Penza activist Kirill Kotov is accused of public calls to overthrow the government (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). He himself reported this. OVD-Info Kotov learned about this from his mother, whom FSB officers summoned on a subpoena. Law enforcement officers also showed Kotov’s leaflets and poster to the activist’s mother.

The Soviet District Court of Kazan arrested Marat Nazmiev and Tagir Salimov on charges of participating in the Tablighi Jamaat organization. It is reported by "TASS" with reference to the press service of the court. Both are charged with organizing the activities of an extremist association and recruiting its new members (parts 1 and 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

At the FSB reception on Kuznetsky, participants in the action against the blocking of Telegram Orest Cherchesov, Anatoly Kapustin, Artem Shtanov, Elizaveta Korsi and Veronika Burenkova were detained. Cherchesov himself reported this. OVD-InfoActivists read aloud excerpts from personal correspondence with loved ones. Police officers also detained Alexander Brusentsev, Olga Nefedova and the leader of the SERB movement Igor Beketov.

In Volokolamsk, employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (OBEP) and employees of the Center for Combating Extremism conducted a search in the store of the previously arrested activist Andrei Zhdanov. This was reported in a blog on the Lamagrad website. According to the author of the post, law enforcement officers seized goods sold and accounting documents from the Rome store, owned by Zhdanov.

The World Court of the Kurchatovsky District of Chelyabinsk partially satisfied the claim of the coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny Alexei Tabalov against the NOD activist Sergei Voronchikhin, who in December 2017 broke the furniture in the headquarters. Tabalov himself wrote about this on Facebook.

Several participants of single-person pickets against harassment were detained near the State Duma building in Moscow. This was reported to OVD-Info by human rights activist Margret Satterwaite. She said that several detainees, whose names are unknown to her, were taken to the Tver police department. After that, the police detained Alena Popova, who was already detained today and released from the department, as well as a participant in the Quiet Picket project.

In the Oryol region, another criminal case on extremism was opened against the poet Alexander Byvshev because of his poems. Byvshev told OVD-Info about this. According to him, the case was opened because of two quatrains "Russian Spirit" and "Mighty Heap". “I posted these verses as a comment to the article “About people and pigs”, published on the popular Internet resource “Orlets”.

In Cheboksary, Dmitry Semyonov, coordinator of the Chuvash branch of Open Russia, was invited to the prosecutor's office. He himself wrote about this on Facebook. According to him, an employee of the prosecutor's office called him and invited Semyonov to come, as he "received material" from the Center for Combating Extremism.

The Supreme Court of Crimea has left Crimean Tatar activist and citizen journalist Nariman Memedeminov in custody until May 16. This was reported in the Crimean Solidarity movement group on Facebook. Memedeminov is accused of public calls for terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to videos posted on YouTube in 2013 and 2014. On March 22, the activist was detained immediately after a search in the village of Kholmovka, Bakhchisaray district.

In Moscow, Anatoly Kapustin, who created a Facebook page about the action against the blocking of Telegram, received a call from a criminal investigation officer. This is reported by Mediazona, referring to Kapustin himself.

Alena Popova, an activist, was detained outside the State Duma building in Moscow, standing in a single picket with a cardboard figure of deputy Leonid Slutsky, who was accused of harassment by several journalists. This was reported to OVD-Info by her friend, human rights activist Margret Satterwaite. On April 2, Popova was also detained at the State Duma with a cardboard figure of Slutsky - the police considered the figure to be a collapsible structure.

The Tverskoy District Court extended until September 22 the arrest of Vyacheslav Shatrovsky, who was detained in Moscow on November 5, 2017 and charged with using violence against a policeman. It is reported by the Moscow City News Agency. The preliminary hearing in the Shatrovsky case will continue on April 11. Shatrovsky was detained during the "revolution" of Vyacheslav Maltsev on November 5th.

The authorities of Moscow for the fourth time refused to agree on a picket against sexual harassment and for the observance of laws by deputies, wrote on Facebook. Alena Popova, one of the organizers of the action, RIA Novosti reported on April 2 that the mayor's office had not approved the action on Manezhnaya Square, which was supposed to take place on April 3.

On April 3, the Kazan prosecutor's office opened an administrative case against Elsa Nisanbekova, a member of the federal council of Open Russia and the former head of the local headquarters of Sobchak, for participating in an undesirable organization. about this Writes "Idel. Realii” with reference to the activist herself.

Photo: Nadezhda Parkhomenko, group "Navalny team | Murmansk "on the social network" VKontakte " The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk arrested Andrei Ravbunas for 5 days due to his participation in the campaign of the Voters' strike on January 28. This was reported in the headquarters group on the VKontakte social network. Ravbunas was accused of organizing a rally without coordination (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).