On February 3, the Lesozavodsk City Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Evgeniy Grinenko, Sergei Kobelev and Svetlana Efremova to suspended sentences. This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. Grinenko and Kobelev were each given a six-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of five years; they were found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash wrote in his Telegram channel that his client, ex-chief editor of BlogSochi Alexander Valov, was beaten. The man told his lawyer about this at a meeting where he was assigned administrative supervision after his release. Benyash said that after this he sent several complaints and a request to correctional colony No. 14 in the Irkutsk region: the defense lawyer asked to provide him with documents about Valov’s disciplinary sanctions.

The defendant in the Artpodgotovka case, Sergei Ozerov, sentenced to 8 years in prison, was sent to a punishment cell (punishment cell) in correctional colony No. 27 in the Kirov region for 10 days. “Idel.Realii” writes about this with reference to the prisoner’s friends.

In Tatarstan, security forces conducted searches of alleged members of the religious group “Allya-Ayat” (“Elle-ayat”), advocating the abandonment of traditional medicine in favor of solar energy. Previously, the movement was recognized as extremist. The telegram channel “Oper leaked”, associated with the security forces, wrote about the searches.

Former Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko had her sentence reduced by a year to which she was sentenced in absentia. She announced this on her Twitter. In December, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced the woman to three years in a general regime colony. Then the court replaced her suspended sentence under the article on the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) with a real one.

Arkhangelsk activist Andrei Borovikov, convicted because of the Rammstein video, will be transferred to strict conditions of detention (SUS) in correctional colony No. 7 for three months. 29.RU writes about this with reference to his lawyer Dmitry Deren. The reason was violations of the colony regime, which Borovikov was charged with by the administration - because of them, the man had already been placed in a punishment cell four times.

Dismissed due to anti-war statements, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Dinara Gagarina left Russia. this She announced on her Instagram. “Thanks to Kazakhstan and the people of Kazakhstan for warmth, support and the opportunity to comprehend. Kazakhstan is my love and a very special place on the map of life, no matter where we go next, ”she wrote on the social network. The departure was preceded by visits by law enforcers to the woman, allegedly due to complaints from local residents.

In September 2022, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Andrei Luzhin, who was detained at an anti-war rally, to a fine of 20 thousand rubles. OVD-Info found information about this in the case file on the court’s website. Luzhin was found guilty under the article on the use of violence against a police officer that is not dangerous to life or health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow did not review the previously partially satisfied lawsuit filed by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is close to the authorities, against the former editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov. reports SOTA . Prigozhin filed a lawsuit against the journalist, as well as against Ekho Moskvy and Vitaly Ruvinsky, editor-in-chief of the radio station’s website, in 2021 because he called the businessman “the owner of the PMC Wagner” on Ekho Moskvy.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended until May 28 the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for priest Ioann Kurmoyarov, accused of distributing “fake stories” about the Russian army. This was reported by SOTAvision. The publication notes that the defense petitioned to change the preventive measure due to the deterioration of Kurmoyarov’s health: the man began to have problems with hearing and vision.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended until May 28 the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for priest Ioann Kurmoyarov, accused of distributing “fake stories” about the Russian army. This was reported by SOTAvision. The publication notes that the defense petitioned to change the preventive measure due to the deterioration of Kurmoyarov’s health: the man began to have problems with hearing and vision.

The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk region refused to representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to hold a rally in Yekaterinburg against the increase in tariffs for housing and communal services and major repairs. This is reported by "Vecherniye Vedomosti". The Communists wanted to hold a rally on February 11 at Labor Square.

The photo is provided to the detainees In Ivanovo, the security forces drew up a protocol on violations of the rules of the organization of a public event (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) to the shareholder Dmitry Karasev. He himself told the OVD-Info about this.

The Supreme Court refused to refer OVD-Info's complaint against recognition as a “foreign agent” to a court hearing. Information about this is published on the court's website. “The judge of the Supreme Court, who studied the complaint, considered that there was no reason to consider it at a meeting, hear the parties, clarify something with them, confer with other judges, and so on.

A criminal case was opened against a minor resident of Magnitogorsk under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). His friend, also a minor, told OVD-Info about this. We are probably talking about the first part of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code - at the moment there is no exact information.