In Samara, the Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction on November 30 upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Kirov, Anatoly Tokarev. This was reported by a website covering the persecution of believers. On October 23, 2020, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov found Tokarev guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and fined him 500 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Justice has included in the list of media-"foreign agents" journalists of the Idel. The register of NCOs-“foreign agents” was replenished with the association “Human Rights Group “Citizen. Army. Right"". 22:07 Idel.Realii reports that Regina Gimalova has not collaborated with the publication for more than six months. Association “Human Rights Group “Citizen. Army. Pravo“” is engaged in helping conscripts and military personnel.

In Birobidzhan, Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Zagulin, included in the list of “extremists,” was fired from his job. This was reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. Zagulin is suspected of financing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

The FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region opened a case against activist Daria Polyudova for creating an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona talks about this with reference to lawyer Leonid Solovyov.

The State Duma received the OVD-Info proposal to cancel the laws on “foreign agents” and a report on their discrimination. The documents were sent to the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption for the study, according to the co -founder of the project Grigory Okhotin. OVD-Info on November 26 asked deputies to introduce a bill that canceled discriminatory legislation.

The Arkhangelsk Regional Court left unchanged the decision on a fine of 15 thousand rubles to a local resident Olga Elsakova in the case of inciting hatred or hostility towards police officers (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). reports SOTA . Yelaskova was fined in October. The reason for this was the comments "containing signs of humiliation" of the police in the public "Arkhangelsk life" in "VKontakte" and "News from Shies" in the telegram.

Left Resistance member Kirill Kotov is accused of participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) due to five pickets and administration of a page on VKontakte. This was reported by a lawyer collaborating with OVD-Info and representing Kotov’s interests. The pickets that served as the basis for the criminal case took place in 2019. So, on May 10, 2019, Kotov came out with a poster “We defeated Hitler, we will defeat Putin. No war with Ukraine.

In Moscow, on Pushkinskaya Square, Dmitry Bulavkin and Sergei Agarshev, who were holding pickets, were detained. They themselves reported this to OVD-Info. Bulavkin stood with a poster "The authorities are afraid of publicity of their crimes in the future, Memorial-live!". Agarshev went to the picket with a poster “Freedom to the press and political prisoners. I am against torture and repression.” The detainees were taken to the Tverskoy police station.

At a meeting in the Petrozavodsk city court, a representative of the prosecutor's office demanded to increase the sentence for the historian and head of the Karelian branch of "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev from 13 to 15 years. It is reported by TASS. The Petrozavodsk City Court is considering the case of Dmitriev's production of child pornography (Article 242.2 of the Criminal Code) and possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code) for the third time already.

In Kemerovo, investigators charged blogger Mikhail Alferov with the final version of the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of a video in support of Alexei Navalny. The mother of the blogger, Lyudmila Alferova, reported this to OVD-Info. A copy of the resolution is available to the editors.

In Krasnodar, a magistrate refused to consider the case of dissemination of “extremist symbols” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code), initiated against activist Alipat Sultanbegova because of an Instagram story with a link to the “Smart Voting” list. This is reported by SOTA. The case came to the magistrate after he was sent there by the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar. The magistrate sent the case back to the district court.

In Moscow, Olga Litvin was detained near the State Duma building, standing with a single picket against QR codes. She reported this to OVD-Info. The detainee is being taken to the Tverskoy police station. A lawyer from OVD-Info, Alexander Salamov, came to the rescue. 15:46 Lytvyn was released from the police department with a protocol on violation of the rules for holding the rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The prosecutor requested two and a half years in a general regime colony for Alexander Kabanov, a Jehovah's Witness from Zelenogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. Kabanov is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The believer was detained on December 26, 2019 after searches of local Jehovah's Witnesses.

In Rostov-on-Don, an administrative case was opened under the article on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) against Rostislav Pavlishchev due to mentions in his social networks of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and “Smart Voting”. Pavlishchev himself told OVD-Info about this. The reason for initiating the case was three posts on Instagram by a Rostov resident, in which he mentioned Alexei Navalny, FBK and Smart Voting.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Udmurt Republic opened a criminal case under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (part 1 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Artem Samarin, a resident of Izhevsk. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova".