The Investigative Committee reported on the completion of the investigation into the case against a resident of Vladivostok, accused of damaging the monument to Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge. According to investigators, the person involved in the case doused Sorge’s bust with red paint. She was charged under the article of vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). The woman was detained on May 15, her apartment was searched.

The Gorno-Altaisk City Court extended the detention of Sergei Mikhailov, publisher of the LISTok newspaper, until March 16, SOTA reports . The journalist is accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Unidentified people in balaclavas beat the defenders of the Trinity Forest. This is reported by the telegram channel RusNews. The activists saw that a new felling had begun in the forest, while there were no information boards about the felling, and the workers called themselves “passers-by”.

The Nagatinsky District Court accepted for consideration three civil suits of the victims in the case of falsification of protocols. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Yulia Tregubova, representing the interests of the victims. The case against police inspector Ekaterina Zlobina, who, according to investigators, falsified the protocols of six detained opponents of the construction of the South-East Expressway, was opened in May 2022.

Kirill Brik, a defendant in the case of Ural anti-fascists, who had previously disappeared from pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Zavodoukovsk, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Tyumen. This was reported by a telegram channel in support of those involved in the case. It became known that on January 16, Brik’s lawyer visited the pre-trial detention center, where he found his ward. The reasons for the transfer to another detention center are not reported.

Ex-prisoner Alexander Bunkin refused to testify in the case of torture in the Irkutsk colony after a threat from one of the heads of the Federal Penitentiary Service to kill him and his girlfriend. He announced this in a letter published by human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov. The authenticity of the document was confirmed to Taiga.info by the man's lawyer, Yulia Chvanova.

In Makhachkala, security forces disrupted two single pickets - in support of the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and historian Khadzhimurad Donogo. The local newspaper Chernovik reports that a picketer who came out with a poster in support of Gadzhiev was detained. According to the publication, seven criminal investigation officers are waiting for the police department to take the man to the police department in the Sovetsky district.

In Chelyabinsk, security forces detained a girl because of a banner against the ban on abortion. This is stated in the group "Maoists of the Urals" in "VKontakte". The project participants told OVD-Info that the detainee was their comrade-in-arms and a local activist. First, they came to the girl's home, after which they took her to the police - it is not known which department she was taken to.

Former coordinators of Navalny's headquarters in Arkhangelsk, Yegor Butakov and Elizaveta Bychkova, were sentenced to a year of restricted freedom. This is reported by SOTA. The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk sentenced them under the article on participation in the activities of a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code).

Since the beginning of December 2022, Roskomnadzor has blocked 306 LGBTQ-related websites. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to a source in the supervisory agency. Thus, as of December 22, Roskomnadzor officials “identified” 79 such resources. The bulk of the lockdowns occurred in late December and early January.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Gafar Isaev, a participant in the action against mobilization that took place in September 2022, to two years of suspended imprisonment. About this on the court's website. It is reported that the man was found guilty under the article on the use of violence against a police officer that is not dangerous to life and health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). He was also given a year and a half probation.

Vitaly Nemtsev, coordinator of the Citizen Observer project in Krasnodar, left Russia after being threatened with criminal prosecution. this He announced on his telegram channel. As Nemtsev said, he was fined under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in the amount of 30 thousand rubles before the elections, which were held in September 2022. How many protocols were drawn up against him, the activist did not specify.