On February 11, the North Caucasus District Military Court is scheduled to consider the complaint of Alexander Kostenko, who was sentenced to three years and eleven months on charges of harming a Berkut fighter in Kiev, against the actions of the FSB. Kostenko complained that after his arrest in February 2015 in Simferopol, FSB officers beat him and forced him to confess under torture.

The term for the investigation in the new case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been extended until July 30. It is reported by TASS with reference to "a source close to the investigation." Khodorkovsky was accused of organizing the murder of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov and businessman Yevgeny Rybin. In this case, in 2007 Alexey Pichugin, the former head of the internal economic security service of the Yukos company, which was headed by Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Activist Irina Kalmykova, accused of repeatedly violating the procedure for holding rallies, left Russia with her son. She wrote about this on her page. Facebook “Hurray! I am in Ukraine!" — wrote Kalmykova. Now she is in Kyiv. On Monday, January 25, a hearing of the Tverskoy Court in Kalmykova’s case was supposed to take place, but in her absence, the hearing was postponed to February 4.

Yabloko activists Anton Antonov-Ovseenko and Stanislav Belyaevsky, as well as the Progress Party activist detained with them, whose name has not yet been found out, have been released from the Kitai-Gorod police station. For all of them, as well as for the former chairman of Yabloko, Sergei Mitrokhin, protocols were drawn up on participation in an unapproved public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Maykop city court refused to return to the prosecutor the case of ecologist Valery Brinikh, who is accused of inciting hatred towards the Adyghe people. This happened on January 26 at the first hearing in the case.

A member of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, left the Kitai-Gorod police department. A protocol was drawn up against him under Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. According to him, the police accused him and Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, who was detained along with him, of holding a picket together.

Members of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin and Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, were detained near the building of the presidential administration. On January 26, the party holds a series of single pickets against the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Mitrokhin told the OVD-Info that he was not allowed to get into a single picket-the police demanded that he show the poster first, and after that they immediately detained. The detainees are taken to the China-Gorod police department.

The Echo of Moscow employee Alexander Poyshchev was called to the Investigative Committee for interrogation in the fraud case during the election campaign of Alexei Navalny. The journalist said on Facebook that on the agenda handed to him was indicated on January 25, but he received the agenda late and agreed that he would appear for the interrogation on January 26. According to Poyshchev, the interrogation lasted 35 minutes.

The Supreme Court of Crimea extended until March 8 the detention period for those arrested in the “February 26 Case” - Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz, accused of organizing mass riots, and Mustafa Degermendzhi and Ali Asanov accused of participating in them. This decision was made on January 25, reports Grani.ru . RU".