On March 22, activist Grigory Tolkachev was attacked and thrown out of the gate of a construction site near the Sputnik Hotel on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow. As Tolkachev reported on the social network Facebook, he went by ambulance to the emergency room.
On March 17, there were already clashes between local residents who opposed the compaction of buildings on the site of the square near the Sputnik Hotel, and people guarding the construction site.