Anarchist from Sevastopol Alexei Shestakovich, who, after being detained on March 1, served 11 days of arrest for publishing on VKontakte the songs “Killing Cosmonauts” and “Synagogue” by the group “Ensemble of Christ the Savior and Mother of the Cheese Earth,” was tortured during his arrest. He told Mediazona about this after his release.

On the Triumphal Square in the center of Moscow, seven activists of the 14%movement were detained, who read on the square an appeal against the re -election of President Vladimir Putin to the post of head of state for the fourth time. “OVD-Info” publishes the names of the detainees: Valery Nadezhdin, Grigory Simakov, Sergey Belousych, Kirill Belousov, Anton Drozdov, Evgeny Makarov and Elena Zakharova.

In the Kaliningrad region, the Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation into the statement of two employees of the regional department of the Federal Bailiff Service, who accused the deputy head of the department, Sergei Simonenko, of harassment at a corporate party on March 7. The New Kaliningrad publication first wrote about this on March 10. According to one of the women, on the day of the corporate party, Simonenko forced her to perform oral sex.

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Russian authorities are highly likely to be involved in the poisoning of former GRU colonel of the Russian General Staff Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. Her speech is broadcast by newspaper the Metro .

In St. Petersburg, police detained activist Ilya Gantvarg, according to a tweet from the local headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

An expert from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the conclusion that the two rolled cigarettes that were seized on the balcony of the Grozny office of the Memorial human rights center contained marijuana, lawyer Pyotr Zaikin told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, this became known two weeks ago.

The Investigative Committee issued a seventh resolution to terminate the criminal case at the request of Orenburg resident Vladimir Prytkov, who claims that in 2010 he was beaten at the police station, demanding to testify about car theft. As notes the Committee Against Torture , human rights activists intend to appeal the decision of the Investigative Committee.

In Moscow, police drew up a report under Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code (petty hooliganism) against a resident of Astrakhan who set fire to a wall near the entrance to the FSB reception, TASS reports, citing a source in law enforcement. The agency's interlocutor explained that a 66-year-old resident of Astrakhan poured flammable liquid on the wall near the entrance to the FSB reception on Kuznetsky Most and started the fire.

Representatives of 47 human rights organizations from different countries demanded an immediate end to the torture of anti-fascists in Russia, a thorough and objective investigation of the complaints of those involved in the “Penza case,” and also that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The statement was published on the website of the Civic Solidarity platform. “In the case against anti-fascists, we are seeing two very alarming new trends.

In St. Petersburg, police detained a volunteer from Navalny’s headquarters, Vitaly Karpov, who was distributing leaflets, OVD-Info reports , citing the activist himself. As Karpov said, he distributed leaflets on the street with the slogan “Don’t vote. Watch." He is now in police department No. 18. In addition, the police detained another volunteer, Yegor Ryabchenko, in the metro, the St. Petersburg headquarters reported on Twitter.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the court gave 20 days of arrest to activist Ilya Myaskovsky for an action with a coffin on which the word “election” was written. about this on his Twitter. wrote The head of the observer training project at Navalny’s headquarters, Nikolai Levshits, The day before, Myaskovsky reported on his Facebook page that a protocol had been drawn up against him under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules of the rally).

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow sentenced the leader of the Russian Liberation Front “Pamyat” and the head of the Moscow branch of the Committee “Nation and Freedom” Vladimir Komarnitsky, known as Ratnikov, to 160 hours of compulsory labor, the Moscow agency reports , citing the court’s press service. According to the agency, Ratnikov was found guilty of inciting hatred towards Caucasians and communists (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The defendant in the case of the supply of almost 400 kilograms of cocaine from Argentina, Ishtimir Khudzhamov, told the Moscow City Court that he and other defendants tried to help the investigation return the alleged organizer of the supply, Andrei Kovalchuk, to Russia, reports . RIA Novosti “We cooperated with the investigation, participated in investigative experiments to lure Kovalchuk to Russia,” Khudzhamov said.

A resident of the Tula region accidentally killed a passerby while shooting at a fence, the regional department of the Investigative Committee said in a statement . According to investigators, on March 9, in the village of Morevo, Dubensky district, near a private house, a 35-year-old man opened fire at a fence with a pneumatic weapon. One bullet hit the head of a bystander, whom the Investigative Committee also calls an acquaintance of the shooter.

In the Rostov region, the police opened a case under Part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of moderate harm to health) after the mass poisoning with thallium of employees of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after Beriev, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.