On January 9, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court fined Yan Katelevskaya, a blogger from Ramensky near Moscow, for the action “against police lawlessness” on September 9, 2016, 15 thousand rubles.

On January 9, the world judicial district number 207 of St. Petersburg postponed the consideration of the administrative case brought against the programmer Dmitry Ugay after being detained on October 22 in St. Petersburg during a lecture on the types of yoga, to January 18.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg invited the Russian Federation to recognize violations in the case of anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov. About this with reference to the analyst of the International human rights group "Agora" Damir Gainutdinova reports RBC.

On January 9, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg found nationalist Nikolai Bondarik guilty of inciting hatred due to an entry on a page on the social network VKontakte and sentenced him to five years of suspended imprisonment with five years of probation. Lawyer Sergei Kravchuk, who represents Bondarik’s interests, told Rosbalt about this. The case was considered behind closed doors. The message accusing Bondarik was published on March 31, 2015.

Judge Irina Smykova of the Perovsky District Court of Moscow on January 9 found the head of the Save Kuskovo Foundation, Vladimir Zalishchak, who was detained on December 29, guilty of disobeying a lawful order of a police officer and fined him 500 rubles.

Exactly a month ago, December 9, 2016, the State Duma refused to introduce the norm to the Criminal Executive Code, which grants the convicts the right to inform relatives of transfer from one colony to another, considering it “excessive”.