The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk recognized as legal the refusal of the city mayor’s office to approve the rally “For Fair Elections” due to the participation of organizer Mikhail Ryazantsev in rallies in support of Navalny. Olga Nechaeva, a lawyer from OVD-Info, who participated in the case, reports this. Ryazantsev was going to organize a rally on November 16 together with Ekaterina Tereshchenko.

In Ryazan, on November 15, Sergei Bakanov was charged under the article of repeatedly discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) because of three tweets. The man was then charged with disrespect for a memorable date associated with the defense of the Fatherland (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), but on November 16 the case under this article was dropped. Bakanov’s lawyer Andrei Kuryatnikov reports this.

A case was opened against a 35-year-old resident of Nadym (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) named Igor for calls for terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to reposting a video of the “Freedom of Russia” legion on VKontakte. this . reports ASTRA The reason for initiating the case was a post with a video in which members of the “Freedom of Russia” legion express that the Russian armed forces are going to flee from Crimea.

A criminal case was opened against two girls who lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame in Volgograd under the article on desecration of a burial site by a group of persons (clause “a”, part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code). this The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region reports .

The Kalininsky District Court fined the publication Falun Dafa Information Center 50 thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). The United Press Service of the City Courts reported this in a telegram.

A man suspected of justifying the explosion on the Crimean Bridge has been detained in Krasnodar. This was reported by the security forces-affiliated portal “No to Extremism!” The detainee is charged with publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). His name is not indicated. The reason for the prosecution was a publication "on one of the social networks." The Crimean Bridge, connecting Russian territory with Crimea, was opened in May 2018.

In the morning, law enforcement officers came to search the house and office of journalist and public figure Iskander Siraji. His wife Elmira, as well as Radio Azatyk, reported this in their Facebook stories. Idel.Realii drew attention to the publication. The reasons for the search are not yet known. According to Elmira Siraji, security forces took away equipment and passports.

The FSB completed the investigation into the criminal case against 21-year-old Mikhail Balabanov, who is accused of preparing to arson the military registration and enlistment office in Nevinnomyssk. The defense began to get acquainted with the case materials, reports the human rights project “Solidarity Zone”.

Bailiffs of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg detained listener Andrei Sayapov, who came to the sentencing of Sasha Skochilenko with a poster “You must not follow the ######## stage.” An eyewitness reported this to OVD-Info. Today the court sentenced the St. Petersburg artist and musician to seven years in prison. Several people, including Sayapov, lined the corridor to protest the verdict.

The court in Kasimov, Ryazan region, refused to satisfy the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace local activist Sergei Skorchaev with a sentence of restriction of freedom for a real term. this Another person involved in the case, journalist Sergei Erzhenkov, reported on his Telegram channel.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the artist and musician Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in prison in the case of distributing “fakes” about the army based on political hatred (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona reports this. The girl was also banned from administering Internet sites for three years. Skochilenko made her last speech on November 16, as quoted by Mediazona.

The Kashira District Court of the Voronezh Region arrested local resident Alexander Skugorov for 10 days. The man is accused of publishing the comment “Russians are idiots, pissers and assholes” on VKontakte. He himself told OVD-Info about this after the trial. Because of this comment, a report was drawn up against Skugorov under the article of inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code).

The Pskov City Court invalidated the registration of the Grazhdanin newspaper of the local branch of the Yabloko party. This was reported by Pskov Province. Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit demanding the cancellation of the publication’s registration certificate. The department insisted that the newspaper had not been published for more than a year, since its last printed issue was received by the Russian State Library and the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V. Ya.

The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into a criminal case on calls for extremism, which was opened in July against Igor Girkin, a participant in military clashes in eastern Ukraine as part of pro-Russian groups. This was reported by the Sova Research Center. The criminal case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow fined rapper Alisher Morgenstern 40 thousand rubles in an administrative case for failure to provide a “foreign agent” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the telegram channel of the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction. Previously, Morgenstern had already been fined for violating “foreign agency” legislation.