In Crimea, a search is being conducted at the house of Olga Ukolova, the common-law wife of Alexander Kostenko, who is accused of harming a Berkut fighter and illegal possession of weapons. As reported on Facebook on the page of the Crimean Field Mission for Human Rights, in addition to Ukolova, her seven-month-old child and her mother are in the house. Twelve people are involved in the search.

Journalist Tatyana Guchakova, who previously worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the BlackSeaNews Internet portal, was detained in Yalta. about this on Facebook writes Andrey Klymenko, editor-in-chief of the portal, . According to him, the detention was preceded by a search at Guchakova's, which lasted almost ten hours. All computer equipment was confiscated from the journalist. The search was carried out by FSB officers.

Residents of Bashkortostan Aidar Garifyanov, Evgeny Kulagin, Rasim Sataev and Aleksey Khamadeev were sentenced to various terms in a strict regime colony for preparing to seize power by force. Kulagin received seven years in prison, Sataev - six and a half, Garifyanov and Khamadeev - six each, reports .

Putin submitted to the Duma a draft resolution on amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. According to Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the Duma Committee on Legislation, quoted by TASS , the lower house intends to adopt the draft before the May holidays.

Gayane Amrakhova, who was detained near the building of the Supreme Court, was released from the Arbat police department. According to OVD-Info journalist Vladimir Shreidler, who accompanied Amrakhova to the police department, the police did not show her anything.

Journalist, former editor-in-chief of the Izhevsky Observer newspaper and deputy chairman of the independent trade union of workers of the Izhmash concern Andrei Nekrasov was taken into custody in absentia. The Supreme Court of Udmurtia recognized the decision of the Industrial District Court of Izhevsk as legal. The reason for the decision was Nekrasov’s failure to appear for investigative actions. Currently, Nekrasov has left Russia.

On April 15, the Budyonnovsky City Court will start considering the case of Lyudmila Bogatenkova, chairman of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Mothers of Prikumye", accused of fraud. Bogatenkova claims that the case is based on a slander.

The term of arrest of Alexander Kolchenko, accused of organizing terrorist attacks in Crimea, has been extended until May 16. Earlier, the term of arrest of his accomplice Oleg Sentsov was extended. As the correspondent of “Frontier. Ru”, the justification for the extension of the term of arrest to the court was the fact of Kolchenko’s trip to the Maidan.

Gayane Amrakhova, who was standing in a single picket, was detained near the building of the Supreme Court. As activist Marina Zlotnikova told OVD-Info, Amrakhova stood with a banner “against the Lyubertsy judicial system” and the judge of the Lyubertsy city court Svetlana Khukhanova, who “condones the raiders who take away housing from the disabled.” Amrakhova herself is a disabled person of the 2nd group in oncology.

Samara left-wing activist Grigory Oganezov was summoned today at eight o'clock in the evening for an interrogation at the "E" center. He told OVD-Info that the reason for the poll was the Left Front newspaper Ultimatum and the front's resolutions on the war in Ukraine.

The Noize MC concert in Krasnodar, scheduled for April 10, has been cancelled. According to Yugopolis, this happened after a meeting was held in the city administration on April 8 with the participation of officials and representatives of the prosecutor's office and the police. The participants of the meeting expressed their fears that before and during the concert, excesses provoked by the opponents of the artist are possible.

One of those accused of organizing terrorist attacks in Crimea, Alexander Kolchenko, complained to the ECHR about the forced assignment of Russian citizenship to him. As Vedomosti writes with reference to Kolchenko’s lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina, her client appeals to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence.

Political emigrant Andrey Romanov, who is in a refugee camp in Finland, told OVD-Info that he intends to start a headache from April 13 if he, his wife and child are not transferred to another camp. As Romanov previously stated, he considers the conditions of detention where he is now unacceptable.

"Swamp business" Investigation in the case of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh completed Interfax, April 3 : “Investigators have charged Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, a defendant in the criminal case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, in the final version, his lawyer reports. "The charges were brought in the final version. My client refused to testify, he will testify at the trial," Dmitry Dinze, the defendant's lawyer, told Interfax.

Photo: Dmitry Putenikhin The OVD-Info publishes a transfer of a memo on the exercise of the right to freedom of assembly drawn up by the UN specialist on the issues of freedom of peaceful assemblies and associations. Basic international standards International Pact on Civil and Political Rights , Article 21: “The right to peaceful meetings is recognized.