On September 29, the Moscow City Hall refused to allow the Memorial Society to hold the “Return of Names” event at the Solovetsky Stone on October 29, justifying the refusal by the coronavirus restrictions in force in the city. about this The society spoke in its telegram channel. “Taking into account the current epidemiological situation <...> there is a ban on holding public events in the city of Moscow,” reads the response signed by Kirill Malyshkin .

Security forces charged Ibragim Kartoev, a participant in the protests in Magas, under the article on the use of life-threatening violence against police officers (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Previously, he voluntarily surrendered to the police. The Caucasian Knot writes about this with reference to the man’s lawyer, Hussein Guliyev.

The websites of several news publications, as well as an online dating platform, were blocked in Russia. Roskomsvoboda drew attention to the blocking. At the request of an “unspecified government agency,” access to the Ukrainian-language Voice of America website , two additional sites of the Echo project ( 1 , 2 ) and an additional domain of the Caucasian Knot were banned. Echo sites are blocked “by mask” - with all domains and subdomains.

In St. Petersburg, Anastasia Sokolenko-Kalinina, a journalist from the Ladoga.ru publication, was detained near her own home. Alexander Kalinin-Sokolenko, the detainee’s husband and editor-in-chief of Ladoga.ru, told OVD-Info about this. According to the man, Sokolenko-Kalinina came out of the entrance to feed stray cats, and when the security forces approached her, she did not resist. During a conversation with her husband, the detainee’s phone was taken away. The woman was taken to OP No.

The Ministry of Justice excluded Transparency International Russia from the register of “foreign agents”. Information about this appeared on the department's website. In March, the organization announced the liquidation of a legal entity in Russia. Before this, the Prosecutor General's Office recognized the international non-profit organization Transparency International as “undesirable”.

The Voskresensk City Court, at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service, changed the sentence for the defendant in the “federal booth case” Olga Misik - instead of restricting her freedom, the activist was given a real sentence. Misik herself is outside Russia. The meeting took place on June 21. Information about this is published on the court’s website; SOTA drew attention to it.

Nizhny Novgorod resident Alexey Volsky, accused in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), was charged with a new charge: under the article on calls for extremism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Kristina Tyurina. The charges were based on posts on VKontakte. Volsky was detained on July 13, and the next day the court sentenced him to house arrest.