On December 28, 2015, the Kazan Islamic scholar Rais Suleimanov was interviewed at the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan, after which he was summoned to the police to draw up an administrative protocol under part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of paraphernalia of extremist organizations).

Activist Daria Polyudova, who was sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement for publishing "extremist" and "separatist" materials on the Internet, on Wednesday appealed the sentence in the Krasnodar regional court. “Today, an appeal was filed against the verdict of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar. I plead not guilty, I demand that I be acquitted.

Ella Pamfilova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, sent a supervisory appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence against opposition leader Leonid Razvozzhaev. The activist's lawyer, Dmitry Agranovsky, says that Pamfilova was the complainant, but he drafted it. “We ask that the verdict be canceled and Razvozzhaev be acquitted,” Agranovsky told Interfax.

According to members of the PMC in the Chechen Republic, public figure Ruslan Kutaev, who is serving a term for possession of drugs, was placed in a punishment cell for a period of 15 days. The cell phone found on him became the basis for imposing a penalty.

The Kirovsky District Court announced the verdict for Tomsk blogger Vadim Tyumentsev. The court appointed Tyumentsev 5 years in prison in a penal colony - despite the fact that even the prosecutor's office asked for 4 years. The court also banned Vadim Tyumentsev from posting materials on the Internet for three years (the prosecutor's office asked for a two-year ban). Vadim Tyumentsev's lawyer announced his intention to appeal the verdict, our correspondent reports from the courtroom.

In Kirov, protesting truckers are driven out of Konev Square, where they intend to stand during the New Year holidays. According to their protest page on the VKontakte social network, they were forced to leave Konev Square because they were threatened with evacuation of their cars. Earlier that day, in front of their eyes, the traffic authorities hung a sign outside their parking lot allowing the vehicles to be evacuated.