Members of the NOD, MGER and former members of the Nashi movement tried to disrupt the meeting of Alexei Navalny in Samara with journalists and volunteers. This was reported on March 3 by Open Russia. According to the newspaper, about twenty young people gathered near the office of the Samara election headquarters of the politician.

The head of the “Alternative” movement, Oleg Melnikov, and a volunteer of the organization, Mikhail (name is still unknown), became defendants in a criminal case; they are accused of organizing illegal migration under Article 332.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Organizing illegal migration, the maximum sanction is seven years in prison). About this on March 2 in the “Alternatives” group on the social network “VKontakte”.

On March 3, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region fined Oleg Amosov, a representative of the “Stop-Illegal” taxi driver movement, 20,000 rubles under part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Violation by the organizer of a public event of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing, as an official face). This was reported to OVD-Info by Denis Shedov, lawyer of the Human Rights Center "Memorial".

On March 3, journalist Yelena Sidorenkova was detained near the building of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office. She filmed on camera employees of the prosecutor's office, who refused to accept complaints from metro construction workers about non-payment of wages. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by Alexander Zimbovsky. At the moment, Sidorenkova is being taken, apparently, to the Tagansky police department. UPD: Sidorenkova was released after taking explanations.

The Rostov Regional Court dismissed the complaint of the defense of PARNAS party member Igor Oleinik, accused of inciting hatred on the Internet, against the decision of the court of first instance to extend the period of detention. The lawyer asked the court to change the preventive measure to at least house arrest. The session of the regional court took place on March 2, writes "Caucasian Knot".

The Memorial Human Rights Center submitted to the ECHR a complaint from Perm resident Vladimir Luzgin, the first person convicted for denying the Nuremberg Tribunal verdict and the role of the USSR in World War II (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code, “Rehabilitation of Nazism”), Kommersant . writes Last September, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the Perm Regional Court, which fined Luzgin 200,000 rubles.

The authorities of Lipetsk did not agree on a motor rally against Platon, which the truckers planned to hold on March 10, writes Gorod48. Truckers still intend to protest on this day - in the format of a meeting with deputies of the regional council from the Communist Party. “We did not refuse truckers to protest. We just didn’t agree on its form: a car rally,” the Lipetsk administration told Gorod48.

In Saransk, the court fully acquitted the head of the regional Society for the Protection of Animals, Viktoria Mityaeva, who was accused of violating the order of picketing, writes Stolitsa-S. On January 6, 2017, she organized a picket against the shooting of stray dogs, applying for 30 participants, she was accused of having 35 people come to her action. Mityaeva pleaded not guilty. She claimed that strangers had come up during the picketing.

Regional media are forbidden to report on the upcoming rally in the city of Kandalaksha on Saturday "for electric heating of apartments." As correspondents of one of the publications told SeverPost, this topic was discussed at a planning meeting, but at the request of the editor-in-chief, writing about the action was forbidden.

The Supreme Court of Crimea recognized as lawful the arrest decisions made on February 21 against the Crimean Tatars who came to support Marlen Mustafayev, whose house was being searched. about this on Facebook. writes Osman Arifmimetov, one of those arrested, Mustafayev's house was searched as part of an administrative case on the demonstration of extremist symbols. Ten people came to his house, some were filming. All of them were detained and then arrested for five days.