On January 31, the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar overturned its own decision to temporarily remove the status of “foreign agent” from lawyer Mikhail Benyash. Advokatskaya Street reports this. Benyash was added to the register of individual “foreign agents” in October 2022. On January 17, the Pervomaisky District Court took measures to provide preliminary protection to the lawyer while his claim against the Ministry of Justice was being considered.

In the city of Biysk (Altai Territory) on January 25, searches were carried out in the homes of four followers of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers of this denomination in Russia. The searches took place early in the morning, the investigative actions were carried out by officers of the local FSB and the Investigative Committee. Electronic devices were confiscated from believers, whose names were not given.

The Voskresensky City Court of the Moscow Region did not arrest in absentia the defendant in the “federal booth case,” Olga Misik, who left Russia. This was reported by SOTA with reference to the judge who made the decision. In May 2021, the court sentenced Misik to two years of restriction of freedom in a case of vandalism committed by a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code).

In Kursk, a joint concert of Instasamka (Daria Zoteeva) and her husband MONEYKEN (Oleg Eropkin), which was supposed to take place at the CLOCK bar, was canceled. This is reported by RIA Novosti. The regional ministry of culture commented to the agency about the cancellation of the event.

Olga Lizunkova, an English teacher from the Nizhny Novgorod region, who was denounced because of an anti-war lesson, emigrated from Russia. “Idel.Realities” talks about this with reference to Lizunkova herself. reports Currently, the girl and her husband live in Kyrgyzstan. Lizunkova taught English at the branch of the Institute of Transport, Service and Tourism in the village of Vorotynets, Nizhny Novgorod region.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 345 thousand euros in compensation to Jehovah's Witnesses whose religious meetings were interrupted by Russian security forces in 2010-2013. The decision was published on the court's website. The court consolidated several lawsuits, which collectively deal with assemblies in 18 Russian regions. All involved meetings on private property owned by believers or rented by them for religious purposes.

The Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow extended for three months the arrest of the author of the telegram channel “Protest MGU” Dmitry Ivanov, accused of disseminating “fake news” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the telegram channel covering Ivanov’s case. Thus, the court granted the prosecution’s request to extend the young man’s preventive measure.

The Central District Military Court received a criminal case against Sergei Karnovsky under articles on "fakes" about the Russian army (part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Information about this OVD-Info found on the website of the court. At present, nothing is known either about the identity of the defendant or about the nature of the charges against him.

On January 31, Alexei Navalny was announced to be transferred to a cell-type room (PKT) at the colony for the maximum possible period of time - six months. His lawyer Vadim Kobzev spoke about this on Twitter. The defender also said that the politician recently experienced severe stomach pain, presumably due to improper treatment of ARVI: Navalny in the colony is given large doses of antibiotics , but they refuse to give him other medications.

The military prosecutor's office demanded that the material of the Kazakhstani publication arbat.media, dedicated to the lesions of the Russian army in Ukraine, banned the material of the Kazakhstani publication in Russia. This was reported by the publication itself. The 19th military prosecutor’s office of the army applied to the Leninsky District Court of Vladimir, relating to the military unit 56,680.

The Tverskaya District Court of Moscow arrested for 13 days and fined 20 thousand rubles to the US citizen and zoo defender Alisia Day, who the day before walked the calf on Red Square. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the representative of the publication of the "mini-excesses of the journalist", which was present in court.

The father of environmental activist Arshak Makichyan was detained immediately after a meeting of the Moscow Regional Court, which approved the decision to deprive his son of citizenship. This was reported by the human rights project “First Department”, whose lawyers represent the interests of the family. The police claim that the detained man's passport is forged, and the photograph in it is a sticker. Now he is being taken to the police station.

The police have cordoned off the office of the Yabloko branch in St. Petersburg - they claim to have received a report of a mining operation. This is reported by the telegram channel of the regional branch. The police are now inspecting the premises. Everyone inside was taken outside. Party officials indicate that at the moment when the police entered the building, they were working with the documents of the party's candidates for the by-elections in two municipalities of St.

The FSB reported on the arrest of three residents of the Urals, who allegedly set fire to railway tracks in the Sverdlovsk region "on the instructions of Ukrainian radicals." It is reported by Interfax. A criminal case was opened against the detainees under articles on committing a terrorist act (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) and assisting terrorism (Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

Linguistic forensic examination did not reveal any statements about the Russian armed forces in the tweet and interview of Novosibirsk City Council deputy Helga Pirogova. Pirogova herself talks about this on Facebook. reported The deputy is accused under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).