Anarchist from Sevastopol Alexey Shestakovich, who spoke about torture during his arrest for publishing on VKontakte the songs “Kill the Cosmonauts” and “Synagogue” by the group “Ensemble of Christ the Savior and Mother of the Cheese Earth,” crossed the Ukrainian border. He wrote about this on Facebook the day before; OVD-Info drew attention to the publication. “Already in Kherson. I left without any problems,” the activist wrote.

In St. Petersburg, municipal deputy of the Sea Gate district Daniil Ken was detained at the territorial election commission No. 22, according to a tweet from the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny. “Daniil Ken was detained and taken from TEC 22 to the 20 police department. For allegedly hitting someone,” the headquarters noted. On his Twitter, Ken said that he came to the TEC to submit a notice of appointment as a member of the commission with the right to an advisory vote.

The precinct election commission No. 1499 of St. Petersburg decided to ban the use of mobile phones at the polling station by everyone except the chairman. Pavel Shvets, assistant to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the city Oksana Dmitrieva, told Mediazona about this. Shvets published a sample solution on his Twitter. It proposes introducing a rule according to which only the chairman of the election commission “for official purposes” can use a mobile phone at the polling station.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared 23 diplomatic employees of the British Embassy persona non grata, according to the ministry’s website. The expelled diplomats were given a week to leave Russia. In addition, the Russian side withdrew its consent to the opening and operation of the British Consulate General in St. Petersburg and ceased the activities of the British Council in Russia.

Investigators believe that Nikolai Glushkov, a business partner of oligarch Boris Berezovsky, could have been strangled with a dog leash. This was reported by the Independent , citing a source. Earlier, the British police said that they were considering the version of Glushkov’s murder. The department also noted that there is no information about the connection between Glushkov’s death and the poisoning of ex-intelligence officer Sergei Skripal.

Detained with the poster of "Putin in the emperors!" Ivan Cloud (Gennady Pirogov) was put in the Moscow Regional Psychiatric Hospital, his wife told the OVD-Info project. This information was confirmed by the publication in the emergency room and the fourth branch of the hospital. There is no other information about the detained. On the evening of March 16, Pirogov was detained during a single picket with a poster “Putin to the Emperors!”.