at Detainees the Boris Nemtsov memorial on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, Ivan Sharavin, Boris Kazadaev and Marina Lebedev, were charged with violating the procedure for holding public events (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), accusing them of holding a picket. After drawing up the protocol, they were released from the Kitai-Gorod police department. Court hearings are due on January 26 at the Tverskoy District Court.

A resident of Tambov Andrei Polyakov was fined 500 rubles for a single picket. This was reported by the portal "Your Tambov". In the police department No. 1, it was ruled that Polyakov violated paragraph 4 of Article 22 “Rules for the maintenance of the territory of the city district - the city of Tambov”, which falls under Art. 8 of the regional law "On Administrative Offenses of the Tambov Region." Polyakov spent a single picket on November 14, 2016 on Leninskaya Square.

Ivan Sharavin, Boris Kazadaev and Marina Lebedeva were detained on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on January 16 near the Boris Nemtsov memorial. This was reported to OVD-Info by activist Andrey Margulev. According to him, the police were called by a security guard who was there.

On January 16, in the Magistrate's Court of the Industrial District of Stavropol, the trial was resumed in the case of insulting the feelings of believers, brought against Viktor Krasnov for publishing the phrase "There is no Boch" on VKontakte. Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, who represents the interests of Krasnov, told Open Russia about this.

Journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, sentenced in Chechnya to three years in prison on charges of possession of drugs, was taken away from the pre-trial detention center where he had been held before. This was reported on January 16 on Twitter "Post RosUznik".

The government of St. Petersburg refused to coordinate the procession in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed on January 19, 2009. This is reported by the portal "Lenizdat. Ru" with reference to the activist of the Russian socialist movement Ivan Ovsyannikov. A similar event in Moscow was agreed upon, according to the event's Facebook page. It also contains a requirement for participants not to bring state and political flags.

On January 16, the Moscow City Court dismissed the Jehovah's Witnesses' complaint against the Prosecutor General's Office's warning about the inadmissibility of extremist activity issued to their Administrative Center. This is reported on the website of the Witnesses. Earlier, on October 12, 2016, a similar decision on a complaint against a warning from the Prosecutor General's Office was made by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow.

Nationalist Vitaly Shishkin, who was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of inciting mass riots and inciting hatred on ethnic grounds for calling to attend an unauthorized rally, said that he was under pressure in the colony. At the moment, associates supporting Shishkin's page on the VKontakte social network are not sure that he is safe. on Shishkin's page A letter was published describing episodes of pressure in the colony.

Mark Galperin, who was detained on January 14 during an opposition rally at the monument to Griboedov in Moscow, was released on the afternoon of January 16 without going to court. Judge Safina of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow returned the materials of the administrative cases brought against Galperin to the police department. The decision to return the case materials under Art. 19.3 Administrative Code Resolution on the return of case materials under Part 2 of Art.

Mark Galperin, detained on Saturday, January 14, during a gathering at the Griboedov monument in Moscow, has been kept in a police car in the courtyard of the Basmanny Court for several hours. This was reported to OVD-Info on the afternoon of Monday, January 16, by human rights activist Alla Frolova, who came to court as a witness in Galperin’s administrative case.

Investigators charged Crimean Tatar Enver Bekirov, who is accused of involvement in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir banned in Russia, on charges of forcible seizure of power under Article 278 of the Criminal Code, which provides for a punishment of 12 to 20 years in prison. As Anna Bogacheva, a member of the Crimean Solidarity association, writes on her Facebook page on January 15, an additional charge was filed on Friday, January 13.

The artist Pyotr Pavlensky, known for his political actions against the arbitrariness of law enforcement agencies, in defense of freedom of speech and against political repression, left Russia and intends to apply for political asylum in France. This was reported on January 16 by the Dozhd TV channel, citing the words of the artist.

Journalist Anastasia Zotova announced a ban on a date with her husband, activist Ildar Dadin, sentenced to deprivation of liberty for participation in political actions in Moscow. According to Zotova on January 16 on her Facebook page, the Altai IK-5 administration, where Dadina was transported a week before, first agreed to provide the spouses with a short-term date, and then, when Zotova had already bought tickets and booked a hotel, she suddenly refused a date.

On January 16, the Moscow City Court replaced the sentence for Zelenograd resident Yevgeny Kort, who was previously sentenced to a year in a colony-settlement for publishing an image with nationalist Martsinkevich and Alexander Pushkin, to a fine of 200,000 rubles. This was reported by Open Russia, whose lawyer, Sergei Badamshin, represents the interests of Kort. Meanwhile, the defense insisted on Kort's acquittal and intends to appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court on the fine.

Mark Galperin, detained on Saturday, January 14, at a gathering in support of political prisoners in Moscow, was taken from the Basmanny police station to the Basmanny District Court at about 12:00 on January 16. The court hearing was scheduled for 11 am. Galperin is the only one of those detained at the gathering on January 14 who was left in the police department until the trial.