Alexander Makarov , who was detained during a protest of truckers, was released from the courthouse on January 6. As Andrei Bazhutin told OVD-Info, the meeting on his administrative cases was postponed to January 7. On January 5, the police drew up reports on Makarov under two articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

On January 6, human rights activists from the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) visited IK-5 in the Altai Territory, where Ildar Dadin was supposed to be. However, they found him there. Anastasia Zotova, wife of the political prisoner, wrote about this on her Facebook page. Earlier it was reported that Ildar Dadin has been in IK-5 of the Altai Territory in a cell-type room (PKT) since the end of December.

On December 1, 2016, Indian yoga philosophy was included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage sites. A little earlier, on October 22, I gave a lecture “Types of Yoga” and was also included in the protocol of an administrative offense under the “Yarovaya Law” on charges of missionary activity, which I did not commit. They didn’t even let me read the protocol.

On January 9, a court will be held in St. Petersburg in an administrative case of “illegal missionary activity” for a lecture on yoga. The web programmer Dmitry Ugai, who studies Indian philosophy and practicing yoga, was held accountable. The OVD-Info publishes his story about how in October he was detained while lecturing, how a protocol was drawn up in the police department and how, at the request of the court, this protocol was redone.