In St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Musin, a participant in an “indefinite protest,” was detained, who stood in a single picket in support of the persecuted activists of Open Russia. This was reported by the telegram channel "Groups of assistance to detainees". Musin was picketing on Malaya Sadovaya Street when the police approached him and said that he had received a complaint under the offense book. At the moment, he is being taken to police station No. 78.

The Kerch City Court in Crimea denied parole to pro-Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh, who was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. It is reported by "Crimea. Realities". The representative of the prosecutor's office at the trial on parole asked the defense to refuse, citing the fact that during Balukh's stay in the pre-trial detention center "51 violations were recorded," the correspondent of "Crimea. Realities".

The Alushta investigative department dropped the criminal case against Gulsum Aliyeva, who was accused of inciting hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) for reposting on Facebook. The head of the international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, announced this in his Telegram channel. The case was closed at the request of lawyer Alexey Ladin in connection with the decriminalization of the article.

In the village of Danilovka, Krasnogvardeisky district of Crimea, FSB officers searched the home of Bekir Abultarov, a Crimean Tatar. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The search began at 7:30 am, during which the security forces seized the mobile phones of Abultarov and his mother Elmira, as well as a work laptop.

A court in Crimea released Bekir Degermendzhi, Kazim Ametov and Ruslan Trubach, defendants in the Vedzhie Kashka case, under house arrest. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". another person involved in the case, who suffered a microstroke, Asan Chapukh, was placed On October 10, 2018, under house arrest. In early January, he was hospitalized due to a sharp deterioration in health. Due to Chapukh's failure to appear, the meeting to change the preventive measure was postponed.

The North Caucasus District Military Court dropped the charge of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) against anarchist Evgeny Karakashev. This happened at the preliminary hearing, writes the head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Pavel Chikov in his telegram channel, citing lawyer Alexei Ladin. The court made this decision because part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code was partially decriminalized in December 2018.

Leo Gimmer / Photo from the page of Leo VKontakte The Libertan from Novokuznetsk Leo Gimmer, regularly participating in local protests, bought himself a flag with a tricolor and a yellow square in which a snake was drawn. Gimmer went with him to a picket and a “flag walk”. Now the activist is trying to bring to administrative responsibility for the "improper use" of the state flag.