A case was opened against Kemerovo resident Alexander Panasenko for the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment on Vkontakte. The telegram channel “Kuzbass without censorship” writes about this, the SOVA research center drew attention . “I bought it, I’ll piss on it. And I don’t care who was offended because of this,” Panasenko wrote under a post in public news. This became the reason for criminal prosecution.

A criminal case was opened against Alexander Agafonov, the son of milkmaid Elena Agafonova, recognized as a “foreign agent”. This was reported in the YouTube program “Tell Gordeeva.” Details of the persecution are unknown. The Investigative Committee told the family that after expulsion from the military medical academy, Alexander Agafonov was sent to serve under a contract. At the same time, the young man denies that he signed the contract.

A new criminal case was opened against Uryupinsk resident Mikhail Filatov under the article on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The Caucasian Knot reports this. It is unknown what led to the initiation of the case. “In our first case there was no such charge formula <...>. This is a new case, a new sentence and a new term if the verdict is guilty,” said his lawyer Eduard Yapparov in a conversation with the Caucasian Knot.

Sergei Mikhailov, the founder of the Altai publication LISTok, sentenced to eight years, was sent to a punishment cell in a pre-trial detention center for performing breathing exercises. This is reported by SOTA. The prisoner spent five days in the punishment cell in November. The reason was that Mikhailov was doing breathing exercises in his cell before going to bed after lights out, 13 minutes later than expected. This is already the second time Mikhailov has been placed in a punishment cell.

The Ryazan regional court released Vasily Bolshakov, a father with many children from Kasimov, from punishment, who was convicted in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) because of a joke about the war. His lawyer Andrei Kuryatnikov reported this to OVD-Info. The court made this decision due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Earlier, the Kasimov City Court imposed a fine of 250 thousand rubles on Bolshakov.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill that allows the inclusion of persons involved in cases of crimes “motivated by hatred” into the list of “terrorists and extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring, as follows from the bill’s card . The law will come into force on June 1, 2025. Currently, this list includes convicts, suspects and defendants in criminal cases initiated under terrorist or extremist charges.

Three protocols on participation in foreign and international non-governmental organizations not registered in Russia (Part 1 of Article 19.34.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) were received by the courts. Mediazona found information about this on court websites. In St. Petersburg, the Kirovsky District Court received the case of Dmitry Dukar on November 20, and the Vasileostrovsky District Court received the case of Alexander Derevyanko on November 21.