Civil activist Vera Lavreshina, detained on January 26 in Lubyanka at a rally in support of political prisoner Nadezhda Savchenko, has been on a hunger strike for two days.

The Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the earlier decision of the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi, which found pastor Alexei Kolyasnikov guilty of organizing a public event without filing a notice of its holding (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by "Newspaper. Ru" with reference to Kolyasnikov's lawyer Alexander Popkov.

Ulyanovsk publicist and activist Sergei Kryukov asked for political asylum in Ukraine. With reference to Kryukov himself, this is reported by “Frontiers. RU" He entered the territory of Ukraine on January 27 and stated right at the border post that he had arrived in order to obtain political asylum. Today, Kryukov, accompanied by an officer of the State Border Service of Ukraine, left for the administrative center of the region, on the territory of which the border post is located.

The Kiev court of the city of Simferopol today considered a lawsuit filed by the lawyer of one of the participants in the so-called "Sentsov case" Oleksandr Kolchenko, Svetlana Sidorkina, to recognize the right of Crimean Oleksandr Kolchenko to retain Ukrainian citizenship. The claim was denied, according to Crimea. Realities .