Anti-fascist from Belarus Andrei Kazimirov was detained in Moscow. At home, he is suspected of involvement in mass riots (Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The telegram channel “AChK Belarus” is about this. reports According to the channel, Kazimirov left for Russia after he was interrogated by the Investigative Committee in Brest at the end of August, but was released on his own recognizance.

On January 21, in Votkinsk, representatives of law enforcement agencies came to the home and work of several Jehovah’s Witnesses. Two people, a married couple, were detained and taken away in an unknown direction. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The names of those detained are unknown. At the moment there is no information whether a criminal case has been opened against them.

In Izhevsk, police detained Dmitry Morozov, a member of the Russian Socialist Movement. He reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. Morozov was taken to the police department in the Oktyabrsky district to draw up a protocol due to the action against violence against women, which took place on November 25, 2020. The detainee was charged with an article on repeated violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case under the article on “involving minors in illegal activities” (paragraphs “a”, “c”, part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) due to posts announcing actions in support of Navalny. The Investigative Committee reports this on the official website. “There are restrictions in place in Moscow and other constituent entities of the Russian Federation due to the spread of coronavirus infection.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Svetlana Utkina, a participant in pickets against the destruction of green spaces, for 10 days. About it writes "MBH Media". Utkina was found guilty under the article on the repeated violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the pickets on January 19. After the arrest, Utkina was kept in the department for almost a day. near Gostiny Dvor in St.

VKontakte blocked all (or almost all) groups dedicated to protests for the release of Alexei Navalny on January 23. When you try to enter the “Freedom for Navalny” communities in different cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg , the following message appears on the pages: “This material is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation based on the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation dated January 20, 2021 No. 31.27.2021/Id430- 21".

January 22 50 detainees Abakan (Khakassia) They detained and taken to the city Internal Affairs Directorate of Ivan Bogatyrev . This was announced by the OVD-Info by his friend. Bogatyrev was charged with an article on the organization of a public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and left overnight before the trial. The police also threatened his girlfriend.

Update. OVD-Info is changing its approach to disseminating data on vessels for actions that took place on January 23, January 31, February 2 and April 21. Instead of detailed criminal records for each individual, we provide general summaries of the number of fines and arrests we have on hand. The data provided contains a small number of trials of protest participants not related to the prosecution of Navalny.

Police officers remove the banner of Konstantin Fokina / Photo from Facebook activist In Moscow, eco -activist Konstantin Fokin was detained on Pushkinskaya Square during a single picket. He reported this on his Facebook. Fokin laid out a banner with a “extinction formula” next to the monument to Pushkin: Police officers said they want to conduct a “preventive conversation” with an eco -activist. Presumably, Fokina was taken to the police department in the Tverskaya district.

In Kazan, police detained Ekaterina Matveeva, the author of a blog about extortion in schools and kindergartens in Tatarstan. This was reported to OVD-Info by local activists. Matveyeva was handcuffed during the arrest, and she was taken to the police station. The blogger is not getting in touch at the moment - her phone was taken away.

In Khabarovsk, at about 5 p.m. local time, protest participant Evgeny Mazikin was detained. This was reported to the legal bot OVD-Info. During his arrest, Mazikin was threatened with criminal charges, Khabarovsk residents added. He was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Timiryazev Street. After that, Mazikeen stopped communicating.

The Central Volga Regional Center for Forensic Examination of the Ministry of Justice discovered signs of justification of terrorism in the comments of a resident of Perm Roman Subbotin in VKontakte about the explosion in the Archangelsk Department of the FSB. This was reported by the OVD-Info by Subbotin himself. Experts investigated four comments, which Subbotin allegedly left in 2018 under the publication in the community “29.ru Arkhangelsk News” on the explosion in the UFSB of Arkhangelsk.

A resident of Nizhnevartovsk, Alexander Makarov, told the OVD-Info about beating in the police department, where he was called due to participation in a telegram chat dedicated to the action in support of Navalny. According to Makarov, on the morning of January 21, a policeman called him and said that he needed to take Makarov's explanatory occasion of rallies.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded 1,700 euros in compensation to Vyacheslav Lukichev, an anarchist from Kaliningrad, who was prosecuted under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (justification of terrorism) because of a post about an explosion at the reception of the Arkhangelsk FSB department. This was reported by the Memorial human rights center.

The policy of Alexei Navalny was arrested for 30 days: the FSIN asks to replace him with conditional imprisonment in the Yves Rocher case with the real one. Supporters of the opposition responded with an announcement of mass shares throughout the country on January 23. The security forces in anticipation of the shares delay the associates of Navalny and those who simply decided to support the politician.