The Kazan prosecutor's office opened an administrative case against Dmitry Rumyantsev, a member of the commission with an advisory vote from the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak. This was reported on March 16 by the Idel.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg closed the case of Rafail Shepelev yesterday for lack of evidence of an offense. Public defender Anatoly Svechnikov spoke about this. Detained by OVD-Info On March 16, police officers detained Elena Shukaeva, Rafail Shepelev and Elena Pariy for a picket in support of Sergei Tiunov, who was arrested for a poster criticizing Putin. Shepelev, according to his lawyer, did not participate in the picket, but filmed it.

this The municipal deputy of the St. Petersburg district of the Sea Gate Daniil Ken was arrested for 12 days, the deputy himself managed to announce on his Twitter. Earlier, when trying to get a notification of his appointment as a member of the election commission, the police detained a man right in the TEC building.

A volunteer of the headquarters of presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak was detained on March 16 in Cheboksary. On the same day, he was released from the police, having handed a summons obliging him to appear as a witness in a criminal case on March 21. This was reported to OVD-Info by the head of Sobchak's campaign headquarters in Cheboksary, Daria Komarova. An earlier edition of Idel.

At 6.30 in the morning people in helmets with laser machine guns burst into us (machine guns with laser trailers- OTD-info ). They broke the door. It was from terrible noise that we woke up. They claimed that at first they knocked out, but none of us definitely listened to knocking. They forcefully opened the door to our room. They shouted the "muzzle on the floor." Glory was lying, I sat against the wall.

Leftist activist from Sevastopol Alexey Shestakovich, who spoke about torture during his arrest on March 1, has left Russia. He said that he is currently in Kherson. OVD-Info A few days earlier, he posted on Facebook that he had filed a complaint about torture with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. wrote on March 1, security forces conducted a search of Shestakovich, which lasted four hours.

In Tyumen, police came to the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny’s strike. An activist from the headquarters reported this to the hotline. OVD-InfoOn said that police captain Alexey Portnov, accompanied by three police officers, handed the headquarters coordinator Alexander Kunilovsky a protocol on an administrative offense under Art. 5.12 Code of Administrative Offenses (illegal campaigning). The document was compiled from the “Voter Strike” leaflets seized the day before.

On March 14, in Moscow, the security forces detained at least nine activists as part of a criminal case of vandalism. The case was brought in connection with the action at the United Russia office: the window was broken in the building and threw a smoke bomb inside. Almost all the detainees were released on the same day, anarchist Svyatoslav Rechkalov remained in custody, who later reported torture. On March 16, he was released.

In anticipation of the elections, the police massively detain activists and participants in various political movements and parties. The reasons for this are distributing, sticking or the presence of leaflets about the boycott of the elections, single pickets, publications on social networks, wearing the mask of Vladimir Putin and much more. March 18 Sochi The day before Tatyana Zykova, the wife of the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny, was fined 1000 rubles under Art.