In Pechora, searches were carried out in ten houses of alleged Jehovah's Witnesses. Security forces detained 14 people, four of them were sent to a temporary detention facility. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. 43-year-old Gennady Skutelets was knocked to the floor during the search, and then detained along with his mother and 28-year-old Maxim Terentyev, who came into his apartment during the search to take a meat grinder.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended until August 3 the arrest of bank accounts of supporters of Alexei Navalny in the case of money laundering by FBK employees. This was announced by FBK project manager Leonid Volkov. “He is still a supporter of Navalny’s headquarters,” Volkov cites the reason for extending the arrest of the accounts of the volunteer of the Chelyabinsk headquarters.

​The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Kaluga garrison refused to initiate a criminal case of beating and torture with a stun gun by FSB officers at the request of Kaluga resident Ivan Lyubshin, accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona reports this.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan lowered the fine for Fira Kasimova, a participant in an eco-camp opposed to the construction of a waste incineration plant. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest". The court reduced Kasimova's fine under the article on organizing a mass stay of citizens in public places that caused a violation of public order (part 1 of article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) from 10 thousand rubles to 5, thus imposing a fine below the minimum limit.

In St. Petersburg, the police opened a criminal case under the article on vandalism motivated by political, ideological, national or religious hatred (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code) against two authors of stenciled portraits of Putin. It is reported by "Fontanka". Police on suspicion of drawing portraits detained two young people: Muhammadaziz and his brother Islombek. According to investigators, they put 40 images of Putin on the facades of houses in St. Petersburg.

A concert by the ska-punk band Distemper was canceled at the Concert Hall club in Kaluga after an "anti-extremist" warning to the organizer of the event from the prosecutor's office. This was reported in the Distemper VKontakte community. According to the prosecutor's office, Distemper's "radical left" work promotes "radical anarchist views" and violent actions against government officials.

Anna Dvornchenko / Photo: Donnews.ru LGBT activist from Rostov-on-Don Anna Dvornichenko left Russia after the threats of the police. The Donnews.ru publication on January 28 published an interview with her. According to Anna Dvornichenko, she is currently in the Dutch refugee camp. She decided to leave Russia, fearing persecution for her activism and research. Police threatened Dvornichenko with articles on extremist activities and LGBT promotion among minors.

In Ufa, journalists were summoned to the FSB, who wrote about criminal cases against the Bashkir opposition leader Airat Dilmukhametov. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the editor-in-chief of the radio station Ekho Moskvy in Ufa Ruslan Valiev. According to MBKh Media, in addition to Valiev, the FSB also summoned a journalist from the Idel. Realities” by Artur Asafiev and ProUfu portal journalist Ramil Akhmatov.

Birch cutting in the square between the festival and Belomorskaya street / photo: Group "Belomorskaya | River Station | Left -bank district " In Moscow on Belomorskaya Street, Lyudmila Khairov and Anatoly Bulatov were detained. They came to a meeting with the local authorities to discuss the cutting of a birch alley between the Streets of Festival and Belomorskaya for the construction of a residential complex.

The Third Court of Appeal in the city of Sochi softened the conditions of house arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko, accused under the article on participation in the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the lawyer of the Human Rights Postcard Sergei Badamshin. The court allowed Shevchenko to make phone calls, walks, and communicate with everyone except witnesses.

On January 29, the Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of Eduard Malyshevsky, a defendant in the Moscow case, according to the Prisoners 212 telegram channel. Malyshevsky was reduced the term of detention in the colony by three months - from three years to two years and nine months. On December 9, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Eduard Malyshevsky guilty under the article on the use of violence against a policeman and sentenced him to three years in a penal colony.

The Elista City Court, for lack of corpus delicti, dismissed the case of human rights activist Semyon Ateev, who was brought to administrative responsibility for allegedly “failing to notify” the authorities of the refusal to hold a rally (part 3 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

A new criminal case was opened against Daria Polyudova, the heroine of many OVD-Info news. On January 13, the court placed her in pre-trial detention on charges of publicly justifying terrorism and calling for separatism. Alexey Polikhovich understands what exactly the activist is accused of and remembers why Polyudova was tried before. The first news about Daria Polyudova on the OVD-Info website is dated 2012 - Daria was detained at a protest in support of Pussy Riot.