Civil activist Ildar Dadin, who was sentenced to three years in prison under an article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events, was transferred to the special block of pre-trial detention center No. 4 (“Medved”). This was reported to OVD-Info by Anna Karetnikova, a member of the Moscow PMC, who visited Dadin on January 14 in a pre-trial detention center. According to her, Ildar Dadin was indeed transferred from the isolation cell to a special unit.

Oksana Shamailova, Justice of the Peace of Precinct No. 1 of Oktyabrsky District of Saratov, on January 14 decided to return to the prosecutor's office the criminal case against 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".

In Saratov, the investigation into the case of journalist Sergei Vilkov, accused of slandering regional Duma deputy Sergei Kurikhin, has been completed. The investigation was conducted by the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Vilkov is charged with slander combined with a charge of committing a serious crime (5th part of article 128.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer Damir Gaynutdinov, representing the interests of Vilkov.

The Pskov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Pskov City Court, which recognized the legal deprivation of parliamentary powers of the leader of the local branch of the Yabloko party, Lev Shlosberg. Thus, the court of second instance dismissed Shlosberg's appeal, reports . TASS Lev Shlosberg was the only deputy of the Pskov Duma from Yabloko.

The Supreme Court refused to consider the appeal against the Moscow City Court's decision to ban the Russian Ethnopolitical Association. One of the leaders of the EPO, Dmitry Demushkin, spoke about this. According to him, the paper that was sent to him from the court states that he did not have the right to personally authorize a lawyer to represent the interests of the organization in court.

On January 13, the Central District Court of Barnaul confirmed the decision of the justice of the peace to close the administrative case against activist Viktor Rau, a participant in a series of solo pickets for the return of the mayoral elections on September 24, 2015. This is reported by the website of the magazine "Capitalist".

On the night of January 14, on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Boris Nemtsov memorial, Karine Kovkhaeva and Ivan Sharavin, who were on duty there, were detained. In the film, filmed by their comrade Andrei Margulev, they say that approximately two police carriages arrived at the memorial.

Civic activist Ildar Dadin, who was sentenced to three years in prison under the article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events, is going to be transferred from SIZO No. 4 (“Medved”), where he is currently being held. This was reported to OVD-Info by Anastasia Zotova, a journalist and girlfriend of Ildar Dadin.

In January 2016, the law on the “right to call” for those detained in criminal cases came into force. Previously, the law required that relatives of those suspected of committing a crime be notified within 12 hours of arrest, and this could also be done by the investigator. The new law grants the right to a telephone call to the suspect himself and no later than three hours after he was brought to the investigator. You can only call in the presence of a law enforcement officer.