In the village of Starokorsunskaya, the police detained Alexei Nikitin, a protester against the increase in fares. Journalist Alexander Saveliev, citing activist Vitaly Molodanov, reports this on his Telegram channel. Nikitin is being taken to Krasnodar to the police department for the Karasun district. The activist is charged with violating the rules for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined the former head of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, 75,000 rubles. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Mikhail Biryukov. Mitrokhin was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). At the end of November, the police detained the politician when he was conducting a public inspection of the Nightingale Cinema Center.

In Barnaul, the criminal case of Maria Motuznaya on extremism and insulting the feelings of believers because of memes on VKontakte was returned from court for additional investigation. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press center of the regional investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee specified that Motuznaya was not wanted. In October, the girl left Russia.

Two men, one of whom introduced himself as a police officer, came to the Russian Academy of Music on December 24. The Gnesins to the participant in the “unlimited protest” Sofya Kardash, asked her about the movement, threatened her with a fine and offered to meet in a restaurant. The story of the activists was published in the telegram channel "Protest MSU". In the morning, Sofya Kardash was called Victor Viktor Kiselev and said to go to his office. Two people were waiting for a student there.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Ingushetia opened a criminal case on the kidnapping of Amnesty International employee Oleg Kozlovsky in October 2018, reports . the Committee Against Torture Lawyer Dmitry Piskunov clarified to OVD-Info that the case was opened on December 3, but investigator Khazbulat Mamatov told him about it only on the 26th. “The check went on for a month, from November 3rd. The first procedural decision was the initiation of a criminal case.

The Lazarevsky District Court in Sochi sentenced Alexander Valov, editor-in-chief of BlogSochi, to six years in a penal colony and fined 700,000 rubles in a case of extortion from a State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party, Yuri Napso. This was announced by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group Agora Alexander Popkov, representing the interests of Valov.

Dinar Idrisov, coordinator of Rus Sitting in St. Petersburg, wrote that five police officers were beaten by a detainee of protest shares of Shahnaz Shitik in department No. 78 and “injured psychologically, climbing it literally into my underpants”. The shitik was kept all night in the department, eight hours - without a protocol, and left there before the trial. Deputy Zaksa Boris Vishnevsky also said that there is a video in which Shahnaz is beaten and humiliated in the department.

Illustration: Anastasia Pozhidaeva for OTD-Info The legislation does not prohibit photo and video shooting of bailiffs, police officers or employees of the Russian Guard- rather, on the contrary, citizens have the right to record their actions. This does not prevent law enforcement officers from detaining and beaten those who photograph, threaten them or call for interrogations. OVD-Info collected the most striking of the similar cases we know.