The Leninsky District Court of Samara fined 15,000 rubles to the journalist of the media "And to be honest" Ekaterina Protasovitskaya, who covered a meeting of opponents of vaccination against covid with the governor on December 25. She reported this to OVD-Info. The court found the correspondent guilty under the article on organizing a mass gathering of people (part 1 of article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and imposed a fine.

The Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory opened a criminal case on the kidnapping of the chat moderator of the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT Salman Tepsurkaev. This is reported by the "Committee against Torture". A criminal case on the kidnapping committed by a group of persons by prior agreement (paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code) was opened at the end of November. The Committee Against Torture published a notice from the Investigative Committee.

The Investigative Committee dismissed the case under the article on the use of violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) against participants in the protests in support of Furgal Anastasia Subbotnikova and Nadezhda Kochetkova. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. Investigator A.

In the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, the prosecution requested 3.5 years in prison for two participants in the “He is not our king” protest, which took place on May 5, 2018. “Apology of Protest” reports this on its Telegram channel.

Near the central building of the FSB on Lubyanka, a picketer Andriy Us was detained, who was holding a banner with the inscription “I demand Ukrainian citizenship instead of allegiance to the murderous tsar.” This was reported to OVD-Info by Us himself. The man was taken to the police department in the Meshchansky district. He assumes that a protocol will be drawn up against him on disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Near the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow, where the announcement of the verdict against anarchists in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office was to take place, Svetlana Novoselova, one of the members of the support group chanting “Freedom!” was detained. This was reported by a member of OVD-Info from the scene. The woman detained at the Koptevo police station is reported by the Freedom of Russia telegram channel.