The St. Petersburg City Court declared illegal the refusal of lawyer Alexei Kalugin to see the detainees after laying flowers at the Lenin monument on November 7, 2021. Lawyer Sergei Podolsky, representing the interests of his colleague, reported this to OVD-Info. National Bolsheviks On the day of the anniversary of the October Revolution, police officers in St. Petersburg Andrei Dmitriev and three other activists of the Other Russia.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Hieromonk Ioann Kurmoyarov to three years in a general regime colony in the case of videos about the Russian military. About this the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. reports Kurmoyarov was found guilty of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). He was also banned from publishing on the Internet for two years.

The Novosibirsk City Hall did not allow municipal deputy Anton Kartavin to arrange a meeting with voters on Karl Marx Avenue. Representative of the deputy Olga Nechaeva reported this to OVD-Info.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow received a protocol on the absence of “foreign agent” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against journalist and YouTube channel host Karen Shainyan. Attention to the website of the court "Mediazona". for the card. I applied What specific materials became the reason for initiating an administrative case is not yet known. The court has not yet set a hearing date.

The case of journalist Aider Muzhdabaev, prosecuted under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), was submitted to the 2nd Western District Military Court. “Mediazona” is about this. reports Muzhdabaev left Russia back in 2015, so the case will be considered in absentia. The persecution of the journalist began in 2019. The reason was two posts on Facebook.

In St. Petersburg, Dmitry Kuzmin was detained, who went out on a solo picket with a poster “Freedom for Zarema Musaeva.” He himself told OVD-Info about this. The man was detained on Nevsky Prospekt, near the City Duma building. The picketer was taken to OP No. 28. He is charged with violating anti-Covid restrictions (Part 2 of Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El approved a fine of 1 million 800 thousand rubles to blogger Andrei Filippov in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the army based on hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The telegram channel “Politzek-Info” is about this. reports The Yoshkar-Ola City Court the verdict at the end of June.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow fined the journalist and former participant of “What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askerov and libertarian blogger Mikhail Svetov under the article on violation of “foreign agency” legislation (Part 2 of Article 19.34). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts (,). 1 2 According to the case files, they are charged with failing to provide the Ministry of Justice with reports on their activities.

During the debate in the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor demanded that Hieromonk Ioann Kurmoyarov be sentenced to seven years in prison in the case of videos about the Russian military. SOTAvision publication is about this. reports In addition to imprisonment, the prosecutor asked to ban the clergyman from administering sites on the network for two years.

A criminal case was opened against a 42-year-old resident of Novokuznetsk for calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) due to comments in public pages with proposals to shoot security forces. A local telegram channel associated with law enforcement agencies talks about this. reports There are no details about the person involved in the case or her statements yet.

Crimean Solidarity activist Ametkhan Umerov, arrested on August 24 in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, spoke about the brutal conditions in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Simferopol. “Crimean Solidarity” talks about this with reference to lawyer Edem Semedlyaev. reports After his arrest, Umerov was immediately taken to a special detention center, where he was forced to shave his beard.

The Novoilinsky District Court of Novokuznetsk received a case against orphanage graduate and activist Igor (Ingvar) Gorlanov under articles of inciting hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and insulting a police officer (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). About this Research Center "Sova".

On August 29, the Buzuluksky District Court of the Orenburg Region imposed a fine of 130 thousand rubles on local resident Mikhail Kolokolnikov for reposting videos about the war in Ukraine. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The man was found guilty under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). In addition to the fine, the court decided to confiscate Kolokolnikov’s phone, from which he made reposts.

On August 23, the Ministry of Justice added the “Team Against Torture” to the register of “foreign agents.” The organization itself talks about this. reported At the same time, the NGO did not become a new item in the register - the Ministry of Justice simply added it to the line under the “Committee against Torture”, “foreign agent” in June 2022.

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Olga Smirnova, a member of the “Peaceful Resistance” movement, to six years in prison in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is what “Network Freedom” is about. They also reported that she was banned from administering Internet resources for three years. Previously, the prosecutor sentenced the girl to 7 years in prison.