The Elista city court fined activist Sanal Ubushiev 12,000 rubles for participating in a rally against the appointment of Acting Mayor Dmitry Trapeznikov. It is reported by MBH Media. The court found Ubushiev guilty under the article on violation of the rules for holding an action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for the September 29 rally.

In the Smolensk region, in connection with the case of Jehovah's Witnesses, a search was carried out in the house of local resident Irina Marusova. She was then called in for questioning. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. The search and interrogation of Marusova in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses took place on November 22. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

On November 20, the Lensky District Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) returned to the prosecutor’s office the case of local resident Igor Ivashin, accused of organizing the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was reported by the SOVA information and analytical center. At the meeting, it was noted that the accusation did not contain specific information about the existence of illegal actions by the believer.

How universities expel inconvenient students “You should engage in opposition activities when you do not have student debts” “We were shocked: had the faculty really decided to give us problems simply for collecting guarantees? We didn’t picket, we didn’t come to the faculty in balaclavas, we didn’t burn anything here, we didn’t do anything, we just collected guarantees. There is nothing, no charter, where it would be written that such activities are prohibited.

The Solombala District Court of Arkhangelsk fined Anna Veshkurtseva, the organizer of the rally against the dump near the Shies station, two thousand rubles for playing the Russian anthem. This was reported in the telegram channel “Pomorye is not a garbage dump!”. Veshkurtseva was found guilty under Article 17.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for using state symbols).

The Yalta City Court fined local journalist and blogger Yevgeny Gaivoronsky 30,000 rubles for a Facebook post with a “negative assessment of President Vladimir Putin.” It is reported by "Grati" with reference to the lawyer Alexei Ladin Gayvoronsky was found guilty under part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disrespect for the authorities, carried out via the Internet) because of a post in which the blogger called the president “ho ** m” five times.

After the summer protests of 2019, students actively defend their rights on an equal basis with the rest: they participate in rallies, go to courts and collect signatures in support of political prisoners. The growth of politicization has led to the fact that the largest universities have a special approach to inconvenient students. Using several stories as an example, OVD-Info tells what methods universities use to put pressure on students and how to counter this.