In Moscow, employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO) detained blogger Ilya Varlamov. Varlamov himself announced this on Twitter. According to the blogger, he was "handed over to the police." The reason for the detention is not reported to Varlamov - the police say that they were detained "until the circumstances are clarified." The blogger was not allowed to use the phone for an hour.

The Moscow City Court upheld the house arrest of civil activist and pensioner Vyacheslav Gorbaty, who is accused of membership in an extremist organization. About this City News Agency "Moscow". reports Gorbaty was placed under house arrest in January 2018. Initially, he was accused of membership in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and financing of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court again commuted the sentence to three and a half years in a general regime colony for nationalist and one of the leaders of the Russians association, Alexander Belov (Potkin). The Moscow agency writes about this with reference to a source in the court.

On March 27, the Yevpatoria City Court extended the arrest of left-wing activist Yevgeny Karakashev until April 30. This was reported by the lawyer of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Alexey Ladin. The meeting was held behind closed doors; even Karakashev’s parents were not allowed in. According to Ladin, the judge unlawfully refused to allow him to familiarize himself with the case materials before the trial.

Russia has responded to questions from the European Court of Human Rights about blocking the websites of the publications Kasparov.ru, Grani.ru and EZh.ru. The head of the office of the Commissioner to the ECHR, Andrei Fedorov, reported that access to the websites was restricted in full compliance with the law. This is reported by the newspaper Vedomosti.

During those 24 hours after the torture there was a lot of informal communication. I had to listen to about ten people, most of whom, I believe, were FSB operatives. I was not the initiator of these conversations, and some of them took place without my participation at all - the employees communicated with each other.

In Degtyarsk (Sverdlovsk Region), unidentified persons threw three Molotov cocktails into the house of eco-activist Valery Malygin. The activist believes that the arson is related to his social activities, writes Znak.com. “I heard the window rattling in the wind. Leisurely left the bathroom, I see - from the second floor, where the loggia is open, fiery drops flow to the first floor. I ran upstairs - the loggia is on fire.

In Sochi, the police drew up an administrative report on the member of the PEC Valery Tuaev, who was detained on March 26 with a poster “Drive Putin away in the name of the holy Constitution and common sense. Aluminum". He himself informed OVD-Info about this. Tuaev is charged with repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). A copy of the protocol is at the disposal of OVD-Info.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the exclusion of the Field of Mars from the list of guide parks. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the lawyer of the Moscow Helsinsky group Alexander Poruk. The court considered the appeal against the decision of the St. Petersburg City Court of November 1, 2017, which recognized the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg on the exclusion of the site located on the territory of Marse Paul, from the list of Hyde Parks.

OMON officers detained three local residents at a protest against a landfill in Kolomna, reports . Novaya Gazeta “Three people were detained, one of them was taken to the police station. OMON pushed people away from the place where they were standing, ”said local resident Irina Nalyotova to the publication. As one of the detainees told OVD-Info, they are in the Kolychevo police department. The detainees asked not to be named.

In Magadan, law enforcement officers seized the phone from Elena Bozhenova, an activist of the movement “For the Return of Direct Mayoral Elections”. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. According to the activist, four people came to her - two of them were in civilian clothes, the other two had masks on their faces. They showed Bozhenova the search report and invited two neighbors as witnesses. After that, the activist gave them her phone.

In Arkhangelsk, a volunteer and former coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Tomatin, was detained, according to the page of the headquarters. The activist was first taken to the duty unit of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Arkhangelsk in order to draw up a report on disobedience to the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and then they were taken to the Oktyabrsky District Court. “At the time of his arrest, he was in department No.

In St. Petersburg, the FSB raided the office of the local Church of Scientology. After that, they detained several members of the organization, Fontanka writes , citing lawyer Alexander Meleshkov. The lawyer said that investigative actions are taking place within the framework of a criminal case on the creation of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), incitement of hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and illegal business (Article 171 of the Criminal Code).

On March 27, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined six Israeli citizens, finding them guilty of illegal missionary activity (part 5 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the reports . SOVA information and analytical center In December 2017, on Hanukkah, law enforcement discovered an office where Israeli citizens were lighting ritual candles. Law enforcement officials considered this a violation of the law on freedom of religion.

The Moscow Regional Court reduced the sentence to eight months in a penal colony for civic activist Valentin Sokolov from Kolomna, who was convicted of posting on social networks. This was reported by the Moscow Agency, citing a source in court. On January 12, the court sentenced Sokolov to one and a half years in a penal colony on charges of inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code).