In St. Petersburg, the social teacher of school No. 568 held a preventive conversation with a student of the eighth grade after the relevant decision of the commission on juvenile affairs. The girl told OVD-Info that she was forced to memorize article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of mass movement of citizens in public places).

In St. Petersburg, Dmitry Negodin, a participant in a solo picket in support of the Crimean Tatars, was detained. This is reported by the “Detained Aid Group”. The reason for the detention, the police said was the lack of registration. UPD 20:41 Negodin is being taken to police station No. 78. UPD 21:59 The activist was brought to the department. According to police officers, Negodin participated in a mass public event, although a single picket is not one.

On January 17, nationalist Dmitry Bobrov (Schultz) was detained in St. Petersburg, reports . Fontanka In September 2017, Bobrov was sentenced to two years in a strict regime colony on charges of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code). Prior to this, the nationalist was under house arrest. He did not appear at the last court session, law enforcement officers have been looking for him for more than a year.

In Moscow, on Red Square, the Fores Worker in the Sverdlovsk Region Rustam Karelin was detained, which stood in a single picket with a demand for raising salaries. It is reported by the New Gazeta. Karelin on a single picket. Photo by Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Karelin stood in a helmet and held in his hands a poster “I work as a cord in harmful production in the city of Sukhoi Log. My salary is only 25 thousand rubles. Muscovites, this is unfair !!!

Until March 15, a court in Pskov arrested Artem Milushkin on a large-scale drug sale case (part 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). Artem is the husband of Liya Milushkina, coordinator of the regional branch of Open Russia, who is also involved in this criminal case. The court placed her under house arrest until March 15. About it writes "MBH Media". According to investigators, Milushkin bought 2.19 grams of amphetamine on January 14 and kept it at his place.

The trial of three alleged participants in the “revolution,” nationalist Vyacheslav Maltsev, is underway in the Moscow District Military Court. During the debate, the prosecution requested 9 years in a maximum security colony under the article on preparing a terrorist attack for the defendants in this case: Oleg Dmitriev, Oleg Ivanov and Sergei Ozerov. A correspondent from “Grani” spoke about this. Ru" Daria Kostromina.

The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the arrest of blogger and citizen journalist Nariman Memedeminov, accused of calls for terrorism due to videos in which he talks about Hizb ut-Tahrir. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. The court, which was held behind closed doors, rejected the appeal against the decision of the Kiev District Court to extend Mamedinov’s arrest for two months.

On January 15, the Spassky District Court extended the arrest of Dmitry Tretyakov until April 18. A lawyer and supporter of Alexei Navalny is accused of calling for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Sergei Valiulin told OVD-Info about this. The investigation believes that Tretyakov reposted an entry from Arkady Babchenko’s Telegram channel into an open chat in which Navalny’s supporters communicated. Thus, the activist allegedly called for extremist activities.

In Krasnodar, an administrative case was opened against a pediatric surgeon, coordinator of the regional branch of the Open Russia movement, Yana Antonova. She is accused of operating an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). She writes about this on her Facebook. The reason for initiating the case was a video with the symbols of Open Russia.