The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow extended until March 4 the arrest of civil activist Mikhail Kriger, who is charged with several posts and comments about Russian security forces. SOTA writes about this.

In Tatarstan, on January 29, the preventive measure in the form of detention of Andrei Bogdanov, accused of attempting to arson a military registration and enlistment office, was again extended. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone. This decision was made by the Zelenodolsk City Court of Tatarstan. Bogdanov will remain in pre-trial detention center-5 in Chistopol until March 5.

The Investigative Committee returned $146,700 seized during a search in October 2020 to the rector of the Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mikhail Iosilevich. Information about this appeared in the telegram channel “Iosilevich’s Case”. “Incredible! Against the backdrop of all the horror that is happening, this is a great success. I thought I would never see them.

An administrative case was opened against Kazan sociologist and columnist Iskander Yasaveev under the article of inciting hatred or enmity because of his column in the publication Idel.Realii. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. The case under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was opened by the prosecutor’s office of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan because of the text “Like a boy or like a Soviet: why is Russia at war?”, published in June last year.

It became known about a new criminal case under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info found information about him on the website of the Second Western District Military Court; the materials were received by the court on January 19. Elena Shchelupanova became a defendant in the case.

The Ministry of Justice sent a lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Mari El to liquidate the human rights organization "Man and Law". About this with reference to the chairman of the organization Irina Protasova write "Idel.Realii". Protasova noted that the suit of the Ministry of Justice mainly lists the claims of officials from the act of an unscheduled inspection, which took place in December 2022.

Web developer Ruslan Ganeev from Naberezhnye Chelny was sent into custody in December 2022 - the man is accused under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info was told about this in Network Freedoms. Ganeev was detained after he failed to appear at a court hearing. A criminal case against the man was submitted to the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, but he did not come to the hearings in October and November.

In Volgograd, security forces detained local resident Daniel Kurakin and took him to the Investigative Committee for questioning. A friend of his told OVD-Info about this. Security forces came to Kurakin’s home and detained him to take him to the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation for moral damage in the amount of 16.3 thousand euros to activist from St. Petersburg Vasily Ivanov. OVD-Info was told about this by the Sfera charitable foundation. The ECHR found that Russian courts wrongfully ignored the attack on Ivanov during an agreed rally.

The authorities of Novosibirsk refused to approve the action against the increase in utility bills in the city center. The relevant information was published in his telegram channel by an independent deputy of the city council Anton Kartavin. Kartavin writes that he filed an application for holding the action, since the tariffs for housing and communal services in the region exceeded the norm established by the government.

The Moscow City Court extended the arrest of the former coordinator of Navalny's Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, until April 3. SOTAVision reports this. Chanysheva has been in a pre-trial detention center since November 2021: she was initially detained in Ufa, but then transferred to Moscow, since the activist’s case is being investigated by the Central Office of the Investigative Committee. On September 20, 2022, it became known that the investigation into the case had been completed.

The Central District Court of Tyumen sentenced local resident Kirill Martyushev to three years in prison under the article on public calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This is what “Network Freedoms” is about. In addition , Martyushev was banned from administering websites for two years. The representative of the prosecutor's office from Tyumen received four years in prison.

In Moscow, FSB officers detained three eighth-graders who, according to the intelligence service, damaged railway tracks in the Moscow region. TASS reports this with reference to the FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region.

During the debate in the Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg, a representative of the prosecutor's office requested 13 years in a maximum security colony for Vyacheslav Borisenko - he is being tried under the article of committing a terrorist attack by prior conspiracy (clause "a", part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code) because of the filming arson of the Nizhnevartovsk military registration and enlistment office. RusNews reports this.

The consular department of the Russian Embassy in Lithuania refused to issue a second foreign passport to the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Yaroslavl, Elena Lekiashvili, due to an allegedly unpaid fine that she was given in connection with a rally for the release of the politician. Sirena reports this with reference to Lekiashvili herself.