The Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld a fine of 20,000 rubles to Vasil Tarasov, a participant in the “indefinite protest.” This is reported by "Idel. Realii” with reference to the press service of the court. Earlier, the court considered a flash mob with the distribution of leaflets and balloons with the inscription "Indefinitely" as an uncoordinated action.

At the end of December last year, the activist of the Protest Kuzbass Igor Gorlanov was roughly detained by several police officers on the street. On that day, he returned from a meeting in the case of Olga Gimmer, the mother of the coordinator of the movement of Leo Gimmer. Against the woman, the case was already initiated under the 318th article of the Criminal Code. So far, she is the only one who is attracted to the criminal article in connection with the activities of the “protest Kuzbass”.

In St. Petersburg on Malaya Sadovaya Street, participants in the single pickets of Semen Tkachuk, Roman Samoilov and Timofey Karev were detained. This was reported by the "Group of Assistance to the detainees." Tkachuk opposed the war with Ukraine, the topics of other shares are still unknown. All three are brought to the police department No. 78.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, which recognized as legitimate the refusal to approve a rally in defense of the Tatar language. This is reported by "Idel. Realities". The event was scheduled to take place on July 31, 2018. An activist of the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC) Kashif Gatin submitted a notice of the action to the executive committee of Kazan.

In Volgograd, in relation to the local coordinator of Open Russia, Roman Zaitsev opened an administrative case about the implementation of the “undesirable organization”. This was reported in the telegram channel of movement.

The magistrate of Kurgan fined the coordinator of the local branch of Open Russia, Mikhail Kuzovkov, 5,000 rubles for participating in an "undesirable organization." This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the public defender Ivan Kamshilov, representing the interests of Kuzovkov. Kamshilov said that for comparison, the judge was given the charter of the British Open Russia Civil Movement and the charter of Open Russia. “Three meetings have passed.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Investigative Committee charged Anastasia Shevchenko, a member of Open Russia, with collaboration with an undesirable organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This is written in the telegram channel "Open Russia". On January 29, the court did not release Shevchenko on bail. The activist is under house arrest, despite the fact that she is raising three children. One of them has a first degree disability.

Prerequisites “In past years, the main reason for the detentions on single pickets was territorial intimacy,” says Varya Mikhailova, a public defender from a group of assistance to detainees in St. Petersburg. During the detention, the police claimed that one picketer stands in relation to the other at a distance of less than 50 meters - according to the city law on rallies , it was such a distance that should be between the participants in the action.

The city court in Kostroma fined a blogger a thousand rubles for two videos on VKontakte. about this Writes "7 × 7". In 2014, the blogger published an impromptu rap battle between an animated Vladimir Putin and a man who looks like Adolf Hitler, and a video about the 2010 Manezhnaya Square riots.

Illustration: Anastasia Pozhidaeva for OTD-Info Recently, activists from St. Petersburg often contact the ATS-Info. For the most part, they are detained during single pickets due to “complaints from citizens” registered in the book of accounting for messages about crimes. Typically, picketers are taken to the police, where they spend about three hours. There they take a poster from them, take explanations and release. OVD-Info figured out how and why the police tear down single pickets.

Igor Gorlanov / Photo from the page of Igor Gorlanov in VKontakte In Novokuznetsk, they almost opened a criminal case on suspicion of applying violence against a policeman against a participant in the protest Kuzbass. The investigator “critically” reacted to the version of the operative, who, after the rough detention of the local activist Igor Gorlanov, filed a complaint against him, and they did not start the case under the 318th article. We tell how the test was underway.