Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Dolzhikov was taken to the correctional center at IK-9 in Novosibirsk, where he will serve three years of forced labor. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers of this denomination.

The Leninsky District Court of Ufa refused to release Rustem Mulyukov, who was convicted in the case of an extremist community in connection with the activities of Navalny’s headquarters, from serving his sentence. This was reported by RusNews with reference to his lawyer Radik Latypov. Mulyukov is a disabled person of group I, he suffers from a serious illness. A man needs to undergo hemodialysis regularly, which is impossible in prison conditions.

Activist Dmitry Kuzmin, who is serving an arrest due to an action in defense of the Kirov Meat Processing Plant, spoke about the difficult conditions of detention in the Ministry of Internal Affairs special detention center on Zakharyevskaya Street. This was reported by SOTAvision. According to the activist, he is not allowed to take food from the parcels. Also, the guards at the special detention center do not provide the young man with hygiene items, including a toothbrush and toilet paper.

On December 14, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) awarded compensation from 2.6 thousand to seven thousand euros to 84 Russian activists due to illegal detentions. The decision in the case “Stalin and others v. Russia” , “Doronin and others v. Russia” , “Mezak and others v. Russia” , “Horrshr and others v. Russia” are published on the official website.

A “citizen of the USSR” from Khakassia was sentenced to two years of strict regime. This was reported by the SOVA Research Center. The man was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, from August 19 to December 19, 2022, a resident of the Altai region posted materials from the organization “citizens of the USSR” on his social network page.

Rosfinmonitoring added writer Boris Akunin (passport name Grigory Chkhartishvili) to the list of terrorists and extremists. The corresponding entry appeared in the register. The writer’s name appears with an asterisk, which means that a criminal case could have been opened against him under a terrorist article. In mid-December, pro-Kremlin pranksters Vovan and Lexus published conversations with Akunin and writer Dmitry Bykov.

The charges against those involved in the “Tyumen case” were increased by adding two articles: illegal production of explosives as part of an organized criminal group (Part 3 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code) and illegal storage of explosives or explosive devices as part of such a group (Part 4 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) ). This was reported by the defendants' support group.

In Moscow on Red Square on December 17, singer Anastasia Svezhevskaya, actress Evgenia Scorpan and videographer Ilya Kirdyapkin were detained because of filming in the slavic girl style. ASTRA reports this. Svezhevskaya was dressed in a fur coat and posed with caviar and bagels, and Scorpan, in a police uniform, acted out her arrest on camera, while Kirdyapkin filmed what was happening on video. The filming attracted the attention of riot police: all three were taken to the police department.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined the editor-in-chief of Mediazona Sergei Smirnov 150 thousand rubles for the absence of a "foreign agent" marking (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in the publications of the publication. This was reported by Mediazona, the case file is available on the court's website. He was fined as the general director of the publication's founder, ZP LLC.

The Supreme Court of Khakassia upheld the verdict of the editor-in-chief of the publication “New Focus” Mikhail Afanasyev in the case of “fakes” about the army using his official position (clause “a”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Borus; the case file is available on the court’s website.

In Yekaterinburg, on November 10, a criminal case was opened for repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against the founder of the Uralnash website, Stanislav Shminke, and the site was blocked. This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti. In January, Shminka and the company he heads, Intellectual Business Solutions, drew up administrative protocols on discrediting (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

Repressions in Russia in 2023. OVD-Info review English version Introduction The year 2023, unlike the previous one, will not be remembered for large mass protests and thousands of arrests. However, this does not mean at all that the protest is over and there are no other repressions. Rather, we saw a continuation of the trends that emerged in 2022: targeted criminal prosecutions, stricter laws and the adoption of new repressive norms.