Musician Oleg Mokryakov, who was detained at Chistye Prudy, left the Basmanny police station. A report on petty hooliganism was drawn up against him, one of the police officers who detained him wrote in a report that he swore with obscene language. Mokryakov said in the department that he would write a statement about a false denunciation, since he did not swear with foul language. To this he was promised that they would keep him in the police department for three hours.

Musician Oleg Mokryakov, who was detained at Chistye Prudy, was taken to the Basmanny police station. He told OVD-Info that a protocol on petty hooliganism is being drawn up against him, which says that he used foul language, which, according to him, is not true. At the time of his arrest, he was told that he was receiving complaints about playing with sound equipment. A string on his guitar was broken as a result of the detention.

Musician Oleg Mokryakov was detained at Chistye Prudy. The musicians with whom he played told OVD-Info that two police cars, including a gazelle, drove right into the park area behind the monument where they played, took away Mokryakov and his instrument and equipment, Mokryakov was forcibly stuffed into the car almost broke the wire. Mokryakov was informed that he violated public order.

Yuri Merzlov, who was detained on Red Square in a Putin mask, followed by Roman Roslovtsev, left the Kitai-Gorod police station. A protocol was drawn up against him, as well as against Roslovtsev, under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

The lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexei Navalny, Ivan Zhdanov, is being searched at home. about this writes Navalny himself on Twitter. The search is also taking place in the apartment of Zhdanov's mother and in the apartment that he rented in Barvikha near Moscow and where he planned to move if he won the elections. Zhdanov also posted on Facebook that he was being summoned for questioning. Earlier it was reported that Zhdanov was charged with draft evasion.

Roman Roslovtsev, detained on Red Square wearing a Putin mask, left the police department. For the eighth time in six months, a report was drawn up against him under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by a participant of a public event of the established procedure). According to his comrades, a report is currently being drawn up against the second detainee, Yuri Merzlov, under the same article. "China town"

In the Taganrog city court, at a meeting on the case of leaflets against the police (the accused is anarchist Elizaveta Tsvetkova), experts spoke. According to lawyer Yuri Chupilkin, who represents Tsvetkova’s interests, the court interrogated political scientist, professor of the Southern Federal University Viktor Chernous, linguist, associate professor of Nizhny Novgorod University Elizaveta Koltunova, and clinical forensic psychologist from the Don Forensic Center Evgenia Korkina.

Yuri Merzlov was detained on Red Square - like who was detained earlier Roman Roslovtsev, , he walked in a Putin mask. According to eyewitnesses, unlike Roslovtsev, Merzlov managed to walk all over Red Square. He also held a poster against Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code, punishing for "repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events." At the moment, Merzlov has been taken to the Kitai-Gorod OVD, just like Roslovtsev did earlier.

The cases of Dmitry Buchenkov and Maxim Panfilov, accused of participating in mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, and using violence against police officers, have been merged. This is reported by the online edition “Frontiers. Ru" with reference to the lawyers of both persecuted.

The criminal case of Pyotr Pavlensky, initiated after the action "Threat" with arson of the door of the FSB building, was transferred to the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow. As stated in a message published on April 20 on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, the prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow approved the indictment in the case.

Roman Roslovtsev was detained on Red Square in a Putin mask and with a poster "I'm not afraid of 212.1". The activist was taken to the Kitay-gorod police station. Since the beginning of February, seven protocols have already been drawn up against Roslovtsev on violation of the procedure for holding a public event (under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Nationalist Dina Garina was released on her own recognizance after interrogation at the Investigation Department for the Central District of St. Petersburg. About this in the group “Help to those detained in St. Petersburg” on the VKontakte social network. Earlier it became known that her associates Nikolai Bondarik and Stepan Ivanov were released after interrogation, and Garina was detained for 48 hours.

The Other Russia activist Andrei Popko was detained in Voronezh. The press secretary of the unregistered party, Alexander Averin , writes on Twitter that Popko was taken to the police department of the Central District of the city for a “conversation”. Popko and another Other Russia activist Alexander Kurkin recently returned from Latvia, where they were charged with terrorism and espionage for an action in June 2015 with the flag of the colors of the St.

Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova, sentenced to two years in a penal colony on charges of calls for extremism and separatism, went to serve her sentence in Novorossiysk Colony No. 10 on April 20. She told Interfax about this. According to Polyudova, she was supposed to arrive at the colony before April 22, but decided to do it earlier so that her sentence would begin earlier. On April 18, Polyudova filed a cassation appeal against the verdict to the presidium of the Krasnodar Regional Court.

In St. Petersburg on the morning of April 20, searches were carried out at the home of the organizer of the “Russian March” Dina Garina and the organizer of the rally on March 15, 2015 Stepan Ivanov. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to their ally Dmitry Konchaev and Garina’s lawyer Sergei Kostyuk. According to the publication, the search of Garina began at about 6 a.m.; her phone and modem were confiscated. It is unknown what was seized during the search from Ivanov.