In St. Petersburg, the investigation decided to place Alexander Merkulov (Pezhich), accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) in a psychiatric clinic for examination due to a publication on VKontakte. This was reported by North-West. MBH Media" with reference to lawyer Leonid Krikun, who defends Merkulov. The examination is carried out in order to establish whether Merkulov is sane or not.

The Magistrate's Court in Gorno-Altaisk (Altai Republic) dismissed two administrative cases under the article on "fake news" (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist from the Listok publication. about this in his telegram channel . writes Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora international human rights group, Cases against Mikhailov were initiated because of two publications on the website of the publication "Leaf".

The Zasviyazhsky District Court of Ulyanovsk sentenced six Jehovah's Witnesses to suspended sentences of up to 4 years. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. They were accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Mikhail Zelensky, Andrey Tabakov and Alexander Ganin each received 3 years of suspended imprisonment and 8 months of restricted freedom.

The judge of the Central District Court of Tyumen, Irina Nevidicina, fined Ivan Vostrikova, the coordinator of the regional headquarters of Navalny, due to a single picket in support of the politician. The headquarters reports this on his Twitter.

Single picketing is one of the simplest and most harmless rights, but even that is being destroyed. I knew that at [single] pickets they grab everyone and that this is an illegal practice. This is what I want to protest against. On Petrovka they detained me, put me on a bus - everything was as it should be, and took me to the police department.

The rector of the Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Nizhny Novgorod, Mikhail Iosilevich, was charged under the article on carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code).

In Kurgan, the mother of a minor was detained because of pickets in honor of the birthday of President Putin, which took place on October 7. The girl told OVD-Info about this. A young resident of Kurgan said that she did not participate in the pickets themselves. According to the girl, the police detained her mother, and then went after her. Now she and her mother are on their way to the juvenile inspector.

Chelyabinsk police drew up an administrative protocol on the coordinator of the Vesna movement. He was charged with a violation of the rules of a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for a single picket in support of journalist Irina Slavina, who committed self -immolation . This was reported by the telegram channel "Apology of protest".

Police officers detained Pussy Riot Pussy Riot. This was announced by the OTD-Info by another member of the group Alexander Sofeev. When detained to Nikulshina, gross power was used. She is being taken to the Office of the "bourgeois". A lawyer from the ATS-Info Sergey Telnov went there. 14:50 on the territory of the former Flon factory, Maria Alekhina, a Pussy Riot Pussy Riot, was detained. Alekhina and Nikulshina took phones.

In Arkhangelsk, the security forces came with a search to the chairman of the regional branch of the PARNAS party, Yuri Shcherbachev. At the moment, he was taken to the Investigative Committee of Severodvinsk for interrogation. This is reported by Navalny's Headquarters in Arkhangelsk. Presumably, the reason for the detention was Shcherbachev's post on VKontakte, where he described the rude detention of a minor boy by police.

The person involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan, Rinat Khannanov, disappeared from colony IK-3 in the Samara region. This was reported to OVD-Info by his father Rishat Khannanov. Rishat has been trying to get through to the administration of the colony for the past three weeks, but he was not provided with any information about his son's whereabouts.

On October 7, police officers detained four opposition activists because of a rally in the central square of Novokuibyshevsk (Samara Region). The action was dedicated to the birthday of President Putin. This is reported by Idel.Realii. One of the activists was wearing a mask with the face of Putin, the other was holding a poster with the phrase of the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin “Oil and gas are not our advantage.

In St. Petersburg, the police came home to the activists of "Spring" Nikita Levkin and Alexei Bezrukov. Levkin informed the OVD-Info that yesterday they came to him by registration, and today at the place of actual residence. Probably the reason for the visit of the police was the action "tea party", dedicated to Putin's birthday. Photo: @sotavision On Putin’s birthday, activists of the Vesna movement played a performance with a tea party at the house, where Vladimir Putin lived for a long time.

Police officers came to the house of Elizaveta Diederich, a participant in the Pussy Riot protest with rainbow flags in Moscow. This was reported to OVD-Info by Alexander Sofeev. Diederich does not open the door to the security forces. The lawyer of the "Apology of Protest" Mansur Gilmanov is in touch with her. 16:05 Diderich said that the police stayed at her apartment for about half an hour, then left. They tried to look inside from the stairwell.

In Khabarovsk, Lyudmila Myagchilina, a participant in a protest in support of former governor Sergei Furgal, was detained. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. Now Myagchilina is in the 4th police department. They are going to draw up a protocol against her under the article on participation in an uncoordinated action that interfered with the movement of vehicles and pedestrians (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) in connection with the action on October 3.