Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin allowed the laying of flowers on the anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov on February 27. this to RIA Novosti . reported The regional administration Yesterday, the organizers of the procession in memory of Nemtsov, which the Nizhny Novgorod mayor's office refused to hold , wrote an open letter to Nikitin in which they asked not to interfere with the laying of flowers at the temporary memorial on Teatralnaya Square.

In Moscow, near the presidential administration, activist Cristina Ramirez was detained, standing with a poster “Where is Navalny?” about this . She told the human rights project “OVD-Info” According to her, the police explained the detention as a “violation of picketing rules” (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and took her to the Kitay-Gorod police station.

The third secretary of the Russian Embassy in the DPRK, Vladislav Sorokin, pushed a homemade trolley along the railway tracks for about a kilometer to the border to leave the country. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Several other embassy employees and their children were returning with him, eight people in total. They traveled to the border by train and bus, and then on a homemade trolley with red chairs to the Hasan border point.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow arrested for five days the deputy editor-in-chief of the Zakon news agency and expert of the Golos observer movement Vasily Weissenberg because of the rally on January 23. this The editors of the publication reported . Weissenberg, who on January 23 filmed a rally of supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for “Zakon”, was not detained at the rally itself.

In Kurgan, the criminal case against Alexei Schwartz, coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, was dropped. This is stated in the resolution of the Investigative Committee, which was posted by representatives of the headquarters. The case was opened in November 2020. Previously, doctors declared Schwartz unfit for service.

In Murmansk on February 23, an unknown man attacked the coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Violetta Grudina. about this Representatives of the headquarters spoke on VKontakte. Grudina clarified to Mediazona that when she was walking with a friend in the evening near the regional government building, a man about 30 years old with a red beard approached them and began to insult her.

The prosecutor's office dropped the criminal case against the leader of the "Left Resistance" Daria Polyudova. this in his Telegram channel. announced The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, The case was dropped after the article was partially decriminalized. Amendments were made to it in December 2020. Now those who have not violated this article for a year cannot be prosecuted, Chikov clarified.

Telecom operators are blocking messages with the words “State Duma deputies,” “Navalny,” and “Alexey Navalny,” , said on Twitter. Artem Tyurin, an employee of Lyubov Sobol’s election headquarters As Tyurin wrote, the headquarters call center was unable to send SMS messages with these words.

Politician Alexei Navalny was transported from Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina,” said . his lawyer Vadim Kobzev The oppositionist has been in custody since January 17 in the Yves Rocher case. Navalny was detained at the airport after returning from Germany, where he was being treated for poisoning.

The German Prosecutor General's Office accused 55-year-old German Jens F. of transmitting floor plans of government buildings to Russian intelligence services. This was reported by Spiegel . Jens F. was charged with being a criminal, according to the website of the country's Prosecutor General's Office. As stated in the release, the accused worked for a company that has repeatedly collaborated with the Bundestag.

Members of the Russian liberation movement destroyed a memorial to politician Boris Nemtsov, organized on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. Volunteer of the Nemtsov Bridge project Grigory Simakov told Novaya Gazeta about this. Yesterday, volunteers restored the memorial and continued to be on duty after security forces fenced it off on February 19 and removed the flowers and photographs they had brought.

The investigator released on his own recognizance a resident of Vladivostok, Alexey Gasyuk, who is a suspect in the case of blocking roads during the rally on January 23 (Part 1 of Article 267 of the Criminal Code). Polina Sidelnikova, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reported this to Mediazona. “The man was summoned for questioning by telephone: Gasyuk learned that he had become a suspect in a criminal case during the interrogation,” clarifies .

The Moscow City Court changed the place of serving house arrest for the coordinator of the capital headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Oleg Stepanov. This was reported by the joint press service of the Moscow courts.

Lawyer "" Eldar Garoz said that his client Yegor Lesnykh was retroactively attributed to violating the regime in the colony before considering the complaint from the prosecutor's office against the decision on parole. At the end of January, the court decided to release Lesnykh, convicted in the “Moscow case,” from the colony.

The Moscow City Court changed the preventive measure for the head of the Alliance of Doctors, Anastasia Vasilyeva, in a “sanitary case,” wrote on Twitter. her lawyer Dmitry Dzhulay Vasilyeva was under house arrest. Now a ban on certain actions has been chosen as a preventive measure: she is prohibited from leaving the house from 20:00 to 8:00. Earlier, at the request of Vasilyeva’s defense, the court changed her place of serving house arrest.