In the town of Ramenskoye near Moscow, civil activist Oksana Osadchaya, who was holding a picket in support of Oleg Orlov, and SOTAvision journalist Ekaterina Anikevich, who was filming her, were detained. Anikevich herself told OVD-Info about this.

At the Moskovsky railway station in St. Petersburg, Valeria Meshcheryakova, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University, was detained because of the “Face of Russian Journalism” event, which took place in 2023. Relatives of Meshcheryakova reported the arrest to OVD-Info. The detainee was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Vasileostrovsky district. She is charged with the “protest” article (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

At the Moskovsky railway station in St. Petersburg, Valeria Meshcheryakova, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University, was detained because of the “Face of Russian Journalism” event, which took place in 2023. Relatives of Meshcheryakova reported the arrest to OVD-Info. The detainee was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Vasileostrovsky district. She is charged with the “protest” article (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Petrodvortsovy District Court of St. Petersburg sent Bogdan Bondarev, a native of the Kemerovo region, who was detained in the case of arson of a relay cabinet, to a pre-trial detention center for two months. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. The young man is accused of committing a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). His arrest became known the day before.

The investigation brought charges against the arrested authors of the play “Finist the Clear Falcon,” Evgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, in the final version. Lawyer Petriychuk Sergei Badamshin reported this on his Telegram channel. Both are accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). A criminal case was opened in April 2023 based on an examination conducted by “destructologist” Roman Silantiev.

The Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Ruben Pogosyan to six years in a maximum security colony because of five reposts about the war in Ukraine on VKontakte. This was reported by the Network Freedoms project. The prosecutor asked for such a punishment. Pogosyan was found guilty of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army motivated by political enmity (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The convict was also banned from administering websites for a period of one year.

In the Izhemsky district of the Komi Republic, a criminal case was opened against local environmental activist Alexey Semenov because he dumped the contents of a garbage bag on the table of an official. This was reported by the telegram channel of the project “Support for Environmental Defenders” from the words of Semenov himself. The man is charged with insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case was opened against the guard of the Lukoshko market in Khanty-Mansiysk, Evgeniy Lazutin, for discrediting the army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Baza , a 50-year-old man was detained on February 28 due to a conversation in a smoking room, during which he became nervous and began shouting “morons” and “cannon fodder” in relation to participants in the war in Ukraine.

Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov was taken to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 5 of Yekaterinburg: the Central District Military Court is located in this city, which today began considering a new criminal case against him. This was reported by the telegram channel of Miftakhov’s support group. In September, the mathematician was detained at the exit from the colony, from which he was released after the end of his sentence in the case of the broken window of the United Russia office.

67-year-old pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova, who is being prosecuted in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) after a denunciation, is not given her passport. this Her lawyer reports in his story. Today, during the interrogation, she was given a previously confiscated passport, but it was immediately confiscated again, allegedly to check the legality of its issuance.

The military court of appeal upheld the sentence of five years in a maximum security penal colony for a 47-year-old resident of Achinsk for a comment about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge on VKontakte, Borus reports . The case came to light in April 2023, when security forces published a video of the arrest. The man was found guilty of publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

In the city of Stary Krym and the village of Zhuravki, searches of Muslims were carried out at at least five addresses, reports . Crimean Solidarity The searches came to activist Lenur Yakubov, imam of the independent Muslim community “Eski Kyrym” Izet Sayfullin, chairman of this community Idris Yurdamov, Shevket Kiyamov. Investigative actions were also carried out in the Old Crimea mosque. The reasons for the searches are unknown. Kiyamov and Yurdamov have already been released.