The Kiev District Court of Simferopol arrested the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, in absentia. about this writes His lawyer Dzhemil Temishev on Facebook. In connection with what a criminal case has been opened, it is still unknown, but, according to Temishev, the FSB investigator who petitioned for the arrest stated that the case had been opened under three articles of the Criminal Code.

The St. Petersburg Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not find violations of the legislation in the actions of the police who beat the detainee during the distribution of the brochures of the Corruption Fund of Fedor Gorozhanko, and refused to initiate a criminal case of causing bodily harm. This is stated in the official response of the operational-search part of the department for the Internet showing about beating (is at the disposal of the OTD-info).

On January 20, Kommersant correspondent Olesya Gerasimenko was summoned to the Investigative Committee for questioning in the case of Yegor Prosvirnin, editor-in-chief of the nationalist resource Sputnik and Pogrom.

In Saratov, a preliminary investigation has been resumed in the case of journalist Sergei Vilkov, initiated at the request of a deputy of the local Duma, Sergei Kurikhin, after the publication of several investigations by Vilkov about his activities. This was announced on January 20 by Damir Gainutdinov, representing the interests of the journalist. According to Gainutdinov, on that day he was supposed to be acquainted with the materials of the case.

Activists of another Russia Kirill UNCHUK and Konstantin Tambrazov were detained on January 20 after the campaign at the Moscow government building on New Arbat, where the Forum of Entrepreneurs takes place. This was reported on the page "Other Russia" on the social network "VKontakte".

The Investigative Committee refused to initiate criminal proceedings at the request of the participants in the conflict between the mayor of Ulan-Ude Alexander Golkov and journalists of the Rossiya-24 TV channel Artem Kol and Vladimir Bragin.

The government bill, which toughens the selection of social activists to monitor the observance of human rights in prisons and pre-trial detention centers, needs to be radically revised. Deputies of the Duma committee on public associations came to this opinion yesterday, nevertheless recommending it for adoption in the first reading.

The Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee for Crimea submitted to the court the materials of the criminal case against a 22-year-old citizen of Ukraine who participated in protests on the Kiev Maidan.

Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CPC), allowing defendants and lawyers to receive copies of case materials, have not been supported by the government. The amendments were introduced back in September by Andrei Klishas, ​​Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Konstantin Dobrynin, then Senator and now State Secretary of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, and Vadim Tyulpanov, member of the Federation Council.

Simferopol police did not find violations of the law in the actions of an employee who tried to give the pro -Ukrainian activist Veldar Shukurjiev a fabricated protocol. The answer of January 14, the Crimean Human Rights Rights Group published on January 20 on January 20 on his Facebook page. Schukurjiyev was detained on August 11 in Simferopol, when he photographed with the flag of Ukraine at the monument to Lenin.

In Grozny, state employees are forced to participate in a flash mob and a rally in support of Ramzan Kadyrov, which are scheduled for January 21 and 22, writes Znak.com Among the officials of Chechnya, there is a distribution order for participation in a rally and a flash mob in support of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who came into conflict with the opposition.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov for the first time commented to journalists on the words of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, uttering threats against the opposition. “If you read carefully, we are talking about a non-systemic opposition.

Elena Zenina was on duty at the memorial at the night when the detention occurred On the night of January 20, Boris Nemtsov’s memorial on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge was detained by Pavel Takmakov on duty there. As his comrades reported, this happened at about 04:30. Currently, Takmakov has been released from the China-Gorod police department. All this time, Elena Zenina, who was on duty, remained on the bridge all this time.

The case of Alexander Belov, one of the leaders of the "Russians" movement, recently banned as extremist, was transferred from the Nagatinskiy District Court of Moscow to Meshchanskiy. According to RAPSI with reference to Ivan Mironov, who represents the interests of the accused, this decision was made in connection with the fact.