On October 17, there were three activists in the center of Moscow. On October 18, according to human rights activist Alla Frolova, all detainees were released. Activists were accused of organizing the simultaneous mass stay of citizens in public places (Articles 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Anastasia Zinovkin was fined 15,000 rubles, two other activists (they could not find out their names) - for 10,000 rubles each.

On September 22, Supreme Court Judge Vladimir Rusakov refused to consider the cassation appeal of Daria Polyudova, convicted on charges of calls for extremism and separatism, against her sentence. The mother of the convicted woman writes about this on Facebook. This information was confirmed by OVD-Info and lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who represents Polyudova’s interests. In August 2016, the regional court recognized the decision to deny Polyudova’s parole as legal.

On September 29, the European Court of Human Rights communicated complaints from those detained for drinking tea at a school in Novorossiysk in 2007. Lawyer of the Memorial Human Rights Center Tatyana Glushkova reported this on her Facebook page. The text of the communication was published on the official website of the court. The applicants are lawyer Marina Dubrovina, human rights activists Vadim Karastelev, Tamara Karastelev and Vladimir Pyankov.

At its session on October 18, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Orel Regional Court to liquidate the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Oryol Region. This is reported in a communiqué from the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, available to OVD-Info. On June 14, the Oryol Regional Court ruled that the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses be liquidated as an extremist organization.

The Zavodskoy District Court in Kemerovo fined the pastor of the Protestant Church "New Generation" by Andrei Matyuzhov for the illegal conduct of missionary activities (Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The pastor is guilty that he, being the leader of the group, did not notify the administration of the creation of the church.

Detained during the day during an event by Raiffeisen Bank in a hotel on Krasnaya Presnya, foreign currency borrower Alexander Alexandrov was released from the Presnensky police department without charge. During the event at the hotel, Alexandrov began to tell the participants about the bank's policy towards foreign currency mortgagers. Bank employees demanded that he leave the branch and called the police.

One of those detained near the State Duma building on September 12 during the reading of the Constitution, Igor Klochkov, was fined five thousand rubles on October 12 on charges of violating the procedure for holding a public event. Nikolai Zboroshenko, a lawyer representing his interests, told OVD-Info about this on October 18. Five more people were detained along with Klochkov. One of the detainees, Viktor Kapitonov, was accused of “repeated” violation and fined 250 thousand rubles.

Igor Klochkov, who was detained on August 25 on Red Square during a rally in memory of the 1968 demonstration, was fined 10,000 rubles on October 18. Judge Orekhova of the Tverskoy District Court found him guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event - under the fifth part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. This was reported to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation, Nikolay Zboroshenko, who represents the interests of Klochkov.

On October 18, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev and recognized as lawful the decision to open a criminal case against blogger Alexei Navalny. about it Writes "TASS". case was initiated against Alexei Navalny at the request of former police officer Pavel Karpov In May 2016 , a new criminal defamation .

The investigation into the Bolotnaya case defendant Maxim Panfilov has been completed, and now his lawyers are getting acquainted with the materials of the case, which was separated into a separate proceeding. The Caucasian Knot reports this with reference to lawyer Sergei Panchenko. The Basmanny District Court extended Panfilov’s arrest until January 7, 2017. In October, after a psychiatric examination at the Serbsky Center, Maxim Panfilov was declared insane.

At an event held by Raiffeisen Bank in a hotel on Krasnaya Presnya on October 18, Alexander Alexandrov was detained, speaking in defense of the rights of the bank's foreign currency mortgage holders. He reported this to OVD-Info. As Alexandrov said, he went to the branch when a certain event was taking place there and began to tell the participants about the bank's policy towards foreign currency mortgages.

Judge Lunin of the Tushinsky District Court on October 18, at the request of the defense, postponed the hearing of the case of the previously detained defender of the Khimki reservoir, Sergey Zavorotnykh, to the morning of October 20. Zavorotnykh himself announced this to OVD-Info. His interests in court are represented by lawyer Oleg Beznisko. Zavotornykh was detained on October 11 after he himself called the police to report a violation by an employee of a private security company.

It became known that on September 29, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints of those detained on June 11, 2013 near the State Duma building in Moscow during the adoption of the law on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.” Lawyer of the Memorial Human Rights Center Tatyana Glushkova reported this on her Facebook page on October 17. The text of the communication was published on the official website of the court.

On October 19, the Moscow City Court rejected a complaint against the decision of the Tverskoy Court, which on October 14 arrested Moscow activist Roman Roslovtsev for 20 days on charges of “repeated” violation at a public event while walking along Red Square with a poster “I’m not afraid 212.1.” Nikolai Zboroshenko, a lawyer representing the interests of Roslovtsev, reported this to OVD-Info.

On October 18, under the threat of detaining the activists, police moved their cars, blocking the entrance to the animal shelter in Biryulyovo. This was announced to OVD-Info by animal rights activist Yury Koretskikh. According to him, in addition to the police, riot police also came to the shelter. After the passage was cleared, a garbage truck drove inside. Activists fear that it threatens that the leadership of the shelter will be able to hide the violations.