The Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea approved the extension of the terms of arrest of Nariman Dzhelal and brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov, defendants in the case of an explosion on a gas pipeline in the village of Perevalnoye. Crimean Solidarity reports this. On December 23, 2021, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol granted the investigation’s request to extend the preventive measure for Dzhelal and the Akhtemov brothers. They will remain in custody until February 23.

In Moscow, police detained activist Polina Oleynikova, who was posting leaflets on police department buildings as part of the “There Were Repressions Here” campaign. She told OVD-Info about this herself. The activist said that criminal investigation officers were waiting at the apartment where she was located. After the activist left the apartment, she was detained.

On January 24, the Ninth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Vladivostok approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Nikolai Aliyev - four years and six months of suspended imprisonment. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. The court issued a verdict against Aliyev in June 2021. In addition to the suspended sentence, the believer was given a restriction of freedom for a year and two months.

The former coordinator of Navalny's Murmansk headquarters, Violetta Grudina, left Russia. She reported this on her Telegram channel. “Yes, I left. I haven’t emigrated, I don’t intend to ask for political asylum. I continue to work to bring the beautiful Russia of the future closer,” Grudina wrote. On October 29, Grudin was put on the wanted list for a criminal offense.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested National Bolshevik Alexander Rybkin for 14 days because of the logo of the unregistered party “The Other Russia of Eduard Limonov” with a grenade and a lightning bolt. This was reported in the telegram channel of the party. Rybkin was charged with displaying extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the logo in the YouTube program Direct News hosted by the activist.

Photographer Evgeny Feldman left Russia. about this He wrote on his Facebook. “The main reason, of course, is the direct danger. The job of a documentary filmmaker is simply to reflect reality. But if the state decides to pretend (and force everyone to pretend) that people, tendencies and facts that are unpleasant to it do not exist, documentary filmmaking becomes impossible <...> someday repressions against those who worked with Alexei Navalny will reach me, ” — said the photographer.

In Moscow, the police detained the former Omsk IK-7 prisoner Mikhail Mazin, who spoke about torture in a correctional institution. This was reported by the project gulagu.net. According to Mazin, the police said that the man was wanted at the UFSIN in the Saratov region. The website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs states that Mazin is wanted under a criminal article.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court in St. Petersburg fined two National Bolsheviks Vyacheslav Chernyshev and Ilya Prokhorov 20,000 rubles because of a rally at the Consulate of Kazakhstan. This was announced by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Alexei Kalugin, who defended the activists in court. The National Bolsheviks were found guilty under the article on violation of the rules for organizing the action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Left-wing activist Alexander Zimbovsky has had his arrest canceled earlier because of a picket in support of protesters in Kazakhstan. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Alexander Salamov, who defends Zimbovsky in court.

Furgalomobile defender Denis Posmetyukhin was released after serving time in a penal colony. This was reported by Svobodny Khabarovsk. In April, Posmetyukhin was sentenced to a year in prison under the article on the use of violence not dangerous to health against government officials (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The criminal case of Jehovah's Witness Sergei Ananin was sent to the Belovsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region. The believer was charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. A criminal case against Ananin was opened in February 2021, the man was sentenced to house arrest as a preventive measure.

The Trusovsky District Court of Astrakhan sentenced 56-year-old Jehovah's Witness Anna Safronova to six years in a general regime colony. The SOVA Information and Analytical Center writes about this. This is exactly the punishment the prosecutor demanded for the believer, despite the fact that she is caring for her elderly mother.

Ruslan Magomedov in a picket / photo: "draft" In Makhachkala, Ruslan Magomedov was detained, who conducted a single picket against the persecution of Alexei Navalny and in support of freedom of speech. The police said that they were delivering him to the department to give an explanation, according to the “draft”. On the poster there was a text: “I protest against the persecution of Alexei Navalny. Ideas should fight ideas, not police.

The Criminal Enforcement Inspectorate submitted a proposal to the Lublin Court of Moscow to replace the suspended sentence with a real one for Oleg Navalny in a “sanitary case.” Interfax is about this. Card on the court website.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as well as his associates, were included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists, as follows from the list on the department’s website. The list also added former coordinators and employees of Navalny’s headquarters Ksenia Fadeeva, Andrey Fateev, Georgy Alburov, Yegor Butakov, Vyacheslav Gimadi, Pavel Zelensky, Lyubov Sobol, Liliya Chanysheva, Ruslan Shaveddinov, Zakhar Sarapulov, Vadim Ostanin.