In Moscow on November 18, FSB officers conducted searches at two addresses in a case of “extremism” that may be related to the Left Resistance movement. One of the defendants in the case became an accused. After the search, he was taken for questioning to the FSB, then released on his own recognizance. It is not known exactly under which article the case was opened, but the most likely option is about participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok acquitted Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Barmakin, accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to OVD-Info by the press service of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website.

Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol on Radio Liberty under the article on the public dissemination of knowingly false information about veterans of the Great Patriotic War (part 4.1 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Mediazona. The reason was the article “Senseless and merciless. Why did Stalin issue Order No. 270, which mentions “ciphertext 4976”.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma dismissed the case of a gathering participant against the introduction of QR codes by Oleg Vysotsky. Center "E" accused him of demonstrating Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) - he allegedly published a swastika on his VKontakte. This is reported in the "KPRF Kostroma" group. Vysotsky and his representative Andrei Tarasov managed to prove that the swastika was not published on the activist's page.

The Chamber of Lawyers of the Leningrad Region, on the recommendation of the regional department of the Ministry of Justice, initiated disciplinary proceedings against lawyer Evgeny Smirnov, who defends journalist Ivan Safronov accused of treason. Interfax reports this. The initiator of the proceedings was the FSB Investigation Department.

A psychological linguistic examination, which lies on the basis of a lawsuit against the human rights center "Memorial", was conducted by mathematics teacher Natalia Kryukova and translator Alexander Tarasov. This was told by the New Gazeta. The Kryukova competence area is in no way connected with either linguistics or psychology. Tarasov only passed a small psychological and pedagogical program. For various matters, Kryukov and Tarasov were attracted as experts in a variety of areas.

In Magnitogorsk, Verstov.Info photojournalist Ilya Moskovets was charged with two protocols under the article on organizing uncoordinated events (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) after he made a report from a rally of Chinese workers on November 19. This was reported by the Verstov.Info edition itself. The police considered Moskovets the organizer of two rallies at once - on November 19 and 20. However, he attended only the first of them.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow fined publicist and public figure Yuri Samodurov 20 thousand rubles because of a picket against the liquidation of Memorial. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Ilya Utkin. Samodurov was found guilty under the article on violating the rules of organizing a rally (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

In the Irkutsk region, the police summoned Anastasia Yurchenko, a resident of Usolye-Sibirsky, to the police station and drew up a protocol against her under the article on violation of the procedure for holding the rally by the organizer (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by Sibir.Realii with reference to Yurchenko herself. The protocol was drawn up because of the action against the introduction of QR codes on November 20.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended the arrest of the defendants in the second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Ernest Ibragimov and Ali (Oleg) Fedorov, for three months. Crimean Solidarity reports this. Ibragimov and Fedorov will remain in pre-trial detention until February 28, 2022. Their defenders asked to change the measure of restraint to house arrest, but the judge rejected this request.

Stanislav Yugov, a resident of Zlatoust, was fined 20,000 rubles under the article on violating the procedure for organizing a rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a meeting at which he read out an appeal against QR codes. It is reported by Znak. The decision was taken by the Zlatoust City Court on November 17.

Readovka photojournalist Vasily Krestyaninov, who covered the protests, left Russia after refusing to cooperate with the FSB. This is reported by the publication "We Can Explain". Earlier, the journalist witnessed an accident and called the rescue services. On November 19, he was summoned to the Meshchansky district police department to testify in connection with this incident, but FSB officers met him at the department.

An investigator came to the arrested blogger Yuri Khovansky in the pre-trial detention center and demanded to “slander himself,” the blogger’s girlfriend Maria Nelyubova said live on Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg. Otherwise, the investigator promised him a real term and “big problems” for Nelyubova. The investigator did not warn Khovansky about his visit, the lawyer was not present at the meeting.

Nikolai Turdakin in a solitary picket / photo is provided to his loved ones In Samara, due to a single picket in support of Alexei Navalny, Nikolai Turdakin was detained. This was reported by the Close-in-INFO by the detainee. The man stood at the government building with a poster in support of Alexei Navalny and other political prisoners. Two employees of the Russian Guard and two people in civilian clothes left the building.

The former coordinator of the Ufa headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Liliya Chanysheva, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 6 of the Moscow region on November 21. Previously, she was in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Ufa. This was reported by the publication “Idel.Realii” with reference to Sergei Makarenko, Chanysheva’s lawyer. Makarenko said that he came to the Ufa pre-trial detention center to meet with the accused, but she was not there.