On January 23, the Frunzensky District Court of Saratov released from custody Jehovah's Witnesses Sergei Tyurin, Evgeniy Fomashin, Vladimir Mavrin, Andrei Murych and Alexei Bogatov. Their preventive measure was changed to a ban on certain actions. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. The men were prohibited from leaving the city of Balakovo, sending and receiving mail, and using the Internet and communications.

The Second Cassation Court refused to satisfy the complaint of the defendant in the “palace case” Maria Chugunova in the case of blocking roads for protests in support of Alexei Navalny on February 2, 2021. A lawyer from OVD-Info, who represented her interests, spoke about this. The court approved the decision on civil claims, according to which the activist must pay compensation to Mosgortrans and the metro - 2.9 million and 448 thousand rubles, respectively.

The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years and 6 months in prison, was placed in a punishment cell in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Tver. He refused food in protest. As Shestun wrote in a letter, the reason for his placement in the pre-trial detention center was the logs of complaints that the ex-politician filed about offenses in the pre-trial detention center.

The mother of Chechen activists, Zarema Musaeva, who was kidnapped by security forces and taken to Chechnya, is in deteriorating health. The woman’s lawyer, Alexander Nemov, told the Caucasian Knot about this. “It’s hard for her to walk and climb stairs. She doesn't look well. She has diabetes. She often receives insulin injections. All medications and drugs (test strips for measuring blood sugar levels, for example) are donated by relatives.

The information that a criminal case was opened against Yan Kulikov for discrediting the Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) turned out to be incorrect. Currently, Kulikov is being prosecuted only under the article on disseminating deliberately false information about the Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). We apologize to the readers.

Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov extended the covid restrictions in the city until March 31. It is reported by "Rotonda". The publication notes that the only serious restriction that continues to operate remains a ban on holding and attending public events without special approval. Earlier, the city lifted the ban on planned hospitalization of children, notes . Kommersant The authorities are using the remaining covid restrictions as an excuse to refuse to approve protest actions.

The Investigative Committee put the head of the Internet Defense Society, Mikhail Klimarev, on the international wanted list due to a criminal case under the article on public calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). About this "Network Freedoms", whose lawyer Alexey Bushmakov represents the interests of the man. they write The case against Klimarev was opened due to a comment calling on Ukrainian military personnel not to take prisoners of the Russian Guard.

The case of a radio amateur from the Krasnoslobodsky district of Mordovia, Kirill Akimov, who is accused of two episodes of public calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2), was transferred to the Central District Military Court. OVD-Info learned about this from the case file on the court’s website.

The European Court of Human Rights has declared illegal the search in the apartment of journalist Zoya Svetova and her family, which took place in 2017 as part of the YUKOS case. Lawyer Karinna Moskalenko reported this on Facebook. The court found that Russian security forces violated the right to family and private life (Article 8 of the European Convention) of Svetova, her husband Viktor Dzyadko, as well as their children - Anna, Tikhon, Philip and Timofey.

I am the coordinator of the Left Front movement in the Omsk region, a supporter of the ideas of socialism, building a socialist society in our state. There are two ways of reform in our country: evolutionary and revolutionary. The first one, unfortunately, we can’t do. I won't talk about the second one. The idea of ​​socialism is rooted within the framework of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.

The Third Court of Cassation in St. Petersburg upheld the verdict of the ex-coordinator of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters, Andrei Borovikov, in the case of the publication of the Rammstein video. This was reported by SOTA.

In Kostroma, FSB officers and Center “E” interrogated seven local residents in the case of the ex-head of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexander Zykov, who is being persecuted for his anti-war posts. This is what “7×7” is about. writes “Some Kostroma residents are connected with politics. And with one of the respondents, Zykov “never communicated or saw each other,” the journalists write, citing Zykov himself.

The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk refused to consider in a special manner the case of blogger Askhabali Alibekov, who is being tried because of a video on his YouTube channel “Wild Paratrooper”. SOTAvision publication is about this. reports The man is accused under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). He has been in pre-trial detention since September 9, 2022.

Arsen Dzhepparov, convicted in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, has been kept in a punishment cell of a correctional colony for two months. This was announced on January 18 by the Crimean Solidarity project. A man sentenced to seven years in a strict regime colony is serving his term in IK-16 in the city of Salavat in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The other day the prisoner was visited by a lawyer, to whom he told that he was constantly placed in the ShIZO.

Russian security forces came to search several addresses where Crimean Tatars live. The human rights association “Crimean Solidarity” talks about this. reports Among those who are undergoing investigative actions are: Ekrem Krosh, Aider Asanov, Refat Seydametov, Osman Abdurazakov and Leman Zekiryaev. All searches are taking place in different villages of the Dzhankoy district. Zekiryaev lives in Dzhankoy itself.