19-year-old Irkutsk activist Ilya Podkamenny, accused of six criminal articles, pleaded guilty to all counts. this to Mediazona . reported A person who was at the court hearing Podkamenny was detained in November 2022 in the case of calls for extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that he wrapped railway rails with copper wire and attached leaflets handwritten on notebook sheets to the tracks. The activist was not yet 18 years old at that time.

Alexander Fedulov, Alexei Navalny’s lawyer, left Russia. He announced this on his page on Instagram. Fedulov explained his departure from Russia by the “need for adjustments” in the further protection of the politician. “The situation is strange. The arrest of our colleagues who defended Navalny made significant adjustments to the work of the defenders who remained at large,” he wrote.

The Kineshma administration refused to allow Communist Party activists to hold a rally against air pollution. about this . writes The publication “7×7” The action was supposed to take place on October 21. It was initiated by the head of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lyubimov. Officials refused to coordinate the rally, citing anti-coronavirus restrictions.

The Second Court of Appeal approved the sentence of the author of the telegram channel “War is a Kringe,” Sergei Drugov, for reposting the publication of “Feminist Anti-War Resistance” (FAS). Information about this appeared in the case file.

Nikolai Voishchev, a 68-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Maykop, is being transported from a pre-trial detention center to the place where he is serving his sentence. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses website. In September, the Maikop City Court sentenced Voishchev to three years in a general regime colony on charges of organizing the activities of a banned organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Moscow's Basmanny District Court Extends Arrest of Co-Chairman of the Golos Movement Grigory Melkonyants for three months. This was reported to OVD-Info by a listener from the courtroom. Several participants in the movement, including Melkonyants, on August 17 searches were conducted . It later became known that a criminal case had been opened against the activist under the article on organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization (Part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the Central European University as an “undesirable” organization. about this The department reported in its telegram channel. The university’s programs “devaluate and distort the history of the Russian state, downplay the merits of prominent Russian scientists, writers, and cultural figures, and promote pseudo-statements about Russia’s guilt in all world cataclysms,” the Prosecutor General’s Office claims.

During the debate in the Zheleznovodsk City Court on October 4, the prosecution demanded that 83-year-old Jehovah's Witness Zinaida Minenko be sentenced to five years of probation. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. Minenko is accused of involvement in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the ANO Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives Transparency International-R due to “posting materials from an ‘undesirable’ organization.” This is reported by former employees of the Center. The decision to block was made on July 27 by the Talitsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region.

Activists from Komi were denied an action to return direct elections of heads of municipalities, because the Young Guard decided to hold an action “about the importance of fathers in the lives of children” in the same place on the same day. This was reported by “7×7 – Horizontal Russia”.

Ex-lawyer Mark Feigin has been put on the wanted list, reports . TASS There is no information about what crime the man is wanted for. Feigin previously emigrated from Russia; now he writes a blog in which he discusses the war with Ukraine. In April 2022, the ex-lawyer was added to the register of “foreign agents”, and later he was fined under the article for failure to fulfill relevant duties (Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

A criminal case was opened against Cherepovets activist Alexey Ivanov, who emigrated to the United States, for justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), previously he became a suspect in a case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). this . reports ASTRA at the man’s relatives in the village of Ankimarovo in the Vologda region, in Cherepovets and in Totma In August, searches were carried out .