The World Court in Yaroslavl dismissed the fake case against Regnum journalist Aleksey Yakovlev, initiated because of a post about the coronavirus and doctors' salaries in his Telegram channel. It is reported by MBH Media. The case on the dissemination of “knowingly false” information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was dismissed due to the lack of corpus delicti.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan declared illegal the detention of Tagir Kagarmanov, a member of the Stop Kambarka movement, in the city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. this Kagarmanov himself announced on VKontakte, and paid attention to this. Idel.Realii In early November, the police detained Kagarmanov during a meeting on the results of the September elections to the city council, which was held in the city committee of the Communist Party.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Jehovah's Witness Ruslan Alyev to two and a half years probation. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. Aliyev was given a two and a half year probationary period. The believer was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The mayor's office of Naberezhnye Chelny required schools to report on schoolchildren subscribed to "destructive" groups on social networks. This is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the coordinator of the regional offices of the "Alliance of Teachers" Ivan Drobotov. The city administration demanded that 29 schools send by December 17 a completed table with data on the school number, the number of “identified minors” and links to the groups in which they are members.

The mayor of Nizhny Tagil refused to agree on a picket for ambulance workers, citing coronavirus restrictions. This was reported in the Tagil For Changes group on VKontakte. Ambulance workers have tried to coordinate a 10-member picket against outsourcing the city's ambulances, fearing that this will lead to massive layoffs of ambulance staff.

On December 16, the Rostov Regional Court rejected an appeal to extend the arrest of six Jehovah's Witnesses, who are charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The Caucasian Knot reports this.

The Tverskoy District Court fined Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina 15 thousand rubles for her protest about police fragility. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”. Alyokhina was found guilty of participating in an uncoordinated action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). On November 28, Alekhina, another Pussy Riot member Margarita Konovalova and artist Farhad Israfilli-Gelman held a rally against police violence.

On December 14, the police searched the Krasnodar blogger Vadim Kharchenko, the author of the Utub-Channel “Personal Opinion” under the criminal case under the article on the slander combined with the charge of a person in a particularly serious crime (part 5 of article 128.1 of the Criminal Code). The blogger told about this on his channel.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal to extend the arrest of former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov, who is accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the press service of the court. On December 16, on the eve of the trial, lawyers could not get to Ivan Safronov in the pre-trial detention center. “We were not informed about the reasons, we were not allowed.

Former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, arrested on charges of organizing murders, is not allowed to receive or send letters to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. Marina Litvinovich, a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (POC) , reported this on December 16 on Facebook. Litvinovich writes that she visited Lefortovo and met, among other things, with Furgal, who continues to be deprived of correspondence for unknown reasons.

On December 16, the Fifth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Pyatigorsk overturned the conviction of Chechen publicist Rizvan Ibragimov in the case of extremism. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". On June 20, 2017, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Grozny sentenced Ibragimov to two and a half years of probation under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), in September 2017, the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the sentence.

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi on December 16, in an appeal, upheld the mayor's office's refusal to approve a picket on Stefanovskaya Square in Syktyvkar with up to five participants. the 7×7 magazine about this Human rights activist Viktor Vorobyov told .

In Moscow, police detained the chairman of the trade union “We are the Youth of Moscow” Sergei Zapolnov, Kirill Goncharov, a member of the federal bureau of the Yabloko party, reports in his telegram channel. As Goncharov writes, the police first knocked on the door of Zapolnov’s apartment for a long time, and when he opened it, they detained him. Now the detainee is being taken to the military registration and enlistment office, but for what reason is unknown.

In Moscow, the police came to the home of the activists of the “indefinite protest” Gleb Sokolov and Elizaveta Drepeleva because of the action on December 11 with the “funeral” of freedom of assembly on Red Square, OVD-Info lawyer Yekaterina Selezneva reports. The police are trying to open the door and demand that Drepeleva and Sokolov go with them to the Tverskoy District Court, where a hearing on administrative cases against the activists is likely to take place today.

The First Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction upheld the verdict against Roman Udot, member of the board of the Golos movement, in the case of threatening to kill. this on his telegram channel Udot's lawyer Maxim Pashkov reported . The case against Roman Udot under the article on the threat to kill (part 1 of article 119 of the Criminal Code) was initiated due to a conflict with an NTV journalist who filmed Udot at Sheremetyevo Airport. In May 2019, he was placed under house arrest.