Moscow City Court judge Dmitry Grishin dismissed the administrative case under the article on violation of the rules of participation in the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) of Dmitry Gorin, who was detained during the rally on August 3. This was reported by lawyer Vasily Kushnir, who defended Gorin in court.

An employee of the criminal investigation department interviewed Chuvash human rights activist Yuri Sidorov by phone. A priest of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Andrian and Natalia in the village of Shorshely wrote a statement to the police against him, who the day before consecrated the building of the head and state council of Chuvashia. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7".

The Rostov Regional Court has extended until March 20, 2020 the house arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko, who is accused under an article on an "undesirable organization", the reports . Kavkazsky Uzel publication The investigator asked to extend Shevchenko's house arrest for three months, until April 17. The lawyers insisted on changing the measure of restraint - on a written undertaking not to leave the place or on an obligation to appear at the request of the investigator.

The Appellate Board of the Moscow City Court, chaired by Judge Irina Voronina, recognized as legal the refusal to pay compensation to environmental activist Yaroslav Nikitenko for illegally refusing to approve the rally. Denis Shedov, a lawyer for OVD-Info and the Memorial Human Rights Center, who represents the interests of Nikitenko, reports this.

The Vologda city court rejected the protest of the prosecutor's office, which appealed against the refusal of a police officer to draw up a report on disrespect for the authorities (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against a local resident Alexei Gruzdev for posts on Vkontakte. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7" with reference to the lawyer of the human rights group "Agora" Stanislav Seleznev.

If the state violates your rights and you cannot prove this in the country’s courts, you can contact the ECHR. If the problem is systemic—the state repeatedly violates the rights of citizens—then the ECHR may issue a “pilot ruling.” In it, the court will note the systematic nature of the error and give clear instructions on how to correct the violations.

Four of the eight defendants in the Ingush case of an “extremist community” were charged with organizing and participating in the activities of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush "Memorial", informed OVD-Info about this. Akiev said that Akhmed Barakhoev and Ismail Nalgiev were charged yesterday, and today Barakh Chemurziev and Zarifa Sautiyeva were charged.

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision to impose a fine on designer Konstantin Konovalov, who had his leg broken during detention before the start of the rally on July 27. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest". The case was remanded for a new trial to the court of first instance. In September, the Savelovsky District Court fined Konovalov 10,000 rubles, finding him guilty of violating the rules of the rally (Part 5, Article 20.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court upheld the fines against International Memorial and its chairman Yan Rachinsky for the lack of a “foreign agent” label on the organization’s Youtube channel, as well as on Facebook and Twitter accounts. This was reported by the press service of "Memorial". In November, the Tverskoy Court fined the head of the organization 100,000 rubles for not labeling Youtube and 300,000 rubles each to Memorial for not labeling Facebook and Twitter.

The Investigative Committee of Yakutia did not initiate a criminal case under the article on violence against a representative of government (Article 318 of the Criminal Code) against the shaman-warrior Alexander Gabyshev. This was reported by Human Rights Postcards. “During the procedural verification of the presence of intent aimed at using violence against a government official, Gabyshev A.P. not established,” the organization quotes the decision to refuse to initiate a case.

The Meshchansky District Court imposed a fine of 160,000 rubles on Alexei Krivoruchko, judge Alexei Veresov, who was involved in the threat case. It is reported by Mediazona. Veresov was found guilty under the article on threatening to kill a judge (part 1 of article 296 of the Criminal Code) for an aggressive comment under a post with a photo of judge Krivoruchko.

Activist Daria Polyudova was placed in Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 6, she is suspected of justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and calls for violating the territorial integrity of Russia (Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code). The activist’s mother, Tatyana, reported this to OVD-Info. According to the mother, Daria Polyudova called her and said that she was in a pre-trial detention center on these criminal cases. It is not known why the case was opened.

Russia and Turkey share the first place in terms of the number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights. The total amount of compensation that the court assigns to the Russians is more than 10 million euros per year. But monetary payments are not the only thing that the ECHR may require from a country to restore violated rights. OVD-Info tells how complaints to the European Court can change Russian legislation.