The Kemerovo Regional Court left unchanged the sentence of 60-year-old Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Baikalov - six years probation. This is stated on the court's website. The verdict against Baikalov under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) was handed down on October 23 by the Zavodsky District Court of Kemerovo. The prosecutor asked that the believer be given a real seven-year sentence.

The Novosibirsk City Hall refused to approve a rally at the monument to victims of political repression on February 27, which City Council deputy Svetlana Kaverzina tried to organize. Officials connected her with FBK. Kaverzina herself wrote about this in her Telegram channel. The notice published by Kaverzina refers to “available information” about her involvement in the recognized extremist FBK and Navalny’s headquarters.

Lyudmila Razumova, sentenced to seven years on charges of military “fakes” and vandalism, became suddenly ill after two placements in a punishment cell: her blood pressure rose to 220. Her friend Maria reported this to OVD-Info. “Lyudmila told her husband that she wouldn’t last a week,” Maria wrote. According to her, the prisoner’s medications are not helping. Razumova was twice placed in a punishment cell for 15 days and was about to be placed a third time, but her health deteriorated sharply.

The Barnaul administration revoked the consent previously given to the Yabloko party to hold an action in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 25 due to the fact that the party announced the action on the Internet. Information about the refusal appeared on the party's website.

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“Do you support crests?” At 17:00 I learned about the death of [Alexey Navalny]. Felt bitter. Navalny is a very brave man who fought for the well-being of Russia. I considered him a hero before, but in 2021, when he decided to return to Russia after being poisoned, I felt it especially strongly. Of course, I assumed that this could happen (murder - OVD-Info ), but it was still unexpected. So I wanted to pay tribute to him. I spent the first day reading the news.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Oleg Pronin in the case of graffiti “as a sign of love and respect” for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On February 16, the man was sentenced to imprisonment for a suspended term of three years with a probationary period of four years, reports the joint press service of the city courts.

Bills have been introduced into the State Duma that would impose criminal liability for “denial of the genocide of the multinational Russian people during the Great Patriotic War.” this .

In St. Petersburg, Dmitry Vasiliev was detained at the Solovetsky Stone, standing with a poster. Vasilyev himself told OVD-Info about this. The man was holding a poster in support of the person involved in the case of “fake news” about the army of Vsevolod Korolev. Now Vasilyev is being taken to OP No. 43. 17:46 Vasilyev was released from the police department with a report on violation of covid restrictions (Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).

In Syktyvkar, 29-year-old local resident Alexander Karmanov was detained as a suspect in a criminal case for repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). this . reports ASTRA According to the channel, the man was searched; he was accused of authoring certain comments on VKontakte.

The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court received another case of repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against Ukrainian Alexander Vdovichenko living in Russia. The case file is available on the court website; it is unknown what became the reason for the prosecution. The first case of repeated discrediting against Vdovichenko was opened on December 7, 2022, then ASTRA reported that the man was already in jail on a case of attempted murder.