On December 17, Justice of the Peace Oksana Shamailova in Saratov began considering the case of Narodnaya Volya activists Andrei Martsev and Kirill Kablov, accused of desecrating a concrete slab by drawing on it the flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army banned in Russia. It is reported by "Version Saratov". The case is being considered at polling station No. 1 of the Oktyabrsky district.

The debate of the parties in the case of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who is under house arrest in the Bolotnaya case, is scheduled for December 21. This was reported on December 17 in the broadcast of Mediazona from the hall of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, where the consideration of evidence in the case was completed. On this day, the interrogation of the defendant took place, who refused to answer questions, referring to the 51st article of the Constitution.

Investigators detained a member of the initiative group for holding a referendum “For Responsible Power”, a former activist of the People’s Will Army banned in Russia, Kirill Barabash. Lawyer Dmitry Dinze, who represents the interests of journalist Alexander Sokolov, who is under arrest in the case of the Army of the People's Will, told Mediazona on December 17.

In Novocherkassk, eco-activist Sergei Loshkarev was charged with contempt of court, committed, according to investigators, during an appeal against a sentence in a case of illegal possession of weapons. about this Nationalist Denis Romanov writes on December 17 on his Facebook page. According to him, the court issued a search warrant at Loshkarev's place. In May 2015, the court found Loshkarev guilty of arms trafficking and sentenced him to two years in a colony-settlement.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Karl Mars, who was detained on Pushkinskaya Square on Constitution Day, December 12, guilty of disobeying the lawful order of a police officer and fined him a thousand rubles. The court rejected the petition of Mars, who asked to postpone the meeting, since his lawyer was at that time in another court. Mars and his lawyer were not notified of the hearing in his case.

On December 17, the Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of roofer Vladimir Podrezov, replacing the sentence of two years and three months in prison on charges of painting a star on a high-rise building on Koltelnicheskaya Embankment, previously imposed by the Tagansky District Court, with two years and ten months of restriction of freedom. This is reported by a TASS correspondent from the courtroom. According to the Interfax news agency, the court banned Podrezov from leaving St.

Karl Mars, who was detained on December 12 at Pushkinskaya Square, was forcibly brought to the Tverskoy District Court on December 17 and is going to be tried under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobeying a lawful order of a police officer) in the absence of a defense lawyer. According to him, on the morning of December 17, the postman brought his parents a telegram with a call to the police department by 12:00.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko announced during the trial that she would start a hunger strike on December 18, which she intends to keep until the end of the trial. This was announced on December 17 by her lawyer Nikolai Polozov. According to him, Savchenko demands release. After the verdict, Savchenko will go on a dry hunger strike, the lawyer said. On December 17, the court extended Savchenko's arrest until April 16, 2016, granting the prosecution's motion.

More than forty lawyers appealed to the Council of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation with a complaint about the violation by the investigation of the right of the accused and suspects to defense when providing a lawyer by appointment.

The Rostov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don to take Duma deputy Vladimir Bessonov, accused of beating policemen, into custody, reports Kavkazsky Uzel . Bessonov was previously put on the wanted list because he did not appear at court hearings in the case. The investigation claims that the deputy attacked the police at a rally in Rostov-on-Don on December 2, 2011.

On December 12, during the dispersal of the inconsistent march of changes on Pushkinskaya Square, a random passer -by, a young man named Karl Mars turned out to be among the detainees. It was held for almost two days in the Meshchansky police department and drew up a protocol on it for disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers. Mars told the OVD-Info how everything was. In general, I was going to go to the cinema and passed by.