The film “Fairy Tale” directed by Alexander Sokurov will not be shown at the international film festival “KARO.Art” in Moscow. The organizers announced on the director’s Telegram channel the cancellation of the show, and a comment appeared that the show was banned by the Ministry of Culture. “Now we are trying to find out the motivation. There are big problems ahead in life - just like in Soviet times, when all my works were banned from being shown. The time of my life has stopped again.

Blogger Veronica Belotserkovskaya and Omsk activist Richard Roman King were fined for violating the law on “foreign agents.” This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg and the telegram channel of the Omsk Civil Association. The Petrogradsky District Court fined Belotserkovskaya 35 thousand rubles for not marking a post in a telegram (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) in April of this year. She lives outside of Russia and did not appear at the trial.

The court refused to exclude blogger Alexander Stefanov from the list of “foreign agents”. This was reported by Sotavision. Stefanov filed a lawsuit, where he noted that the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents” is illegal, discriminatory, and also imposes on him “a number of excessive and arbitrary obligations.” “It’s not yet forbidden for us to criticize the authorities, your honor?

The Ministry of Justice has again added to the register of “foreign agents”. Information about this appeared on the department's website.

Street art artist Philippenzo (Philip Kozlov) emigrated to Lithuania due to a criminal case. This was reported by SOTA. At the end of July, the artist was detained at the airport when he was returning from Georgia, where he had recently been, and was arrested for 15 days under the article of disobedience to security forces (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code) - he allegedly refused to show his passport.

Blogger from Shuya Sergei Veselov was charged in a new criminal case - about the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and discrediting the Russian Army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the lawyer from OVD-Info, Oscar Cherdzhiev, working in the case.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent Alexei Navalny's lawyer Igor Sergunin to a pre-trial detention center under the article on participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona reports this. The meeting was held behind closed doors. The investigation also asked to arrest lawyers Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser under the same article.

In the Kemerovo region, a new criminal case was opened against Lenard Valeev, a 60-year-old defendant in the case of calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a post on VKontakte. This time he is being prosecuted under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel “Kuzbass without extremism”.

A participant in the socio-political movement “Soft Power”, human rights activist Olga Suvorova was beaten in the department for combating economic crimes in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This is reported by the movement’s telegram channel.

English version Olga Nazarenko has been participating in protests since 2018. “When Oleg Sentsov went on a hunger strike, it really hurt me: his case itself, the conditions [of his hunger strike], and the demands that he put forward,” says the teacher. In addition to pickets in support of Sentsov, Nazarenko also came out in support of Ukraine and political prisoners in general.

On September 15, the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg declared insane a minor schoolboy from Tobolsk, who was accused of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by 72.ru. The 16-year-old schoolboy was released from criminal liability, and he was prescribed compulsory medical measures - psychiatric treatment in a special institution.

On October 8, Voronezh resident Andrei Biryukov was assigned a psychiatric examination in a criminal case on justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The case was opened due to words about the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, said during a hearing of the appeal court in another criminal case. Another Voronezh activist told OVD-Info about this. The inpatient examination will take place at the Moscow Serbsky Institute.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the activities of the German Center for Eastern European Studies and International Relations (Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien) as “undesirable”. about this The department reported in its telegram channel.

The Sovetsky District Court of Orel sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to six years in a general regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the local branch of the Investigative Committee. The believers were found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). We are talking about Vladimir Melnik, Artur Putintsev and Vladimir Piskarev.

A criminal case was opened against the St. Petersburg journalist, local historian and administrator of the Ingermanlandia group on VKontakte Dmitry Vitushkin for the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Fontanka with reference to the Agency for Investigative Journalism (AZHUR), as well as Sever.Realii . Security forces came to the home of 39-year-old Vitushkin on the morning of October 12.