The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Yekaterinburg dropped the criminal case against political scientist Fyodor Krasheninnikov due to comments about the trial of Alexei Navalny. The political scientist himself talks about this in his Telegram channel. informed Navalny in February 2021 of a fine of 850 thousand rubles in the case of slander of the Great Patriotic War veteran Ignat Artemenko (Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code).

On December 6, the social network VKontakte blocked the page of Belgorod activist Vadim Burlakov at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. About this SOTAvision. Burlakov reported earlier about pressure from the leadership of the industrial college because of the picket in support of Ukraine.

The presidential administration has outlined a range of issues that should not be raised at the annual meeting of representatives of the Human Rights Council with Vladimir Putin. This is reported by “Layout”. The meeting will take place on December 7. According to Vestk sources, this year the head of the Council, Valery Fadeev, approves all topics and issues with the presidential administration. The “undesirable” topic was the law on “fake news” about the army.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg suspended the operation of the Vogel bar for two months. This is reported by SOTA. The reason for the suspension of activities was a violation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements (Article 6.6 of the Administrative Code). According to a representative of Rospotrebnadzor, these violations were revealed during an unscheduled inspection on November 28.

On October 27, the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary fined Communist Party activists Nikita Pavlov and Alexander Arkhipov under the article on organizing a public event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) because of pickets demanding payments to those mobilized. The decisions are on the court’s website; the Angry Chuvashia telegram channel drew attention to them. Alexander Arkhipov / Photo: “Angry Chuvashia” Young people went out with pickets on October 20.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk temporarily suspended from office the vice-mayor of the city and member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Artem Skatov, who had previously become accused in a criminal case of libel (Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) against State Duma deputy from United Russia Dmitry Savelyev. Taiga.Info is about this.

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee began an investigation into the application of violence against the defendant in the Mayakov Readings case, Artem Kamardin, and his comrades Alexandra Popova and Alexander Menyukov during their apartment on September 26. The human rights project “Axiom” is about this.

Two criminal cases were opened against Krasnoyarsk resident Igor Orlovsky. One - under the articles on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), and the second - under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). The reason for initiating cases were comments on VKontakte. Orlovsky’s lawyer Maria Terekhova told OVD-Info about this.

The St. Petersburg City Court recognized the opposition movement “Vesna” as an extremist organization. The human rights organization “First Department” spoke about this; the defenders cooperating with it represented the interests of activists. reports In September, the city prosecutor's office filed a corresponding lawsuit. The contents of this claim are still unknown even to the activists of the movement: it was included in the classified volume of the case.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Balakhta, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Georgy Zykov, under two articles - he is charged with insulting a judge (Part 1 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code) and two episodes of discrediting the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). His friend Marina reported this to OVD-Info.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against Dmitry Zvonkov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region, because of a meeting with residents of the village of Novoe Devyatkino, which was held instead of a rally banned by the authorities. This was reported to OVD-Info by Evgenia, who is listed as an authorized person of the rally organizer.

UN special rapporteurs called on Russia to repeal or significantly change the law on “foreign agents” and repeatedly emphasized its inconsistency with Russia’s international obligations. OVD-Info previously sent its analysis of the law to the UN.

The prosecutor's office of the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg drew up an administrative protocol against rapper Miron Fedorov (Oksimiron) because of the song “Oida”. Director of the “Safe Internet League” Ekaterina Mizulina wrote about this in her Telegram channel. A protocol against the rapper was drawn up under the article on public calls for actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation (Part 2 of Article 20.3.2 of the Administrative Code).

A criminal case was opened against the scientist-geodesist and former official of the Birobidzhan city hall Valery Kachin under the article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The telegram channel “Caution, news” is about this. reports information about the case - it is known that on December 7, the Lefortovo District Court will hold a hearing on extending the preventive measure for the scientist.

The Abakan City Court of the Republic of Khakassia fined the Expert-Media organization, which is the founder of the New Focus publication, 450 thousand rubles under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). Information about this was published in the channel of the press service of the regional courts.