The administration of Syktyvkar did not agree on a rally to find out the worst leader of Komi on the main square of the city. The city court recognized this refusal as legal, despite the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC), which lifted the ban on this site. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7".

The parents of Mikhail Kulkov, the person involved in the Network case, spoke about their son's hunger strike in the punishment cell on New Year's Eve. This is reported by "7 × 7" with reference to the mother of the accused Elena Samonina. As Kulkov told his mother during a meeting, he had been on a hunger strike for four full days, from December 30 to January 4. A few days before the New Year, during a search, the SIZO officers threw out the defendant's warm sleeveless jacket.

In Cheboksary, police officers came home to Danil Vasiliev, a participant in a single series against corruption and the head of the Chuvash Republic Mikhail Ignatiev. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the local civil activist Yuri Sidorov. According to him, the police came to Vasiliev at the place of residence. The activist at that moment was not at home, and law enforcement officers held a conversation with his father.

In the photo Nikita Zaretsky In St. Petersburg, the federal coordinator of the Vesna movement Bogdan Litvin, as well as the civil activist Nikita Zaretsky, was detained. They reported this in the legal bot OVD-info. Zaretsky was detained during a single picket near the Gostiny Dvor on the received complaint of KUSP (a book of accounting for reports of incomes). He stood with posters with the inscription "Vovochka! Sit down, twenty ”and“ Uzurpator, let go of the hostages and give up.

Latvia granted political asylum to Rosbalt journalist Alexander Shvarev, who is accused of slandering businessman Alisher Usmanov, as well as in a case of extortion. This is reported by Interfax according to Shvarev himself. “The Latvian authorities granted me and my family political asylum, recognizing that in Russia I was persecuted for my professional activities,” the news agency quoted the journalist as saying.

The Kamchatka Regional Court overturned the decision of the court of first instance to return to the prosecutor's office the case of the spouses Konstantin and Snezhana Bazhenov, as well as pensioner Vera Zolotov, suspected of organizing meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported on the website of Russian believers. Thus, the case of the three Jehovah's Witnesses will be sent back to the Elizovsky District Court, which previously returned it to the prosecutor.

The director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, and the organization itself were summoned to the Ministry of Justice to draw up protocols under the law on “foreign agents.” Zhdanov announced this on his Twitter. The Ministry of Justice included FBK in the register of “foreign agents”, allegedly because of money transfers from Spain and the United States in the amount of more than 140 thousand rubles.

On January 9, the case of five Jehovah's Witnesses was transferred to the Traktorozavodsky District Court of Volgograd. The Caucasian Knot reports this with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region. According to the investigation, five people have been organizing religious events since March 2018, including raising funds for the needs of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization.

A criminal case was opened against Kaliningrad blogger Nikolai Gorelov under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism because of a post on VKontakte about the violence of the Red Army against the civilian German population. Gorelov himself reported this to OVD-Info. The fact that the Investigative Committee is checking his publication, Gorelov learned in early January, when he was summoned for interrogation.

Judge Anatoly Belyakov of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow once again fined International Memorial 300 thousand rubles under the law on foreign agents (part 2 of article 19. 34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the lack of marking “foreign agent” in the group on VKontakte “ 1968 . Year of Human Rights" . Yulia Orlova, press secretary of Memorial HRC, reports this.

On January 9, the Elista City Court fined two protesters for the resignation of the Acting Mayor of Elista, Dmitry Trapeznikov. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". Badme Byurchiev was fined five thousand rubles, Nikolai Gilyandikov three thousand. This time, they were both found guilty under the article on violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for the action on September 29th.

On January 9, the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala extended the detention of Kemal Tambiev, accused in the case of financing terrorism. The Caucasian Knot reports this. Initially, a meeting to extend the preventive measure for the former co-founder of the Ansar Foundation, Abubakar Rizvanov, and Moscow businessman Kemal Tambiev, was scheduled for December 31. On that day, the trial took place only at Rizvanov’s; his arrest was extended until March 13, 2020.