Unidentified people sprayed pepper spray during a meeting of PARNAS Chairman Mikhail Kasyanov with party activists in St. Petersburg. This was reported on the party's Twitter. The crowd was forced to take to the streets. Earlier, the co-chairman of the St. Petersburg branch, Andrei Pivovarov , wrote that the Young Guard of United Russia was going to hold a rally near the meeting place of Kasyanov.

A resident of the city of Bor (Nizhny Novgorod region), accused of inciting extremist activities for posting on social networks about the socialist revolution, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison and amnestied. The court hearing in his case was held on February 4, reports Nizhny Novgorod news agency .

On February 4, 2016, it became known that on January 22, 2016, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk recognized the head of the local religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses “Central. Arkhangelsk” Alexander Parygin guilty of possessing extremist literature for the purpose of mass distribution (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was fined 1.5 thousand rubles. This is not the first case of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Arkhangelsk.

Gennady Afanasiev, who is serving a sentence in IK-25 in Syktyvkar, was charged with ten penalties, lawyer Alexander Popkov said. “The problems in the colony do not end with him, he is subjected to harassment. When Ernest Mezak, a member of the public monitoring commission of the Republic of Komi, got to the materials with penalties, it turned out that there were ten of them, but Afanasyev was not informed about this.

The area near the central mosque of Buynaksk was blocked by the police in connection with the planned action of supporters of the ex-mayor of the city Osman Osmanov, the reports "Caucasian Knot" . The protesters eventually gathered in a park near the square. Representatives of the "Party of Veterans" won the elections to the assembly of deputies of Buynaksk on September 13, 2015, initially they demanded that their representative Osman Osmanov be appointed mayor of the city.

In St. Petersburg, an attack was made on members of the anarchist initiative "Network of Solidarity", which held solo pickets near the "Prana bar". Pickets were held not for the first time , in order to get the owners of this vegetarian cafe to pay off small debts to two employees - one owes four, the other twelve thousand rubles. About a dozen activists picketed the cafe, replacing each other in turn. The attackers, according to their testimonies, looked like football hooligans.

Hello! Let's start with internal news: we have a channel on The Question , where you can ask us any question - we will try to answer ourselves or find those who know everything for sure. What happened (30.01 - 05.02) Irina Kalmykova, accused of “repeated violations” at pickets and having left Russia, was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia . Lawyers for Ildar Dadin, sentenced to three years in prison under the same article, filed a full appeal against the verdict .