The Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction dismissed the case on repeated violation of the procedure for holding a rally (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against activist Gulnaz Ravilova, she writes about this on her Facebook. In August 2020, Ravilova was sentenced to five days of arrest due to the fact that she filmed a one-man picket on an editorial assignment from the Yabloko party. The activist was taken to court, despite the diagnosed covid.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court refused to remove Dozhd from the register of mass media - "foreign agents", the TV channel reports . The journalists filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice in November. In court, representatives of the ministry were unable to provide evidence of the placement of materials by “foreign agents”. The court refused to demand from Rosfinmonitoring documents proving foreign funding.

Bashkir activist Ruslan Gabbasov asked for political asylum in Lithuania, Idel.Realii reported . Gabbasov left Russia in early November. The activist cited the reason for his departure as a case of hooliganism and possession of weapons, which was filed in January against activists of the Bashkort association, which was recognized as extremist. After the searches, the court sent four detainees to a pre-trial detention center.

Promotion against the optimization of medicine / photo: another Russia E.V. Limonova In Nizhny Novgorod, Ramazan Suleimanov was detained. Its single -party people associate the detention with the action against the optimization of medicine, which the other Russians conducted on November 7. This was reported by the OWD-Info by his one-partyists. The detainee was delivered to the police department No. 7.

In Moscow, the poet and student of the Higher School of Economics Alexander Volchenkov was detained, standing with a poster "#poet in Russia is more than a poet." He himself told OVD-Info about this. The student was taken to the Kitai-Gorod Police Department. 17:50 “The goal was to draw attention to poetry and the decline of culture in Russia, as well as to inspire unknown poets to write their poems on the Internet under the hashtag #poetvrossiigrechepoet,” Volchenkov explained.

The Central District Court of Khabarovsk extended the ban on certain activities of street artist Maxim Smolnikov, known as Xadad. This was reported in the telegram channel in his support. The preventive measure was extended until February 15, 2022. Smolnikov’s lawyers petitioned for the removal of such a measure as staying at home at night, since this in no way improves the conditions for the work of the investigation.

In Moscow, Andrei Shved and Alexei Larchenko were detained on Red Square because of a picket in support of political prisoners. They themselves told OVD-Info about this. The Swede stood with a placard “Single - picket is not a crime, repost and opinion is not a crime. Freedom for political prisoners." Larchenko filmed it on camera. They were taken to the Kitai-Gorod Police Department.

In Cherkessk, the prosecutor requested six years of real imprisonment for Jehovah's Witness Albert Batchaev. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. “I want to once again officially declare in front of everyone: I am not an extremist, I don’t even understand what the respected prosecution wants to say by this! I ask, dear court... [to make a fair decision] and take into account that I have an 87-year-old sick father and a newborn child.

In Moscow, on Red Square, Maxim Meder was detained, standing with a poster "You are pulling us to the bottom." He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The detainee is being taken to the Kitay-Gorod Police Department. The department drew up a protocol against Meder under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was defended by a lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov.

A court in Irkutsk arrested a 33-year-old resident of Khakassia and a 34-year-old resident of the Kemerovo region in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The investigation considers them to be leaders of the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by the Irkutsk department of the Investigative Committee.

The former head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Kaliningrad, Alexander Chernikov, and his family left Russia and requested political asylum in the United States. This was reported by New Kaliningrad. “I asked for political asylum because I was being persecuted by the state. I was interrogated twice by an investigator who flew in from Moscow specifically for this case [about participation in an extremist community].

In Zheleznovodsk (Stavropol Territory) on November 26, FSB officers and Center “E” conducted searches at at least six addresses of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. A criminal case was opened against 82-year-old Zinaida Minenko, and she was given a written undertaking not to leave. Other details of the case are not specified.

In Novosibirsk, an opponent of QR codes, Vsevolod Kazakov, was detained because of a video message to the president. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Kazakov was summoned to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, where he was interrogated about a previously recorded appeal to Putin against the introduction of QR codes. Then the activist was informed that he had been detained, and he was taken to the Centralny police department.

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 1,500 rubles on the publisher of Mediazona, Pyotr Verzilov, under the article on violation of “foreign agency” legislation (Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov. The protocol against Verzilov was drawn up in early November due to the lack of markings in posts on Facebook and Twitter. His interests are represented by lawyer Leonid Solovyov.

The police in Chelyabinsk dropped the case of blocking roads at a rally on January 31 in support of Alexei Navalny (Part 1 of Article 267 of the Criminal Code). This is what the Apology is about. reports The preliminary investigation has established that there is no corpus delicti in the actions of Maria Makarova, Sergei Orishevsky, Evgeniy Talyshev, Victoria Novikova, Anastasia Galkina, Pavel Strunin, Artem Yaumbaev, Anna Kiseleva, Alexander Kopyev and Sergei Motovilov.