On February 8, the Central District Court of Voronezh terminated administrative proceedings against activist Alexander Boldyrev, against whom the police filed two protocols for violating the rules for holding rallies (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) by the organizer - against the war in Syria and for the abolition of direct elections of the mayor. This was reported to OVD-Info by Vladislav Khodakovsky.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg, Sergei Umnov, said at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly on February 8 that his department had asked the prosecutor's office to check three deputies of the Legislative Assembly after a meeting on the Field of Mars dedicated to the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. It is reported by "Fontanka".

On February 8, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, which at the end of 2015 imposed a fine of 10,000 rubles on the head of the Russian Culture Society, Mikhail Shcheglov, under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation by a participant in a public event of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, processions or pickets).

The Leninsky District Court of the city of Kirov found Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov guilty of embezzling funds from the Kirovles state enterprise and sentenced them to five and four years of suspended imprisonment, respectively, as well as a fine of 500,000 rubles each. For the second time already. It is reported by Mediazona.

Tonight, unknown people broke the glass of a car belonging to Krasnodar lawyer Sergei Zemtsov, who also maintains a video blog on Youtube dedicated to the problems of the inhabitants of the Krasnodar Territory and the illegal actions of local authorities. Oleg Petrov, a farmer and participant in the "tractor march", told OVD-Info about this over the phone.

The leader of the “Russian Astrakhan” movement, Igor Stenin, sentenced for public calls for extremist activities (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) to 2 years in prison in a penal colony, filed a complaint against the court verdict with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This was reported on the Kommersant website.

One of the defendants in the Bolotnaya case, Maxim Panfilov, became ill in the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, where he was taken today to consider the criminal case. Mediazona reports this. Panfilov, who suffers from Tourette syndrome and has been in a pre-trial detention center for 9 months, was called for an ambulance directly to the court. According to the mother of the accused, her son has had a high fever for several days.