Relatives of the militants killed during a special operation on December 17-18 in Grozny spoke about instructions to participate in a rally against the Islamic State, which took place in the capital of Chechnya on January 8. about this writes The Meduza publication , citing a report by the Caucasian Knot.

At the Tsvetnoy Bulvar station of the Moscow metro on Sunday afternoon, January 8, the organizer of the flash mob “In the metro without pants”, planned as part of an international action, was detained. This was reported from the scene by the correspondent of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. According to the publication Life, the organizer of the flash mob, Mark Vesely, was detained even before the start of the action.

Krasnodar activist Viktor Chirikov, who was arrested for 15 days for erecting a cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, was released from the detention center on Sunday, January 8. This was announced by the artist Alexei Knedlyakovsky, who was released the day before after being arrested for the same action. Chirikov was detained on December 24 and spent the night at the police station.

Moscow activist Ildar Dadin, sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of “repeated” violations of the established procedure for holding public events, is in the Altai Territory. As his wife Anastasia Zotova wrote on her Facebook page, on Sunday, January 8, he called her from the colony by phone. IK-5 writes In a telephone conversation, recorded by Zotov, Dadin said that for almost three weeks, from December 9 to December 28, he was in a pre-trial detention center in Tyumen.

Alexey Knedlyakovsky. Photo: Facebook The artist Alexei Knedlyakovsky, on January 7, was released after 15 days of arrest for the installation on the day of employees of the state security services of a wooden cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, spoke about the conditions of maintenance in a special detention center. Rather, as Kndlyakovsky writes, about the "conditions of torture of people contained there." My camera was about 10.5 sq.m. (although 11.5 is indicated on the stages).