The case of arson against the administration of the city of Bakala in the Chelyabinsk region, which was brought against musicians Alexei Nuriev and Roman Nasryev, was transferred to the Central District Military Court. This is reported by the Solidarity Zone project.

Roskomnadzor drew up a report on the Twitch streaming service due to its refusal to delete two video broadcasts of lawyer Mark Feigin. Interfax reports this. The protocol was drawn up under the article on non-deletion of prohibited information (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). According to the department, these broadcasts disseminated “inaccurate information” about the war in Ukraine.

The Vladimir Regional Court approved the decision of the court of first instance to recognize as legal the placement of politician Alexei Navalny in a punishment cell because of an undone button in August 2022. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the Vladimir region. On August 15, 2022, Navalny was placed in a punishment cell in IK-6, Vladimir region, for three days.

The author of the “Protest MSU” channel, Dmitry Ivanov, was beaten by a guard after a court hearing in his case, which took place on January 18. Information about this is in the telegram channel “Prison Moscow State University”. appeared According to the channel, the guard struck the accused multiple blows to the head and ribs with a baton, tightened the handcuffs tightly and threatened with rape.

In Moscow, police detained SOTAvision journalists Maxim Litvinchuk and Ilya Makarov and a local resident. They tried to attend a meeting of the Council of Deputies of the Tverskoy District in the Moscow City Duma. The journalists themselves reported this to OVD-Info. SOTAvision clarifies that Litvinchuk and Makarov had the permissions necessary to attend the meeting, but they were still not allowed in.

Muscovite Pavel Melnikov filed notices of holding public events in three places in the capital in order to "express his political opinion regarding the conduct of a Special Military Operation." In all three cases, he was refused, citing the regime of covid restrictions. He himself informed OVD-Info about this.

Officials in Biysk (Altai Territory) refused to approve a rally against the increase in housing and communal services tariffs for two thousand people in the city center and moved it to the outskirts. about this Writes "Taiga.Info". Documents for approval of the action on January 29 on Petrovsky Boulevard were submitted by the Biysk City Committee of the Communist Party.

In Kasimov (Ryazan region), a criminal case of vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) against blogger Sergei Skorkarov and journalist Sergei Erzhenkov is being considered again. Skorayev himself told OVD-Info about this. In August, judicial district No. 27 of the Kasimovsky District Court dismissed the case against the men, imposing court fines of 15 thousand rubles on them.

The Kalininsky District Court in Chelyabinsk ignored the decision of the ECHR, according to which the preventive measure for journalist of the newspaper “Public Defender” Dmitry Gromovy should be changed. This was reported by the Memorial project. Support for political prisoners." In July 2020, in Chelyabinsk, local drug control officers detained Gromovoy.

The court extended the arrest until June 26 of Colombian citizen Alberto Enrique Giraldo Saray, accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army by an organized group for mercenary reasons (clauses “b” and “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). SOTAvision writes about this.

On December 17, the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary sent local resident Artem Begoyan, accused under the article on destruction or damage to property (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code), to a pre-trial detention center. about this with reference to the press service of the court . writes Mediazona about Begoyan and his case, On the eve of January 18, Baza reported citing its unnamed sources.

The Central District Court of Novokuznetsk sentenced a local resident to a year of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of one and a half years. The woman was charged with using violence not dangerous to life and health against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The City-N publication is about this. reports Mediazona that we are probably talking about Anastasia Yeletskaya. On December 6, 2022, the same court gave her this sentence.

In the cities of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Lyantor, Surgut, as well as in Samara, security forces conducted searches as part of the case about an extremist community, which was brought against followers of the Citizens of the USSR movement. Six people were detained , according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee.

On January 17, the Avtozavodsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced local Jehovah's Witness Gevorg Gevorkyan to six years of suspended imprisonment. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. The believer is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor asked the court to sentence Gevorkyan to eight years in prison. At the moment, the verdict has not entered into force and can be appealed.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of an unspecified agency, blocked a number of online news publications in Russia. It is reported by Roskomsvoboda. The site of the daily magazine about Latvia “Open City” (Freecity), which has been published since 2009 among Russian monthlys in Latvia, has been blocked. The site of the Chronicles.Media project, which creates investigations about corruption in the north-west of Russia based on open data, was also blocked.