In Moscow, on Pushkin Square, Left Resistance activists Daria Polyudova and Kirill Kotov, as well as Yegor Gudkov, who stood with single pickets, were detained. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to Polyudova. Along with the activists, an activist of the SERB movement was also detained , who refused to give his name. According to Polyudova, after the “March of Angry Mothers” they stood on Pushkin Square with single pickets.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a commission to the Vladimir region to investigate the circumstances of the driver’s detention, during which traffic police officers put up a “human shield” of cars with drivers, according to the department’s website. “If facts of violation of legislation and departmental regulations are revealed, the guilty officials will be subject to disciplinary action,” said department official representative Irina Volk.

In Bashkiria, in the city of Sibay, an excess of the maximum concentration of sulfur was recorded by almost 23 times, according to the website of the city administration. When measuring atmospheric air at 9:20 on March 8 Street, an excess of the maximum permissible concentration for sulfur dioxide was recorded by 22.8 times, and on Nurimanov Street by 14 times.

In St. Petersburg, police officers began to detain the participants of the “Marter Anger March” campaign in support of the “Open Russia” activist Anastasia Shevchenko, the press service reports. According to Open Russia, the seven participants in the action were detained in total. The Rain TV channel reports about ten detainees. According to the “group of assistance groups” three detainees are called Dmitry Dorokhin, Maria Kozhevatova and Irina Bogdanovskaya.

In St. Petersburg, four activists of the “Spring” movement were detained for stretching out a banner in the street in support of “Open Russia,” reports the “Group for Assistance to Detainees.” The night before, activists took to Nevsky Prospekt and unfurled a poster “Open Russia instead of Putin.” After that they were detained. Four activists were taken to the 28th police department: Vladimir Kazachenko, Alexander Ilyinov, Valentin Khoroshenin and Kirill Matveev.