The Moscow City Court decided to liquidate the Center for Assistance to the Indigenous Peoples of the North. about this with reference to the lawyers of the Institute of Law and Public Policy Grigory Vaypan and Vladislav Chepelev. writes Mediazona Lawyers clarified to the Internet project that the court justified the liquidation on “formal grounds”: outdated provisions of the charter, lack of reports to the Ministry of Justice and an outdated legal address.

Member of the Libertarian Party Mikhail Svetov was searched as part of a criminal case in connection with a 2012 publication on the politician's Instagram. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Mikhail Biryukov. Biryukov clarified that the criminal case had been opened on November 6, and a search warrant had been issued on the same day. Svetov is in the case in the status of a witness. The security forces seized a network storage from his apartment.

In Penza, at the Central District Military Court, at a hearing in the case of the Network community, a video recording of the confrontation of two defendants, Dmitry Pchelintsev and Maxim Ivankin, was shown. The defense stated that the confrontation was carried out with violations and its protocol did not correspond to reality. The publication “7×7” talks about this.

Fines under the law on foreign agents On October 22, the court fined the International Society “Memorial” 300 thousand rubles, and the chairman of its board, Yan Rachinsky, 100 thousand. On November 6, the organization was given another fine of 300 thousand rubles. The reason was the absence of “foreign agent” markings (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) on Memorial’s Twitter and YouTube pages.

In Kaliningrad, employees of the Investigative Committee interrogated civil activist Mikhail Feldman in the case of insulting state symbols. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to lawyer Maria Bonzler, who represents his interests. The reason was three posts on social networks.

In Elista, the court acquitted Ivan Chucheev and Sanal Ubushiev, participants in a protest against the head of the city administration, Dmitry Trapeznikov. This is reported by the publication "Activatica". Chucheev and Ubushiev were accused of participating in an uncoordinated event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) on October 1 in front of the Government House.

In St. Petersburg, lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov was not allowed into the prison hospital to see his client, Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the “Network” case. MBKH Media writes about this with reference to Cherkasov. “I have been denied access for the second day, although I am already referring to laws that prohibit interfering with the communication of a client with a defense lawyer, even at the stage of the client in the infectious diseases department,” Cherkasov told the publication.

The Tverskoy District Court fined the International Society “Memorial” 300 thousand rubles, as well as the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Alexander Cherkasov 100 thousand rubles. Human Rights Center lawyer Tamila Imanova reported this to OVD-Info. The reason for two fines was the lack of “foreign agent” labeling on the organizations’ social networks.

The Constitutional Court lifted the ban on holding rallies in the main square of Syktyvkar. This was reported to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation Ernest Mezak. The decision is published on the website of the Constitutional Court. A complaint about the unconstitutionality of the regional legislation on rallies was filed by Vera Tereshonkova and Marina Sedova with the support of the Public Verdict.

The Lublin District Court fined Dmitry Antonov, an Orthodox banner-bearer detained on the Russian March, a thousand rubles. This is reported by the publication "MBH media" with reference to the press secretary of the court Lyudmila Morozova. The court found Antonov guilty of public demonstration of Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), awarded a fine of a thousand rubles with the confiscation of this symbol.

The Moscow City Court rejected the prosecutor's claim to deprive the spouses Olga and Dmitry Prokazov of parental rights, who came to the rally on July 27 in Moscow with a small child. This was reported by the Prokazovs’ lawyer Maxim Pashkov. The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Lefortovo court, which rejected the complaint to the prosecutor's office and issued a warning to the Prokazovs.

Since the end of October, Russian courts have issued several fines to the Memorial International Society. They came to the office and to the head of the Perm branch with searches. The Memorial human rights center was also fined 300 thousand rubles. OVD-Info talks about the actions of the authorities. Fines under the law on foreign agents On October 22, the court fined the International Society “Memorial” 300 thousand rubles, and the chairman of its board, Yan Rachinsky, 100 thousand.