In Moscow, opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza discovered that he was being followed. This was reported by The Insider . According to Kara-Murza, on February 15, a car with license plate U563CA followed him. A car with this type is not found in the available traffic police databases, and, according to sources of the Bellingcat investigative team in the traffic police, it is assigned to the FSB.

In Penza, Ulyanovsk and Ufa, the authorities refused to agree on rallies that the Communist Party wanted to hold on February 23-on the day of the creation of the Red Army and the Navy. This was reported by IDEL. REALIAS and ECHO Moscow in Ufa . In Penza, representatives of the city administration warned the organizers of the rally that the event would turn out for them at least two administrative cases.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, opened two cases of dissemination of false information (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code) against the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. This is reported on the publication's website. The cases were opened because of Tatyana Yurasova’s article “So that the cops don’t screw people up...”, which the publication, at the request of Roskomnadzor, deleted on the day of publication.

The State Duma in the second and third readings adopted a bill with amendments to the legislation on "organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent," according to the website of the authority. The bill provides for administrative liability of the media for publications about organizations, unregistered associations and individuals included in the lists of foreign agents, without specifying their status.

On February 4, the prosecutor's office in the city of Lyubertsy, near Moscow, applied to the court to subsequently invalidate the Russian citizenship of Bakhrom Khamroev, a human rights activist and member of the Memorial Human Rights Center. This was reported on the Memorial HRC website. Khamroev received the right to Russian citizenship after marrying a Russian citizen. A few years later, the couple divorced.

The Novosibirsk authorities refused to approve 13 public actions at once. about this with reference to Viktor Sorokin, head of the We Against Corruption public foundation. writes MBKh Media Together with other activists, Sorokin tried to coordinate events between February 19 and 23, every day at three different venues.

The authorities of Rostov-on-Don did not agree on a picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which was going to be held by local activists. The answer of the officials was published by the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny on Twitter.

In Kurgan, the coordinator of Navalny's headquarters, Alexei Schwartz, was taken to the UK for interrogation in a criminal case as a suspect. This was reported on the twitter of the headquarters. We are talking about the case of violation of the secrecy of correspondence (Article 138 of the Criminal Code), which was initiated because of the video of Navalny's headquarters.

In Sevastopol, Crimean Tatar Ruslan Bekirov was assigned 300 hours of compulsory labor in the case of giving false testimony (part 1 of article 307 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity movement. The decision was made by the judge of the Nakhimovsky District Court Igor Goncharov. The prosecution requested that the accused be given 400 hours of compulsory work.

The Moscow City Court left Pavel Zelensky, an operator of the Anti-Corruption Fund, accused of inciting extremism, under arrest in a pre-trial detention center. about this on his Telegram channel . wrote Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group, The court refused to attach 128 guarantees for Zelensky to the case. Among those who signed them, there are municipal deputies and journalists, Chikov added.

Jehovah's Witness Yulia Kaganovich was sentenced in Birobidzhan. The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info. The woman was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and was fined 10 thousand rubles with a five-month installment plan. The decision was made by the Birobidzhansky District Court.

The person involved in the "Ingush case" Magomed Khamkhoev was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony. This was reported by the Human Rights Center "Memorial". The decision was made by the Essentuki City Court. Earlier, the prosecutor's office demanded that the man be sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison.

In Tyumen, Ivan Vostrikov, coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, was detained, writes Znak. The police took an explanation from him in connection with the action on February 14 and released him . Two men in civilian clothes detained Vostrikov on his way from home to the store. The coordinator told the publication that one of them forcibly snatched his phone from him. After this, the activist was taken to police department No. 4.

The Central District Court of Kemerovo placed Jehovah's Witness Sergei Ananin under house arrest, “accused of committing a crime against the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the state,” the court’s press service reports . What exactly Ananin is suspected of is not specified. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” states that on February 14, in the city of Belov, Kemerovo region, searches were carried out at at least six addresses of believers.

The Third Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction considered the complaint of the historian Yuri Dmitriev, convicted under the article on violent acts of a sexual nature against minors, reports Severo-Zapad. MBKh Media. The court upheld the decision on 13 years in a strict regime colony, which was assigned to Dmitriev by the Supreme Court of Karelia in September 2020.