The Verkhneufaleysk city court of the Chelyabinsk region dismissed the lawsuit filed by local deputy Alan Dzhioev against pensioner Svetlana Ushakova, who wrote a post about him on VKontakte. This is reported on its website by "Pravozashchita Postcards". The court refused to satisfy the claims of the deputy of the Verkhneufaleisky city district in full.

Ten Azerbaijani citizens who participated in a motor rally in the center of St. Petersburg after the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh were banned from entering Russia. It is reported by "Fontanka". According to the publication, nine people were banned from entering Russia for three years, another for five years. They also had their temporary residence permits and residence permits revoked. The action in question took place on November 8 in the center of St. Petersburg.

In Moscow, on Pushkinskaya Square, civil activist Anna Krechetova was detained, who was standing in a solitary picket with a poster "No to political repressions." She herself reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. Krechetova was taken to the police department in the Tverskoy district. It is currently unknown what offense she is charged with. 21:12 Anna Krechetova has been held in the Tver police department for more than three hours. According to her, no protocol was drawn up against her.

The Vologda city court fined a local resident Roman Slesarenko a thousand rubles. He was found guilty of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by MBH Media with reference to the court order .

The prosecutor of the Proletarsky district of Tver approved the indictment in the case of truck driver Mikhail Vedrov. He is being prosecuted under an article on violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) because of his speeches against the Platon system. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Sergey Telnov.

Vladimir Putin during a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights said that journalists should have the right to cover public events, regardless of their approval. The president's words are reported by Regnum. “Whether permitted or not permitted (shares) by the authorities, a journalist should have the right to freely speak about it and disseminate information about it,” Putin said.

On December 7, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria left a participant in the protests in Magas in March 2019, Magomed-Bashir Ozdoev, who became another person involved in the “Ingush case”, in custody in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the local newspaper Fortanga, citing his lawyer Kazim Atabiev. “I asked the court to soften the preventive measure, replacing it with house arrest. More than a year and a half has passed since the “crime event”.

In Kaliningrad, in February 2020, the investigative department of the regional department of the FSB opened a case against a local resident named Pavel under an article on justifying terrorism because of a video on VKontakte. Pavel himself told about this OVD-Info. The reason for initiating the case was a fragment of a video interview of Chechen militant Shamil Basayev, which he gave to journalist Andrei Babitsky in June 2005. Pavel posted the video in 2019 on his page on VKontakte.

Five employees of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kizlyar region (Dagestan) were fired after an interview with journalists from a federal channel. The police spoke out in support of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gazi Isaev, who was detained in connection with the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro. about this .

In Khabarovsk, traffic police officers stopped Valery Skripalshchikov’s car and blocked it, demanding that he go with them to police department No. 4 of Khabarovsk to draw up a report. Skripalshchikov himself told OVD-Info about this. The police demand that the protest participant go to the police department to draw up a report under the article on participation in an unapproved public event (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Promotion at the Embassy of Kazakhstan / Telegram channel "Direct Action" In Moscow, the Embassy of Kazakhstan was detained by two National Bolshes of Timofei Filin and Maria Mojova. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Direct Action". Supporters of the Party “Another Russia E.V. Limonov” held an action in support of the pro -Russian activist Ermk Tychibekov arrested in Kazakhstan. The National Bolsheviks hung a banner and chained themselves to the fence of the embassy.

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced Lenur Islyamov, a businessman and owner of the Crimean Tatar television channel ATR, to 19 years in prison in a strict regime colony. This is reported by the "Crimean process". The verdict was passed in absentia, in the absence of the defendant. Islyamov was also sentenced to 1 year of restriction of freedom and 2 years of a ban on activities related to the media.

The Central District Court of Novokuznetsk fined Evgeny Zvarych, a participant in the filming of a video against distance education, three thousand rubles. Zvarych himself told OVD-Info about this. The court found him guilty under the article on violating the rules of conduct during the high alert regime introduced (Part 1 of Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Courts in Khabarovsk arrested two participants in protests in support of ex-governor of the region Sergei Furgal. This was reported by Navalny’s headquarters in Khabarovsk, as well as local residents. The Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk found protester Zigmund Khudyakov guilty under the article on participation in an action that interfered with infrastructure (Part 6.1, Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). He was sentenced to 3 days of administrative arrest.

On December 9, in the first reading, the State Duma adopted a package of bills tightening the law on rallies. If the amendments pass all the stages of the approval and the president will sign it, then this will be the strongest blow to the freedom of assembly in Russia. Analysts and lawyers of the ATS-Info and the Moscow Helsinki group analyzed amendments and explain what they can lead to. Legal review and detailed analysis of each amendment can be downloaded in PDF format.