The police burst at a meeting of the Crimean Solidarity organization in Sudak. This was reported on the KrymSOS portal. The human rights activists who attended the meeting managed to agree with the police that they would not detain anyone. But the police rewrote all the documents. Photo: Crimean Photo: Crimean

The employee of the campaign headquarters Alexei Navalny in Kaliningrad Oleg Alekseev was detained for the distribution of leaflets. This was reported in the group "Navalny team | Kaliningrad "on VKontakte. At the intersection near the Plaza shopping center, where Alekseev handed out leaflets, two police cars arrived. Alekseev was kept there for about an hour, shooting on video cameras. Then he was taken to the local Internal Affairs Directorate for an explanation.

In Krasnodar, during the distribution of leaflets, Vitaly Votanovsky, a volunteer from the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny, was detained. Writes about this online publication "Free Media". The activist said that during the distribution of leaflets, he was stopped by two PPS employees. They asked about the approval of the action, and then they took Votanovsky to the police department in the village of Kalinino.

On January 26, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined four detainees at a march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. From all four, the court ruled to recover ten thousand rubles each, defender Olga Rozhkova told OVD-Info. The reason for the detention of all the detainees was the same - scarves, which, according to the police, covered their faces, which is contrary to the law on rallies.

The Moscow police opened an administrative case against Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky, who registered a same-sex marriage concluded in Denmark at the MFC, on damage to passports (Article 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Metropolitan Police. Earlier it became known that the police were trying to break into the apartment of young people in Lyubertsy. They turned off the electricity.

A court in Kemerovo arrested Boris Pavlov, an employee of the local election headquarters of Alexei Navalny, for three days. This is stated in the group "Team Navalny|Kemerovo" in "VKontakte". The headquarters activists do not know under what article he was brought to administrative responsibility. Pavlov was detained on January 27. On the same day, the police tried to enter the apartment of the coordinator of the headquarters, Ksenia Pakhomova.

On January 26, the Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Elizaveta Merkulova, an activist from the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny, for three days. A protocol was drawn up against her on the organization of an uncoordinated event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to OVD-Info by another activist of the headquarters, Polina Kostyleva.

In St. Petersburg, Mediazona journalists Sasha Bogino and David Frenkel were detained for trying to attend a hearing in the Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg. This is reported on the publication's website. Bogino and Frenkel wanted to attend a meeting on choosing a preventive measure for St. Petersburg resident Igor Shishkin, who was detained a few days ago. According to police, the security officer allegedly wrote a statement about illegal entry into a protected facility.

Judge Vladimir Vasyukov of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested local resident Igor Shishkin until March 23, 2018. About this in the “United Courts”. reported by the telegram channel press service of St. Petersburg He is suspected of participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow's Lyubertsy, law enforcement officers are trying to break into the apartment of LGBT activists Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky. Members of the Russian LGBT Network told OVD-Info that the electricity had already been cut off in the apartment. The activists added that young people had previously reported receiving threats.

In Korolyov, the coordinator and volunteer of the local campaign headquarters, Alexei Navalny, who were handing out invitations to the "Voter Strike", were detained. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by an activist of the headquarters. The activists were taken to the Kostinsky police department. On December 25, the CEC refused to register oppositionist Alexei Navalny as a presidential candidate in the 2018 elections due to an outstanding conviction in the Kirovles case.

In Berezniki, Elena Guseva, a volunteer from the local campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny, was detained. She told OVD-Info that she was posting leaflets about the upcoming “Voters' Strike”. The activist was taken to the Berezniki police department. Law enforcement officials told Guseva that they had received information about the leaflets, which were banned by the CEC.

In Kemerovo, law enforcement officers are putting pressure on activists from the local campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Headquarters coordinator Ksenia Pakhomova tweeted that eight people in civilian clothes tried to break into her apartment. They caught the activist's young man at the entrance, took away his phone and keys. Then they tried to open Pakhomova's apartment, but the keys did not fit her door.

In Tyumen, police detained two volunteers from the local campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Alena Olkhova and Dmitry Dobrynin. A volunteer from the Tyumen headquarters told OVD-Info that they were pasting up invitations to the agreed-upon “Voters' Strike”. At the moment, the activists are in a stationary police station. They are going to be taken to Police Department No. 5.

In Moscow, near the Avtozavodskaya metro station, two members of the #NewWay movement, who participated in a series of solo pickets, were detained. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by activists of the movement. One of the detainees - Dmitry Ulyanov, he stood with a poster "Russia will be free." The activist was taken to the police department in the Danilovsky district. The police said they were checking his poster for extremism.