The Border Guard Service of Ukraine denied entry to opposition journalist Dmitry Shipilov, who was released from the Kemerovo pre-trial detention center at the end of 2014. According to the publication "New Region" according to Shipilov, he intended to seek political asylum from the Ukrainian authorities.

Kuban activist Darya Polyudova was released from the pre-trial detention center on bail. about this writes Pavel Chikov, head of the AGORA Association, on Twitter. Polyudova is accused of calling for the implementation of actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, and for the implementation of extremist activities.

Police officers came to the place of registration of journalist Anastasia Zotova. The journalist herself wrote about this on Twitter. From the words of her relatives, she found out that they were going to hand her “some kind of summons”, no other details are known. Zotova is known as a girlfriend of civil activist Ildar Dadin, who is currently under house arrest in the case of repeated violations of the rules for holding mass events.

Four activists of the "Other Russia" were detained at the headquarters on Leningradsky Prospekt. As reported on the page of the unregistered party on the VKontakte social network, two people in civilian clothes, who introduced themselves as operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, detained the Other Russia activist Vladimir Makarenko, who was leaving the headquarters, and demanded to let them in.

In Saratov, an administrative case has been opened against journalist Sergei Vilkov in connection with the fact that he posted a collage with United Russia symbols and a swastika on the VKontakte social network. This publication was made by him back in November 2011, writes Public Opinion. The reason was the approval of the Saratov mayor's office for a march of right-wing radicals on November 4, 2011. Administrative case under Art.

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to extend the arrest of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko until May 13. Savchenko has been on a hunger strike for more than two months now. Lawyers during the meeting pointed out that the investigation did not provide evidence of Savchenko's involvement in the death of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin.

The opposition rally on March 1 on the Field of Mars has been agreed, the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the RPR-PARNAS Andrey Pivovarov writes on Twitter. Earlier it was reported that the city administration refused to agree on the march of the opposition on that day, and did not accept any of the routes proposed by the organizers.

The police officers rang at the door of civil activist Oleg Kozyrev. As he told OVD-Info, first through the peephole he saw two people, a district police officer and a man in civilian clothes, who introduced himself as a member of the criminal investigation department. They told him that they had come to check unregistered weapons: according to them, they received a paper from the authorities to check his apartment.

The court in Sevastopol on February 26 is to consider the case of holding an uncoordinated event in support of Putin and against the "fifth column".

The apartment of Anna Stepanova, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the RPR-PARNAS, was attacked: unknown people fired at the windows of the apartment, located on the third floor, from traumatic weapons. In addition, according to the publication Pravda PFO, the walls of the entrance were covered with paint, the doors of Stepanova's apartment, as well as the neighboring apartment, were damaged.

The Moscow City Court recognized as lawful the decision of the Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow, which sentenced Daniil Konstantinov to three years in a colony-settlement for hooliganism, after which he released him under an amnesty. Thus, the court of second instance refused to satisfy the appeal of Konstantinov's lawyers. The leader of the opposition Moscow Defense League, Konstantinov, was initially charged with murder.

The case against IT-specialist Roman Matveev from Domodedovo near Moscow, who was accused of inciting hatred and enmity for publishing religious demotivators on a city forum, has been dismissed. According to the Information and Analytical Center "Sova", the Domodedovo City Court decided to dismiss the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The gathering on Manezhnaya Square on December 30 after the sentence to Oleg and Alexei Navalny. Photo: Mikhail Schneider The international human rights organization Amnesty International has issued another annual report on the situation with human rights in the world. A considerable place in it is given to violation of human rights in Russia. The report refers to the deterioration of the situation with freedom of speech in Russia in 2014.