The criminal case against opposition politician and former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Maxim Reznik was transferred to the Oktyabrsky District Court. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the city.

Six years in prison for faith, a hunger strike because of “arrest carousels” and two more criminal cases against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory. We tell you what October 22nd will be remembered for. Jehovah's Witness from Sevastopol Igor Shmidt was sentenced to six years in prison under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization. His co-religionists from Moscow and the Moscow region were searched.

In Yaroslavl, the police detained the picketer Karama Aloyan, who opposed the torture and for the freedom of Alexei Navalny. The activist himself informed the ATD-Info himself about this. Aloyan stood with a poster near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yaroslavl. What is charged with an activist is not yet known. 18:10 The pickets were released from the police department without drawing up the protocol. They took an explanatory one from him, but the man did not sign her.

On October 20, at least eight searches of local Jehovah's Witnesses were carried out in Moscow and the Moscow region. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. Security forces came to the family of Jehovah's Witness Sergei Tolokonnikov, living in the village of Solmanovo, Odintsovo district, Moscow region, at approximately 6:00.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol sentenced Jehovah's Witness Igor Schmidt to six years in a general regime colony. Crimean Solidarity reports this. On October 19, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence the man to seven years in prison, writes the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website. Schmidt is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Ballet "Swan Lake" / Photo: Wikimedia Commons In Kirov, the city administration refused to coordinate the rally “Prayer of Memory”, which was planned to be held on October 30 at the building of the regional drama theater. Officials referred to the fact that the action could “interfere with the creative process that is happening in the drama theater” - there will be a “swan lake” at that time. This was reported by the publication "IDEL. REALIALS".

In Baikalsk (Irkutsk region), the authorities did not agree with the local residents on a rally in support of the convicted fellow countryman Andrey Pyresev. This was reported to OVD-Info by activist Lyudmila Remizova. Local residents filed a notice of a rally for 200 people, which was scheduled for October 26th. The reason for the refusal to agree was the governor's "covid" restrictions.

Kirill Imashev / Photo: Telegram channel “Under the press. Chronicles of the police state " In Yekaterinburg, Kirill Imashev, who announced the protest hunger strike, was hospitalized, and after that they returned to the special receiver. The incident is reported in one of the telegram channels of the activists of the party “Another Russia E.V. Limonov”.

The 2nd Western District Military Court at an offsite hearing in Syktyvkar sentenced Elena Rodvikova to a fine of 350 thousand rubles under articles on incitement to terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the telegram channel "Network freedoms".

Daria Apakhonchich / photo from a personal page on Facebook The St. Petersburg City Court rejected the appeal on the claim of the artist Daria Apakhonchich to the Ministry of Justice recognized by the “ino-agent”. This was reported in the telegram channel of the United press service of the city courts.

Two more criminal cases were brought against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the politician's lawyer Boris Kozhemyakin. Now Furgal, who is in a pre-trial detention center on a murder case, is also charged with organizing a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code) and fraud on an especially large scale (Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region sent the author of the book "Unknown Northern History" Agnese Khaikare the results of a psychological and linguistic examination conducted by the Federal Security Service after the seizure of the book in 2020. According to the conclusion, there are signs of extremism in the book about Finns and Norwegians repressed in the USSR. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". It is not specified which signs are in question.

In the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, appeals were held against the arrests of five National Bolsheviks in cases of displaying prohibited symbols - the activists are serving repeated arrests and consider what is happening to be “arrest carousels”. Having considered the cases of Sergei Demidov, Kirill Imashev, Maxim Kamensky, Yevgeny Nekrasov and Stepan Yurchenko, the court upheld all decisions on administrative arrests.

In Korolyov near Moscow, at about eight o'clock in the morning, they came with a search to the blogger Igor Grishin. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. What the search is connected with is not clear. Presumably, investigative actions are being carried out in the case of the attack on Grishin on the night of September 19-20, when the Single Voting Day ended in Russia.