The Troitsky District Court of Moscow has appointed nine days of arrest for lawyer Anton Mogilnikov, who was detained due to protests against the development of the Troitsky forest area. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Yulia Kuznetsova, who represented his interests. The court found the lawyer guilty of organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He and several other people were detained in Troitsk on 19 February.

Former employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Fyodor Gorozhanko, during an on-site hearing of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, announced threats from the investigation. Navalny's team reports this. During the hearing in the case against politician Alexei Navalny, which took place in correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov, Gorozhanko testified as a witness for the prosecution.

The former head of the security service of the oil company Yukos, Alexei Pichugin, was transferred from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center a week ago, Novaya Gazeta reports citing its sources. The prisoner's relatives were not notified of the prisoner's whereabouts, and his new lawyer Dmitry Kharlamov refused to confirm or deny any information to Novaya Gazeta. “This time he testified against the leadership of Yukos, in particular, against Khodorkovsky.

In Moscow, because of the action in defense of the Trinity Forest, the security forces detained the secretary of the Moscow city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolai Volkov and activist Valentin Panferov. They themselves reported this to OVD-Info. Volkov is being taken to the Khamovniki police station. A lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov hurries to help him.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed 10 days of administrative arrest on Mikhail Krieger, who held a one-man picket against the war with Ukraine on February 20. Krieger announced this on his Facebook. The punishment was imposed for violating the rules for organizing a public event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The activist is responsible for a Facebook post in which he called on people to picket on Pushkin Square on February 20.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow appointed activist Yevgeny Ivanov, who was detained on Pushkinskaya Square, 40 hours of compulsory work. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov, who defended the picketer in court. The man was found guilty under the article on the repeated violation of the "rally" legislation (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Yevgeny Ivanov was detained on February 19.

Arrested person involved in one of the Crimean cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Marlen Mustafayev, was placed in a psychiatric hospital for 28 days to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination, reports . Crimean Solidarity The examination will be carried out in the Crimean Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital No. 1. in the houses of four Crimean Tatars in different regions of Crimea, including in the Belogorsky district near Marlen Mustafayev On February 9, searches were carried out .

The Seventh Court of Cassation overturned the appeal ruling in the case of the leader of the Stop GOK movement Vasily Moskovets and activist Gamil Asatullin, who were sentenced to suspended sentences on charges of arson. Lawyer Pavel Chikov reported this on his Telegram channel. The case will be considered again in the second instance.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk recovered 3,024,877 rubles from blogger Timur Khanov and city council deputy Anton Kartavin due to an action in support of Alexei Navalny. Apology reports this. For the action on January 31, 2021, Khanov and Kartavin must pay law enforcement agencies more than three million rubles jointly. Of this amount, 3,011,716 rubles are for overtime work of police officers and 13,161 rubles for fuel costs. The defense intends to appeal the decision.

The defendant in the “palace” case, Sergei Vasilenko, was transported back to Moscow. This was reported by the Arresters 212 telegram channel. Earlier it was reported that the convict was taken from pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Moscow “Matrosskaya Tishina” in an unknown direction. On October 21, the court sentenced Vasilenko to three years and three months in prison.

Krasnodar activist Leonid Malyavin was given a one-year suspended sentence for reposting an Open Media publication that Russian authorities link to Open Russia. This was reported by lawyer Mikhail Benyash in his telegram channel. Malyavin was assigned two years of probation. The man will have to report monthly to the penitentiary inspection.

In St. Petersburg, on Palace Square, police detained activist Nikita Volkov, who went out in a solo picket with a poster for the resignation of Vladimir Putin. Volkov himself informed OVD-Info about this. According to the man, he managed to stand with the poster for three minutes. The security forces took away his passport and took him to police station No. 78 of the Central District. A lawyer from OVD-Info Sergey Podolsky came to his aid.

The city court of Anapa satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office to block the VKontakte page of the Church of Christ the Savior, which is part of the New Generation churches, which the authorities had previously recognized as an undesirable organization. This was reported by the Kavkaz.Realii portal.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, charges against Jehovah's Witnesses Sergei Kazakov and Olga Mirgorodskaya were confirmed. Their criminal case was submitted to the Bikinsky City Court on February 9, writes a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. A preliminary hearing in the case will take place on February 28. The case against Kazakov and Mirgorodskaya was opened on November 9, 2020.

On February 17, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Krasnodar rejected the cassation appeal against the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Rostov-on-Don Olga Ganushi, reports a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. Olga Ganush was sentenced to two years probation with a probationary period of one and a half years on July 13, 2021.