Jehovah's Witnesses from the Kemerovo region Vadim Levchuk and Sergei Britvin were released from prison. The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info. In September 2020, Levchuk and Britvin were found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The believers were sentenced to four years in a general regime colony, a year of restriction of freedom and a three-year ban on holding leadership positions.

On December 29, the Solnechny District Court of the Khabarovsk Territory sent Jehovah's Witness Boris Yagovitov to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Since June 7, the believer was under house arrest; the prosecutor demanded that the measure of restraint be changed to detention.

The Ministry of Justice added eight more people to the list of “foreign agents” media outlets. This was reported on the website of the department.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined Yury Kozakevich 10,000 rubles for picketing against Putin. This was reported by Irina Putilova, a lawyer cooperating with OVD-Info, who defended Kozakevich in court. The picketer was found guilty of violating the high alert regime (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a law allowing pending trial to block information that allegedly justifies extremist and terrorist activities. This is reported by the TASS news agency. Amendments are being made to the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Communications”.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma fined the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation 70,000 rubles for meeting with residents and collecting signatures against QR codes. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7". The meeting and collection of signatures, which took place on November 20, was attended by the deputy of the City Duma from the Communist Party Mikhail Elokhin and the leader of local communists Valery Izhitsky.

On December 29, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that Russia suspend the execution of decisions to liquidate the International Society Memorial and the Human Rights Center Memorial. About this in the telegram channel of the center. Let us remind you that on December 28, the Supreme Court of Russia liquidated “International Memorial” - allegedly due to numerous violations by the organization of the law on “foreign agents”.

The Leninsky District Court of the city of Ivanovo overturned the acquittal of the person involved in the "palace case", former policeman Sergei Rimsky. The case was sent back for retrial. Rimsky himself informed OVD-Info about this. previously The court had acquitted the man. He was accused under the article on insulting a law enforcement officer (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). The magistrate of court district No.

The magistrate of court district No. 5 of the Moskovsky district of Cheboksary returned the protocol against the former coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Semyon Kochkin, to the prosecutor’s office. This was reported by Idel.Realii.

In Cheboksary, on December 29, security forces conducted a search at the home of activist Alena Blinova. Mediazona reports this. Police arrived at the apartment around 7:30 am. Then Blinova was there with her 12-year-old son Mikhail. After some time, the activist left, telling the police that she needed to go to the hospital. While the woman was not at home, Mikhail’s equipment was confiscated and they offered to exchange it for his mother’s phone. However, the boy did not know where he was.

In the Kemerovo region, in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, a local activist Nikolai Poletaev was detained. This was reported to OVD-Info by his colleague Lyudmila Dovgun. In the afternoon, local activists gathered at the monument to Lenin to lay flowers and sing songs. Soon the crowd was approached by the police. They refused to introduce themselves and detained only one activist, Nikolai Poletaev.

On December 29, the Voroshilovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced five participants in a rally against the self-isolation regime in Vladikavkaz to real terms. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". Protest participant Mikhail Bestaev was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison, Magomed Kantemirov and Artur Tsugkiev - three years and eight months in prison, and Gennady Sokurov and Georgy Farniev - three years and five months in prison.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the ban on certain actions to blogger Yuri Khovansky until February 8, 2022. This was reported in the telegram channel of Pavel Chikov with reference to the lawyer Alexander Peredruk. The blogger is accused under the article on justifying terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a song about hostage-taking during the musical Nord-Ost.

The Primorsky Regional Court sentenced a resident of Vladivostok to 10 months of corrective labor with a deduction of 15% of wages. This was reported by the TASS news agency, citing a court decision . The man was found guilty under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of uploading a photograph of Adolf Hitler to the site for broadcasting the Immortal Regiment.

The defendant in the “Moscow case,” Sergei Surovtsev, was released from colony-settlement No. 4 in the Ryazan region. His mother Lyudmila Surovtseva reported this to OVD-Info. According to investigators, at a rally for the admission of independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma elections on July 27, 2019, a man “grabbed a metal barrier, using which he hit [a Russian Guard employee] on the fingers of both hands and began to push him with force.” Surovtsev did not admit guilt.