Three residents of the Moscow district of Ramenki, who were detained on the afternoon of February 3 while trying to prevent construction equipment from entering the park, were released without drawing up reports of an administrative offense. They were required to appear when called to draw up protocols at the Internal Affairs Directorate for the closed joint-stock company.

The Syktyvkar City Court terminated the administrative case of Ernest Mezak, member of the board of the Komi Human Rights Commission "Memorial" and regional PMC, who was detained on February 3 on charges of organizing an uncoordinated rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov on March 1, 2015. this Mezak announced on his Facebook page. According to him, the grounds for dismissing the case were errors in the protocol on an administrative offense drawn up by the police.

Grigory Tolkachev and two other residents of the Moscow district of Ramenki, detained during an attempt by residents on February 3 to prevent construction equipment from entering the park on Michurinsky Avenue, remain overnight in the police department. Another detainee, mother of many children, Irina Sentsova, was released from the police department, and she was required to appear on February 5th.

Russia demanded that Ukraine hand over one of the organizers of the March for the federalization of Kuban, pro-Ukrainian activist Pyotr Lyubchenkov. As the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung writes on February 2, the extradition request was sent several weeks ago. The extradition agreement concluded between Russia and Ukraine is still in effect, the activist emphasized in a conversation with the publication.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, accused of vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) for setting fire to the doors of the FSB building on Lubyanka. Judge Natalya Larina left Pavlensky in custody until March 5 inclusive. The actionist himself was not taken to a meeting to extend the arrest: Pavlensky is undergoing a forensic psychiatric examination at the Serbsky Scientific Center for Social and Psychiatric Expertise.

Four people were detained at about 16:00 on February 3 in Ramenki during an attempt by local residents to prevent the passage of construction equipment that had arrived to build a road on the site of a park near house 39 on Michurinsky Avenue. Grigory Tolkachev, Irina Sentsova and two other residents were taken to the Ramenki police station. The grounds for the arrest were not reported at the time of writing.

in the Syktyvkar City Court has begun The trial of human rights activist Ernest Mezak . He, as one of the organizers of the Syktyvkar rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov, was accused of violating the established procedure for holding a rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The editor of the Astrakhanskaya Pravda newspaper, Alexander Tokarev, appealed in court against the decision to initiate an administrative case on the fact of propaganda of Nazi symbols. The reason for the persecution of Tokarev was the picture published in No. 51 of his newspaper dated December 24, 2015 under the statement of Gennady Zyuganov regarding the ban on the activities of the Communist Party on the territory of Ukraine.

The ECHR rejected Russia's appeal in the Bolotnaya case. The European Court will not review the case of Leonid Kovyazin, Artem Savelov and Ilya Gushchin. In September, the court granted the complaint of the defendants in the Bolotnaya case and ordered Russia to pay compensation to them - Savelov in the amount of 3,000 euros, Kovyazin and Gushchin - 2,000 euros each.