On December 18, the Naursky District Court refused the parole of the Caucasian Knot correspondent Zhalaudi Geriev, convicted of drug storage (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). The publication website says that the court did not explain the reason for the refusal. Geriev was sentenced to three years in a colony in September 2016. According to the prosecution, in April 2016 he went to the outskirts of the village of Kurchali to use marijuana, where he was detained.

In St. Petersburg, an unlimited protest participant Ilya Tkachenko was detained, who participated in pickets on the torture and day of the state security worker. About this ATD-Info was told by the participant of the “unlimited” Evgeny Musin. Ilya Tkachenko on a picket / photo from the television channel bodies "Unlimited protest | Tkachenko was detained during a picket near the FSB building, the police stated that an unknown citizen had a complaint.

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to refuse Lev Ponomarev's request to terminate or suspend his administrative arrest to attend the funeral of human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva. It is reported by MBH Media. Judge Anna Seliverstova upheld the decision of the Tverskoy District Court to arrest Ponomarev and her previous decision to change the term of the human rights activist's stay from 25 to 16 days of arrest.

Dmitry Kalinychev, an activist of the Nizhny Novgorod Political Red Cross, was detained in Nizhny Novgorod. This was announced to OVD-Info by Arkady Galker, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod "Memorial". “Dzmitry was detained at the printing house, where his posters for the picket were being printed. He planned to hold a rally on the Day of State Security Worker,” Galker said.

In the city of Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory, against Olga Soldatova, a member of the precinct election commission and with the right to consultative vote, the police are going to draw up a protocol stating that she prevented the commission from exercising its legal powers (Article 5.69 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about it Writes "Voice of Kuban". According to Soldatova, people registered in other settlements came to the polling station and tried to get ballots.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow approved the refusal to approve a “glasnost rally” in defense of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. A participant in OVD-Info reported this from the courtroom. The organizers of the rally are representatives of five human rights organizations. They planned to hold an action on Pushkin Square, where the first “glasnost rally” took place on December 5, 1965 - KGB officers dispersed it a few minutes after it began.

The jury of the Bryansk Regional Court acquitted Olga Zelenina, head of the chemical-analytical laboratory of the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture. about this in his telegram channel . wrote Pavel Chikov, chairman of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Zelenina was involved in the so-called "poppy case".

Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov was charged with illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives, writes Novaya Gazeta. According to investigators, in Crimea, Bekirov handed over a bag with almost 12 kg of TNT and almost 200 rounds of ammunition to a taxi driver and asked him to hide it. The man is involved in the case as a secret witness under the pseudonym Karim Memetov. According to the case file, Memetov hid the bag and, without waiting for it to be taken away, told the FSB everything.

The Moscow City Court rejected the defense's appeal and upheld the extension of the arrest of Sergei Ryzhov, accused in connection with the Maltsev revolution. This was reported to OVD-Info by civil activist Elena Sannikova, who was present at the meeting. Ryzhov’s interests are represented by Svetlana Sidorkina, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group.

In Novokuznetsk, activist of “Protest Kuzbass” and member of the Libertarian Party Igor Gorlanov was detained. Movement participant Fyodor Reguzov reported this to OVD-Info. Before his arrest, Gorlanov came to a court hearing where the case of Olga Gyammer, the mother of the coordinator of “Protest Kuzbass” Lev Gyammer, was considered.

FSO officers did not let The Insider editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov to attend Vladimir Putin's annual press conference. On his Twitter, the journalist wrote that he had previously received accreditation for the event. Dobrokhotov told Dozhd that he was not explained the reason for the refusal: “They do not give explanations. [This was said by] a representative of the FSO. They called somewhere for a long time, found out and said no.