In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the case of Jehovah's Witnesses Ivan Sorokin and Andrei Zhukov was transferred for consideration to the Yugorsky District Court. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. The case went to trial in November. It is not yet known at what stage of consideration it is. A criminal case against Sorokin and Zhukov was opened in August 2021. Then the security forces conducted mass searches of believers in the cities of Yugorsk and Sovetsky.

Two Jehovah's Witnesses were transferred to correctional colonies in the Rostov region and Krasnodar region. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Thus, believer Alexander Parkov, sentenced to six and a half years in prison, was transferred to IK-10, located in Rostov-on-Don. It is reported that another convicted Jehovah's Witness, Alexander Ivshin, is in the same colony.

The city court of St. Petersburg approved the decision to extend the arrest of Eldar Garipov, the person involved in the "palace case". This is reported by lawyer Igor Skachko, who cooperates with OVD-Info. Garipov will stay in the pre-trial detention center until at least February 19. According to the lawyer, the prosecution did not justify such a strict measure of restraint, except for the fact that the deadline for detention in the pre-trial detention center had not yet come.

The Apsheronsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced a 32-year-old local resident accused of belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat organization to seven years in a penal colony, the press reports . service of the court The defendant was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and recruiting into it (parts 1.1 and 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Alexey Chervyakov / Photo: Personal page in VKontakte In Safonov (Smolensk region), a local resident Alexei Chervyakov was detained due to a commentary on veterans. This was reported by his relatives. At about 8 in the morning, police officers and the FSB came to the elderly parents of Chervyakov, they searched and seized his daughter’s laptop from the house. Chervyakov himself was called to the district Investigative Committee, where he was detained and taken to Smolensk.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg refused to consider an administrative lawsuit to declare illegally the detention of a local resident Evgenia Smetankina, who conducted a single picket in support of the LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova. In court, the detainee was represented by a lawyer from the OVD-info Veronika Karagodina.

Osmikot - Maskot Github / Github.com The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined the GitHub IT service for one million rubles due to the refusal to delete the lists of “smart voting”. About this writes "Mediazona" with reference to the press service of the court. GitHub found guilty of the failure of prohibited information (part 2 of article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The protocol for the service was drawn up in November.

The third cassation court of general jurisdiction in St. Petersburg left unchanged the verdict of the ex-head of the Arkhangelsk headquarters of Navalny Andrei Borovikov, who was appointed 400 hours of compulsory work on the “Dadinskaya” article (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the OTD-Info by the wife of activist Daria Borovikova.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow left the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, in a pre-trial detention center until April 9, 2022. This is reported by SOTA. Liliya Chanysheva is a suspect in a criminal case regarding the activities of an extremist community brought against Alexei Navalny and his supporters.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined the Institute of Law and Public Policy 300 thousand rubles because the organization did not register as a “foreign agent” (part 1 of article 19.34). This was reported in the STI telegram channel. in the register of "foreign agents" The institute was included in July. He is engaged in “conducting socially significant lawsuits, research and publishing activities.

Alexander Federyakov was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina”, who received a year and a half in prison for the “palace case.” This was reported by “Prisoners 212” with reference to the wife of a political prisoner. The convict was taken to an unknown direction. OVD-Info lawyer Alexander Borkov, who defended Federyakov, has no information about where he is being taken.

Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin was detained in Moscow, the movement’s Telegram channel. reports First, the security forces came to Skoryakin’s neighbors, then they came to his apartment. Skoryakin was searched, his equipment was confiscated and he was then taken away in handcuffs. It is unknown what the search was connected with and where Skoryakin is now. The whereabouts of Lev Skoryakin are still unknown, in the telegram channel of the “Left Bloc”.

The Tver District Court of Moscow fined 10 thousand rubles, the magician Ivan Kotelnikov for a picket on Red Square in a suit-of-invisible man. About this writes "Apology." The court found Kotelnikov guilty of violating the rules of the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The magician was detained on December 17 during a single picket with a poster "More tricks in the Kremlin!" In a suit of an invisible man. The police seized the costume.

The ninth cassation court of general jurisdiction in Vladivostok canceled the verdict to Jehovah's witness from Birobidzhan Konstantin Guzev and sent the case for a new consideration to the court of appeal. About this writes the site "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia." In February, Guzev was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Kyiv District Court of Simferopol granted the investigation's request to extend the preventive measure for the accused in the case of an explosion on a gas pipeline in the village of Perevalnoye. Nariman Jelal and brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov will remain in custody until February 23, 2022, writes Crimean Solidarity.