The international human rights organization Amnesty International announced an internal investigation into the status of a prisoner of conscience of politician Alexei Navalny. this on Twitter . The organization's secretary general, Julia Verhaar, announced “We will conduct an internal investigation into what went wrong and how we ended up in this situation.

In Kaliningrad, detective officer of the Western Linear Transport Directorate Yuri Kovalkov was arrested in connection with the case of planted drugs. Two sources close to the investigation reported this to Mediazona. Kovalkov is suspected of selling drugs (points “b” and “d” of Part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of office (point “c” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The Naro-Fominsk Garrison Military Court sentenced former military man Kirill Kondratenko to six years in prison in cases of and. this RBC reports with reference to the press service of the court. The verdict was handed down on January 27. Warrant officer Vladimir Zotov was involved in the case with Kondratenko. In addition to embezzlement and theft of weapons, he was charged with three counts of fraud (parts 3 and 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined activist Christina Ramirez Johnson 150 thousand rubles for a picket near the presidential administration. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to legal assistance coordinator Anna Romashchenko. Johnson was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). She was detained the day before, on February 25.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined Daria Belyaeva, a member of the public monitoring commission (POC), 30 thousand rubles for... this She herself announced on Facebook. correspondent The Znak.com notes that the protocol was drawn up due to a publication by a PSC employee on Facebook.

The 224th garrison military court fined former FSB border guard Andrei Belov 30 thousand rubles for purchasing 1.88 grams of mephedrone, reports the joint city press service of the courts. According to investigators, Belov and a friend purchased drugs on the evening of December 3, 2020. Half an hour later they encountered the police, and Belov threw the drugs under a parked car. Belov admitted guilt, his case was considered in a special manner.

The Human Rights Foundation reported the detention of two employees of Yaroslavl correctional colony No. 1 after the publication of new videos of prisoners being tortured. They were temporarily suspended from work. “Tomorrow the Zavolzhsky Court of Yaroslavl will decide the issue regarding the suppression of the FSIN employees. The investigation will apply for detention,” human rights activists added.

The Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs report that the night visit of security forces to the Sredneuralsky convent was connected with the search for the accused of a triple murder committed in 1999. about this writes E1.ru with reference to the press services of the departments.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced former FSB investigators Alexei Kolbov and Sergei Belousov in the case of extorting bitcoins from the former head of Izvestia Publishing House. reported this TASS and RIA Novosti with reference to their correspondents in court. Kolbov received 12 years in a maximum security colony, and Belousov received nine years. They were stripped of the ranks of major and captain of justice.

The FBI has promised to pay a reward of $250,000 “for information leading to the arrest of Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin.” This is reported on the department's website. The announcement was published back in June 2020. Prigozhin has been on the federal wanted list in the United States since February 2018 for alleged interference in the American elections.

The Samara Regional Court canceled the administrative arrest of the ex-coordinator of the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Egor Alasheyev, because of the action on January 31. This was reported by “Apology of Protest” with reference to lawyer Stanislav Seleznev. The case was sent for a new trial to the Oktyabrsky District Court. Alasheyev should be released from the special detention center on February 26 - a day earlier, the human rights project notes.

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the verdict of lawyer Mikhail Benyash and sent the case on the day of the protest against pension reform on September 9, 2018 for a new trial. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. “The reasons for the decision will be known later, when the lawyers get acquainted with the reasoning,” Chikov noted. In October 2019, Benyash was fined 30 thousand rubles in a criminal case.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Kaluga Region sent out a letter to at least 30 universities, lyceums and colleges asking them to show students the Investigative Committee’s film “Behind the Scenes of the Protest.” This was reported by Dozhd with reference to the letter. The authenticity of the document was confirmed to the TV channel by a representative of the ministry and one of the directors who received it.

The investigator interrogated the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev as a suspect in the case of wounding a National Guardsman (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of Human Rights Postcard, told Mediazona about this. The interrogation took place on February 25 at a mental hospital. “The victim is an employee of the Russian Guard, they have such a unit there as a full-time high-altitude fighter,” Pryanishnikov said.

Camp of protesters near the Yustonsky Station. Photo: Aaron Chown / PA While Russia was discussing the January street actions and the arrests that followed them, the British protest was unfolding underground. Over a month, activists of the “Rebellion Against Predictance” movement sat in their own dug 30-meter tunnel in the center of London in protest against the construction of a new railway. "Mediazona" talks about an unusual action, which ended with the forces of the last of the diggers.