Non-Moscow news for the night of January 29
🔹 A criminal case of murder has been opened in Irkutsk after the death of a shelter resident at the hands of a former SAV officer. A resident of the region was under investigation. Novel Michurin, the regional Investigative Committee reports. His namesake has already been implicated in several criminal cases, Siberian Express noted. In 2020 Irkutsk The district court dismissed Michurin's drug case, and Shelekhovsky The city court found him guilty of threatening to kill and aggravated destruction of property. Furthermore, in 2023, a drunken Michurin set fire to the apartment of his then-partner. He was given only a suspended sentence of 1,5 years.
🔹An anti-war activist and poet from Barnaul Artem Sakharov added to the list of "extremists and terrorists" of Rosfinmonitoring. “Now I’m on the famous list, and with a special note that I’m not just an extremist, but a terrorist,” "Sakharov commented on his Telegram channel. Artyom organized a memorial in his city for the civilians killed in Ukraine, recited poetry in solidarity with the defendants in the Mayakovsky case, and laid flowers after Navalny's murder. Numerous arrests, a 30-day jail sentence, and threats of criminal prosecution forced him to leave Russia.
🔹 To a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from Buryatia's Vitaly Badmaev A 10-ruble fine was imposed for a rally in defense of Lake Baikal that never took place. According to Badmaev, he submitted a notice to the Ulan-Ude administration about a rally against amendments to the law on the protection of Lake Baikal, but his application was denied, citing a "New Year's event." In response, Badmaev was supposed to send a letter assuring officials that he would not hold the rally. Badmaev claims he sent such a letter. But he was still sued. Meanwhile, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation of Buryatia claim the rally never took place.
🔹 Investigators have discovered the Russian air defense position whose missile hit a residential building in AdygeaThe CIT stated that the missile flew for approximately 8-9 seconds—the air defense position is located near the village of Druzhny, seven kilometers from the impact site. Radio Liberty discovered a trace in a satellite image, presumably left in a nearby field by another air defense missile that malfunctioned that day.
🔹 Activists restored the memorial plaque. Anna Politkovskaya for the eighth time. The day before, at the house Forest в Moscow A police post was set up to check people stopping at the entrance. Previously, unknown individuals had destroyed signs hung by activists seven times in a row.
