Overview
- The public session scheduled for December 30 did not proceed, and the court later listed January 28 as the next date.
- Judge Konstantin Otschirow first announced February 28 before the docket corrected it to January 28, attributing the delay to the duty defense lawyer being on a work trip.
- The proceedings continue in absentia on allegations of defaming Russian state organs, including the army and President Vladimir Putin, an offense carrying potential fines or up to ten years in prison under Russian law.
- Several representatives of the German embassy attended as observers, and the indictment was not read after the prosecutor arrived late and the defense counsel was unavailable.
- Tilly rejects the accusations and says he will not travel to Moscow, while German political and cultural leaders voice support and note that pursuing a foreign satirist in this way is unusual.