The Tagansky District Court of Moscow extended the detention of actionist Pavel Krisevich, accused of hooliganism, for another month. This was reported by the telegram channel “Freedom for Krisevich!” Lawyer from “Apology of Protest” Leonid Solovyov asked to place Krisevich under house arrest or to release him on bail, but the court refused to change his measure of restraint. The activist will remain in the pre-trial detention center until March 11.

Ruslan Gatamov, an anarchist from Vologda, was interrogated as a witness in a criminal case at the FSB department for the Vologda region. About this in his telegram channel “Ivan Astashin. Letters from the big zone,” says human rights activist Ivan Astashin. The activist and his lawyer were immediately taken to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the materials of the investigation. Therefore, it is not known what this case is connected with, nor why Gatamov was involved as a witness in it.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Communist Party member Alexei Filippov 10,000 rubles for a phrase that is believed to be a quote from the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It is reported by Sever.Realii. In December 2021, a protocol was drawn up against Filippov under the article on inciting hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a post on VKontakte with a photo of “a man with glasses” and the quote “Any anti-communist is a bastard…”.

On February 8, the Volgograd Regional Court approved the verdict for Mikhail Kolotilin, a follower of the Tablighi Jamaat movement. This is reported by the Information and Analytical Center "SOVA". On December 2, the Soviet District Court of Volgograd sentenced Kolotilin to three years in prison under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The convict will serve his term in a general regime colony.

The Moscow City Court upheld the fines of three participants in single pickets, held in October on Pushkinskaya Square. This was reported by a lawyer from the OTS-Info Ekaterina Selezneva, who represented activists in court. Georgy Ivanov and five more people on October 23 held single pickets on various topics on Pushkinskaya Square: in support of political prisoners and independent media, against persecution under articles on extremism and against electronic voting results.

On February 7, the Novosibirsk Regional Court approved the six-year sentence assigned to local Jehovah's Witness Yuri Savelyev. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. This is a second appeal against the sentence of a believer who is 68 years old.

The prosecutor requested six years in prison for Jehovah's Witness Kirill Evstigneev, who is accused of financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. The hearing is scheduled for March 1 in the Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod. A criminal case against Evstigneev was opened in September 2020.

The Tverskoy District Court sentenced femme activist and writer Daria Serenko to 15 days of arrest under the article on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). Her lawyer Petr Khromov reported this to OVD-Info.

A former defendant in the “palace case” from Chelyabinsk, Pavel Strunin, left Russia and requested political asylum in Norway. This is reported by Current Time. According to the activist, he and his family are unable to repay the debt under the claim : the court recovered from him and four other people more than two million rubles for the work of security forces at the 2021 rally in support of Alexei Navalny.

The judge refused to allow DOXA editor Armen Aramyan to see a doctor, despite his health problems. He spoke about this on Twitter. This decision was made by Anastasia Tatarulya, judge of court district No. 208 of the Western District of Moscow. According to Aramyan, he attached all the necessary documents to the application. This was his third petition to the judge asking him to see a doctor.

In Voronezh, the owner of the Dora dog shelter, Yury Shamarin, was detained, who went on a picket against the inaction of the police on complaints about the attack on animal rights activists. This was reported to OVD-Info by Pavel Sychev. During the picket, police approached Shamarin and took him to the Main Department of the Interior in the Voronezh Region. The video of the detention was posted on Sychev's YouTube channel.

The Supreme Court of Crimea reduced by 50,000 rubles compensation for inadequate conditions of detention in the temporary detention center and pre-trial detention center for Kazim Ametov, a person involved in the “case of Vedzhie Kashka”. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to lawyer Rustem Kyalev.

In Khabarovsk, security forces detained five activists who were walking along Komsomolskaya Square with flags. OVD-Info was told about this by journalist Tatyana Khlestunova. Among the detainees are Zygmund Khudyakov, Vadim Kolosov and Natalia and Sergei Golobokov. They are taken to the police station. The details of the arrest are still unknown. 12:31 The detainees were taken to OP No. 4.

In Moscow, on Red Square, the police detained picketer Sergei Pinchuk. Oksana Borodina, a lawyer from OVD-Info, who represents the interests of the activist, reports this. The detainee is being taken to the Kitay-Gorod Police Department. 14:37 Pinchuk was released from the police department with a protocol under the article on violation of the rules for participation in a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Naberezhnye Chelny, the police drew up a protocol against rapper Morgenstern (Alisher Valeev) under an article on drug propaganda (part 1.1 of article 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by TASS. Specialists of the Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical University conducted a linguo-botanical examination and found that the tattoo on the musician’s chest depicts a plant that “looks like hemp”.