The Leninsky District Court in Saransk sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Atryakhin, Georgy and Elena Nikulin, Alexander Shevchuk, Denis Antonov and Alexander Korolev to real terms. Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. reports Atryakhin was found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to six years in a general regime colony.

Roskomnadzor blocked the news aggregator created by the ex-head of Yandex.News Lev Gershenzon. This is what The Village is about. The True Story reports The beta version of the site was launched on August 22, three days before the blocking. “I didn’t even hope that we would be allowed to work freely for three whole days - apparently it’s August and the holiday season,” the creator of the resource commented on the blocking.

The state prosecution asked Seraphim Kravchuk, a defendant in the “palace case,” to receive a two-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of two years. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Mikhail Biryukov, who represents Kravchuk’s interests in court. Kravchuk is charged with damage to property (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) due to an episode of an attack on an FSB car during a rally on January 23, 2021 in support of Navalny.

In St. Petersburg, the state prosecution demanded that former AgitRussia participant Pavel Ivankin be sentenced to six months of correctional labor with a deduction of 15 percent of the monthly salary in the case of insulting security forces (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). The telegram channel “Politzek-Info” is about this. reports a criminal case after a picket against illegal detentions at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place on January 19, 2021.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg chose a preventive measure for the former mayor of the city, Evgeny Roizman, suspected in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). “Mediazona” is about this. reports The court ordered the former mayor of Yekaterinburg to ban certain actions: Roizman has no right to visit public places, use any means of communication or receive correspondence.

In Kemerovo, security forces detained and took Elizaveta Slavinskaya, a former employee of Navalny’s headquarters, for questioning to the local Investigative Committee. Her defender Sergei Chuvichkin told OVD-Info about this. Slavinskaya was released after interrogation as a witness in the joint case against Alexei Navalny. On November 9, 2021, security forces already summoned the activist for questioning in this case.

The Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended by two months the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for local resident Oleg Belousov, accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). His interests are represented by lawyer Anton Yupanov, who collaborates with OVD-Info. The consequence is that Belousov left comments criticizing the Russian military in the “St.

Activist from Kaluga and administrator of the group and channel “Civil Society of the Kaluga Region” Timofey Radzikhovsky left Russia and is in the Netherlands. About this in the telegram channel itself. Radzikhovsky was reported on August 4 in correspondence with Dmitry Medvedev in the comments on VKontakte about the fact that (“Goblin”) had his YouTube channel blocked. The activist tried to draw the official's attention to the problems of the Kaluga region.

In Sevastopol on August 24, security forces conducted searches in the houses of local Jehovah's Witnesses, after which they detained two believers - Viktor Kudinov and Sergei Zhigalov. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. writes The message says that a criminal case was opened against the men under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Yekaterinburg, near the building of the Verkh-Isetsky court, where a preventive measure was being chosen for Yevgeny Roizman, Andrei Debu and another picketer were detained. This was reported by the regional coordinator of OVD-Info Anatoly Svechnikov. Deba came out with a poster “Freedom for Roizman! Hands off!”, and the second picketer - with a poster “Freedom for Yevgeny Roizman!” The detainees were taken to police department No. 9. Artem Shulman, a defender from OVD-Info, went there.

Former employee of Navalny's headquarters in Rostov-on-Don and journalist Valeria Dzboeva left Russia. She herself tweeted about this. reported “I was one of the last ex-staff officers in Russia. When everyone left, and those who remained ended up in prison, I realized that I would be next and, on the whole, I was ready for it. But if before February 24 I could have gotten away with a year of house arrest and probation, now we are talking about 15 years in prison,” Dzboeva wrote.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Barnaul extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko until September 29. This was reported by lawyer Dmitry Shitov, who collaborates with OVD-Info. Ponomarenko is charged with disseminating deliberately false information about the use of Russian armed forces because of a post about (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). On April 23, a woman in St. Petersburg had her home searched.

Municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Alexei Gorinov, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in the case of “fake stories” about the Russian army, is not receiving medical care in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. This is a telegram channel in support of the oppositionist. reports “I’ve been sick for three weeks. I experience a continuous cough that does not allow me to breathe freely, sleep, or eat. I am not receiving any medical assistance.

In the Orenburg region, a policeman came to work to the mother of the founder of the Avtozak LIVE project, Maxim Kondratyev, who had left Russia. He told OVD-Info that before that, the police called the woman on her personal phone. At the moment, the activist's mother is in Orsk. Initially, the police from Orenburg began to call her.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg arrested local resident Radik Islaev for 15 days - the day before, on August 24, the man was detained during a rally in support of politician Yevgeny Roizman, who was being prosecuted in the case of discrediting the Russian Army. Islaev’s interests were represented in court by OVD-Info lawyer Roman Kachanov; a copy of the court ruling is at the disposal of the editors.