On March 6 at 20:30 at the office of the International Society "Memorial" (Karetny Ryad 5/10) a meeting will be held to coordinate activities in the courts in connection with cases of detentions at the actions of recent days - at the Zamoskvoretsky Court, on Tverskaya Street, near the Ministry of Defense and etc. The meeting will be attended by lawyers working on the processes dedicated to these detentions.

Activists Reida Lynn and Niks Nemeni, who were detained yesterday at an anti-war rally near the Ministry of Defense, were sentenced by the Presnensky District Court to 10 days of administrative arrest under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The trial of four more detainees the day before will continue tomorrow.

Thus, on October 31, 2013, in Sochi, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism detained the coordinator of the “Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus” Andrei Rudomakha, who arrived in Sochi from Krasnodar to meet with activists of the local “Yabloko”. The story of the arrests of employees of the Norwegian television channel TV2 Eisten Bogen and Aage Aune in early November caused a lot of noise : for three days they were stopped and interrogated in Maikop , Tuapse and Sochi .

Maria Ryabikova, who was detained yesterday at an anti-war rally near the Ministry of Defense, was sentenced by the Presnensky District Court to 5 days of administrative arrest under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and a fine of 20,000 rubles under Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

Aleksey Nikitin, who was detained yesterday at an anti-war rally near the Ministry of Defense, was sentenced by the Presnensky District Court to 10 days of arrest under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Consideration of his case under Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses has been postponed. 7 more detainees are awaiting their turn. Three people were brought to court, four are still in an unheated paddy wagon from 16.00.

Gennady Stroganov, who was detained yesterday at an anti-war rally near the Ministry of Defense, was sentenced by the Presnensky Court to 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Another 8 people who were registered yesterday under this article and spent the night in the Yuzhnoye Tushino police department have been in an unheated paddy wagon near the Presnensky court building since four in the afternoon.

Gennady Stroganov, the only detainee who stayed overnight at the Mitino OVD, is being taken to the Yuzhnoye Tushino OVD, from where, together with ten more detainees who spent the night there at the Ministry of Defense, he will go to the Presnensky District Court. UPD (15:38): Detainees are charged with violating two articles at once 19.3 and 20.2

He was the only one issued under Article 19.3 (disobedience to the lawful demand of a police officer). All the rest are issued according to 20.2 and released.

All detainees are charged with 20.2 and 19.3. Only one detainee managed to leave the OVD. At the Shchukino police department, all but two have been released at the moment. All the detainees were registered according to 20.2, so, apparently, those who are still there will also be released. According to OVD-Info, they wanted to subject the detainees to fingerprinting, referring to the law, but the detainees read the law aloud and indicated that their case was not among those listed in the law.

All of them have completed protocols according to 20.2, courts have been scheduled for March 12 and 13. Gradually, the detainees are released from the Mitino police department, they also have 20.2. UPD: Almost everyone was released from the Mitino police department, except for two people who, apparently, are left until the morning.

The detention of a LGBT activist in Voronezh during the Olympic fire relay. Photo: article20.org In preparation for the Olympic Games in Sochi, and then their holdings, in addition to measures related to the restriction of the freedom of meetings in Sochi, we observed numerous cases of detentions in different cities of Russia, as well as the persecution of political opponents of the authorities (including, first of all, environmental activists), which can be somehow associated with the Olympiad.

"Bolotnaya Case" Ilya Gushchin remained in custody until June 6 “Kasparov.Ru”, February 27 : “The Presidium of the Moscow City Court rejected an appeal to extend the arrest of Ilya Gushchin, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, this was reported on the social network on February 27. Thus, Gushchin will be in custody until June 6.