In St. Petersburg, they did not initiate a criminal case against the person who reported on the mining of the Yabloko office on February 1. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg branch of the party. The refusal to open a case states that the Interior Ministry officers could not find the person who announced the mining.

The case of geologist Mikhail Kavun, who was persecuted due to his criticism of Putin and frequent trips to Ukraine, was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This was reported by the First Department. Kavun was released. Soon the geologist was given back his previously confiscated international passport, and he left for Kazakhstan.

Two convicts in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Timur Yalkabov and Eldar Kantimirov, were placed in a ShIZO after several personal searches with the seizure of belongings and prayer rugs without an inventory and with assault. This is reported by "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the wife of Kantimirov - Elvina Kantimirov. Crimean Tatar political prisoners are kept in Prison No. 1 in Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region).

The Central District Court of Simferopol extended the house arrest until March 16 to Andrey Belozerov, a former teacher at the Belogorsk technical school, who is being prosecuted in an "anti-war case." This is reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, representing the interests of the man. On February 1, Belozerov was finally charged under the article on the repeated discrediting of the Russian army (part 1 of article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. The believer Andrei Bochkarev was sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony, but was immediately released. Bochkarev was given credit for the time he spent in a pre-trial detention center during the investigation.

Convicted in the case of “military fakes”, ex-mund deputy Alexei Gorinov was placed on preventive registration in the colony as prone to escape. This was reported in the telegram channel in support of him. The reasons were not explained in IK-2 in the Vladimir region; the administration referred to some operational information without disclosing its details. Every two hours, the convict is visited by staff of the institution, checks his location in the colony and records it on a video recorder.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow did not satisfy the claim of activist Maxim Lypkan against the Moscow mayor’s office regarding the refusal to approve the “Year of Hell” rally on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The telegram channel “Mini-stories of a journalist” is about this. reports Lypcan planned to hold the “Year of Hell” event for a thousand people at 15:00 on Lubyanka Square on February 24.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sent blogger Polina Morugina (Polina Face) to compulsory psychiatric treatment in the case of a nude photo shoot in front of a church. It is reported by TASS.

The Koryazhemsky City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region fined local resident Lyudmila Alexandrova 30 thousand rubles because she photographed her granddaughter with a poster. This is reported by SOTA. In December 2022, a protocol was drawn up against Alexandrova for violating the rules for organizing a public action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) because of her picket against the construction of a waste sorting complex in Koryazhma. Later she was fined 20 thousand rubles.

During a hearing in the Moscow City Court, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin dropped his demands on The Insider, editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov, and journalist Denis Bilunov. This is reported by lawyer Anastasia Burakova in her telegram channel.

The ex-coordinator of Navalny's Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, was transferred from Moscow pre-trial detention center-6 to pre-trial detention center-1 in Ufa. Her husband announced this on Twitter. This happened the day before a meeting in the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, at which the defense lawyers' complaints about the extension of her custody will be considered. She will take part in it via video conferencing.

The photo was provided by the detainee himself At the Temple of Vasily Blessed in Moscow, the picketsman Andrei Polezhaev was detained due to the poster in support of the political prisoners. He himself informed the OVD-Info about this. The man was taken to the police department in China-Gorod. There, a lawyer from the OVD-info Nikita Spivak will help him there. 19:17 Andrei Polezhaev was released from the police department.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg fined lawyer Ivan Pavlov 30,000 rubles under the article on non-compliance with the obligations of a “foreign agent” (Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by human rights activist Pavel Chikov. The reason for initiating an administrative case was the lack of a "foreign agency" marking on the publication in the lawyer's telegram channel. Pavel Chikov noted that this fine is the first one under the new law.

A court in Kaliningrad denied parole to Vadim Khairullin, an activist convicted under the “Dada” article. “North.Realities” is about this. report “The prosecutor was against it, and the reference from IK-8, where he is now serving his sentence, came very strange: it was written that there were no violations, no penalties, he behaved satisfactorily, but the colony believes that until she met him, Therefore, he does not recommend parole.

In the Primorsky Territory in the city of Artem, a member of the Communist Party Maxim Chikhunov was finally charged in a case of hooliganism. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The persecution of the man began because of a video in which he imitated the shooting of a memorial plaque.