Journalist Mikhail Rodin spoke about the closure of the historical programs “Homeland of Elephants” and Proshloe at the request of the editor-in-chief of radio “Moscow Speaks” Roman Babayan. According to Rodin, the author’s contract with him was not formally renewed. “Roman Babayan does not hide that this happened because of my letter to the President [Vladimir Putin] criticizing the so-called law on education,” says the journalist.

The Ministry of Justice sent a disciplinary complaint to the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers against lawyer Lyubov Sobol’s defense attorney, Vladimir Voronin. Kommersant was told about this by the department’s press service. According to the newspaper, the Ministry of Justice made a statement after an appeal from lawyer Ilya Remeslo, who pointed out Voronin’s violation of lawyer’s ethics.

The Ministry of Justice excluded the foundation founded by human rights activist Lev Ponomarev from the list of NGOs “performing the functions of a foreign agent.” This is stated in the register itself. According to the notice in the registry, this was done by court order. The Ministry of Justice later announced that the exclusion of the fund from the register was a “technical error”, and the organization remains on the list of “foreign agents”.

In 2020, Russian courts handed down 112 verdicts against 130 people, the only reason for criminal prosecution of whom was their words, according to the annual report of the SOVA information and analytical center, “Illegal application of anti-extremist legislation in Russia,” published today. In addition, human rights activists are aware of 55 sentences against 122 people convicted in 2020 for involvement in banned organizations (mostly religious).

On March 3 and 4, Investigative Committee officers interrogated 7x7 journalists Ekaterina and Evgeny Malyshev as part of the investigation into the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev, acquaintances of the defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network””. this .

The Moscow City Court overturned the verdict of hematologist Elena Misyurina, who was accused of the death of a patient after a bone marrow biopsy, and dismissed her case due to the lack of corpus delicti. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. In January 2018, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court sentenced her to two years in a general regime colony; at the end of 2020, the decision was sent for new consideration.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Penza region reported that Vitaly Vyunov, who spoke about the beating by police, resisted arrest. The department's commentary is provided by TASS.

The Yaroslavl District Court of Yaroslavl arrested until March 23 the former prisoner of correctional colony No. 1 Evgeny Makarov, who spoke about torture by FSIN officers. Yarkub was informed about this by the press service of the court. Makarov was detained yesterday on the day the regional court considered complaints against the sentence of prison officers in the case of beating him.

Two Belarusian citizens said that Russian security forces forced them to leave the country because of their participation in rallies in support of protests in the republic, writes . Meduza Thus, Belarusian citizen Lana Savanovich was refused a residence permit in Russia with the wording that this was a “decision of the FSB.” Savanovich moved to Moscow with her family a year ago.

The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl placed Igor Kamironov, an employee of correctional colony No. 1, under house arrest in a new case of beating a prisoner. This was reported by the Human Rights Foundation The case of beating a prisoner in August 2016 - two weeks before his release - was opened in February after the publication by Public Verdict and Novaya Gazeta of recordings from the dashcam cameras of prison staff.

In Syktyvkar, a preventive measure was chosen for five Jehovah's Witnesses in the case of organizing and participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, the defendants in the case in 2017-2021 adhered to the “extremist ideology” of Jehovah’s Witnesses and continued the work of the banned organization.

Love Sobol. Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP The comrade -in -arms of Alexei Navalny Lyubov Sobol on the eve of the election became the accused in two criminal cases. One of them - “sanitary business” - was excited after a wave of protests and concerns several oppositionists who allegedly called for a violation of coronavirus quarantine. The second was instructions individually for sable: she is accused of penetrating the apartment of the Ephesus and the possible poisoner of Navalny.

In Chelyabinsk, FSB officers detained 41-year-old regional parliament member from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Arman Arakelyan, whose family owns the Dorstroygroup road company. This was reported by Znak.com and 74.ru with reference to sources.

The Central District Military Court fined 39-year-old activist from Naberezhnye Chelny Karim Yamadayev, who made a video about the trial of President Vladimir Putin and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov, 510 thousand rubles. This was reported by the Network Freedoms project of the human rights group Agora. Taking into account the time in the pre-trial detention center - Yamadayev was arrested in the case in January 2020 - the amount of the fine was reduced to 300 thousand rubles.

Karim Yamadaev. Photo: Delokarima.ru Karim Yamadaev from Naberezhnye Chelny first arranged promotions with mannequins and fake tombstones of Putin, and then decided to remove the web series about the "Judge Gramm", which judges officials and security forces. Yamadaev was in a pre -trial detention center after the release of the first series - in it he sentenced the death execution of the actors with the signs "Dmitry Peskov" and "Igor Sechin".