In St. Petersburg, six National Bolsheviks were detained for staging a rally near the main office of Alfa-Bank. This is reported by the telegram channels "Direct Action" and "National Human Rights" . The detainees carried out the action "The banker is the enemy of the soldier." Vladislav Balyasnikov, Ilya Stepanov, Marat Sardiev, Alexander Kolosov, Nikita Chelyshev and Ivan Bodalev went to the office of Alfa-Bank, hoping to get inside, but they were detained by police officers.

The Ministry of Justice included several organizations, journalists and activists in the unified register of “foreign agents”. Information about this is on the department's website.

Eduard Nizamov, sentenced to 23 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was transferred from maximum security colony No. 26 in the Samara region to No. 29 after complaints about the conditions of detention. Lawyer Rifat Yakhin, who is collaborating with the Memorial Human Rights Center on his case, told OVD-Info about this. special regime colony Earlier, Nizamov’s mother spoke about numerous violations of his rights in the colony.

The Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region decided to release from the pre-trial detention center local resident Alexander Kudryashov, accused in the case of anti-war drawings on a war memorial. This is what the human rights project “Network Freedoms” is about. reports Thus, the court granted the investigator's request to change the preventive measure for Kudryashov from detention to a ban on certain actions.

In Moscow, civil activist Mikhail Kriger, who is accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), was charged with an article on inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (Clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). This is the channel created in support of the arrested person.

The Central District Court of Tyumen extended the detention in a pre-trial detention center until March 29, 2023 for the defendant in the Tyumen case, Deniz Aidyn. This was reported by a support group for those arrested and the press service of the Tyumen courts. Aydin’s lawyer found out about the preventive hearing after a call from the investigator just two hours before it started, the channel reported . However, by law, the parties must be notified of the meeting five days in advance.

The Central District Court of Tyumen extended the detention in a pre-trial detention center until March 29, 2023 for Deniz Aidyn, a defendant in the case of Ural anti-fascists. This was reported by a support group for those arrested and the press service of the Tyumen courts. Aydin’s lawyer found out about the preventive hearing after a call from the investigator just two hours before it started, the channel reported .

The Alatyr District Court of Chuvashia imposed non-custodial sentences on four local Jehovah's Witnesses. This is a website covering the persecution of believers. reports Mikhail Ermakov and Andrei Martynov were found guilty by the court under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). They were sentenced to six years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three years.

On December 22, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction of the Krasnodar Territory commuted the sentence of Astrakhan Jehovah's Witnesses Rustam Diarov, Sergei Klikunov, Evgeniy and Olga Ivanov, who had previously been sentenced to real terms. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. reports Earlier, the verdict stated that after serving the term of imprisonment, the convicts would be prohibited from traveling outside Astrakhan.

On December 22, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction of the Krasnodar Territory toughened the sentence of Astrakhan Jehovah's Witnesses Rustam Diarov, Sergei Klikunov, Evgeniy and Olga Ivanov, who were previously sentenced to real terms. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. Now, after serving their sentences, those sentenced will be prohibited from traveling outside Astrakhan.

English version It was an ordinary Friday afternoon, late November. I was driving to work when I received a call on my work phone from an unknown number. I picked up the phone, and at the other end of the line was a policeman: “So, they say, and so, Ivan Aleksandrovich, we want to call you for an interview. We saw in your posts discrediting the Russian army.” First, the policeman mentioned VKontakte: supposedly I distributed anti-war publications there.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow reduced the period for familiarization with the materials of the criminal case for the participant of the “Police Ombudsman” project, Evgeny Moiseev. Avtozak LIVE reports this. The man is accused of false denunciation combined with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation (Part 3 of Article 306 of the Criminal Code). The judge considered that Moiseev was delaying the process of familiarizing himself with the materials.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended the term of detention in the pre-trial detention center for the defendants in the Mayakovsky case, Artem Kamardin, Egor Shtovbe and Nikolai Daineko, for another two months. This was reported by the online publication SOTAvision. Thus, the young people will remain in custody until at least February 25, 2023.

On October 25, the Sorochinsky District Court of the Orenburg Region fined local resident Alexander Lyalyukov 200,000 rubles under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The file of the case is to it . drew attention on the website of the court, the Information and Analytical Center "Sova" The reason for the persecution of the man was a negative comment “to the police” on VKontakte. What exactly he wrote is unknown.

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia increased the sentence from three to five years in prison for civil activist and ex-employee of the Elista mayor's office Altan Ochirov in the case of publications about the war in Ukraine. This is what the human rights project “Network Freedoms” is about.