released after drawing up protocols under Article 19.3 (disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer). Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Sergei Mokhnatkin, who was also taken to the Presnensky police department, remain unknown. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, documents are being prepared against Mokhnatkin to initiate a criminal case .

14 people who were earlier detained on Triumfalno Square are still being held in the Presneskoye police department without charge. They were taken to the OVD at 19.10. Sergey Mokhnatkin and Ildar Dadin, who were severely beaten during detention, are also in the police department, an ambulance came to the police department. Recall that detention in the police department for more than three hours is a gross violation of the law.

All those detained earlier in the evening at the Pashkov House were released from the Khamovniki police department after drawing up protocols under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

12 people were released from the Basmanny police department, where they were taken after being detained on Triumfalnaya Square. All were charged under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Among the detainees were Stanislav Fominsky, Konstantin Makarov, Victoria Kuznetsova, Denis Kudryavtsev, Evgeny Popov, Vasily Kuzmin, Vadim Torganov, Elizaveta Kuchkina, Sergei Zaplavnov, Mikhail Shchukin, Dmitry Akhtenchukov, Pavel Kolesnikov.

In St. Petersburg, 13 people were detained for actions under Strategy-31: Evgeny Pavlenko, Sergei Maksimov, Natalia Chernova, Maria Krylova, Oleg Petrov, Alexander Babich, Alexander Kolosov, Ivan Bodalev, Vadim Kamakhin, Sergey Sklyarov, Alexander Raimondi, Oleg Roshchin and Andreev Igor. All of them, except for Kolosov, who was hospitalized after being hit on the head with a baton, were taken to the 28th police department.

On Triumfalnaya Square, where the traditional action "Strategy-31" is taking place, activists began to be detained. At the moment, 14 detainees are known, including Andrey Semenov, Sergey Mokhnatkin, Daniil Kogtev, Nadir Fatkhetdinov, Ildar Dadin, Mikhail Udimov, Alexander Makarov, Pyotr Kuryanov. They were delivered to the Presnensky police department. According to the detainee Andrey Semyonov, during the arrest Mokhnatkin, Dadin and Udimov were beaten.

In Novorossiysk, the entrance to the "Strategy-31" detained Daria Polyudova. UPD 19:30 Darya Polyudova was released and told to go to the bus stop.

Opposite the Kremlin, near the Pashkov House, activists of the Solidarity movement were detained, who were holding the rally "We have questions." Among the detainees are Nadezhda Mityushkina, Alexander Ryklin, Vikenty Nilin, Denis Yudin, Ilya Mishchenko, Olga Tymchakovskaya, Valery Nadezhdin and three other people. At the moment, all the detainees are in the paddy wagon.

Sergei Davidis , member of the Board of the Human Rights Center “Memorial”, head of the program “Support for political prisoners and persecuted civil activists”: Most of this year was characterized by the strengthening and continuation of the trend that emerged in the previous year, that is, an increase in criminal political repression, an increase in the number of people who are persecuted and imprisoned for political reasons.

On December 30, in Volgograd, a people's gathering, in which activists from a wide spectrum of the Volgograd opposition planned to take part, was dispersed by the police. According to various sources, from 25 to 50 people were detained, despite the fact that the organizers of the action urged people to simply go to the chapel located on the Alley of Heroes to put candles in memory of those killed during the explosions in Volgograd.

On Monday afternoon, the Tuapse District Court, represented by judges Avdzhi Shevchenko and Kotkov, decided to sentence Aleksey Mandrigela, Anna Mikhailova, Valentina and Tatyana Borisova under Article 19.3 in the form of three days of arrest. Thus, the activists detained on the afternoon of December 29 will celebrate the New Year behind bars. According to the activists, they were warned about this by the police.

© Sergey Nikolaev The year passed under the sign of discussion of amnesty, but the state does not weaken a repressive grip. The arrests in the "swamp business" are ongoing. A special unit for investigating crimes committed by law enforcement officers did not earn.