In Perm, a criminal case was opened on vandalism (part 1 of article 214 of the Criminal Code) due to a change in the art object “Happiness is not far off”, in which the word “happiness” was replaced with “death”. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory. It is specified that the police identified the person who ruined the art object, but his name was not indicated in the message.

On October 9, the Leninsky District Court of Smolensk arrested until November 19 two alleged followers of Jehovah's Witnesses, Maria Troshina and Natalia Sorokina. This was reported on October 15 on a website covering the persecution of believers. published The women are accused of participating in a religious association banned in Russia (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Both were placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Smolensk region.

The St. Petersburg City Court extended the arrest of Ivan Matsitsky, the head of the local Church of Scientology, for four months - until February 19, 2019. This was reported in the telegram channel “United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg”.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov was transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital in the city of Labytnangi. about this in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel 24 . spoke His sister Natalya Kaplan “He is being taken out of the hunger strike. The situation is very critical. Nobody knows how it will end. There, let's say, there are already irreversible consequences. <…> Liver, heart, brain, kidneys, stomach, intestines.

On Rublyovka, FSO officers detained two lawyers from the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) - Vyacheslav Gimadi and Alexander Golovach. about this on Twitter . wrote Alexey Navalny According to the politician, "lawyers carried out the usual work of analyzing the owners of elite palaces on the basis of an open registry." Navalny added that a dog was brought in to examine the belongings of the detainees.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the case of Mediazona correspondent David Frenkel on disobedience to the bailiff (part 2 of article 17.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and canceled the fine. Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, who represents Frenkel's interests, reports this.

The head of the Altyn Urda movement, Danis Safargali, sentenced to three years in a general regime colony, was transferred to colony No. 6 of the Kirov region, where he was sent to a single cell-type room (EPKT). His wife Guzel Safargali reported this to OVD-Info . According to Guzeli, Danis was taken away on October 14, without warning his lawyer and relatives. They were also not told the reason for the transfer. Previously, Safargali was in colony No.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal to extend the arrest of Andrei Tolkachev and Yuri Kornoy, who are accused in connection with the “revolution” of Vyacheslav Maltsev. Lawyer Anastasia Samorukova, who defends Tolkachev’s interests, told OVD-Info about this. Tolkachev, Korny and Andrei Keptya were arrested in the fall of 2017. They are accused of participating in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) “Art preparation”.

In Moscow, FSB officers detained Georgy Chumachenko, a 17-year-old member of the Nation and Freedom Committee. This was reported to OVD-Info by his mother Alla Chumachenko. Before being detained, Chumachenko’s apartment was searched under the article on incitement to extremism (Article 280 of the Criminal Code), during which equipment and stickers were confiscated.

A nationalist from Irkutsk spoke about how she was made a witness in the case of publications in social networks, her house was searched and threatened. Operatives of the Center "E" believe that she collects information about them: in 2016, photos, links to social networks and other information about the Irkutsk "eshniki" appeared on the network. The name of the nationalist is not mentioned at her request. On October 4, at seven in the morning, someone started knocking on my apartment.