Judge of the Khostinsky District Court in Sochi, Yuri Pilipenko, on December 18 sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses Nikolai Kuzichkin and Vyacheslav Popov to imprisonment under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), but decided to release them due to the actual serving of the sentence. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

Yabloko activist and chairman of the “WE Youth of Moscow” trade union Sergei Zapolnov was sent to the army in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported to OVD-Info by activist Dmitry Zair-Bek, who is in touch with Zapolnov’s parents. It is unknown in which military unit Zapolnov will have to serve. Zapolnov was detained in Moscow on December 17 and taken to the military registration and enlistment office. After that, for two days there was no exact information about his whereabouts.

The Old Oskol City Court in the Belgorod Region banned and blocked material on the Help of a Lawyer website on bribes and how to deal with them. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the card on the website of the court. The publication explains that the court order was about a publication called "How to take a bribe safely." The material, in particular, is devoted to the need to comply with the law and apply to law enforcement agencies when cases of corruption are discovered.

On the evening of December 18, police officers came to the home of several Krasnodar activists. One of them, Vitaly Molodanov, told OVD-Info about this. According to him, they came to him, Viktor Chirikov and journalist Alexander Savelyev. Molodanov was not at home; employees told his relatives that they would come on December 19. Savelyev was also not at home; his mother was given a warning about the inadmissibility of uncoordinated protest actions.

The detention of Alexander Muratov / Photos were provided by eyewitnesses In Khabarovsk, on the way home from the action on the 162nd day of protests in support of the former governor Sergei Furgal, protesting Mikhail Revyakin was detained. This was reported to the hotline of the OWD-Info by his wife. Revyakin was detained in the area of ​​Pushkin Street and taken to the police department No. 4. There is no information yet what exactly is charged with him.