The Ministry of Justice included five people and two organizations in the register of “foreign agents”. The list is published on the department's website.

The Berezovsky District Court in the Sverdlovsk Region on January 18, at the request of the investigation, limited to a week the period during which the lawyer of the arrested anti-war activist Alexei Rozhkov could familiarize himself with the materials of his criminal case. This is reported by the Solidarity Zone project. Investigator Vorontsov made a motion to set time for Alexey Rozhkov and his lawyer Kamil Isabekov to familiarize themselves with the documents - until January 20.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow rejected the claim to declare the blocking of OVD-Info websites and project pages on other platforms illegal. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Maria Nemova. The complaint concerned the blocking of the websites ovd.news and ovd.legal, as well as the OVD-Info pages in Odnoklassniki and Yandex.Zen, which occurred in June and July 2023.

*names of some characters have been changed for their safety Baymak is a town in Bashkortostan, surrounded by the Ural hills. It is inhabited by indigenous Bashkirs. People raise horses and cows and engage in beekeeping. There are no high-rise buildings in Baymak, and there is a winding road leading to the courthouse. Along it, despite the frost, men and women, elderly people and young people flock to the court.

The Veliky Ustyug District Court of the Vologda Region at a meeting excluded from the case against the head of the Vologda “Yabloko” Nikolai Egorov about the repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) the examination conducted by Danila Mikheev. This is reported by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Tikhonov, who represents Egorov’s interests.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sent the head of the Uzbek community, Usman Baratov, to a pre-trial detention center until March 17 on a criminal case of inciting hatred. This was reported by the joint press service of the regional courts. Baratov is charged with inciting hatred or enmity within an organized group of persons (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

On December 29, the mothers of Chechen activists Zarema Musayeva were reprimanded in the colony. The reason was the lack of a badge on her clothes, reports Team Against Torture. In the dining room, Musaeva had a conflict with another prisoner. After this, the woman became upset, decided to return to her room and forgot her sleeveless shirt with her badge in the dining room.

Jehovah's Witness from the Pskov region Alexei Khabarov, sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison, was taken to correctional colony No. 4 of the Novgorod region. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers of this denomination. On October 20, 2023, the Porkhovsky District Court of the Pskov Region sentenced Khabarov to two and a half years in a general regime colony, and the regional court on appeal on December 20 reduced the term by two months.

On November 30, the Supreme Court of Dagestan added an additional six months of restriction of freedom to the sentence of “USSR citizen” Ruslan Abdullaev. attention to this information in the court file drew “Caucasus” . Realities." On September 7, the Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala found him guilty under the article on an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years and two months in a general regime colony.

Security forces came twice a day to the home of Bashkir musician Altynay Valitov, who recorded a video message in support of convicted activist Fail Alsynov. This was reported by SOTAvision. On the evening of January 18, Valitov reported that unknown people were breaking into his home. He later said that the police officers had left, thanked his supporters for their support, and has not been in touch since then.

In November 2023, another case was opened against the poet from the Oryol region, Alexander Byvshev, under the article on calls for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), and in December a new case was opened about “fake news” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 UK). He wrote about this in a letter from the pre-trial detention center, which was published by the Orlets telegram channel.

The Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Chukotka transferred to the prosecutor a criminal case about “fake news” about the army (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against a local resident. This was reported in a press release on the department's website. According to investigators, from December 2022 to March 2023, the 33-year-old defendant, while abroad, published information about the war in Ukraine.

Yegor Shtovba, sentenced to five and a half years in prison for reciting poetry, left the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center. This is stated in the response to the letter sent to Shtovbe. The answer was published in the support channel for those involved in the Mayakovsky case. It is not yet known where exactly the young man was transferred. On December 28, 2023, Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovbe were sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison, respectively.

Yegor Shtovba, sentenced to five and a half years in prison for reciting poetry, left the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center. This is stated in the response to the letter sent to Shtovbe. The answer was published in the support channel for those involved in the Mayakovsky case. It is not yet known where exactly the young man was transferred. On December 28, 2023, Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovbe were sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison, respectively.

61-year-old Abakan resident Igor Pokusin was sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in a maximum security colony on charges of trying to join the Ukrainian army, reports . First Department He was found guilty of preparing for treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). Previously, the prosecutor asked to sentence Pokusin to 7 years and 1 month in prison.