The Elektrostal City Court of the Moscow Region sent for compulsory treatment a defendant in a case initiated under four criminal articles. The card is available on the court website. The documents were submitted for consideration on July 20, the decision was made on September 13.

The Department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Primorsky Territory reported on the completion of the investigation into the case of Jehovah's Witnesses Boris Andreev, Natalya Sharapova and Anatoly Lee. Sova reports this. Believers are persecuted under the article on an extremist organization (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). In October 2022, security forces conducted searches at 12 addresses of Jehovah’s Witnesses from the village of Yaroslavsky in Primorye.

The Magistrate Court of Judicial District No. 2 of the Azov District of the Rostov Region fined Sergius Leonov, a priest of the True Orthodox Church, five thousand rubles. this . reports Kommersant Leonov was found guilty under the article on missionary activity (part 4 of article 5.26 of the Administrative Code).

A group of deputies and senators introduced bills No. 445 338–8 and No. 445 350–8 into the State Duma , in which they propose to ban criticism of the Russian Guard. The relevant information is posted on the website of the lower house of parliament.

A court in St. Petersburg fined artist and actionist Daria Apakhonchich 40 thousand rubles under the article on failure to provide a “foreign agency” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. The activist was accused of failing to provide reports for the second half of the year and the fourth quarter of 2022.

A resident of the city of Mogoch in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Semyon Chernikov, was fined one thousand rubles on September 19 because he posted the track “Last Call” by rapper Oxxxymiron on his VKontakte account. The SOVA research center drew attention to the information on the website of the Mogochinsky District Court. Chernikov was found guilty of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code). In August, a similar fine was imposed on a resident of Mari El.

Politician Alexei Navalny was sent to a punishment cell on the territory of IK-6 in the Vladimir region for the twentieth time - for four days. This was reported on Navalny’s Twitter. Taking into account the new penalty, the total period he spent in the punishment cell will increase to 224 days. On September 12, Navalny ended up in the punishment cell for the 19th time; he was released from there at five o’clock in the evening on September 21.

The Central District Court of Novokuznetsk fined Denis Mamchits one and a half thousand rubles because of the song “Kill the Cosmonauts.” This was reported by the SOVA research center; information about the case is in the court file. Mamchits was found guilty under the article on public dissemination of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code). According to SOVA, an audio recording with the song “Kill the Cosmonauts” was found on the man’s page on the social network.

On September 21, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg imposed fines in the amount of 30 thousand rubles on journalist Elena Shukaeva and IT specialist Mikhail Klimarev : both were found guilty of failure to provide “foreign agency” reports (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti with reference to the press service of the court. Shukaeva was added to the register of “foreign agents” in September 2022, after which she left Russia.

The Central District Military Court sentenced Kirov resident Richard Rose to eight years in a general regime penal colony on charges of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and justifying terrorism on the Internet (ch 2 Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). About this SOTAvision. The man reports earlier from the last word.