The Chelyabinsk Regional Court today, January 18, 2016, recognized as lawful the decision taken on October 6, 2015 by the Leninsky Court of Chelyabinsk to recover 20 thousand rubles from a member of the Public Monitoring Commission (ONC) Oksana Trufanova as compensation for moral damage allegedly caused to the head of the colony No. 1 Kopeysk Alexey Titov. Trufanova's lawyer Andrei Lepekhin reports this. The court thus dismissed Trufanova's appeal.

On December 31, 2015, it became known that a resident of the village of Ivanovka, Muslim Yevgeny Kim, was arrested in the city of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region.

Representatives of the Russian movement for the third time filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court, which in October 2015 recognized the activities of the organization as extremist. This was announced on January 18 to OVD-Info by the former leader of the movement Dmitry Demushkin.

After the collection of signatures for the resignation of Razman Kadyrov began, the close associates and supporters of the head of Chechnya began to make statements containing clear threats against oppositionists and human rights activists.

As expected , the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building on Monday, January 18, recommended to reject in the first reading a bill on fines for public expression of non-traditional sexual relations - the so-called coming-out. The corresponding draft law was introduced by State Duma deputies from the Communist Party Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev.

On January 18, 2016, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) reported that the Mirninsky District Court of the city of Udachny fined under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) to a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. The amount of the fine was not specified in the message.

The State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation during its today's meeting proposed to approve in the first reading a draft amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which gives the accused the right to receive a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case. The bill, sponsored by State Duma deputies Vladimir Vshivtsev and Nikolai Kovalev, proposes to amend paragraph 1 of part 4 of Art. 47 Code of Criminal Procedure.

Officials of the Penza city administration refused to approve a rally in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, told Kasparov a correspondent on January 18. Ru one of the organizers of the event, the leader of the organization "Generation of New Time" Ivan Finogeev.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg considered an administrative case on organizing an uncoordinated rally against a local truck driver. The court fined Alexei Gubantsov 75 thousand rubles. Aleksey Gubantsov was accused of organizing an uncoordinated rally on December 30, 2015 - this is how the police regarded the action of truckers against the Platon system, when around noon ten drivers were driving along Tereshkova Street from house No.