Human rights activist and trade unionist Alla Frolova was attacked. According to her, it happened near her house. On a dark street, two young men approached her and sprayed her in the face with pepper spray. At the same time, as she managed to make out, they shouted “Remember!”. Frolova is currently feeling fine. What this attack could be connected with, she does not know.

On March 23, the Moscow City Court will begin considering the appeal against the verdict of the Basmanny District Court. RAPSI writes about this, with reference to the court’s press service. Dadin was sentenced to three years in prison for “repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events” and became the first person against whom a sentence was passed under Art. 212.1 CC.

Three detainees on March 17 in the village of Plekhanovo, Tula region, where a riot began on March 16 due to problems with gas supply, were arrested by the court for three days, TASS reports, citing the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. The fourth detainee was fined 500 rubles. In the morning the police detained four men. They interfered with the gas works and refused to comply with the demands of the police.

A first-year student at the Russian State Social University said that students are being forced to attend a concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. Students were sent SMS notifications with the text: “Friday. 18th of March. Concert dedicated to the reunification of Russia and Crimea "We are together". 150 students from 14:00 in the afternoon. Let's go in the first presidential column!" For this, the students were promised tickets to the cinema.

The defenders of the park "Dubki" found an ad on the Internet about the recruitment of those wishing to take part in a meeting with deputies and representatives of the council regarding the construction of a house near the park. Reportedly . , the participants were promised to be paid 500 rubles, subject to the participation of the participants in support of the construction According to the defenders of the park, no one warned them about the appointment.

In the village of Plekhanovo, the Tula region, where a rebellion began on March 16 due to problems with gas supply, four people were detained. The report on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs says that they were taken to the district police department and protocols on disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) were drawn up on them.

The Oktyabrsky Court of Murmansk did not bring to administrative responsibility the leader of the Communist Party faction in the regional legislative assembly, Gennady Stepakhno, who was charged with organizing an uncoordinated event. According to the TV-21 television company, the court was talking about the Antiplaton action, which took place in Murmansk in December 2015 and consisted of a procession and a picket. The event was not coordinated with the local authorities.

Judge of the Tver District Court Elena Bulgakova decided to arrest activist Mikhail Sudamov for five days for participating in the action near the FSB building on December 20, 2015. Since he spent five days in custody for this action earlier, he remained at large. Surrevov was detained on December 20 with other participants in the action and the next day was arrested by the Tver court for 15 days.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to ban those convicted of extremism and those suspected of such crimes from leaving Russia. This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced at a meeting in the Federation Council by the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Makarov.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision to extend the arrest for three months for Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, Ukrainian citizens accused of participating in hostilities and killing Russian servicemen in Chechnya in the 1990s.

On Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, clashes occurred between local residents opposing sealing development at the site of the square near the satellite Hotel (Leninsky prospect 38) and people guarding the construction. An eyewitness was announced to one of the local residents, an eyewitness reported this. At the same time, the police refuse to intervene and take some measures against the attacker.

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Basmanny District Court to extend the arrest until June 2 of Dmitry Buchenkov, another defendant in the Bolotnaya case. Buchenkov is charged with participation in the mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, and the use of violence against police officers. As evidence of Buchenkov’s guilt, fragments of a video recording from Bolotnaya Square are cited, where a certain “man in black” commits aggressive actions.

On the anniversary of the mass detentions of February-March 2014, OVD-Info presents the report “Violation of the established order. Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses: analysis of law enforcement practice.” The report is devoted to how cases under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses regarding violation of the procedure for holding public events are dealt with in Moscow courts.

In Crimea, a trial has begun against Andrei Kolomiyets: he is charged with drug trafficking, as well as throwing Molotov cocktails at Berkut employees during the Maidan protests in 2014. Kolomiets faces 8 to 20 years in prison. Earlier, Maidan participant Alexander Kostenko was also convicted of violence against Berkut employees. Cases against Kolomiyets and Kostenko were started despite the fact that the events took place in Ukraine in relation to the citizens of Ukraine.

The head of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" Igor Kalyapin was attacked in Grozny. First, the general director of the hotel, accompanied by police officers, entered his room in Grozny City and demanded to leave the room, in connection with his statements about Ramzan Kadyrov. Near the hotel Kalyapin was attacked by a dozen and a half people in masks - they threw green paint, cakes, eggs and flour on him, hit him several times and ran away.