The Syktyvkar city court ordered the representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service to provide documentary justification why Gennady Afanasiev, convicted in Crimea on charges of terrorist activities, was transferred to the Komi Republic, that is, 2,700 kilometers from Crimea.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow extended the term of arrest of the leader of the ethno-political association "Russians" (previously banned) Alexander Belov (Potkin) until June 21. It is reported by "Newspaper. Ru" with reference to the lawyer Ivan Mironov, representing the interests of Belov. This happened during the preliminary hearings in the Belov case. Mironov also stated that the European Court of Human Rights accepted his client's complaint about the arrest.

A court in Orenburg acquitted Alexei Gubantsov, coordinator of the truckers' protest, against whom a protocol was drawn up on organizing an uncoordinated event. According to Orenburg News, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that Gubantsov was the organizer of an uncoordinated picket of drivers near the Armada shopping center on December 17, 2015. At the same time, the protocol on the offense against him was drawn up only on December 30.

Member of the initiative group “Volga and the people against” Gulnara Gilyazova appealed the decision of the Kirovsky District Court of Kazan, which in June 2015 fined her five thousand rubles on charges of organizing an uncoordinated rally on May 2 near the village of Zaimishche against the development of the banks of the Volga (under the first part of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code ).

Tatar human rights activist Rafis Kashapov, who was sentenced to three years in prison in September 2015 on charges of inciting to violate the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on January 11. about this on Writes January 12 "Kommersant".

Clashes in Moscow May 1, 1993. Photo from the Archive of the Communist Party Journalist Yevgeny Buzev, who created on the VKontakte social network the group “It fell apart” dedicated to the collapse of the USSR, as well as preceding and following these events, tells about the history of the police of the special purpose (riot police) in the last years of the existence of the Soviet Union and the era of the formation of post -Soviet states.