In the Primorsky Territory, Yuri Beloservudtsev and Sergey Sergeyev, two “Jehovah's Witnesses” from Luchegorsk, were arrested, according to the religious movement in Russia. Jehovah's Witnesses note that the decision was made on March 19, the believers were sent to the pre -trial detention center for two months. According to preliminary data, they are in the insulator of Spassk-Dalnoy. Sergey Sergeyev is 63 years old.

At parliamentary hearings in the State Duma, a new concept of the law “On Culture” was discussed , which proposes to exempt works of art from the article on insulting the feelings of believers. The head of the legal department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Ksenia Chernega , told Interfax that the Russian Orthodox Church does not support this idea.

The Magassky District Court of Ingushetia reinstated the deputy director for scientific work of the Memorial Complex to the Victims of Repression, Zarifa Sautieva. She connects her dismissal with participation in protests against changes in the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, the Memorial human rights center told Mediazona. The court declared Sautieva's dismissal illegal and demanded her immediate reinstatement. Zarifa Sautieva was fired on January 28.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website ordonate.org, which collected donations for the activities of the Open Russia movement, Andrei Pivovarov, the chairman of the movement, told MBH Media. “Nobody told us anything, we went to the site this morning, but it doesn’t open. Our IT specialists found a link indicating that the Tatarstan subdomain was blocked.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the district police officer, who refused to start a case of domestic violence in the family of a resident of Lyskovo in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Two weeks after this decision, the woman died as a result of the next beating. According to the website of the department, a police officer is suspected of negligence that entailed death by negligence (part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code).

Deputy Director for Economics and Finance of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve in Kamchatka Olga Terekhova, accused of complicity in embezzlement (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), was sent under house arrest, reports Kam 24. This was confirmed by the director of the reserve, Petr Shpilenok.

A resident of Moscow Zelenograd, who was under house arrest, sold his electronic bracelet and signal receiving control device for one and a half thousand rubles, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets, without indicating the source of information. According to the newspaper, on February 13, 30-year-old Konstantin and his brother stole two sets of overalls, a microwave and a toaster from the store. All goods together cost eight thousand rubles. Soon the men were detained and placed under house arrest.

The prosecutor's office for the Karasun district of Krasnodar drew up a protocol against the editor-in-chief of Free Media, Vladislav Yanyushkin, on the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code), according to the publication’s website. The reason for the administrative case was a video from Open Russia about the lack of schools in Krasnodar, which the publication added to the publication.

The Tomsk Regional Court accepted the resignation of all three judges of the Molchanovsky District Court, the court’s press service told Interfax. According to the source, the reason was the acquittal of two police officers. “The judges submitted their resignation of their own free will. They did not give a reason,” said a representative of the regional court.

Dagestani human rights activist Gulnara Rustamova died in Syria, her friend told the Caucasian Knot. An unnamed source of Kavkaz.Realii adds that the human rights activist came under fire while in territory controlled by the Islamic State. Publications write that reports of Rustamova’s death came on March 21. Together with the human rights activist, the Caucasian Knot notes, several other people came under fire. “They were fired at from all sides.

The administration of VKontakte blocked the public page “Tomsk from Heights,” told its administrator Ilya Soyer TV2. In August 2017, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Tomsk decided that the public posts “call for unauthorized visits to high-rise buildings that are not suitable for this.” According to Sawyer, the public page was unavailable on March 21. Initially it was called “Roofs of Tomsk and Seversk” and was dedicated to roofing.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, an activist and director of the Merak youth theater was called to the police because of a body-positive project with drawings of naked women. about this The activist herself wrote on her VKontakte page. “Today I was called to the police to present my works of a “pornographic” nature. They say that with their help I seduce children,” she wrote.

A protocol was drawn up against 19-year-old student of the Kazan National Research Technological University Adel Badretdinov for organizing a rally against the pension reform without filing a notice, Mediazona was told in the Apology of Protest. The student is accused of organizing a public event without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

In the Amur Region, searches were held in the houses of five “Jehovah's Witnesses” from the city of Zeya, according to the website of the religious association in Russia. Investigative actions took place on March 21 in the case of the organization of the activities of a religious association recognized as extremist (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The 42-year-old Konstantin Moiseenko, who was released on a recognizance not to leave, was a suspect on him.

The Investigative Committee opened a case of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) against a former police trainee in Engels, who promised to help his acquaintances avoid criminal liability for a million rubles, according to the website of the Investigative Committee department for the Saratov region. According to investigators, in the spring of 2014, the young man underwent an internship in the Saratov department of economic security and anti-corruption.