On January 23, the Cherkessk City Court again found Jehovah's Witness Elena Menchikova guilty under "extremist" articles; the believer was sentenced to four and a half years probation. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. Menchikova was also given a two-and-a-half-year probationary period. The prosecutor asked to sentence the believer to five years in a general regime penal colony and a year and one month of restricted freedom.

The Vologda City Court sent activist and lawyer Evgeny Molotov into custody until March 22 because of a donation to FBK. This was reported by SOTAvision. According to investigators, Molotov transferred one thousand rubles to the FBK account on August 5, 2021. On January 23, they came to search his place, and he was detained. Probably, the lawyer is charged with financing extremist activities (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Orenburg Regional Court approved suspended sentences for Jehovah's Witnesses Vladislav Kolbanov, Vladimir Kochnev, Pavel Lekontsev, Sergei Logunov and Nikolai Zhugin. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. On August 28, the Industrial District Court of Orenburg found the believers guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Protests in Bashkortostan began after the trial of Fail Alsynov on January 15, when in the city of Baymak thousands of residents of the republic came to support the activist, who was tried under the article of “inciting hatred” (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Alsynov is one of the most famous public figures in Bashkortostan, he defended the Kushtau Shikhan in 2020 and headed the nationalist organization Bashkort .

Maidan participant Andrei Kolomiets, sentenced by a Crimean court to 10 years in a maximum security colony, was placed in a punishment cell (punishment cell) for 15 days. The prisoner’s wife told OVD-Info about this. Colony employees claim that Kolomiets used his cellmate’s phone: this was the reason for the appointment of a punishment cell. Kolomiyets was detained in 2015 in Kabardino-Balkaria, where he moved from Ukraine, then he was taken to Crimea.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Abzelilovsky district of Bashkortostan, Dim Bulyakbaev, for mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the activist support group. Bulyakbaev was detained in Ufa on January 23. His relatives started a collection to pay for a lawyer. 20:33 Six more residents of Bashkortostan were sent to a pre-trial detention center after a public gathering at the court in Baymak.

A resident of the city of Gatchina (Leningrad Region), Anastasia Dyudyaeva, was detained in a criminal case of calls for terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The detainee’s lawyer, Ekaterina Gordienko, told OVD-Info about this. According to the official version, Dyudyaeva made leaflets in Ukrainian, on which, among other things, there was the inscription “Putinyaku na Gilyaku” (“Putin to the gallows”), and then laid them out in the Lenta store.

At the end of last year, a criminal case was opened against Barnaul resident Andrei Vitovtov under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to publications in an anonymous telegram channel. His wife Elena told OVD-Info about this. The man was detained on the street on December 12, after which he was taken to the apartment for a search.

The Tagansky District Court fined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 400 thousand rubles under the article on the lack of marking as a “foreign agent” (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The organization was added to the register of “foreign agents” in April 2023.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ivanovo sent blogger from Shuya Sergei Veselov into custody until March 16 on his new criminal case of calls for terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Oscar Cherdzhiev. A new, fourth, criminal case against Veselov became known on January 22, when the man was detained by FSB officers. He said that he received bruises during the arrest, although he did not resist.

Two protocols were drawn up against the editor-in-chief of Dovod, Ilya Kosygin, under the article on violation of the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (clause 4 and clause 5 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). this The publication itself reports . It is clarified that the protocols were drawn up due to the dissemination of “Argument” materials without “foreign agency” markings.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill to confiscate property from those convicted under repressive articles and to deprive them of honorary titles. The relevant information is posted on the website of the Legislative Support System. The document was submitted to the lower house of parliament on January 22. Only three deputies voted against its adoption in the first reading.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced a 30-year-old resident of Magadan to two years in a general regime colony under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Kolyma.ru. The reason for the prosecution of the man was “calls for terrorist activities against the President of the Russian Federation.” In addition to the main punishment, the Magadan resident was given a two-year ban on posting publications on the Internet.

In Kalmykia, a criminal case was opened against a 25-year-old resident of Elista under the article on calls for violent actions against a group of people based on nationality, including in connection with their participation in the war in Ukraine (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the FSB Directorate for the region.

On January 22, the Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok found musician Sergei Tokhteev guilty of five counts of “discrediting the army” and fined him 120 thousand rubles. The relevant information appeared in the press service of the city courts; the case file is available on the court’s website.