The founder of the “Go Through the Woods” project, which helps avoid mobilization and conscription into the Russian army, Grigory Sverdlin has been put on the wanted list. information about this in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database . found Mediazona In a conversation with journalists, Sverdlin said that he did not know under what article a case was opened against him and what he was charged with. He left Russia in March 2022.

The Balakovsky District Court of the Saratov Region sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses: Vladimir Mavrin and Alexei Bogatov were each given a six-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of four years, and Andrei Murych, Evgeniy Fomashin and Sergei Tyurin were given fines of 550 thousand rubles each. This was reported by the press service of the court.

The Central District Military Court sentenced janitor Gulnara Bakhareva from the city of Satka to a fine of 400 thousand rubles in the case of calls for and justification of terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel “Chelyabinsk of the Future”. The case against Bakhareva became known in July. On July 5, the woman was searched, after which she was released on her own recognizance.

Libertarian and founder of the SVTV publication Mikhail Svetov has been put on the wanted list, reports . Mediazona In August, a criminal case was opened against the oppositionist for the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). The reason was that he published a song in his own performance about the “people's hero” Stepan Bandera on the Russian Libertarian Memes channel.

The Volgograd Regional Court stopped the activities of the local TV channel “EROS”, which is headed by ex-city Duma deputy Dmitry Krylov. This was reported by the publication “v1.ru”. What became the formal reason for such a decision is not yet known.

On April 27, the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow fined Igor Miroshnichenko, a member of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, because of a photo with the inscription “Orthodoxy or Death.” attention to the case file on the Moscow City Court website . drew The SOVA Research Center The amount of the fine is not specified in the resolution. Miroshnichenko was found guilty under the article on dissemination of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code).

The FSB Directorate for the Volgograd Region reported on the detention of a 38-year-old Volgograd woman in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a video broadcast with a story about the activities of the Azov Regiment. reported this with reference to the department’s press service The news agencies “V102.ru” and “City of Heroes” . According to investigators, the woman broadcast on her own page on VKontakte.

On November 15, the military appeal court in Vlasikha commuted the sentence of 25-year-old Muscovite Philip Medvedev by three months, convicted because of an audio message with a proposal to strike the FSB building with Iskanders. As a result, Medvedev was sentenced to 3 years and 11 months in a general regime colony. His mother told OVD-Info about this. The appellate court hearing was held behind closed doors. How the court justified the change in sentence is not yet known.

The Central District Court of Voronezh fined the media coordinator of the “Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality” Alexey Nazarov 10 thousand rubles due to violation of “foreign agency” legislation. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The man said that a report was drawn up against him because of the publication without a “foreign agent” sign in the association’s telegram channel (Part 5 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Ai-Tana Tugudina, a resident of Gorno-Altaisk, left Russia after a court verdict that sentenced her to eight months of forced labor in the case of re-discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Sibir.Realii. Tugudina said that after the verdict came into force, she was required to come to a correctional center to undergo forced labor with 10% of her income withheld in favor of the state.

The ECHR examined nine complaints about freedom of assembly in Russia, filed jointly by lawyers from the Memorial Human Rights Center and OVD-Info. The decisions were published on the official website. The clients of Human Rights Center “Memorial” and OVD-Info were detained at various protests: at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow on March 26, 2017 , protests in support of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma on July 27, 2019 , anti-war protests on March 1 and April 2 , 2022.

Former municipal deputy Alexey Gorinov, convicted in the “fake” case, said that in the pre-trial detention center, employees regularly conduct searches of his home. Information about this was published in the telegram channel of his support group. The man noted that over the past couple of weeks he had already been searched seven times.

The 2nd Western District Military Court filed a case against Belgorod resident German Evdokimov because of an anti-war comment on VKontakte under a video about an Ukrainian Armed Forces airstrike on an oil depot. this . reports Avtozak LIVE A review date has not yet been set. The case against Evdokimov was opened in April 2023. He is being prosecuted under the article on public calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case was opened against journalist Masha Gessen under the article on disseminating “fake news” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). about this with reference to the resolution to initiate the case . writes Dozhd The reason for the criminal prosecution was an interview that Gessen gave to Yuri Dudu. Journalists talked, among other things, about war crimes by the Russian army in Bucha.

On November 16, the Supreme Court overturned the sentence of the leader of the “For the Removal of Lenin” movement, Mikhail Nalimov, because of posts with pentagrams attached to the symbols of the Great Patriotic War. This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, News”. The court found that the basis of the case was the examination of an incompetent specialist.