The Gagarinsky court placed Lev Skoryakin, an activist of the Left Bloc, under arrest until February 21, 2022. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Evgenia Grigorieva, who is defending him. Previously, he was charged under the article of hooliganism committed by a group of persons in a preliminary conspiracy with the use of weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to an action with a banner and fireworks near the FSB building.

Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer for the human rights organization "Committee Against Torture", reported the abduction of more than twenty of his relatives in Chechnya. This is reported by the publication "Kavkaz.Realii". According to Yangulbaev, the abductions took place on December 23-25 ​​in the village of Goity in the Urus-Martan district and in Grozny.

The Gagarinsky court placed “Left Bloc” activist Ruslan Abasov under arrest until February 21, 2022. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Alexander Salamov, who is defending the young man. Previously, Abasov was charged under the article of hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy with the use of weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to the “Happy CheKist Day” action with a banner and flares near the FSB building.

Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Lusya Stein went on a hunger strike in a special detention center. This was reported to OVD-Info by Olga Shalina. The activists demand that they be allowed to communicate and be placed in one special detention cell. The girls emphasize that there are no legal grounds to isolate them from each other. At the same time, Alyokhina and Stein are not allowed to communicate even during walks.

Russian version On Saturday morning, our website was blocked by the decision of the Lukhovitsky District Court. Later, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulator, demanded from social networks to block our accounts. We have not yet received any official notifications. We now know the reason why Roskomnadzor demanded to block our website and why they sent social networks a request to block our accounts.

In Voronezh, after a meeting of the Free People of Voronezh, Yury Avsenev was detained. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The participants of the meeting, as Avsenev said, summed up the year and recorded a video. After the meeting ended, Avsenev went to the transport stop - and on the way he was detained by the police. The activist was taken to the 6th department. What he is charged with is unknown.

Yandex removed the OVD-Info website from the search results - this happened after our resource was blocked. The removal from the search results is reported by Mediazona. Now only the social networks of our project pop up in the search for "OVD-Info". On the morning of December 25, Roskomnadzor blocked the OVD-Info website by decision of the Lukhovitsky District Court of the Moscow Region.

Activist Ilya Khabibullin with a poster / photo: lawyer from OTD-Info Ilya Utkin The police in Moscow detained Ilya Khabibullin and Lev Buchelnikov - young people held single pickets on Pushkinskaya Square. The detainees themselves informed the OTD-info. Khabibullin stood with the poster “Putin's regime - the basis of problems in Russia”, and Buchelnikov - simply with the geographical map of Russia. What article is charged with picketers is not yet known. Ilya Utkin will help young people.

In Essentuki, several people in civilian clothes, posing as employees of the Center for Combating Extremism, detained local activist Ivan Zevakin. This was reported to OVD-Info by Victoria, a friend of the detainee. According to the girl, the security forces took Zevakin away in a car without license plates. In a conversation, they referred to the fact that the detention was connected with a picket in support of the defendants in the “Ingush case”, which the man held on December 15.

In Moscow, activist Sergei Pinchuk was detained in the morning - he was holding a single picket with a poster “Freedom for Navalny and Pivovarov” on Red Square. The detainee himself informed OVD-Info about this. Pinchuk was taken to the Kitay-Gorod police department. He is assisted by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Oksana Borodina. It is not yet known what crime the picketer is charged with.

Alexander Razin, a member of the Libertarian Party, who was searched in May on a "palace case", left for Georgia. this He announced on his Twitter. Before entering Georgia, he spent seven months in Armenia, where he made a passport. “I left Russia on May 29, I was threatened with a traffic case for a video where I instruct the guys on how to safely get [to] the rally, and create a chat to help them,” Razin wrote.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, began to restrict access to news that mentions the media investigations of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It is reported by TV channel "Rain". Letters about restricting access to publications and demanding that such news be removed have already been received by Dozhd, Znak and the Magadan publication Vesma. The Znak edition is asked to remove from the site two notes written on the basis of investigations by MBKh Media.

We do not know the reasons for the blocking. We did not receive any official notifications about the inspection of the prosecutor’s office or demands to remove any illegal content, nor did we receive information about a court hearing or blocking of the site. We consider this covert blocking to be an act of government censorship designed to stop our work. We do not recognize censorship and will continue the work of the project.

Roskomnadzor explained the blocking of the OVD-Info website by justifying terrorism and extremism. What does it mean? What will happen next? English version On Saturday morning, our site was blocked by the decision of the Lukhovitsky City Court. Later, Roskomnadzor sent a request to social networks to block our accounts. We have not received any official notifications.

On Saturday morning we discovered that our website ovdinfo.org was blocked. It turned out that it was blocked by Roskomnadzor by decision of the Lukhovitsky District Court in the Moscow Region. We do not know the reasons for the blocking. We did not receive any official notifications about the inspection by the prosecutor's office or requests to remove any illegal content, nor did we receive information about the court session or the blocking of the site.