The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg exacted compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of two thousand rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in favor of Lada Purvinsh. about this with reference to lawyer Ekaterina Sutormina. writes The Apology of Protest On January 23, on the day of the action in support of Alexei Navalny, the security forces detained Purvinsh in the city center without explanation.

The Leninsky District Court of Kirov reduced the amount of the claim of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kirov Region against Mikhail Semenov, a participant in the rally in support of Navalny. This was reported by the publication “Idel.Realii”. The department demanded to recover 546 thousand rubles from Semenov for the “work” of police officers at the rally. According to security forces, the man is the organizer of the action on January 31. This is the third hearing on the claim.

Ekaterina Muranova, an anarchist from Medvezhyegorsk (Karelia), was excluded from the Rosfinmonitoring list of extremists and terrorists. This was reported by the publication Sever.Realii. Muranova was added to the relevant register due to the fact that a criminal case was opened against her under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). In 2019, the court found her guilty and imposed a fine of 350 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Justice added Moscow Digital Media (the legal entity of the online publication Republic) and RS-Balt (the legal entity of the Rosbalt news agency) to the register of “foreign agent” media outlets. This is reported on the department's website.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow refused OVD-Info's application to suspend the status of a “foreign agent”. On September 29, the Ministry of Justice included OVD-Info in the register of unregistered public associations performing the function of a “foreign agent.” On October 12, we filed a lawsuit to exclude the project from the register.

Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, was again sent to a punishment cell. This was reported by the RUPRESSION telegram channel. At the same time, at the beginning of the month, Filinkov was punished - since October 6, he was in a cell-type room (PKT) due to his refusal to sweep the exercise yard. In the PCT, the prisoner and his fellow inmates contracted scabies; they are not receiving medical assistance.

Correspondence to journalist Ivan Safronov was banned, the police come to human rights organizations under various pretexts, and the courts continue to exact compensation from activists for the “work” of the security forces during the January protests. Top news on October 15 in the OVD-Info digest. In Ufa, the Ministry of Internal Affairs exacted more than two million rubles from Lilia Chanysheva, Ilgam Yanberdin and Olga Komleva for the "work" of the police during the January rallies.

The Moscow District Court of Cheboksary fined Semyon Kochkin, the ex-head of Navalny’s local headquarters, three thousand rubles because of posts with links to “Smart Voting.” This is reported by “Apology of Protest”. The oppositionist was detained on October 6. A report was drawn up against him under the article on displaying the symbols of a banned organization (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of a tweet mentioning “Smart Voting”.

Kievsky District Court of Simferopol imposed fines on Crimean Tatars Arsen Akhtemov and Rize Reshetov . This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity movement. Both men were found guilty under the article on violation of the high alert regime (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) during a rally near the FSB building, which took place in early September. Akhtemov was fined 15 thousand rubles, Reshetov - 7 thousand rubles.

Protest Protest January 23 / Photo: Natalia Budantseva for OTD-Info The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa satisfied the lawsuit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against the opposition activists of Lilia Chanysheva, Ilgam Yangberdin and Olga Komleva for the work of the security forces in the January protests in the support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported in the telegram channel "Apology of Protest".

The international society "Memorial" was again visited by the police. This was reported to OVD-Info in the information service of the organization. Two employees of the Department for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (formerly the Department for Combating Economic Crimes - OBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to Memorial.

On October 14, activist Salim Khalitov was detained in Makhachkala, who on October 13 held a one-man picket for the return of direct elections for the head of Dagestan. This is reported by the publication "Kavkaz.Realii". Khalitov was detained on Central Square and taken first to Kirovsky and then to the Soviet police department. What the activist is charged with is unclear. Earlier it became known that employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE) attacked Khalitov.

On October 14, the Moscow City Court upheld the sentence of the defendant in the “palace case,” Evgeny Yesenov. Journalist of the Anti-Corruption Information Agency Evgeniy Kurakin reported this to OVD-Info. On May 20, the court sentenced Yessenov to four years in a general regime colony.

On October 14, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the Vilegodsky District Court, which recovered 250,000 rubles from the Ministry of Finance in favor of Valery Dziuba, Shies' lawyer. Compensation was appointed for illegal criminal prosecution. This is reported by the telegram channel “Pomorye is not a garbage dump!”. The Vilegodsky District Court satisfied the claim on June 30, 2021.

In Moscow, representatives of the City Property Department and a bailiff came to the premises of the "Committee for Civil Rights". Eduard Rudyk, a member of the board of the organization, told OVD-Info about this. Despite the fact that the visitors do not have a court decision in their hands, they are going to seize the property. The reason for this is the committee's debts. According to Rudyk, the organization does have debts, but they have been restructured.