Buryat nationalist Vladimir Khagdaev was announced on January 16, 2017 that the preliminary investigation of his case had been completed.

In the house of the former school teacher Alexander Byvshev in the village of Kromy, Oryol region, on January 17, 2017, a search was conducted, during which law enforcement officers seized a computer and other information media. After a search in the local administration of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the suspect was interrogated.

The Investigative Committee re-charged Olga Li, a former deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Narodny Zhurnalist”, with slander against a judge (Part 1 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code), lawyer Roman Lyzlov reported with reference to the decision received today to charge him as a defendant.

The Moscow City Court refused to satisfy Dmitry Buchenkov's defense complaints about the extension of his detention, said his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. Buchenkov will remain in the pre-trial detention center until March 6, 2017. On November 28, 2016, the Moscow City Court granted the investigation’s request to extend Dmitry Buchenkov, accused in the Bolotnaya case, a preventive measure in the form of detention until March 6, 2017.

On the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Boris Nemtsov memorial, the second detention took place in a day. Mikhail Silich was detained, he was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department. According to information received from the activists, the reason for the detention was that Silich was standing with the flag of Russia. Tatyana Tikhonovich was with him at the memorial, she was not detained. Earlier in the day on January 16, three people were detained on the bridge .

The OVD-Info publishes the letter of Vitaly Shishkin, the head of the Right for European Development, the head of the Fund for Assistance to Political Personal Children. Shishkin was sentenced to four years in a colony on charges of arousing hatred and calls for a mass riots for a post in which he called for an inconsistent rally. On January 12, 2017, he filed an application with the leadership of the correctional colony No.

Rus2web began a series of publications of texts of the OTD-Info participants on modern repressive practices and how to confront them. Since the media resonance around the criminal case is sometimes the only thing that saves Russians from inadequate punishment, they decided to devote the first material of the series to competent work with the media.