Police officers and employees of Center “E” came to the Rock House club during the MLM punk festival, lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Mediazona. The concert has been suspended. According to Dinze, operatives are now talking with event organizers and inspecting the club. The police interrupted the festival under the pretext of identifying persons in the club who may be involved in crimes or are wanted. As Dinze clarified, we are talking about operational search activities.

In the village of Barvikha near Moscow, police detained opposition candidates for local elections Vitaly Serukanov, Stanislav Volkov, Anna Litvinenko and several activists, activist Sergei Vasilchenko reports on his Facebook page. Activist Alexander Ageev posted a video on Twitter , which shows that the oppositionists’ car was blocked by armed people in camouflage. As Vasilchenko writes, the detainees’ passports were taken away, and they themselves were taken to the local police department.

Investigators are checking Alexander Konstantinovsky, accused of raider seizure of 20 buildings in the center of Moscow, for involvement in a criminal case about the fraud of officials of the Ministry of Culture, TASS reports, citing a source close to the investigation.

On the night of April 2, law enforcement agencies checked about 50 people in clubs and cafes in Simferopol for drugs and compliance with migration laws. Among them were Crimean Tatars, Russians and Ukrainians, TASS reports citing Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya. “In total, according to law enforcement agencies, about 50 people of different nationalities were checked - these are not only Crimean Tatars, but also Russians, Ukrainians and others.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested three suspects in an attack on the official vehicle of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees in transport in December 2015. This was reported by the online publication Fontanka.

The Main Investigation Department of the Moscow Police has charged the founder of the Smotra.ru automobile community, Eric “Davidych” Kituashvili, with fraud on an especially large scale. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.

In St. Petersburg, police were looking for a bomb in a house on Sadovaya Street following a report from a man who heard people talking about an explosion on the street. This was reported by the online publication Fontanka. According to Fontanka, on the evening of April 1, a man called the police in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg. He said that he was walking along Konyushennaya Street and heard two men saying that an explosion would happen in the house of one of them.

In the village of Pionerskoye near Simferopol, armed masked men detained 35 Crimean Tatars in the Baghdad cafe, lawyer Emil Kurbedinov reports on Facebook. According to him, the detainees are being taken to the “E” center. “Supposedly preventative testing,” Kurbedinov wrote . He emphasized that all the detainees were Muslims, Crimean Tatars, and the visitors with Slavic appearance who were in the cafe were not detained.