The civil activist Alexander Gartman, who lives in Kiselevsk (Kemerovo region), drew up a protocol under the article on violation of the rules of organization of the action (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Attention to this was drawn by the publication "Siberia. Reali". The protocol has already entered the city court.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs revoked the temporary residence permit in Russia for Alexandra Sveshnikova, the wife of activist Ildar Dadin, the first defendant in the case of repeated violations of rally legislation (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). The Interfax agency reports this. Sveshnikova has Ukrainian citizenship.

Maikop City Court (Republic of Adygea) fined local resident Dmitry Konnov 1,500 rubles for reposting an “extremist” video by Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The man was charged with an article on the mass distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the posting of the video “Let's Remind the Crooks and Thieves of their Manifesto-2002” on his personal page on VKontakte.

The Southern District Military Court extended the detention for three months for the defendants in the second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Ernest Ibragimov and Ali (Oleg) Fedorov. Crimean Solidarity reports this. The young people will remain in pre-trial detention until at least May 28. Ernest Ibragimov and Ali Fedorov were sent into custody after massive searches of Crimean Tatar activists carried out by the FSB in February 2021.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed 10 days of administrative arrest on picketers Alexander Kibanov and Konstantin Zaruba, who advocated for the release of politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Alexander Salamov, who represented their interests in court. The activists were detained on Pushkinskaya Square on February 13 and taken to the Tverskoy police station.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa accepted the claim of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ufa District against local activists Olga Komleva and Ilgam Yanberdin, as well as against the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva. The police are demanding that they pay 143 thousand rubles as compensation for their work at the protests on January 23 and 31, 2021. Komleva reported this on her Facebook page.

On January 28, the Sovetsky District Court of Chelyabinsk declared illegal the refusal to exclude the Golos-Ural Foundation from the register of non-profit organizations as “foreign agents”. About this OVD-Info said the chairman of the organization Yuri Gurman. The Interregional Public Foundation for the Promotion of Education of the Population "Voice-Ural" was included in the list of "foreign agents" in 2015.

The prosecutor asked Eldar Garipov, a defendant in the “palace case,” to serve a year and eight months in a penal colony. This was reported by lawyer Igor Skachko, who collaborates with OVD-Info. The sentencing is scheduled for February 18. Garipov is accused of using non-life-threatening violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31.

The FSB Directorate for Komi opened a criminal case against local human rights activist Andrei Ivashev for calling for the assassination of the head of the region, Vladimir Uiba. about this Writes "7 × 7". The case under the article on public calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) was initiated due to three comments in groups on VKontakte that the human rights activist allegedly left in 2020.

The Troitsky District Court of Moscow arrested for seven days a resident of the district, who was detained at a gathering in defense of the local forest. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Ekaterina Morozova, who represented his interests. The man was charged with disobedience to a police officer (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He asked not to be named. The court is also examining the cases of other detainees in the Trinity Forest.

In Ulyanovsk, Danila Serbenyuk was detained, standing with a poster "Love is stronger than fear." He reported this to OVD-Info. The activist was taken to a mobile police station, where he was asked to give an explanation. 14:30 Serbenyuk was released from the police station after an explanation. The police said that they could draw up a protocol against him because of his posts on Instagram about the action on January 23, 2021.

A court in Vladivostok extended the detention of Communist Party member Artem Samsonov by two months. This was reported in the politician’s Telegram channel. The defense applied for house arrest and bail of three million rubles, but the court rejected the requests. Samsonov is accused of violent acts of a sexual nature against a person under fourteen years of age (clause “b”, part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code).

The persecution of the artist and femme activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur began back in 2019, but the case of Yulia Tsvetkova became widely known only in 2020. For some time the artist was under house arrest. In March 2020, it was replaced with a written undertaking not to leave. In June 2020, Tsvetkova was charged with distributing pornography , and then the case was sent for further investigation several times.

In Troitsk, police officers detained eco-activist Konstantin Fokin, one of the defenders of the Trinity Forest. Eyewitnesses reported this to OVD-Info. The eco-activist was detained due to the fact that he prevented the passage of construction equipment that was heading into the forest. During the arrest, the police dragged Fokin along the ground. The defender of the forest is being taken to the Troitskoye Ministry of Internal Affairs, a lawyer from OVD-Info, Yulia Kuznetsova, came to his aid.

The trial of artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Yulia Tsvetkova has been going on for three years. A criminal case has been opened against her for distributing pornography (clause “b”, part 3 of Article 242 of the Criminal Code) due to drawings of vulvas in the public page “Vagina Monologues”, as well as four administrative cases of promoting non-traditional sexual relationships among minors due to pictures with same-sex families. We tell you how the artist is being persecuted.