In Ukhta (Komi), security forces detained 32-year-old local resident Vladimir Lyashko. A search was conducted at his place; the man is suspected of damaging a memorial plaque dedicated to Arsen Pavlov (Motorola), a participant in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Sister Lyashko told OVD-Info about this. On October 23, security forces raided the apartment where Lyashko lives with his mother.

In Moscow, at the monument to Marshal Zhukov on Manezhnaya Square, the police detained picketer Margarita Vaseva. Her friend Mikhail Suslin reported this to OVD-Info. Vaseva stood with a poster “I/WE Navalny”; she was being taken to the Kitay-Gorod police department. October 24 03:30 Defender Evgeny Kurakin came to help Vaseva at the Kitay-Gorod OP. However, police officers told him that his client was not at the police department and allegedly was not taken there at all.

The prosecution at the debate in the world court of Rostov-on-Don requested two years of restriction of liberty and inpatient treatment in a psychiatric hospital for Mikhail Selitsky, a defendant in the graffiti case “Putin is a thief”. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Rustam Mukhamadeev, who represents the interests of the accused in court. The hearings on this case are being held in the judicial district No. 3 of the Voroshilovsky judicial district.

The police came to the apartment of St. Petersburg activist Polina Barabash, where an evening of letters to political prisoners was taking place. They declare that they have a search warrant and will cut down the door if it is not opened, writes the Pyatnitsa channel. Barabash's apartment was already searched on May 8. The security forces suspected the girl of knowingly making a false report about a terrorist attack (Article 207 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow government refused to approve the action in memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions "Return of Names" at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka Square on October 29. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Memorial Society". Anti-Covid restrictions became the formal basis. October 30 is the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions. The "Return of Names" campaign has been held annually since 2007 on the eve of this date.