On February 18, United Russia deputies of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma proposed amending the Code of Administrative Offenses, increasing the punishment for propaganda and public display of Nazi and extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) tenfold, as well as introducing additional punishment for repeated offenses under this article. This was reported on the official website of the Kaliningrad Legislative Assembly.

The Kazan administration refused to approve the holding of the “Spring” anti-crisis march on March 1 in the city center. The organizers were asked to move the event from Gabudulla Tukai Square to Said-Galeev Square in the Sovetsky district of the city, writes Kommersant Kazan on February 18, citing one of the applicants of the action, the chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the Progress Party, Elvira Dmitrieva.

The administration of St. Petersburg refused to agree on an opposition rally scheduled for March 1. This was announced by the head of the St. Petersburg branch of RPR-Parnas Andrey Pivovarov. “Smolny refused to notify the march on March 1 on all proposed routes,” the politician wrote on his Twitter account. Notice of the march with the slogans “No to war! No crisis! was filed with the administration on Monday, February 16.

The Moscow mayor's office refused to approve the opposition march "Spring" along Tverskaya Street, scheduled for March 1. The city administration proposed to move the event from the center of Moscow to Maryino. This was reported on February 18 by Interfax with reference to one of the organizers of the action, Sergei Davidis.

On February 18, the Starodubsky District Court of the Bryansk Region refused to satisfy Sergei Krivov's complaint against the colony administration, which did not allow prisoners to send correspondence. On February 18, Krivov's lawyer filed a petition for parole, but at the time of writing, it was not considered. OVD-Info apologizes for the error in the material .

On February 18, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft law that provides for a credit of one day of detention in a pre-trial detention center before the sentence comes into force for one and a half days spent in a general regime colony or in an educational colony and two days when sending a convict to a colony-settlement. The information is published in the bill card on the official website of the State Duma.

On February 18, the Starodubsky District Court of the Bryansk Region refused to release Sergey Krivov, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, on parole. This was reported by the defender of Krivov Irina Biryukova. Sergei Krivov has been in custody since October 2012. In February 2014, he was found guilty of participating in riots and using violence against a police officer and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. In August 2014, Krivov was transferred to correctional colony No.

On February 18, the Tagansky District Court rejected the claim of Alexei Navalny, recognizing the blocking of his blog at navalny.com as legal. this The politician announced on his Twitter account.

Andrei Romanov, an activist of the Left Front from Magnitogorsk, who has been charged with “extremist appeals,” has been put on the international wanted list. Andrey Romanov provided OVD-Info with a copy of the resolution on this: the document of the Chelyabinsk department of the FSB says that he is hiding from the investigation, according to them, in Finland. Chekists sent information about Romanov to Interpol.

In the summer of 2014, amendments to the legislation on rallies were adopted, as a result of which Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code, providing for liability for "repeated violations of the established procedure for organizing or conducting meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets." Tatyana Glushkova (PC Memorial) and Grigory Durnovo (ATS-Info) spoke about the first criminal cases under this article and the prospects of its further application on the radio Freedom.