A protocol was drawn up against journalist Alexey Pivovarov regarding the absence of labeling as a “foreign agent” on social networks (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This is reported by "Caution News". The materials of the administrative case were received by the Presnensky District Court of Moscow. Pivovarov was included in the register of media “foreign agents” in early June.

The Military Court of Appeal approved a Murmansk resident a fine of 400 thousand rubles and a two-year ban on administering Internet sites in the case of calls for terrorism and the violent seizure of power in Russia (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). this . reported RIA Novosti The agency does not write the name of the convicted person, but clarifies that the verdict of the first instance was handed down in August 2023.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the former coordinator of the “Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality” Alexey Sergeev 10 thousand rubles due to the lack of a “foreign agent” label on the organization’s publication (Part 5 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan fined local resident Pavel Chumakov 200 thousand rubles in a criminal case for discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by SOTA. The man was also banned from administering websites for two years. The laptop, seized from him during the search, was ordered to be returned. The prosecution asked Chumakova to serve a year and a half in a correctional colony.

Alexei Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova was charged in absentia in the case of participation in an extremist community. She reported this on her Facebook page. She herself is not in Russia. “I’ve never ratted anyone out. She didn't run away. I firmly believed that I would remain in Russia and protect clients to the end. But after the arrests of my colleagues on October 13, there is no point in returning to prison. Yes, now I am with my daughter in a foreign country.

Jehovah's Witness from Novokuznetsk Tatyana Sushilnikova received a suspended sentence of four years in prison. Information about this was published on the website of the Kemerovo Regional Court. On November 15, 2023, the believer 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) due to attending services and talking about the Bible.

Alexander is a theoretical physicist by training. After graduating from a university in Kharkov, he returned to his small village and for the last 10 years he worked in online schools as a tutor, preparing teenagers for the Unified State Exam and Olympiads. “My youth occurred during the years when politics in the country was very active,” he says. — When I still lived and studied in Kharkov, there were elections of people’s deputies of the USSR. We nominated our candidate.

The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction approved the decision to liquidate the Sakharov Center. this . reports SOTAVision The formal basis for the liquidation of the organization in August 2023 was the results of an unscheduled inspection initiated by State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi.

In Bashkortostan, FSB officers detained activists Ilnar Galin, Yulay Aralbaev and Rafail Abdrakhmanov. In addition, security forces are banging on the door of activist Ildar Yumagulov in Baymak. this . reports RusNews Activists associate the detentions with the announcement of the sentence against Fail Alsynov under the article of inciting hatred or enmity, which will take place tomorrow, January 17, at 9:30.

The Eighth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction upheld the verdict of Bulat Shumekov, a resident of the Kemerovo region, in the case of “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is stated in the case file on the court website. In March, Shumekov was sentenced to seven years in prison; in June, the appeal court commuted the sentence to five and a half years. The initiation of a case against Shumekov became known in April 2022.

The Kotelnikovsky District Court of the Volgograd Region sentenced the defendant in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) Vasily Melnikov to five years in a general regime colony with a ban on administering websites on the Internet for three years. OVD-Info was told about this in court. The case was opened due to comments on social networks.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow dismissed the administrative case of politician Dmitry Gudkov about participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) due to the impossibility of notifying him of the meeting. This is reported by Network Freedoms. A protocol was drawn up against the politician because of his photograph from the IV Anti-War Conference.

Rustem Sheykhaliev, sentenced to 14 years in prison in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, began to have severe nosebleeds before the hearing to consider the appeal against his sentence. Crimean Solidarity reports this . The first bleeding began in the morning in a cell in pre-trial detention center No. 3 of Novocherkassk: the man could not stop the bleeding within ten minutes and demanded to call a paramedic.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow fined the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zavtra, Alexander Prokhanov, 4 thousand rubles for failing to indicate in the publication the “foreign agency” of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. about this TASS writes .

The Ministry of Justice refused to exclude Samara journalist Ekaterina Mayakovskaya from the register of “foreign agents.” about this She wrote on her Facebook page. The Ministry of Justice added Mayakovskaya to the list of media “foreign agents” in April 2022. Kasparov.ru reported that the reason was the journalist’s cooperation with the publication Idel.Realii.