The head of the "Public Independent Inspectorate" Aleksey Ulyanov was summoned to the prosecutor's office on March 21 on the issue of violation of the law on mass events. about this The Caucasian Knot writes . On March 19, a rally against bad roads was held in Volgograd, the organizer of the action was Alexei Ulyanov.

Five detainees on March 21 at a rally in support of Nadezhda Savchenko at 21:30 were taken to Police Department No. 78 in St. Petersburg to draw up protocols. Were detained : Valentin Nikitchenko (photographer), Olga Smirnova, Igor Andreev, Veronika Prilutskaya. Vladimir Vasiliev, an NOD activist, was also detained; he interfered with the rally and tried to tear up posters. The action was held in support of the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko.

Vsevolod Milayev, a participant in a rally in support of Savchenko, was attacked. While the activist was standing with a banner “Crimea is not mine”, an unknown person approached Milaev, hit him and smashed an object with a red liquid on the activist’s shoulder. It is reported by mr7.ru After the incident, the provocateur was detained by the police. Milayev went with the police to the bus to give explanations. at the same action earlier Three people were detained .

On March 21, in St. Petersburg, even before the start of the action in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, three participants were detained (Valentin Nikitchenko, Olga Smirnova and Igor Andreev). This was reported by Arseniy Vesnin. At the gathering there is riot police and activists of the NOD movement. The official start of the event is 19:00. UPD. Another participant in the action was detained - Veronika Prilutskaya. The action was attacked by one of the participants, throwing a raw egg at it.

Photo: Rain TV channel Journalists who left the court, where on March 21, the announcement of the sentence began to Nadezhda Savchenko, was not allowed into the premises after the break. It is reported by the rain with reference to his own correspondent. Forty minutes before the meeting, journalists tried to return to the hall, but they were told that there was no longer a place in the press for the press.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated Sergei Udaltsov's complaint against the verdict in the case of organizing mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012, and preparing mass riots in other cities. This was reported on the website of the court. Udaltsov and the second defendant in the same case, Leonid Razvozzhaev, were sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony.

Mark Galperin was released from the Tverskoy police station when he was brought in after being detained on Pushkinskaya Square. According to him, the police watched the video of the arrest and were convinced that he was at a distance from the place where two unknown people unfurled a poster over Yevgeny Krylov. They are currently still in the police department.

Representatives of the Association of Independent Observers, Chelyabinsk human rights activists Nikolai and Tatyana Shchur published an appeal to their colleagues due to the fact that for two weeks there has been no information about the whereabouts of Oleg Sentsov, a film director sentenced to 20 years in a strict regime colony on charges of terrorism in Crimea. The last message appeared on March 7, it said that Sentsov was taken away from the Chelyabinsk region.

Mark Halperin was detained on Pushkin Square. He said that he stood with a poster in support of Nadezhda Savchenko. After he rolled up the poster and walked away, he said, two unknown men ran up and unfurled a poster over his friends and cameramen. They shouted in support of Savchenko. Galperin believes that this was a provocation. Two unknown people were also detained.

In Makhachkala, the chairman of the board of the International Lezgi national movement "Sadval" Nazim Hajiyev was found murdered. The website of the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik reports , citing official data, that Gadzhiev died as a result of multiple stab wounds. "Mediazona" notes that there are no official reports on the death of Hajiyev on the websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office of the republic.

The organizer of the rally in Olonets (Karelia) against high heating tariffs was summoned to court in the case of violation of the established procedure for holding the event (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A group of Ukrainian activists who were on their way to the sentencing of Nadezhda Savchenko were not allowed into Russia. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to post a Facebook by activist Irina Yuzyk. The FSB officers held a six-hour conversation with the activists, during which they told them: “Your presence on the territory of the Russian Federation is not desirable. Motivation is not required to explain.