In Simferopol, more than 25 Crimean Tatars were arrested, who on January 25 came to the building of the Kyiv District Court, where they were choosing a preventive measure for six Crimeans in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Crimean Solidarity reports this.

The leadership of the college at the St. Petersburg Agrarian University (SPbGAU) demanded that the student sign documents on expulsion at her own request due to the fact that the girl registered in the Smart Voting application. This was announced to OVD-Info by the chairman of the Youth "Yabloko" Oleg Voronin. As the student said, on the morning of January 26, she was summoned to the dean's office.

The prosecutor requested eight years in prison for retired police major Oleg Kashintsev, who is accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. “Network Freedoms” writes about this. Kashintsev’s case is being considered in absentia by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. In addition to imprisonment, the state prosecution asked to deprive the man of his title.

The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years and 6 months in prison, was transferred to IK-6 in Bezhetsk (Tver region). At the same time, Shestun was again placed in a punishment cell . This was reported by a telegram channel in support of the ex-official. On January 24, it became known that Shestun was placed in a punishment cell in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Tver. Then he refused to eat in protest.

Colonel of the GRU Before becoming a defendant in criminal cases, GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov fought in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan and Tajikistan. During the civil war in Tajikistan, Kvachkov played an important role in defeating Islamic fundamentalists and establishing Emomali Rahmon as the head of state – Rahmon remains president to this day.

The publisher of Mediazona and activist Pyotr Verzilov was charged under the article on dissemination of "fakes" about the army based on political hatred (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The publication itself reported this. The reason for initiating the case was two posts on Verzilov's Instagram about events in .

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized SIA Medusa Project (the legal entity of the Meduza publication) as an undesirable organization in Russia. About this in the telegram channel of the department. reported According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the organization poses a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of Russia. Meduza was founded in 2014 and registered in Latvia. In April 2021, the Ministry of Justice issued a “foreign agent”.

The State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan adopted the law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Tatarstan", aimed at bringing regional legislation in line with the new federal law on "foreign agents". This is reported by Idel.Realii.

On December 30, the Akhtubinsky District Court of the Astrakhan Region blocked several pages in LiveJournal, which, according to the military prosecutor of the Znamensky garrison, contained false information about the war in Ukraine. The relevant decisions are on the court’s website ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ); Kavkaz.Realii drew attention to them. The court reviewed six lawsuits and blocked 12 publications by several LiveJournal authors.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg arrested Masis Nazaryan, the head of the Ani-Armenia NGO, and Helen Kirakosyan, a local resident, for five days because of an action with the flag of the Armenian community of the city and the banner “Artsakh, we are with you . ” This is reported by "Vecherniye Vedomosti".

On January 24, the Sakharov Center received a letter from the Moscow Department of City Property about the termination of lease agreements for all the premises of the organization: the Center building, an exhibition hall and an apartment on Zemlyanoy Val Street. This was reported in the social networks of the organization. Officials cite changes in the law on “foreign agents” as a formal reason: according to the innovations, “foreign agents” cannot receive state support in any form.

The Court of Cassation upheld the sentence of Pavel Bondarenko, a resident of the Primorsky Territory, who was previously sentenced to six years in prison because of two comments on VKontakte. This is reported by the Roskomsvoboda project, whose lawyers defended the man in court.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Oryol Region reported that a 57-year-old local resident was sentenced to two years of probation under the article on participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The relevant information is published on the department's website. According to security forces, the woman took part in the activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses “Eagle” community from 2019 to 2020.

During the debate in the Central District Court of Tyumen, the prosecutor demanded that Kirill Martyushev be sentenced to four years in prison under the article on public calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Network Freedom. According to investigators, on February 24, while moving on foot in Tyumen, Martyushev recorded a video, which he later published in the open telegram channel “#NETWAR”.

Today, the Russian state declared Meduza undesirable. Yesterday it liquidated the Moscow Helsinki Group. The day before yesterday, they took away all the premises in Moscow from the Sakharov Center. This is another powerful round of pressure on civil society and independent media. Alas, the turn is not the first and not the last. Even before the war, in the spring and summer of 2021, the authorities switched in their repressive practices from containing civil society to destroying it.