In Chechnya, the Kurchaloy authorities will demolish 37 houses in the center of the village. Among them is the house of the head of the Grozny “Memorial” Oyub Titiev. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center itself. It is planned to build a shopping and entertainment center on the site of the houses. The owners of the houses were promised to provide housing, but they did not indicate either the timing of the provision or the location of future housing.

In St. Petersburg, Mikhail Smirnov, a participant in an anti-corruption campaign on June 12, was sent to perform compulsory work pending an appeal against the decision in the Supreme Court. It is reported by "Fontanka" with reference to the defender of Smirnov Alexander Peredruk. In January, the Supreme Court vindicated the case. However, a few days ago bailiffs came to Smirnov and ordered him to do the work.

Two residents of Belgorod, Anatoly Shalyapin and Sergei Voikov, were detained as suspects in the case of organizing the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses. IAC "Sova" reports this. Shalyapin and Voikov are suspected of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the work of the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses. Both were taken into custody for 48 hours, the issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided.

The Central District Court of Simferopol fined British freelance journalist Madeline Roach 4,000 rubles. On the same day, Roach was forced to leave the Crimea. It is reported by Radio Liberty. Roach was convicted under Art. 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by a foreign citizen of the rules for entry and stay in Russia). She was accused of journalistic activities without accreditation from the Foreign Ministry and of not having medical insurance.

Judge Elena Lenskaya said at a meeting of the Basmanny District Court that Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz has the right to submit an application to the bailiffs with a request to leave Russia for a third country if he presents the necessary documents. Information about this is provided by Novaya Gazeta. reports Ali Feruz left Uzbekistan eight years ago. According to him, the intelligence services of Uzbekistan persuaded him to cooperate. Before Feruz could escape, he was tortured.

Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism came to the home of Kazan resident Alexander Rachuk because of a Facebook post. this He himself announced on his page in the social network. On January 10, Rachuk wrote a post about collecting signatures for presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. Now the text has been deleted, what exactly was discussed in it is unknown.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained two activists of the Popular Resistance Association. They tried to unfurl a banner at a conference of Russian presidential candidate from the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by traffic coordinator Dmitry Karasev. He said that at first the activists were detained by Grudinin's guards, who later handed them over to the police. The detainees were taken to police department No. 2 in the Kanavinsky district.

Near Volokolamsk, law enforcement officers detained members of the Solidarity (St. Petersburg) movement Konstantin Yershov and Elena Denisova. The activists themselves reported this to OVD-Info. Traffic police officers stopped the activists' car on the road to Lotoshino. They first explained their actions by conducting operations "Anaconda" and "Antiterror". Later, law enforcers said that they had received a signal that the activists were allegedly carrying extremist literature.

The Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Yekaterinburg refused to consider the case of local activist Sergei Tiunov. Tiunov reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. The court returned the case file to the police to eliminate the violation. On February 8, Tiunov received a summons with an obligation to come on February 9 with things to the department of bailiffs. The document indicated that he was accused of refusing to perform compulsory work for participating in the action on October 7, 2017.

In Pskov, police and Roskomnadzor employees came to the office of the TV media provider, which is headed by Pavel Chernov, an activist of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, on February 8. It is reported by MBH Media. According to the police, they received a message that some administrative offense was being committed in the office. They said they would inspect. “They toured the office, took away 7 client accounts, invited me for a conversation on Monday.

The administration of Kazan refused to agree on a rally in defense of the Tatar language. It is reported by "Idel. Realii” with reference to the chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC) Farit Zakiyev. The city authorities explained the refusal by the inability to ensure the safety of the rally participants and the lack of free sites. The activists were going to hold a rally on February 18 and dedicate it to the preservation of the Tatar language.

In Novosibirsk, officers from the police and the Center "E" came to the headquarters of the strike of Alexei Navalny. This was reported in the headquarters group on the VKontakte social network. Law enforcement officers seize from the headquarters of the leaflets "Strikes of voters", urging citizens not to go to the presidential elections on March 18. Headquarters employees note that yesterday they reported on the social network about the appearance of new leaflets.

In Penza, Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the case of the creation of the terrorist organization “Network,” spoke about torture. Mediazona talks about this with reference to lawyer Anatoly Vakhterov. writes Vakhterov told the publication that on February 7, during a meeting, he asked his client a question about why he decided to confess. Shakursky wrote on the paper: “They beat me.” The defense lawyer added that later the young man told him about torture in the pre-trial detention center.

The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar, Alexander Zelensky, arrested the coordinator of the movement in defense of the rights of voters "Voice" David Kankiy for five days. This was reported to OVD-Info by Sofya Rusova, a member of the Yabloko party. Kankiya was found guilty under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer). Rusova said that the judge considered the case without a lawyer.

In Crimea, the Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into the criminal case of the head of the Union of Workers of Sevastopol Valery Bolshakov. This was announced by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Alexei Ladin, representing the interests of Bolshakov.