The Rostov Regional Court rejected the appeal against the extension of house arrest against Ruslan Aliyev. He is accused of participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) due to his membership in Jehovah's Witnesses. The Caucasian Knot writes about this.

The State Duma commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the affairs of Russia demanded that the Prosecutor General's Office take action because of the publications of MBKh Media, Current Time and the Caucasian Knot. This is reported by the Regnum website. According to officials, law enforcement officers should conduct an investigation because of the citation of articles by the New York Times and the Financial Times.

Programmer Sergei Kupreenkov was fined a thousand rubles for publishing a VKontakte video. The Leninsky District Court of Smolensk found him guilty of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Mediazona with reference to Kupreenkov. The reason was the video with the band's song "You Must Murder".

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened several criminal cases under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 1 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the Immortal Regiment Online campaign. This is written on the website of the department. According to investigators, several people posted photographs of “leaders of Nazi Germany” on the action portal.

The Khakassia prosecutor's office returned the case against two Jehovah's Witnesses for further investigation. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The indictment revealed violations of the requirements of criminal procedure legislation that prevent the case from being brought to court. A criminal case against Roman Baranovsky and his mother Valentina Baranovskaya was initiated on March 21, 2019.

According to the law of the region , the organizers of actions must submit notifications not to municipal authorities, but to regional ones, when the action is planned on the territory of the “ historical-architectural , administrative center” of Yakutsk or near the buildings where the authorities are located. The specific regional government body that should be notified of such actions is not specified in the law - legislators transferred these powers to the head of the republic.

In St. Petersburg, the police came to the home of activist Dmitry Negodin to take him to court. This was reported to OVD-Info by the activist himself. The visit of the security forces is connected with the detention of Negodin at a rally on March 15 against changing the Constitution. The activist is going to be taken to the Vasileostrovskiy District Court. “They are trying to take me to court, which I myself would gladly go to, but I didn’t receive any notifications, subpoenas, SMS, nothing.

The Tomsk Regional Court upheld the fine against local activist Sergei Tchaikovsky. He was charged with disrespect for the President of the Russian Federation (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the “Human Rights Postcard” Alexey Pryanishnikov. On March 3, the Sovetsky District Court of Tomsk fined Sergei Tchaikovsky, executive director of the NGO National Bureau for the Development of Democracy, 30 thousand.

COVID-dissident Vadim Cheldiev, who called on the residents of Vladikavkaz to come to the people's gathering, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring. Information about this was discovered by Mediazona. The opera singer is listed under number 8993. Vadim Cheldiev is a COVID dissident who accused the authorities of North Ossetia of lying in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow reviewed the case of the Memorial Human Rights Center and again fined it 300 thousand rubles. Press secretary of the organization Yulia Orlova reported this to OVD-Info. On November 1, the court fined the Memorial Human Rights Center 300 thousand rubles under the article on the dissemination of information on the Internet by a foreign agent without indicating inclusion in the register of foreign agents (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

On April 20, a rally against the “self-isolation regime” was held in Vladikavkaz, which resulted in mass detentions, clashes between demonstrators and security forces, and a wave of administrative arrests. On that day, 145 patients with COVID-19 were identified in North Ossetia. Now the number of infected people has grown to 1,801, and two dozen participants in the rally have become defendants in a criminal case. Yulia Sugueva talks about its details.

OVD-Info and the Memorial Human Rights Center appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Sakha in connection with contradictions in the regional rules for coordinating actions in Yakutia.