In Belgorod, a court sentenced programmer Ilya Chubukov to six years and six months in prison on charges of possession of explosives (Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), reports “Ashes. Belgorod". He was also fined 50 thousand rubles on charges of vandalism for setting fire to an installation in the shape of the letter Z (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code), for which he was initially detained. Chubukov plans to appeal the verdict.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 15-year-old schoolboy from Moscow under the article on non-reporting (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code), reports RTVI, without specifying the source of its information. According to investigators, a peer told the student in a telegram that he was preparing to set fire to the United Russia office in Dolgoprudny near Moscow.

Jehovah's Witness from Karachay-Cherkessia Rimma Popova was sentenced to four and a half years of suspended imprisonment. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers of this denomination. The Circassian City Court found her guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and inducing such activities (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code); the verdict was passed on January 20.

In correctional colony No. 18 in Mordovia, historian Yuri Dmitriev was sent to a punishment cell for six days, the Memorial Society reports . Dmitriev was placed in a punishment cell on January 17. The reason for the penalty was “incorrect performance of morning exercises.” In a week, on January 28, Dmitriev will turn 69 years old. Of these, he spent eight years in prison.

Blogger from Shuya Sergei Veselov, serving a sentence in the case of discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) spent 60 days without a break in a punishment cell or punishment cell, ASTRA reports with reference to his mother Tatyana Veselova. She clarified to OVD-Info that Veselov was kept there from November 19 to January 19. He was either in the punishment cell of the Ivanovo pre-trial detention center No. 1 or the punishment cell of the colony-settlement No.

Eco-activist from Komi Alexey Semenov was sentenced to a year in prison under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the term for prosecution. This was reported by the publication “7×7”. The environmental activist was persecuted because of a post on VKontakte, which began with the words “Izhma is rehearsing the meeting of the cargo “200”.

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64-year-old pensioner Konstantin Seleznev, who published on his page a letter to the Prosecutor General about the crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine, was asked to serve eight years in a general regime colony and a ban on administering websites for four years. His support group reported this to OVD-Info.

The Supreme Court of Russia, at the request of Roskomnadzor, revoked the media license of the St. Petersburg publication MR7, Slovo zashchita reports . The reason for the lawsuit was the lack of “foreign agency” markings in two news items on the publication’s website. They concerned the politician Boris Vishnevsky and the SK SOS Crisis Group, who were recognized as “foreign agents”.

The St. Petersburg City Court, in an appeal, tightened the sentence of former military man Sergei Lintsov: from four to five years in prison in the case of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by MR7. The man was detained in September 2023, and since then Lintsov has been under arrest.

On January 14, the Supreme Court of the Udmurt Republic changed the preventive measure against Jehovah's Witness Alexander Stefanidin and released him from house arrest under a ban on certain actions. This was reported by the Unofficial JW Russia telegram channel.

On January 20, the Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved the proposal of the Ministry of Justice to tighten liability under the criminal article of inciting hatred or hostility (Article 282 of the Criminal Code). Vedomosti reported this with reference to its source. The main changes will affect the first part of this article.

On December 28, 2024, the 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced builder from Krasnoyarsk Anton Bobylev to eight years in prison in the case of financing the Freedom of Russia Legion. The press service of the court reported this, and Mediazona drew attention to the news. 32-year-old Bobylev was found guilty under the article on financing a terrorist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

On January 20, the Khabarovsk District Court sentenced 66-year-old Jehovah's Witnesses Lyubov Kocherova and Lyubov Ovchinnikova to five and a half years probation. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. Believers are charged with involvement in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and participation in such activities (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Barnaul, FSB officers detained an 18-year-old technical school student in the case of attempting to arson a military registration and enlistment office; a case of attempted terrorist attack was opened against him (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). TASS writes about this with reference to the FSB press release.