The rock musician Alexander Podorozhny, who lives in Aleysk (Altai Territory), was searched on December 17. about this on his page on the social network VKontakte writes The well-known Siberian rock musician Oleg Sudakov . According to Sudakov, on December 16, Podorozhny received a call from the local police and was invited to come to the duty unit the next day due to the fact that some paper had arrived.

The department of the FSB of the Perm Territory did not start a case against the head of the local branch of the party "Democratic Choice" Ilya Sretensky. According to the website of the city of Perm "59.ru", "they did not find any grounds" for starting a case. Earlier , information appeared that a case had been opened against Sretensky in connection with the publication of banned videos in March 2011.

Kirill Barabash, an activist of the Initiative Group for the preparation of the referendum “For Responsible Power”, who became four defendants in the “People's Will Army” Case, was arrested by decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow. He, like the other three, was charged with organizing the activities of a banned organization, RAPSI reports , citing the court’s press secretary.

Anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the events on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, is in the Vodnik pre-trial detention center. His lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told OVD-Info that Buchenkov was transferred to a pre-trial detention center from the temporary detention center (IVS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on December 14, but no one told her about this, although Buchenkov himself wrote a statement to notify the lawyer.

A draft of a new Code of Administrative Offenses has been submitted to the Duma. As in the draft submitted at the beginning of 2015, it says that offenses are divided, depending on the harm to the public interest, into “gross”, “significant” and “less significant”. In this case, as in the previous draft, there is no list of gross violations, but, judging by the severity of the punishment, violations at public events are classified as gross.