The investigator dropped the criminal case for insulting the authorities, brought against lawyer from Belgorod Evgeny Rozhkov because of an appeal to the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, through the Internet reception. Rozhkov himself told OVD-Info about this. The case was dropped back in June. The reason for this was the reconciliation of the parties. Rozhkov became aware of the initiation of the case in January 2022.

On September 1, the Gudermes City Court (Chechnya) fined local resident Adam Madayev 10 thousand rubles due to a comment on the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT. Information about this appeared attention to it . drew on the court’s website, and Kavkaz.Realii The man was found guilty of inciting hatred (Part 1 of Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). The comment was posted by user shishan63 under the nickname Adam, its text is unknown. Madayev admitted guilt.

On September 6, the Leninsky District Court of Saransk fined Erzya activist Vitaly Romashkin 13 thousand rubles under the article on cooperation with an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) due to participation in the national congress. Information about this is on the court’s website, and the pro-government publication Stolitsa S drew attention to it.

Andrei Tolkachev, sentenced to 13 years in prison in the Artpodgotovka case, was transferred to strict conditions of detention ( SUS ) in a colony on August 17. Olga Elsakova, who corresponds with the political prisoner, told OVD-Info about this. In June, Tolkachev was placed in the PKT - the reason for this was his refusal to make his bed in a manner determined by the administration. On August 17, the prisoner was released from the PKT, immediately transferred to the SUS.

A criminal case about calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against a resident of Prokopyevsk (Kemerovo Region) Lenard Valeev was submitted to the 1st Eastern District Military Court for consideration on the merits. The man is accused of posting against the authorities on VKontakte. This was reported by the telegram channel “Kuzbass without extremism” associated with the security forces. The case against Valeev became known on April 8.