On December 28, the Ust-Kulomsky District Court ruled that the dismissal of teacher Yulia Pashnina was illegal. The teacher connects the dismissal with the collection of signatures against the closure of the school in the village of Skorodum. This is reported by "7 × 7". According to Horizontal Russia, Pashnina was fired on October 28, citing "repeated failure to perform her duties without good reason" after complaints from a colleague and students' parents.

Roskomnadzor (RKN) plans to draw up 18 protocols in relation to the projects of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the head of the Russian Service of Radio Liberty. about this . writes The Interfax news agency According to the agency, the federal service is going to initiate administrative cases under the article on violation of the law on foreign agents (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Nizhny Tagil, Mikhail Smolnikov, a participant in the recording of a video message against the transfer of ambulance to outsourcing, was summoned to the police department. It is reported by MBH Media. Law enforcement officers demanded that Smolnikov give an explanation about the photo of protesters with posters against the backdrop of a drama theater. “I told them it was photoshop.

In Voronezh on December 24, a police officer attacked the journalist of the Ros Pusten publication Alexei Shamardin and blogger Alexander Zavtachukov in the premises of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Voronezh region. Shamardin spoke about this ATD-Info. According to Shamardin, a police colonel Anatoly Redko attacked a journalist and blogger. He knocked out the camera from the hands of a journalist, and from a blogger he took the phone.

Jehovah's Witness Vyacheslav Popov, found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), was released from a pre-trial detention center in Armavir (Krasnodar Territory). “Caucasian Knot” writes about this with reference to lawyer Sergei Yanovsky. Yanovsky, who defended the interests of the believer, noted that Popov could have contracted the coronavirus in the isolation ward.

The defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb-ut-Tahrir complained about the conditions of detention in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to lawyer Safiye Shabanova. On December 29, a preliminary hearing was held at the Southern District Military Court: the court established the identity of the accused, and the defense filed several motions.

In Kurgan, the police detained the coordinator of Navalny’s regional headquarters, Alexei Schwartz, who came to the Investigative Committee building for questioning as part of a criminal case under the article on evasion of military service (Article 328 of the Criminal Code). The headquarters reports this in its telegram channel.

Judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow Olga Zatomskaya extended until February 8, 2021 the ban on certain actions for supporters of the “indefinite protest” Olga Misik, Ivan Vorobyevsky and Igor Basharimov, accused under the article on vandalism (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Sergey Telnov. The interests of the defendants in the case are defended by lawyers from OVD-Info Elena Sheremetyeva, Dmitry Zakhvatov and Sergey Telnov.

Ekaterina Protasovitskaya, a correspondent for the media “And to be honest,” was detained in Samara, who covered a meeting of opponents of vaccination against covid with the governor on December 25. She reported this to OVD-Info. The journalist was detained at the airport after her return to the city.

The Central District Court of Simferopol dismissed the case of Vilen Temeryanov, correspondent of the Crimean Solidarity movement, who was accused of organizing an uncoordinated rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the filming of the verdict on the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. This is reported by the Ukrainian edition of Grata. The court did not find any corpus delicti in Temeryanov's actions. The activist was defended by Server Colakchik.

The court declared illegal the investigator’s refusal to initiate a criminal case into the beating of human rights activist Sergei Mokhnatkin by FSIN officers while serving his sentence in 2016 and 2018. This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to lawyer Leonid Krikun. According to the lawyer, the court recognized the fact of procedural “red tape,” but this will not prevent investigators from further delaying the proceedings or once again refusing to initiate a case.

Photo: Activatica On December 29, a resident of Khakassia, Yevgeny Pruss, was called to the prosecutor's office because of the videos preserved on VKontakte 6 years ago. This was reported by Kiselevsk News and Activatica . The prosecutor's office explained the challenge by the fact that on the PRUSS page in social networks there was a video of an “extremist” content.

The Investigative Committee in Khabarovsk, having examined the materials of the case of Alexander Prikhodko under the article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding a public event (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), decided to terminate proceedings on it. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. Investigator A.

On December 29, the prosecutor requested four years in prison for Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan, Artur Lokhvitsky. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. The state prosecutor at a meeting in the Birobidzhan District Court admitted that the believer did not commit anything extremist at religious meetings, but at the same time argued that Lokhvitsky’s speeches at the meetings continued the activities of an organization recognized as extremist.

The Central District Court of Khabarovsk arrested protest participant Valentin Shlyakov for 10 days under the article on organizing an event without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Lawyer Irina Abatina reported this to OVD-Info. The court found Shlyakov guilty because on December 18 he allegedly called on people to take part in the next Saturday march the next day.