The Ministry of Justice added five more people to the register of “foreign agents”. Information about this appeared on the department's website. The register included: Aslan Artsuev is a human rights activist, director of the human rights organization Human Rights Center Ichkeria. Doesn't live in Russia. Nikita Kukushkin, an actor, left for Germany with his family in September 2022. Anna Narinskaya is a literary critic, journalist and exhibition curator.

On February 9, security forces conducted a search in the house of relatives of Jehovah's Witness from the Vladimir region, Alexander Popov. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". After the search, the believer’s cousin Maria Ovsyannikova was taken for interrogation. It is unknown what her status is. The security forces also seized her personal notes on paper. The search took place on the basis of a court order dated December 15, 2023.

On February 14, the Industrial District Court of Smolensk sentenced 64- and 67-year-old local Jehovah's Witnesses Tatyana Galkevich and Valentina Vladimirova to two years of probation. This is reported by the website “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". In addition, the believers were sentenced to a one-year restriction of freedom. On February 2, the prosecutor requested five years' imprisonment and four years' restriction of liberty for them.

Lists of arrests for February 17, 2024 can be read here. Lists of arrests for February 18, 2024 can be read here. As of 02.23.24 14:00, more than 104 people have already been detained in 9 cities Each police department may have more detainees than are listed on published lists. We publish only the names of those people about whom we know for certain and whose names we can publish. Saint Petersburg There are at least 69 detainees in the city Police department No.

Navalny died as a result of murder - a planned murder, a murder methodically carried out, a murder of which the Russian state was guilty. Including the very departments that are now talking about inspections. Security forces planned and carried out the poisoning of Navalny in August 2020. This is proven by numerous journalistic investigations, including the investigation of Navalny himself. It is impossible to prove this in a Russian court controlled by killers. But why?

On February 15, the First Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced Vologda resident Igor Shchenkov to a fine of 450 thousand rubles in the case of calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to posts in a telegram. The case file is on the court’s website, information about the punishment is provided by the telegram channel of the press service of the city courts.

In the Leninsky district of annexed Crimea, a search was carried out in the house of auto mechanic Ilyas Muslimov. The security forces took his son to the FSB department, but then released him. this reports Crimean Solidarity “At five o’clock in the morning, masked people with machine guns burst in, put me down, and showed me documents indicating that I am allegedly a terrorist and against the North Military District, that I am agitating and conducting propaganda work,” Muslimov said.

Information appeared on the FSIN website that politician Alexei Navalny died in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. His relatives and associates have not yet confirmed this news. “On February 16, 2024, in correctional colony No. 3, convicted Navalny A.A. After the walk I felt unwell, almost immediately losing consciousness. Medical workers from the institution arrived immediately and an emergency medical team was called.

The Kirov Regional Court approved the sentence of local resident Andrei Etkeev to five years in a general regime colony in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared on the court's website.

On February 15, the Supreme Court of Dagestan approved the sentence of “USSR citizen” Makhmud Ibadulaev: two years and two months in a general regime colony. This was reported by Caucasian Knot with reference to an anonymous source. On October 26, the Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala found Ibadulaev guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the editor of DOXA magazine Maria Menshikova in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared in the case file on the website of the Moscow courts, and Mediazona drew attention to it. Menshikova’s criminal case became known in April 2023.

Employees of Center “E” came to search the signature collector of the Kazan headquarters of Boris Nadezhdin and member of the “Civil Initiative” party Evgeny Markov. This was announced by the chairman of the regional branch of the “Civil Initiative” Dmitry Rumyantsev. The politician said that the investigation team is headed by Center “E” Major Ilnar Garipov, who is prosecuting anti-war activists in Tatarstan. The reasons for the search are not reported.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, security forces came to search Alexander Yakupov because of posts on social networks. A friend of his told OVD-Info about this. Employees came to the man’s registered address, where his parents live. Yakupov himself went there, leaving his phone at home. It is unknown what crime he is charged with.