Yevgenia Sergeeva, who was detained in 2018 in connection with a protest near the office of United Russia, received asylum in France. The anarchist informed OVD-Info about this through a legal bot in a telegram. As Sergeeva said, she left Russia in 2018 after being detained in a case of vandalism. Then the anarchist and at least 8 other activists were detained in the wake of the action near the United Russia office: a window was broken in the building and a smoke bomb was thrown inside.

Igor Gorlanov, detained on December 27 at a single picket in support of political prisoners and forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital, was transferred to Kemerovo. The doctors did not notify Gorlanov’s defense attorney about the transfer. This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to the lawyer of the Human Rights Postcard Anri Tsiskarishvili.

On January 14, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of journalist Georgy Pirogov, who was convicted in Russia for criticizing the authorities at a rally. This is reported by the organization "Man and the Law". In 2005, Pirogov criticized the political activities of the then head of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, at a rally of the Mari Ushem social movement.

Moscow's Cheryomushkinsky Court decided to recover 2.2 million rubles from opposition politician Alexei Navalny, FBK employees Georgy Alburov, Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol, head of Navalny's Moscow headquarters Oleg Stepanov, Navalny Live host Vladimir Milov, as well as unregistered candidates for the Moscow City Duma Alexander Solovyov and Ilya Yashin. About this "MBH Media". reports The Moscow prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against the oppositionists.

The administration of pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Rostov region refuses medical assistance to Crimean Tatar Alim Karimov. He is being held in custody because of the accusation of participation in a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. This was reported on Facebook by the Ombudsman of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova.

The Central District Court of Tyumen extended the arrests of ten local residents accused in the case of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir for three months. This was reported by Znak with reference to Jamilya Magomedova, the wife of one of the accused Farrukh Makhkamov. “The trial took place on January 14. The husband did not admit guilt at the trial; they didn’t want to hear about torture,” the publication quotes Magomedova’s story.

On January 15, the court of second instance canceled the fine to the Perm regional branch of the Memorial society and dismissed the case of “unauthorized seizure of forest areas.” The Public Verdict Foundation reports this. In October, the Ministry of Forestry of the Perm Territory fined the chairman of the Perm “Memorial” Robert Latypov 50 thousand rubles and the society itself 200 thousand rubles for an expedition to the cemetery of Lithuanian and Polish repressed people.

The Investigative Committee in Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol) region opened a criminal case on the creation of an extremist organization against nine local residents. Interfax reports this with reference to the Investigative Committee for Stavropol, as well as to an informed source.

Police in Moscow detained pensioner Tatyana Pankina, who was holding a solo picket in the Alexander Garden during the president's message to the Federal Assembly. This was reported to OVD-Info by Natalya Krylova, a deputy of the Duma of the city of Asbest. Pankina, who came to the rally specifically from the Sverdlovsk region, was detained in front of the deputy and taken away in an unknown direction. She was holding a banner reading “Vladimir Putin help me.

The ISAKOYOR District Court of Arkhangelsk awarded ten thousand rubles to Lt. Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of retired Alexander Ievlev, detained in 2017 at a single picket against corruption. This was reported by the headquarters of Navalny in Arkhangelsk, as well as the regional network edition " 7 × 7 ".

On January 15, the Elista City Court imposed a fine of 5,000 rubles on human rights activist Semyon Ateev under an article on violating the rules for holding a public event. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to Ateev. According to the court, Semyon Ateev did not notify the authorities about the holding of the public event (Article 20.2.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). However, the human rights activist explained that he had notified the government properly.

The Moscow police did not initiate a criminal case after checking the performances of Theatre.doc, which State Duma deputy Elena Yampolskaya complained about. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the lawyer of the Human Rights Postcard Sergei Badamshin.

The Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur allowed LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova, who is under house arrest on charges of distributing pornography, to go for a walk for one hour a day. This was reported to OVD-Info by the mother of the activist Anna Khodaryova. The court held a meeting on the extension of the preventive measure for Tsvetkova. The house arrest was eventually extended for another three months.

Security forces in Moscow are conducting searches at the home of the leader of the Left Resistance movement, Daria Polyudova. This was reported by the activist’s mother Tatyana Polyudova. According to her, she received a call from the hostel where her daughter lives. One of the search participants spoke to the mother, who told her that some kind of criminal case had been opened against Polyudova.