A participant of a picket held on Wednesday in support of the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of the Voronezh State Technical University was penalized under part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. She was detained for being at the picket in a "mask of death": the picket was accompanied by a theatrical performance.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow sent Elena Bezrukova, a left-wing activist from Lipetsk, detained on suspicion of drug possession, under house arrest. The representative of the investigation in the case of Bezrukova petitioned for her placement in custody, stating that she had no permanent income and no place of residence.

The lawyer of the Crimean political prisoner Alexander Kolchenko, Svetlana Sidorkina, was not allowed to see her client in SIZO-4 of the Russian Rostov-on-Don. Sidorkina announced this at a briefing in Kyiv, at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center on November 20. “I cannot say whether this reason was really objective or far-fetched. According to the SIZO staff, yesterday was an investigation day and there were no free rooms,” she said.

In the Tambov region, the prosecutor's office appealed against the decision of the court, which replaced Yevgeny Vitishko from serving his sentence in a colony to a restriction of freedom. The appeal filed to the Tambov Regional Court notes that the ruling of the Kirsanovskiy District Court does not indicate which penal inspection Vitishko must register with. “Tomorrow the decision of the court of first instance was to come into force, and Vitishko would have been released from the colony.

A dozen activists of the "Honor and Freedom" movement were detained during a meeting in the "Tarelka" cafe near the Kursk railway station. The detention was carried out by policemen from the 2nd Operational Regiment together with the operatives of the “E” Center. The latter say they intend to have conversations with the activists. UPD: No further information from OVD-Info was received from the Dorogomilovsky OVD, where they were taken.

The Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission deprived State Duma deputy Rishat Abubakirov of his scientific degree. The only representative of Dissernet, physicist Andrey Zayakin, at first was able to freely enter the VAK building on Lyusinovskaya Street, but he never got to the meeting .

Activist Nikita Trubitsyn, detained on Wednesday at the Basmanny Court during a rally in support of Ildar Dadin, was released in the Moscow City Court. Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was changed to , because he spent more than 24 hours in the police. 5thUPD 17.35: The same decision was made regarding Alexander Shelkovenkov, but due to traffic jams he has not yet been delivered to the Moscow City Court. Upon arrival at the court, he must be released.

The Moscow Department of Transport announced the launch of a system for selecting street musicians in the Moscow metro. In order to get the opportunity to perform for free at 15 dedicated venues in the subway passages, artists will have to audition at the Department of Culture. The launch of the project is scheduled for the first quarter of 2016.

The prefecture of the South-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow refused to approve a picket in front of the Pub Daddy bar on Soldatskaya Street this Saturday. The reason for the refusal to coordinate the street action was the supposedly too narrow sidewalk next to the bar. The anarchists wanted to hold a picket together with the Trade Union of Bartenders and Waiters against the dismissal without payment of wages of one of the employees of Pub Daddy.

The government supported the bill on mandatory video recording of court sessions. “This will increase the guarantees of a court ruling of a lawful, justified and fair decision and ensure judicial protection of the rights and legitimate interests of participants in civil and arbitration proceedings,” the government website said in a statement.

While filming an anti-Wahhabist raid at the Kotrovskaya mosque in Makhachkala, were briefly detained Kommersant correspondents Dmitry Korotayev and Grigory Tumanov . Within an hour they were released, the details of the incident are not yet known. PS The very detention of believers was accompanied by shooting in the air, the exact number of detainees is unknown.