The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Olga Tsukanova, the founder of the “Council of Mothers and Wives” and an ally of Svetlana Lada-Rus, on the wanted list. Mediazona drew attention to her card from the search database. It is unknown for what criminal case Tsukanova is wanted. In May 2023, the Ministry of Justice included Tsukanova and the Council of Mothers and Wives on the list of “foreign agents.” Two months later, the organization announced it would cease operations due to this status.

Crimean Tatar Edem Smailov, sentenced to 13 years in prison in the second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was transferred from correctional colony No. 7 in the village of Bychikha-12, Kostroma region, to colony No. 1 in Kostroma. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to his wife Lilya Smailova.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg began considering a criminal case on public calls for terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Varvara Lehmann. This was reported by SOTAvision.

35-year-old Evgeny Kikeev, who was arrested in absentia in the “Moscow case” last year, was placed in a pre-trial detention center, reports the publication Beware, News, without specifying the source of its information. On August 6, 2024, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow took Kikeev into custody in absentia.

35-year-old Evgeny Kikeev, who was arrested in absentia in the “Moscow case” last year, was placed in a pre-trial detention center, reports the publication Beware, News, without specifying the source of its information. On August 6, 2024, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow took Kikeev into custody in absentia.

During the debate in the Avtozavodsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod, the prosecutor requested three and a half years in a general regime colony for former member of the Yabloko party Mikhail Sharygin in the case of participation in the activities of Navalny’s headquarters, reports the Nizhny Novgorod Political Red Cross. SOTA writes that the prosecutor also asks to assign him a year of restriction of freedom after leaving the colony.

Convicted for eight years in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), Kirov resident Richard Rose was placed in a punishment cell on January 15. His wife reported this to OVD-Info. It is unknown for how long the prisoner was sent there. “Something is wrong with the clothes,” is how Rose’s husband described the reason for the penalty. Rose is in IK-29 Perm.

In the city of Ramenskoye in the Moscow region, activist Oksana Osadchaya and RusNews journalist Yulia Petrova, who filmed her, were detained because of a single picket. Osadchaya herself reported this to OVD-Info. The poster the activist was holding read “Freedom to all seriously ill political prisoners.” The girl called for signing a petition for their release.

The investigator brought new charges against 35-year-old Muscovite Solim Kamina, against whom a criminal case was opened due to a post about a Russian missile strike on a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Uman. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Natalia Tikhonova. Initially, Kamin was accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred or enmity (clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, left-wing politician Gleb Babich was detained when he was filming a raid by security forces on migrants near the Teply Stan metro station. Presumably, he is being taken to the military registration and enlistment office, Doxa reports .

Pskov activist Danila Afonin was sentenced to a year of suspended imprisonment, the regional press service of the courts reports . Afonin was also banned for two years from administering websites, channels, forums, chats and groups on the Internet. He did not admit guilt. The case against Afonin was opened in December 2023 due to posts on VKontakte. On January 17, 2024, he was searched and detained as part of a case to discredit the Armed Forces.

On November 29, 2024, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan commuted the sentence of the author of the YouTube channel “Wild Paratrooper” Askhabali Alibekov, reducing the term of imprisonment from two years and four months to two years in a maximum security colony. The appeal ruling was published on the website of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, and RusNews drew attention to it.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the director of the Narva Museum (Estonia) Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova in a criminal case of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army by a group of people motivated by hatred (clause “b” and clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code ), reports Mediazona. What caused the persecution and who is part of the “group of persons” is not yet known.

On January 14, 56-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Karachay-Cherkessia Rimma Popova was asked to serve four and a half years in a general regime colony, and on January 15, the prosecution asked her 34-year-old co-religionist from the Sakhalin region, Daler Tokhtaev, to be sentenced to eight years in a colony. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia".

On January 14, 56-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Karachay-Cherkessia Rimma Popova was asked to be sentenced to four and a half years in a general regime colony, and on January 15, the prosecution asked her 34-year-old co-religionist from the Sakhalin region, Daler Tokhtaev, to be sentenced to eight years in a colony. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia".