The Sverdlovsk Regional Court of Yekaterinburg upheld the decision on a fine of 300 thousand rubles, which must be paid by a member of the public monitoring commission Sergei Zykov. This is reported by the news agency "European-Asian News". In October 2018, Zykov was charged with a repeated violation of the rules for holding a rally (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a rally against raising the retirement age.

In St. Petersburg, Dmitry Dorokhin, Evgenia Musin, Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Tkachenko were detained by the Catherine's garden. All participants in “unlimited protest” stood with single pickets. About this writes the telegram channel of the group of assistance to the detainees. Dorokhin stood with a poster on which it was written: “Putin would save Nastya a fish from Deribaska, Russia from Deripas. And he is a great hockey player, whatever one may say.

The Pskov City Court arrested Dmitry Semenovsky, a member of Open Russia, for four days. Yesterday, he was taken away in an unknown direction by people in civilian clothes, who introduced themselves as employees of the criminal investigation department. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Polina Nemirovskaya.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary ruled to release the volunteer of Alexei Navalny's headquarters, Alexei Mirnov. This was reported to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Yuri Ivanov, representing the interests of Mironov. “The court granted our petition to bring Mironov’s sentence in line with the new criminal law, which eliminates the criminality of the act,” Ivanov said. According to him, Mironov is expected to be released on February 2.

In Chelyabinsk, senior district police officer Yandiyev, who drew up a protocol against activist Aleksey Tabalov without any grounds, paid him 800 rubles as compensation for damages. About this writes the publication "Lentachel.ru". In July, three provocateurs with a banner “Navalny is our president” told the police that they were organized by Tabalov.

Judge of the Supreme Court of Crimea Sergei Pogrebnyak announced the verdict to four defendants in the Tablighi Jamaat case - Renat Suleymanov, Talat Abdurakhmanov, Seyran Mustafayev and Arsen Kubedinov. Crimean Solidarity reports this. Renat Suleymanov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of an extremist community) and sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony and a year of restriction of freedom.

The marijuana that the police allegedly found in the car of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Oyub Titiev, may be weed and contain a small amount of the narcotic substance. This was stated at the meeting by specialists from the ANO “Forensic Expertise”, who were interrogated at the request of Titiev’s lawyers, reports the telegram channel “The Case of Oyub Titiev | Human Rights Center 'Memorial'".

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced Oleg Dmitriev and Sergei Ozerov, accused of preparing a terrorist attack by supporters of the Artpodgotovka movement, to eight years in a maximum security colony, and Oleg Ivanov to seven years. Legal assistance coordinator Alla Frolova reports this from the courtroom. OVD-InfoSrok is counted from November 2, 2017.

Police in Perm have referred the case of the scarecrow with the face of President Vladimir Putin to the Investigative Committee for preliminary investigation. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest". Activists of Navalny's local headquarters Danila Vasiliev and Alexander Shabarchin, as well as libertarian Alexander Kotov, are suspected of hooliganism committed by a group of people by prior agreement (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

Four defendants in cases of participation in the Jehovah's Witnesses organization from different cities were transferred to house arrest. They write about this on the “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” page on Facebook. In Penza, on January 14, the court refused to extend the investigator’s detention and transferred 54-year-old Vladimir Alushkin to house arrest. The man was placed in a pre-trial detention center after mass searches of religious followers in July.

In Moscow, at the Japanese Embassy, ​​where President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are currently meeting, police detained 11 people who oppose the transfer of the Kuriles. This was announced to OVD-Info by the coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov. He specified that a meeting with State Duma deputies was being held at the embassy. “The police are seizing the posters. Declares that only deputies can hold posters, ”says Udaltsov.

The Soviet District Court on January 21 sentenced neo-Nazi Alexei Bakhtin to a year and six months in prison for posting on VKontakte about representatives of the Caucasus and Central Asia. about it Writes "Academ online". Bakhtin, according to investigators, created the Dvizh Daily News group on VKontakte, which published materials that offended people from Central Asia and the Caucasus. In one of the publications, operational officers saw calls for extremism.

Relatives of Yevgeny Panov, convicted in Crimea in the case of “Crimean saboteurs,” have not received information about his whereabouts for three months. This was reported on 21 by the Crimean Human Rights Group. On December 6, 2018, Panov was transferred from the Crimea to the colony of the Omsk region of Russia, it is not known which one. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine received a letter about this from the Federal Penitentiary Service on January 14, 2019.

On January 21, Yury Sidorov, a member of Open Russia from Cheboksary, was handed two resolutions stating that two administrative protocols had been drawn up against him on involvement in the activities of an organization that is undesirable on the territory of Russia (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this Writes "Idel. Realities". The first case is related to the fact that on December 25, 2018, he asked the administration not to accept the “roguish budget”.

Photo: Francesca Runza / Unsplash On January 22, the court must make a verdict in the case of Oleg Dmitriev, Sergey Ozerov and Oleg Ivanov. Shortly before the Revolution, announced by Maltsev, 11/5/17 they were detained in Moscow and then accused of preparing the arson of the Kremlin. The defendants claim that they became a victim of provocation. OVD-Info publishes the last word of Dmitriev. The text is given on the manuscript sheets that he used. Spelling and punctuation errors are fixed.