The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the preventive measure for blogger Yuri Khovansky until November 8. They left him in jail. This is reported by the telegram channel "Network Freedom". Khovansky is charged under the article on justifying terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of the song about the taking of hostages during the musical Nord-Ost. The blogger has been in custody since June 10.

In Voronezh, a new criminal case was opened against activist Grigory Severin, accused of extremism. Severin’s lawyer Georgy Lutskevich told OVD-Info about this. The case was opened due to a post on the social network VKontakte, written in the summer of 2020. As Severin and his lawyer Lutskevich were informed during interrogation by the Investigative Committee, the Voronezh resident is accused of insulting police officers (Article 319 of the Criminal Code).

Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, was transferred to a cell-type room ( PKT ) due to his refusal to sweep the exercise yard. This was reported by the RUPRESSION telegram channel with reference to lawyer Eldar Sharafutdinov.

Request for punishment for the defendant in the “sanitary case”, partial cessation of the work of “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg” and the detention of Navalny’s ally for posts about the politician’s projects. We tell you the main news for October 6.

The former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Cheboksary, Semyon Kochkin, was detained by employees of Center “E”. He announced this on his Twitter. The detainee was taken to police department No. 4. Kochkin clarified that he planned to leave for Moscow that day, but the police disrupted his plans.

The Cheryomushkinsky court in Moscow ordered the editor-in-chief of The Insider, Roman Dobrokhotov, to pay 156 thousand rubles in a libel suit against Dutch journalist Maximilian van der Werff. TASS reports this. The plaintiff and his lawyer Stalina Gurevich demanded to recover two million rubles from Dobrokhotov. The judge granted the claim partially and, in addition to the fine, ordered the journalist to publicly refute the information discrediting the applicant’s reputation.

During the debate in the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow, the prosecutor asked the defendant in the “sanitary case” Anastasia Vasilyeva to have a year and eight months of restriction of freedom. This was reported by the press service of the court.

Sergei Usoltsev, a resident of the village of Gora in the Sverdlovsk region, was left with a fine of 60 thousand rubles, imposed under the article on insulting the authorities (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the telegram channel "ROSshtraf". The Sverdlovsk Regional Court dismissed the defense's appeal against the fine. In June, the Shalinsky City Court ordered Usoltsev to pay 60 thousand rubles because of a comment on VKontakte.

The human rights organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" decided to close the direction of work with military personnel. The reason is the recently adopted by the FSB list of information that allegedly can be used against the security of Russia - they face criminal liability. This was reported on the website of the organization.

The miracle of the last percent By the September elections to the State Duma, the CPRF had emerged as one of the most promising parties in terms of getting into parliament. Since the collapse of the USSR, the successor to the CPSU had consistently taken second place in parliamentary and presidential elections. It had secured its status as the so-called "intra-system opposition", largely loyal to the Kremlin.

The Moscow City Court upheld the extension of Pavel Krisevich's arrest until November 11. This was reported by the telegram channel “Freedom for Krisevich!” The actionist was sent into custody in June by decision of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. The preventive measure was chosen as part of a criminal case initiated due to a performance in support of political prisoners: Krisevich shot himself in the head with noise cartridges on Red Square.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined Rafail Shepelev 10,000 rubles because of a “counter-picket” against the actions of the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement (NOD). This was reported to OVD-Info by Shepelev's lawyer Irina Ruchko. Rafail Shepelev and Damir Bikmetov were detained due to single pickets on 11 September.

The former head of Protest Kuzbass, Lev Gyammer, who also worked in Navalny’s headquarters in Novokuznetsk and Krasnodar, emigrated from Russia to Georgia because he fears prosecution in the case of an extremist community. The activist reported this on VKontakte. On October 4, the oppositionist flew out of St. Petersburg. Now he is in Tbilisi. "This is very painful. Russia is my home. My friends and family are in this country. My mother is buried in this country,” Gämmer wrote.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation received 19% of the votes in the recent State Duma elections. After that, the party's supporters faced pressure unprecedented for the "intra-system opposition". They are detained, fined, placed under administrative arrest, and blocked in party premises. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation continues to challenge the election results and demands an investigation into the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.