Employees of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Leningradsky District in Kaliningrad opened administrative cases under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) against participants in the picket line in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place on August 21. One of the picketers, Ivan Luzin, told OVD-Info about this.

At a meeting of the Nakhimovsky District Court of Sevastopol on October 23, the prosecution requested four years in prison for the head of the local workers' union Valery Bolshakov, a defendant in the case of calls for extremism (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Crimea. Realities." The prosecutor believes that Bolshakov should be sent to a colony for four years with a possible probationary period of four years and a ban on holding administrative positions.

In Moscow, on Red Square, the evicted worker Georgy Kharchenko was detained, who went to a solo picket with an empty sheet of paper. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by Alexander Zimbovsky, a member of the Moscow Hostels movement. The policemen took Kharchenko to the Kitay-Gorod police station. What offense he is charged with is currently unknown. It was not possible to get through to the picketer.

Vadim Syrok / Photo from the page of Anna Bogacheva on Facebook Vadim Siruk, who was sentenced to 12 years in a colony in the Yalta case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir”, was transferred to the colony in Bashkiria. This was reported on her Facebook page by Siruk's wife Anna Bogacheva. Bogacheva writes that on October 22, her husband called her for the first time after he left the Rostov investigative insulator.

Before his imprisonment, Vladimir Ivanyutenko was a regular participant in opposition rallies in St. Petersburg. In 2017, an unknown person stabbed him with a knife . In 2018, Ivanyutenko identified the attacker as the hero of Novaya Gazeta’s investigation about businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. In 2019, a criminal case was opened against Ivanyutenko for illegal storage of explosive components (Part 2 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code).

In Khabarovsk, two participants in protests in support of ex-governor Sergei Furgal were detained. Eyewitnesses and one of the detainees told OVD-Info about this. At about 11:30 local time, at the exit from the special detention center, the police met Natalya Golobokova, who was released after serving an administrative arrest due to the September 28 action.

Oppositionist Vladimir Ivanyutenko spent a year and a half in a pre-trial detention center on charges of preparing an assassination attempt on businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is close to the Kremlin. In February 2020, the oppositionist was sentenced to 3.5 years. In early October, the court overturned the verdict, Ivanyutenko was released, but the story did not end. Sergei Kagermazov, a correspondent for the Echo of Moscow in St.