On October 17, three opposition activists were detained in the center of Moscow during an attempt to hang a banner between the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. This was announced by Vladimir Akimenkov by telephone of the OVD-Info hotline. According to him, police officers are taking the detainees to the Zamoskvorechye police department. UPD. Detained Anastasia Zinovkina and two other activists who did not want to give their names.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg communicated complaints from those detained at rallies in support of those accused in the Bolotnaya case on February 24, 2014. Lawyer of the Memorial Human Rights Center Tatyana Glushkova reported this on her Facebook page on October 17. Information about this is published on the ECHR website.

In Omsk, the production of the play "Jesus Christ Superstar" by the Rock Opera Theater in St. Petersburg has been canceled. This was reported on October 17 on the website of Radio Baltika.

The mayor's office of Ulan-Ude did not coordinate the holding of a rally and a procession of LGBT activists in the central part of the city, writes TUday.ru. The reason given was the need to comply with federal legislation to protect children from information harmful to their health and development.

On October 15, an attack was made on the office of the branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, writes Novgorod.ru. Desk drawers were opened in the party office, documents were rummaged through, and agitation was scattered. While trying to escape from the scene, the attacker was detained by the police. According to witnesses, he had a package in his hands, which law enforcement agencies could not find.

On October 13, in Saransk, after a preliminary reconnaissance, 20 law enforcement officers broke into the premises of Jehovah's Witnesses under the pretext of a fire inspection and, turning their backs to the cameras, threw literature from the federal extremist list into the closet, which they then "found" themselves, according to a press release. Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, which is at the disposal of OVD-Info. Earlier, on October 10, FSB officer I. A.

Although at the end of 2015 changes were made to Russian legislation to allow the decisions of the ECHR to be ignored, in practice it turned out as many experts said: this story was invented specifically for Russia’s debt to Yukos of 1.87 billion euros, in general, breaking with the ECHR The Kremlin has no plans yet. The Russian law enforcement and judicial system often try to do everything not to implement the substantive decisions of the ECHR.

A 27-year-old employee of the district education department posted a song from the federal list of extremist materials on his VKontakte page, according to the website of the Mari El prosecutor's office. The Soviet District Court of Mari El fined him 1,000 rubles for this under article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

The other day I read the news that the Ministry of Finance has put 600 million rubles into the state budget for payments to citizens who win cases against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). And this figure does not let me go.