Lawyers for Ildar Dadin, sentenced to three years in prison for “repeated violations of the rules for holding public events,” filed a full appeal against the verdict of the Basmanny Court. Journalist Anastasia Zotova, Dadin’s fiancée, writes about this on Twitter. Now the Moscow City Court must set a date for consideration of the complaint. The defense filed a short version of the complaint on December 11. Dadin became the first person against whom a sentence was passed under Art. 212.1 CC.

The Penza regional court overturned the decision of the Leninsky district court of Penza, which fined three members of the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for laying flowers at the monument to Lenin. This was reported by Interfax with reference to one of the fined communists, the press secretary of the branch, Sergei Padalkin. Earlier, Padalkin, as well as Margarita Abramova and Dmitry Filyaev, were fined ten thousand rubles each.

The Supreme Court reduced the term of imprisonment for Gennady Kravtsov, who was sentenced to a strict regime colony on charges of treason, from fourteen to six years. This decision was made during the consideration of the appeal of the defense, which demanded that Kravtsov be acquitted, reports .

In the Magistrate's Court of the Industrial District of Stavropol, consideration has begun on the merits of a criminal case on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code) against a local resident Viktor Krasnov. The reason for the criminal prosecution was the accused's comments on VKontakte. Applications to the police demanding to open a criminal case were written by two participants in the discussion - Krasnov's opponents by correspondence.

Three students of the National Research Nuclear University of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (NRNU MEPhI), who are Turkish citizens, were expelled by decision of the FSB. This was reported in the response of the Prosecutor General's Office to the appeal of the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Irina Kalmykova, who left Russia and is accused in the case of “repeated violations of the procedure for holding rallies,” is wanted. The consideration of the case in the Tverskoy District Court has been postponed to March 14, when the search case will appear. Kalmykova was arrested in absentia. Her defense will appeal the decision. announced

Five activists of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir have been sentenced to long terms. In the Chelyabinsk Regional Court on February 4, an exit session of the Moscow District Military Court was held.

The Meyerhold Center, without explanation, withdrew from the show a hip-hop operetta based on Korney Chukovsky's "Cockroach", in which Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova performed. As Viktoria Narakhsa, director of the production, told the Dozhd TV channel on February 3, the Meyerhold Center refused to cooperate with her team. The first performance of the operetta took place on 12 January.