Leonid Yuldashev, video coordinator of the Open Russia public movement, was detained in St. Petersburg today, preparing a meeting with political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky in St. Petersburg. As Yuldashev himself said on the Open Russia website, he was detained several times under various pretexts.

Today, armed police officers burst into the office of the interregional trade union "Workers' Association" in Kaluga, where a meeting of the trade union committee was taking place at that moment. 15 people were detained. The police motivated the arrest by saying that there had been a robbery in the neighborhood and that robbers were hiding somewhere in the union office.

Oleksandr Rozhnov, a civil activist from Yaroslavl, who took part in the events against the war on the territory of Ukraine, left Russia after learning that a criminal case had been opened against him. Rozhnov told OVD-Info that after a search at his house in his absence , the people who conducted him left the activist's relatives the phone number of a certain investigator. Rozhnov called by phone, and the interlocutor informed him about the criminal case.

Mark Galperin and Vladimir Ionov, detained at a single picket, are left overnight at the Tverskoy police station. At the moment, the phones of the detainees have been confiscated. Probably, protocols were drawn up against them for violating Article 20.2 Part 8 (repeated violation of the rules for holding a mass event). UPD: The trial is scheduled for March 23, 14:00. Tverskoy District Court.

As Mark Galperin reported, a lawyer is not allowed to see them at the Tverskoy police station. According to Galperin, the lawyer was shown a refusal of access to the detainees signed by the head of the police department. Halperin also said that the provocateurs detained with them were most likely released, and their posters are in the assembly hall where he and Vladimir Ionov are sitting. According to the detainee, they are going to be charged with mass picketing using these posters.

Dmitry Georgievsky and Vladimir Ratnikov were detained at an agreed anti-war picket of Solidarity as a result of a provocation by NOD (National Liberation Movement) activists, who regularly disrupt anti-war actions. According to Georgievsky, he was told in the paddy wagon that a preventive conversation would be held with them.

Violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing" Mark Galperin and Vladimir Ionov were detained on Pushkin Square during a single picket. According to Galperin, he was holding a poster for the change of power when two unknown men approached him and unfurled their posters. Despite the fact that he immediately put his poster on the ground, all three were detained by the police.