Jehovah's Witness from Ulyanovsk Andrei Tabakov was deprived of Russian citizenship and expelled to Belarus after he served a suspended sentence. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". Tabakov was born in Minsk in 1973 - apparently, because of this, the security forces considered his Russian citizenship acquired.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced St. Petersburg resident Daniil Saltykov to a fine of 200 thousand rubles because of comments about the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the Freedom of Russia Legion. SOTAvision reports this. The young man was found guilty of calling for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor requested three years in prison for him.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced St. Petersburg actor Daniil Saltykov to a fine of 200 thousand rubles due to comments about the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the Freedom of Russia Legion. SOTAvision reports this. The young man was found guilty of calling for terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor requested three years in prison for him.

On December 26, the Nazarovo City Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory sentenced 60-year-old Jehovah's Witness Pavel Chemrov to three years of suspended imprisonment. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". The man was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor requested 3.5 years in a general regime colony for him. Chemrov insists on his innocence.

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that proposes to exclude from the list of recipients of payments for state awards persons included in the register of “foreign agents” and who have lost Russian citizenship. RAPSI drew attention to this. The authors of the bill believe that such a decision is especially relevant in connection with the increasing number of cases of renunciation of Russian citizenship after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On December 24, the Chelyabinsk administration refused to allow a supporter of the Union of Maoists of the Urals to approve a picket against surveillance and censorship on the Internet. On December 27, the Sovetsky District Court of Chelyabinsk recognized the refusal as legal. This is stated in the organization’s channel. The event was planned to be held on December 29 in Aloe Pole Square. The authorities referred to the fact that the required site would be occupied that day from 8 a.m.

The Ministry of Justice has once again added to the register of “foreign agents”. Updates are published on the department's website. The register included: editor of the Vladimir telegram channel “Resonance” Danil Belyakov, journalist Alexey Kovalev, priest of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Andrey Lvov, rapper Legalize (Andrey Menshikov), media project “Country and World. Sakharov Review", project "Transparency International-Russia in exile".

Singer Eduard Charlotte was sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony, reports a Sota Vision correspondent from the Samara Regional Court. Charlotte was convicted because of several videos.

On December 26, the Syktyvkar City Court sent Igor Tyron, a resident of the village of Nivshera, to a pre-trial detention center; he is charged with an article on justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to publications about the Ukrainian Azov battalion. This was reported by the press service of the court.

In Moscow, police near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office detained Vera Shikhova, who was holding a single picket in support of her son, injured in a mine accident. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. Shikhova is being taken to the Tverskoy police station. She has been detained for the sixth time in December - the last time the security forces detained her was the day before, on December 25.

A criminal case was opened against a 45-year-old resident of Vladimir under the article on financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) due to donations from FBK, reports GorodKovrov. “The accused made a number of money transfers to bank account details opened in the United States, distributed by representatives of the specified banned organization, for the preparation and commission of extremist crimes,” the FSB department for the Vladimir region claims.

The author of the musical project “Pre-Revolutionary Soviet”, poet Vyacheslav Malakhov, sentenced to two years in prison in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), was taken to pre-trial detention center-2 in Sosnogorsk. The telegram channel of the support group reports this with reference to Malakhov’s letter. “I’m in the Republic. Komi, in pre-trial detention center No. 2, Sosnogorsk near Ukhta.

On December 24, the Shirinsky District Court of the Republic of Khakassia sentenced 56-year-old Joseph Gelyastanov to a fine of 110 thousand rubles in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). The sister of the convicted person told OVD-Info about this; The case file is on the court website. Gelyastanov was detained in St. Petersburg, where he lived and worked as a massage therapist, looking for clients through the Avito service.

Krasnodar resident Mikhail Lyakh was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony in the case of calls on the Internet for activities directed against the security of the state (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code). This became known from the cassation ruling , to which the publication “Kavkaz.Realii” drew attention. According to the document, on April 9, 2024, the Prikubansky District Court sentenced Lyakh to a fine of one million rubles.