In Chelyabinsk, the ex-coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Alexander Belyaev was detained. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The activist was first detained for drinking alcohol in a public place, when he and his friends celebrated his birthday in the city center. He was taken to the police department, a protocol was drawn up and released.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow fined K. Smirnova a thousand rubles. She 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. In 2013, Smirnova published on the social network a video about United Russia's promises "Let's Remind the Crooks and Thieves of their Manifesto - 2002" and deleted it seven years later.

The Severodvinsk City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region imposed two fines of ten thousand rubles each on a local resident, Sergei Ilyukhin, who participated in recording joint video messages to the governor and the president. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7" from the words of Ilyukhin himself.

On December 25, the Supreme Court of Dagestan extended the house arrest of four Jehovah's Witnesses accused of “extremist” articles for a month. The Caucasian Knot reports this. The preventive measure was extended for Arsen Abdullaev, Maria Karpova, Anton Dergalev and Marat Abdulgalimov. Within ten days, the prosecutor's office must approve the indictment and transfer the case materials to the court for trial.

In St. Petersburg, more than ten people were detained at a solidarity rally near the Belarusian embassy. They are being taken to police department No. 1. One of the detainees reported this to OVD-Info using the Red Button application. According to the detainee, on December 25, police officers, referring to the decree of the governor of St. Petersburg on measures to combat the coronavirus epidemic, threatened demonstrators with arrests if they held rallies with Belarusian flags.

On December 25, the Ministry of Justice entered three associations into the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a “foreign agent”. Information about this appeared on the website of the department. The register includes two NGOs that help AIDS patients: the Candle Foundation and the We Against AIDS organization, as well as the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation, created by supporters of Alexei Navalny.

In Khakassia, on December 25, police officers interrupted pickets of local residents who were protesting against the development of the Arshanovsky coal mine. According to the protesters, the police were called by the company's employees. This is reported by Sibir.Realii with reference to environmental activist Denis Kongarov.

The Federal Penitentiary Service wants to impute a violation of serving a sentence to the journalist of Tulskaya Pravda Alexei Ritter. This was told to OVD-Info by lawyer Alexei Vlasov.

Detection of a picketer / screenshot from Sota video In St. Petersburg, two people were detained by the Gostiny Dvor due to single pickets. It is reported by Sota in her telegram channel. First, they detained a picketer with a poster “Putin made an empire of lies and deception from Russia”, then-the administrator of the agit Russia telegram channel Pavel Ivankin for a picket at the FSB Office on Litein Prospekt in support of a lawyer founded by the FBK Lyubov Sobol.

In Khabarovsk, police detained Dmitry Kolenov, who was standing on Lenin Square, where a rally in support of former governor Sergei Furgal was taking place. Witnesses of the detention reported this to OVD-Info. Now Kolenov is being taken to the 4th police department. According to Navalny’s headquarters in Khabarovsk, Kolenov is an ambulance driver who actively criticized the government for the lack of coronavirus payments to doctors. Valery Golubov was also detained.