The chairman of the Tatar Public Center, human rights activist Rafis Kashapov, accused of inciting hatred and enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), has had his detention extended until April 27. The term for the investigation of the case has been extended until the same date, Khamit Samatov, the activist's lawyer, said. Kashapov has been in Kazan SIZO-1 since December 2014.

Today, the Moscow City Court considered an appeal against the decision of the Presnensky District Court, which on February 20 gave Alexei Navalny 15 days under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing).

In Voronezh, political activist Alexander Boldyrev, a member of the RPR-PARNAS party and the organizer of the Spring march, was attacked today. Three strangers, one of whom was wearing a balaclava, splashed green paint in his face. the attack on twitter Anatoly Kravchenko, leader of the Voronezh branch of the People's Alliance party, announced . Boldyrev was attacked when he was walking with his son.

On February 26, 2015, the Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk found guilty of organizing a cell of the Nurcular religious association banned in Russia and participating in its activities of three residents of Ulyanovsk, the SOVA reports . center Bagir Kazikhanov was sentenced under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) to 3 years and 6 months in prison in a penal colony. Alexander Melentiev was sentenced under Part 2 of Art.

Darya Polyudova, a Krasnodar activist involved in the “Kuban federalization case”, announced health problems after six months in a pre-trial detention center, from where she was released the other day after the maximum allowable period of detention under her article on “calls for separatism”. The food held in the pre-trial detention center is very bad, Polyudova told the "Caucasian Knot". “It was impossible to eat breakfast and lunch, in the evening - boiled potatoes.