On April 26, the Moscow City Court will begin considering the complaint of the Bolotnaya case defendant Ivan Nepomnyashchikh against the verdict . Rosbalt reports this with reference to lawyer Dmitry Dinze. On December 22, 2015, the court sentenced Ivan Nepomnyashchikh to two and a half years in prison, accused of participating in mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, and of using violence against two police officers.

On April 18, Daria Polyudova filed a complaint with the Presidium of the Krasnodar Regional Court against the decision of the lower court, which sentenced her to two years in prison for posts on social networks. Polyudova reported this. OVD-InfoDo On April 22, Polyudova must appear at No. 10 in Novorossiysk, where she will serve her sentence. Polyudova was found guilty of calls for extremism and violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.

earlier in the morning in Dubki Park they were accused of disobeying a lawful order of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Igor Gryadov was given five days of arrest, Leila Agirbova was released earlier due to a difficult health condition, minor Tulyakov Valentin (in the afternoon he was taken to the Juvenile Affairs Unit) was released and a meeting of the Commission on Minors' Affairs will take place on April 19. The detainees were convicted by the UPD.

Vasily Nedopekin, one of those detained on March 8 at a rally in support of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, was found guilty by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow of violating the established procedure for organizing or holding a rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and fined ten thousand rubles. Nedopekin informed OVD-Info about this by phone. in Moscow for a rally in support of Savchenko On March 8, almost forty people were detained .

On the morning of April 18, in the village of Krasnokamenka (Kyzyltash) in Bolshaya Yalta, two new defendants in the Crimean case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir”-Crimean Tatars Refat Alimov and Arsen Dzhepparov were detained. This was written by the center of journalistic investigations. Early in the morning, cars with OMON employees arrived in the village and in two hours searches for the houses of Alimov and Jepparov. As clarifies "Crimea.

On April 18, in Tver at 16:10, an activist of the Party of Progress Anatoly Semenov was detained for being similar to a person from “orientation”. The activist stood on the sidewalk near the city administration Tver with a poster "Do not lie, do not steal." As Semenov reported by phone, he observed a distance that was supposed to under the legislation, did not interfere with passers -by or passage. UPD.

On April 18, Andrei Balin, a member of the PARNAS party, was arrested in Togliatti for three days. He was one of the organizers of Mikhail Kasyanov's visit to Samara and Togliatti. This was reported on the PARNAS website. Balin was accused of reposting a collage dated September 26, 2014, the investigation believes that the image publicly demonstrates Nazi symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Alexei Navalny's ally Leonid Volkov, who is accused in the "microphone case" - "obstructing the activities of a Lifenews journalist" - published information about how the attack by Ulan-Ude Mayor Alexander Golkov on Rossiya 24 journalists ended. In December 2015, the film crew of the Rossiya-24 TV channel tried to ask the mayor of Ulan-Ude, Alexander Golkov, questions about the bonus of 320 thousand rubles, which the mayor wrote to himself for the New Year.

The prosecutor's office of the Kirov region approved the indictment against two residents of the city of Sosnovka, Vyatskopolyansky district. Kazantsev and Shaydullin are accused of violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to the website of the prosecutor's office of the Kirov region.

An entertainment event was canceled in Novosibirsk due to claims from representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church. The quest called "Dante's Inferno" was supposed to take place at the Museum of World Funeral Culture on April 16. The cancellation of the quest was reported by one of its participants (tickets were purchased in advance, the cost is from 600 rubles). This information was confirmed by the organizers, without specifying the reason.

On April 17, Umar Butaev, a well-known Dagestan blogger and columnist for the Chernovik newspaper, reported that he had been searched. A judge of the Kirov Court of Makhachkala, Murad Barkuev, passed the corresponding decision. The reason for issuing a search order was Umar Butaev's correspondence on the Internet with a certain person allegedly traced by law enforcement officers.

The Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into the case of 74-year-old writer Aidar Khalim (Boris Khalimov), accused of extremism for speaking at a rally in memory of the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the lawyer Rushan Kamalova.

On April 14, officers of the police of the Leninsky Department of Internal Affairs for Makhachkala detained Islamic activist Zurab Mammadov. According to his relatives, after the arrest, a lawyer was not allowed to see Zurab Mammadov, a disabled person with problems with the spine.

I have been attending protests since May 2009. I started as an LGBT activist , and in 2009 and 2010 I participated in “rainbow” flash mobs. In 2011, this flash mob was detained: a group of people came out - they called themselves boxers... The police immediately arrived and offered to take us to a safe place. the police station turned out to be a safe place For some reason, . Now I am more of a civic activist. On March 6 of this year, I was summoned for an interview by the FSB.

In Dubki Park in northern Moscow, residents are once again blocking the entrance to a construction site located in the park. The police are again helping the private security company guarding the construction site. So far there are three detainees: Leila Agirbova, Valentin Tulyakov and Andrey Natashenkov. UPD (11:00): another park defender, Igor Gryadov, was detained.