The Bakhchisarai District Court will reconsider the administrative case of Osman Belyalov, who is accused of participating in mass searches in Bakhchisarai on the day of an uncoordinated event that resulted in “interference with the life support of transport and social infrastructure, the movement of vehicles and pedestrians.” this on January 18 Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov announced on Facebook. According to Kurbedinov, the meeting is scheduled for 11:00 on January 23.

On January 18, Judge Chernyakov of the Samara District Court of Samara extended the term of house arrest for Anna Dmitrieva, an activist of the Volya party, until February 19. This was reported on Twitter in support of the leader of the Volya party, Svetlana Lada-Rus (Peunova). During the consideration of the issue of a measure of restraint, the court ignored the arguments of the defense that Dmitrieva was in charge of a mother and a young child.

On January 16, the Investigative Committee summoned Oryol activist Anna Dulevskaya for questioning. On October 18, 2016, she published a critical post on VKontakte with photographs from the opening of the monument to Ivan the Terrible, in which Orthodox activists hold a flag with the slogan "Orthodoxy or death" banned in Russia. As Dulevskaya said on Facebook, the investigation was carried out by the Investigative Committee at the request of the Center for Combating Extremism.

The Law and Order Committee refused to approve a rally against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. As Fontanka reported on January 18, citing Maxim Reznik, a deputy of the regional legislative assembly, the refusal to approve the action, which was planned to be held on January 28 on the Field of Mars, was explained to the committee by the fact that at the same time the action of the pro-Kremlin NOD movement for the transfer of the cathedral ROC.

On January 18, the administrative case on illegal missionary work brought against Dmitry Ugay for a lecture on yoga was terminated. This is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to its own correspondent in the courtroom. The case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.

On January 18, the Chairman of the Zheleznodorozhny City Court, Vladimir Shekun, postponed the consideration of the administrative case of Alexander Goryachev, accused of organizing an unapproved rally on December 25. This was reported by Denis Shedov, a lawyer at the Memorial human rights center, who is providing legal support to the case. OVD-InfoJudge granted Goryachev's request to subpoena the police officer who carried out the arrest on December 25 and drew up the report.

The Krasnodar Regional Court lost the complaint of the artist and activist Aleksey Knedlyakovsky against arrest in the case of installing a wooden cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky. As Knedlyavsky told Mediazone, on January 18 it turned out that the complaint against the decision of the court of first instance, filed by lawyer Alexander Popkov on December 27, was missing from the case file.

The defendant of the Crimean case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir” Vadim Siruk was charged with violent seizure of power in Russia (Article 278 of the Criminal Code), which implies punishment from 12 to 20 years in prison. About this on his Facebook page was written by lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. “Yesterday 01/17/2017, the FSB charged Vadim Siruk of committing a crime under Art. 278 of the Criminal Code.

On January 17, a court in Maikop sentenced Adnan Huade, a Circassian repatriate from Turkey and social activist, to a year and eight months of restriction of liberty on charges of attempting petty bribery (under Part 3, Article 30, Part 1, Article 291.2 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".