A Ukrainian journalist who was detained after an interview with a Moscow State University graduate student beaten by police officers was released from the police department of Moscow State University. The special correspondent of the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, Roman Tsymbalyuk, wrote about this on his Facebook page. As Tsymbalyuk wrote , the interview with the graduate student ended with the arrival of the police and took away the documents from the journalist.

The deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov, was handed an indictment in a criminal case in the Crimean prosecutor's office on March 21, now the case materials will be submitted to the court. This was announced by Umerov's lawyer Edem Semedlyaev in a video message posted on the Facebook page by Ilmi Umerov's daughter Aisha. Umerov's lawyer noted that now the case materials will be sent to the Bakhchisaray court, and the defense will be waiting for the summons.

The Togliatti administration refused to agree on a rally against corruption planned on March 26 as part of the All-Russian action “He is not Dimon”, the reason for which was an investigation into the corruption of Alexei Navalny about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. This was reported on the Twitter page of the ally of Navalny Leonid Volkov. The city hall, as the reason for the refusal to agree on the rally, called the emergency situation on March 20 on the site where the rally should take place.

Roman Tsymbalyuk, a special correspondent for the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, was detained after he interviewed a graduate student in the history department of Moscow State University, who had previously been detained and beaten for a homemade Ukrainian flag. about this The journalist wrote on his Facebook page.

The Moscow Mayor's Office refused to agree on an application filed on March 15 to hold a rally in defense of land and housing rights of Muscovites. about this on the page of the Muscovites Against Demolition group on Facebook .

On March 20, Judge of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Vasyukov, considered in absentia cases of administrative offenses against three of the 14 girls detained at feminist rallies on March 8. this on his page on the social network Vkontakte .

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg did not satisfy the claim of supporters of politician Alexei Navalny against the Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region, which banned a rally against corruption in the city on March 26. It is reported by the portal 66.ru.

On March 21, the Moscow City Court refused to satisfy the application of the deputies of the Communist Party of the Moscow City Duma on the abolition of a regional law equating meetings with voters to public actions. about this The Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information writes with reference to its own correspondent. On December 28, 2016, the Moscow City Duma adopted a law on “On Amending Article 8 of the Law of the City of Moscow of July 13, 1994 No.

Detained in Vologda on March 20, Alexander Makarov, an activist and member of the Association of Carriers of Russia, was found guilty on March 21 by the Vologda District Court of disobeying the lawful demands of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and fined a thousand rubles. Lawyer Dinar Idrisov, who provided consulting assistance to the detained activist, told OVD-Info about this.

On March 21, the Constitutional Court (CC) published a decision on compliance with the law "On Police" in the part related to maintaining order during single-person pickets. The resolution on the verification of the constitutionality of clause 13 of part 1 of article 13 of the federal law "On Police" in connection with the complaint of citizen Vladimir Sergienko was published on the website of the Constitutional Court.

Yabloko activist Sofya Rusova was detained during a series of single-person pickets near the Radisson Royal Hotel, where the Ecology Forum 2017 is being held. She is currently in the Dorogomilovo police department. This was reported to OVD-Info by journalist Andrei Zhvirblis. According to him, journalist Maxim Rumyantsev, head of the Yekaterinburg Center for Free Journalism, who actively opposes environmental activists, wrote a statement against Rusova.

In Khabarovsk, a court fined the organizers of a rally against corruption and for the resignation of the Russian prime minister 10,000 rubles for violating the law on organizing public events. The organizers of the rally began to distribute invitations to participate in the rally on social networks without specifying a specific place, because at that time the approval of the local administration had not been received.

The Vesna movement in St. Petersburg on March 21 distributed a press release on March 21, which told how the scan of some members of the organization came to the electronic mail of the call to give an explanation to the 66th police department of the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg in connection with the recently passed movement on the bridge with the banner to visit the memory of Boris Nemtsov’s memory.

On March 20, the Moskovsky District Court of Kaliningrad found guilty and sentenced to a year in a penal colony a conditional Cossack Yevgeny Berezovsky, who beat opposition activist Yevgeny Grishin in 2014. But, taking into account the “merits of the Cossack to the state,” the court released him from punishment under an amnesty in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Victory. It is reported by Open Russia.

On March 18, a graduate student of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University was detained for holding a homemade Ukrainian flag and beaten. After that, unknown persons, who introduced themselves as FSB officers, forced the graduate student to sign a paper on allegedly voluntary cooperation as an informer.