Police officers on January 26 in Penza detained 64-year-old local activist Yury Ushakov along with his son. Ushakov was accused of petty hooliganism and taken to a police stronghold to draw up a protocol. This is reported by Kasparov. Ru with reference to the lawyer Ushakov.

Vladimir Tolstun, who was detained on January 27 during the action of foreign currency borrowers of DeltaCredit Bank, was left overnight in the police department without food. As he told OVD-Info, on the morning of January 28, he was taken to the Tverskoy court, where he spent several hours until the judge announced that the case had been postponed to January 29. The detainee was given an obligation to appear, and the police kept his passport.

On January 27, 2016, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court rejected the appeal of a local resident Ivan Alekseev, who on November 24, 2015 was fined under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols) for posting on a social network a frame from the comedy Iron Sky about the Nazis on the moon. Thus, the regional court agreed with the decision of the lower instance - the Metallurgical Court of Chelyabinsk, whose decision was upheld.

State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Kulikov and Yuri Sinelshchikov prepared a bill introducing confiscation of property as a punishment for various crimes. It is reported by Kommersant .

The Sochi police, looking for the organizers of the spontaneous gathering of pensioners that took place earlier, continues to call the activists for conversations. As the "Caucasian Knot" writes on January 28, at least four activists were summoned to the police.

Russia has appealed the first decision of the European Court of Human Rights in favor of the accused in the case of the clashes on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by TASS on January 28 with reference to lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky. In September 2015, the ECHR upheld the complaint of the Bolotnaya case defendants Leonid Kovyazin, Artem Savelov and Ilya Gushchin and ordered Russia to pay them compensation.

The draft Code of Administrative Violations, submitted to the State Duma in December 2015, includes a new article on violation of public order on voting day, which resulted in violations of the established procedure for the work of the election commission and created obstacles to participation in voting. As RBC writes on January 28, citing the opinion of election law specialist Andrei Buzin, this measure will provide an additional opportunity to put pressure on observers.

Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, said on January 28 that Article 212.1 on repeated violations at public events should be removed from the Criminal Code, reported .