Photo: Sergey and Anastasia Polyakov / "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" In Omsk, on December 4, the court changed the preventive measure to Sergey and Anastasia Polyakov, according to the website of Jehovah's Witnesses. The spouses spent five months in jail because they profess the Jehovah's religion. Now the Polyakovs were transferred under house arrest. Both were detained on July 4.

The Tula forensic laboratory of the Ministry of Justice did not find extremism in two works by the poet Alexander Byvshev. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. Linguists found no signs of extremism in the book Bloody Memory about World War II and the poem Dedicated to NATO's Eastward Expansion. However, the investigating authorities handed over the works for re-examinations to Orel and Moscow. Poet Alexander Byvshev is a defendant in six criminal cases.

In St. Petersburg, at the corner of Malaya Sadovaya Street and Nevsky Prospekt, Alexander Khmelev was detained during a solitary picket. This was reported to OVD-Info by the Detainees Assistance Group. Khmelev was holding a poster against mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. UPD 17:54 The police also detained Svetlana Kovalets, who was standing in a single picket with an anti-war poster. UPD 19:02 Both detainees were taken to police station No. 78.

Photo: Konstantin Kotov In Moscow, seven participants in the gathering against the war and the arbitrariness of the security forces were detained in Moscow: Konstantin Kotov, Alexei Kobernik, Yegor Gudkov, Dmitry Samoilov, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexei Sokirko and another person who did not want to publish his name. This was reported by the OVD-Info by the detainees themselves. UPD 14:56 Police also detained the activist of the "unlimited protest" Alexander Gud. He was placed in another auto -zak.

Photos provided by Mikhail Shemanaev In Moscow, the police detained five picket participants near the Building of the Ministry of Health: Roman Sivin, Alexander Kurbanov, Ilya Seliverstov, Alexei Dyachkov and Evgenia Sukhinenko. This was announced by the OTD-Info by Mikhail Shemanaev. The detainees were delivered to the police department in the Meshchansky district.