The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is developing amendments to the federal law "On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and picketing", regulating new types of street protest, including motor rallies and tent camps. On March 16, a notification about the preparation of the relevant bill was posted on the Single Information Disclosure Portal.

Sergei Chekrygin, organizer of the picket at the Latvian embassy, ​​was released from the Basmanny police department without a protocol. Two more communists remain in the police department, according to available information, they can be charged with petty hooliganism.

On Monday, March 16, activists of the Moscow Gay Pride appealed to the European Court of Human Rights the ban of the city authorities on holding a rally with the aim of calling for the universal decriminalization of voluntary homosexual relations in the countries of the world. According to the notification submitted to the Moscow Government, the public event was to be held on December 25, 2013 from 13:00 to 14:00 in Novopushkinsky Square with up to 30 participants.

As Alexander Zimbovsky told OVD-Info, three people were detained at a picket of communist organizations in front of the Latvian embassy against the march of SS veterans. Sergei Chekrygin - organizer of the picket, for exceeding the number, and two more activists who resented the detention. One of them is a disabled person of the second group. Now they are being taken to the Basmanny police station.

On March 12, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sentenced Bashkir oppositionist Airat Dilmukhametov to three years in a strict regime colony and banned him from journalism for two years. According to the activist's defenders, it was never proved during the trial that the defendant was the author of the article on the Internet. During the investigation, Dilmukhamtov was first under house arrest, then under house arrest.

Omsk activist Boris Losev, who has been charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code, has had his bank card blocked. Losev intends to challenge this investigative action, and also generally denies his involvement in inciting ethnic hatred in social networks, which became the reason for opening the case.

system On blocking on the Internet for information about mass events Meduza, March 13 : "In November 2012, a law was passed on the register of banned websites. Since then, Roskomnadzor has blocked more than 52,000 pages on the Russian Internet (that is, about 60 per day), and according to Roskomsvoboda, ten times more, over 500,000 pages. Four thousand have been closed for "extremism," including groups dedicated to protests and the blog of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

In the Central District Court of Kaliningrad, the process began in the so -called “Flag case”: in relation to three activists related to the Kaliningrad Committee of Public Self -Protection, accused of hooking the FSB Building of the FSB Office in March 2014. “Today the indictment was announced, and the defendants expressed their attitude to the charges. Mikhail Feldman and Oleg Savvin said they did not understand the essence of the charges against him and did not agree with him.