The Constitutional Court, following a complaint from citizen Vladimir Sergienko, will decide whether police officers can detain a participant in a solitary picket in order to protect the activist himself. Similar provisions are contained in the federal law "On Police". This is reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the official website of the Constitutional Court.

On January 26, the police of the Republic of Chuvashia opened administrative cases against a member of the regional council of Open Russia, Anton Kravchenko, for publicly displaying Nazi paraphernalia (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for a post with a video “Orthodoxy in a devilish way.” The entry was posted on VKontakte on December 23, 2013. This was reported on the Open Russia website.

On January 27, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court dismissed the appeal and left Ruslan Sokolovsky, a video blogger accused of extremism and insulting the feelings of believers, under arrest until February 22. It is reported by Znak.com with reference to the press service of the court. Sokolovsky's lawyer Stanislav Ilchenko considers the court's decision unfair, and Sokolovsky's guilt has not yet been proven by the court.

Residents of the Yakut city of Nyurba were banned from holding a picket in the city center, and one hundred people were forced to hold a picket near the Vilyui River, reports Yakutmedia news agency . The protesters demanded the release of the previously arrested head of the Nyurbinsky district, Boris Popov.

On January 26, a court in Vologda found Nikolai Kulikov guilty of assaulting civil activist and politician Yevgeny Domozhirov. The attacker was sentenced to two years in prison in a colony-settlement and compensation to Domozhirov in the amount of 100,000 rubles.

The prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow denied the independent trade union "Teacher" permission to picket at the Ministry of Education and Science on the problem of low teachers' salaries. “Allegedly, 10 protesters on the sidewalk in front of the building “will disrupt the functioning of life support facilities, transport and social infrastructure,” “interfere with the movement of pedestrians,” trade union activists write on their website.

On January 27, several regions at once refused to coordinate public events in support of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and against the law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. Applications were submitted by Moscow activist Nikolai Alekseev.

The prosecutor's office of the Gorohovets district of the Vladimir region approved the indictment and sent to the Gorohovets district court a criminal case against a local resident Mikhail Pokalchuk, reports . the website of the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code. “In the course of the monitoring of the Internet by the prosecutor's office, the fact of the spread of extremist materials was revealed.

Vladislav Zhukov, a resident of Kemerovo, was detained at the border between Russia and Ukraine, his girlfriend Anastasia Kruk said on her VKontakte page. According to her version, Zhukov visited his friends in Ukraine, and at the border they found a T-shirt with the symbols of the Azov battalion, recently recognized as extremist in Russia. At the moment, neither Kruk nor Zhukov's parents have any connection with the detainee, it is only known that he is in the Bryansk region.

The representative of the Russian Federation sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) a legal position on the complaint of anti-fascist Alexey Gaskarov, convicted in the Bolotnaya case. In its response, the Russian Ministry of Justice stated that there was no violation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the prosecution of Gaskarov.

The picket for the liberation of Ildar Dadin and against political persecution refused to coordinate the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, wrote Dadina, Anastasia Zotova, on her Facebook. As follows from the response of the prefecture, the picketers cannot question the infallibility of the work of the vessels.

At 10 am at the people's memorial at the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yakov Margulev, the son of Andrey Margulev, who was detained that night, was detained on duty. Margulev-son, as well as his father, was released from the Kitai-Gorod police department without a protocol after an explanatory note, during which time the municipal workers again removed the flowers and portraits of Nemtsov.

In Moscow, on the night of January 27, on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge (the people's memorial "Nemtsov Bridge", where the politician Boris Nemtsov was killed), Andrei Margulev, the "duty officer" of the bridge, was detained. Olga Tsypel reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. Margulev was detained by two police officers, one of them, according to the activist, may have been drunk. Margulev is currently in the Kitai-Gorod police department.