In Novokuibyshevsk, the police detained Mikhail Abdalkin, the first secretary of the local city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. This was reported to OVD-Info by the press secretary of the Left Front in the Samara region, Grigory Oganezov.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the defendant in the “Moscow case” Nikita Chirtsov until January 27, 2020. Mediazona reports this. Demanding to extend the arrest in the pre-trial detention center, the investigator referred to the fact that the accused could hide from the investigation, allegedly he had already done this when he left for Minsk. Although, as lawyer Alexander Borkov noted: “Nikita left for Belarus long before the case was initiated.

In the Basmanny District Court, before the hearing in the case of the person involved in the "Moscow case" Nikita Chirtsov, bailiffs detained six people. It is reported by MBH Media. The first to be detained were Dmitry Positselsky, Matvey Zaslavsky and a woman whose name is unknown. According to the publication, Zaslavsky and Positselsky were going to handcuff themselves, but the bailiffs detained them and picked up the keys to the handcuffs.

Aleksey Kobaidze, defendant in the case of throwing a saber at the United Russia office in Khovrino, has left Russia. This was announced in his telegram channel by lawyer Maxim Pashkov.

In Yaroslavl, members of the Revolutionary Workers' Party Maxim Shcherbakov and Miroslava Polyakova were detained. Shcherbakov informed OVD-Info about this. The police detained activists during the distribution of the party newspaper "Working Democracy" at the Yaroslavl Electric Machine Building Plant (Eldin) following a complaint from the plant's security service. The detainees are being taken to the Dzerzhinsky police department.

The Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude dismissed the criminal case against Dmitry Kharaev, who was accused of assaulting a member of the National Guard during a public gathering in the city center. This was reported on the website of the court. Kharaev was given a court fine of 5,000 rubles (Article 76.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Biysk, security forces broke down the door and searched the apartment of the coordinator of Navalny’s Barnaul headquarters, Vadim Ostanin, in his absence. This was reported on Twitter by the headquarters.

The Kirov authorities refused to approve a rally in memory of the victims of political repressions at all 43 venues proposed by the applicant. This was reported to OVD-Info by Vadim Ananyin. Ananin submitted a notification to the Kirov administration, where he proposed 13 routes for demonstration. In case other events take place at these addresses on the appointed day, the activist indicated another 30 sites for the rally.

In Tomsk, the prosecutor's office at a meeting in the Oktyabrsky District Court requested 7 years in prison for member of Jehovah's Witnesses Sergei Klimov. He is accused under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by TV2 with reference to lawyer Artur Leontyev.

In Kursk, at least four houses of followers of Jehovah's Witnesses were searched. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. After the searches, Andrei Andreev was detained. Artem Bagratyan and his wife Alevtina are not in touch. Jehovah's Witnesses assume that they were also arrested. It is not reported what criminal investigation was carried out and what the arrestees were charged with.