The Federal Service for the Execution of Sentences sent a submission to the Lublin Court of Moscow with a request to change the punishment for oppositionist Alexei Navalny from conditional to real imprisonment in the Kirovles case. Consideration of the submission of the Federal Penitentiary Service has not yet been scheduled. In March, the court returned a similar document to the service, as it was drawn up with violations.

Alexander Koller, the organizer of an anti-clerical picket in Novosibirsk on March 29, was fined 2,000 rubles for posting a photo with a swastika on VKontakte. This photo shows a LPR fighter from St. Petersburg, Alexei Milchakov, nicknamed Fritz, holding a Nazi flag. Koller reposted the material with the photo in January, it is dedicated to the Nazis who take part in the hostilities in the east of Ukraine.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Novosibirsk fined farmer Alexander Bakshaev 11,000 rubles under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established picketing procedure) for dumping a wagon of manure in front of the local branch of Sberbank in February 2015 in protest against the credit policy of banks. OVD-Info is sympathetic to this action, although it does not rule out that, indeed, in this case we can talk about a violation of public order.

Anti-fascist Aleksey Sutuga, serving time in IK-14 in the Irkutsk region, recently recognized as a political prisoner of the HRC "Memorial", received 15 days of ShIZO, having only served 7 days. »He was given another 15 days of ShIZO for violating the uniform. The lawyer suggests that the next step of the colony administration will be to place Alexei in a cell for several months.

Former executive director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Vladimir Ashurkov received political asylum in the UK. Ashurkov told Vedomosti about this. He said that he applied for political asylum in July 2014, and the Home Office made a positive decision on his application at the end of March 2015. The basis for obtaining political asylum was the threat of unfounded persecution for political reasons. With him is his wife Alexandrina Markvo, who is also facing criminal charges.

Georgy Alburov, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexei Navalny, who is accused of stealing a painting by the Vladimir artist Sergei Sotov, asked the court to change his preventive measure, since he is required to travel to the Moscow region for work. Alburov is under house arrest. The court allowed the accused to leave Moscow, but no further than the Moscow region. Witnesses appear in court.

In the Kirsanovskiy district court of the Tambov region, consideration of Yevgeny Vitishko's application for parole has begun, reports the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus. At the first meeting, the psychologist Vladimir Rubashny, who acted as an expert for the defense, was interrogated. Both the prosecution and the defense petitioned to call witnesses, so the meeting was postponed to April 15.

The funds received from the illegal drug trade are actively used to finance the "color revolutions", says the first deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service Vladimir Kalanda. “We should not forget that in addition to influencing the economic system, the proceeds from drug production are used to finance terrorism, organize mass civil disobedience actions, “color revolutions,” Kalanda said at a round table in Yerevan as part of the forum. Eurasian Economic Perspective”.

The new director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Vladimir Kekhman decided to remove Tannhäuser from the repertoire. “Yesterday I watched a video of Tannhäuser. I watched until 2 am. I was pleasantly surprised by the high musical quality of the performance and I want to note the excellent work of the troupe and the conductor,” says Kekhman.

Daria Polyudova, who has been prosecuted under Article 280.1 (propaganda of separatism) for organizing the “March for the Federalization of Kuban,” has applied to the ECHR, writes Vedomosti . The activist argues that the initiation of a criminal case for criticizing the authorities, as well as prolonged detention on such a charge, are disproportionate and too harsh in relation to her actions.

On March 30, 2015, the President signed the Federal Law "On Amendments to the Merchant Shipping Code of the Russian Federation with regard to the seafarer's identity card." The corresponding bill was approved by the State Duma on March 17, 2015 and approved by the Federation Council on March 25, 2015, according to the Sova information and analytical center.

On March 29 in Novosibirsk, the Anti -Crisis March was supposed to pass. However, two hours before the start of the event, its organizer, the left activist from the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok Ilya Kurzenkov was detained, in connection with which the march could not be carried out. At the request of the OVD-Info, Kurzenkov told how it was. We agreed easily the event. We tried to persuade us so that we would not conduct a march, but a rally, but we insisted that there be a procession.