The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent protest participant Vladimir Ivanyutenko into custody. This was reported by human rights activist, head of the St. Petersburg branch of the organization “Rus Sitting” Dinar Idrisov. OVD-InfoNa Ivanyutenko opened a case for illegal possession of explosives (part of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). It was previously reported that he was charged with illegal possession of weapons (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). The United Court of St.

The deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party, Lev Schlosberg, said that the unknown person had glued a piece of threat to his address on his party’s office. The poem with threats by Schlosberg published the Nyutub-channel “Citizen TV”.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow arrested for 20 days the activist of the Association of Popular Resistance (ANS) Alexander Buimov for participating in the action “For Free Internet”. This was announced by ANS Secretary Nikita Zaitsev.

Human rights activists in St. Petersburg cannot find Vladimir Ivanyutenko, a participant in the “Putin Rides Pensioners” campaign. Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov reported this to OVD-Info. There is currently no information about Ivanyutenko’s whereabouts. The activist has not been in contact since February 19. That day, uniformed and plainclothes police officers came to his home. Ivanyutenko’s neighbor in the communal apartment informed Idrisov about the visit of law enforcement officers.

The administration refused to agree on a rally for the return of the mayoral elections in Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk. This is stated on the page “Team Navalny | Kemerovo. “By an incredible coincidence, it is on this day that the mayor’s office plans “cultural and leisure events” on the Sovetov Square,” the organizers wrote. Navalny's headquarters activists published a copy of the officials' response.

In Barnaul, the police drew up an administrative protocol against student Viktor Dryakhlov because of a flash mob against the abolition of benefits for students. About this writes “Siberia. Realities". Dryakhlov is charged with violating the rules for holding the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the publication, the police did not explain to the student what his violation was.

In Krasnoyarsk, the prosecutor asks to fine Natalya Podolyak, accused of violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) 170 thousand rubles at the “He is not our king” rally. About this in “Apology of Protest.” says the telegram channel. The police, as the channel reports, claim that Podolyak hit police officer Dmitry Danilov in the leg, which hurt him. Lawyer Vladimir Vasin found a video which, according to Apology of Protest, shows that there was no blow.

Employees of Center "E" on February 20 came to the home of the nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, who was released from the colony that day. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to lawyer Oleg Kolesnikov. Employees of the Center "E" handed Demushkin a summons to appear at the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism of the FSB on February 21.

On February 20, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow imposed fines of 500 rubles each on activists of the Workers' Revolutionary Party Dmitry Borisenko and Mikhail Komrakov, who were detained at a memorial procession on January 19. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Nikolai Vasiliev. The men were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to a police officer).

On the morning of February 15, in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the security forces came with the searches of the followers of Jehovah's Witnesses. A large -scale operation was carried out jointly with the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Rosgvardia in Surgut, Lyantore and other settlements of the region. After searches, 15 people were brought to the building of the Investigative Committee in Surgut, located on Ostrovsky Street in house 47.

Surgut inter -district investigative department / Google maps In mid -February, mass searches were held in Surgut from the followers of Jehovah's Witnesses. On February 20, it became known that some of the detainees were tortured. Lawyer Dmitry Kolobov, representing the interests of the victims, told the OVD-Info about how and under what circumstances torture took place in the building of the Investigative Committee in Surgut.

Protest "Yellow vests" in Paris/ photo: Matthieu Gavois, Unsplash The shares of "yellow vests" are accompanied by rigid violent actions of the police. Sociologists Alexander Bikbov and Fabien Zhobar told the OVD-Info why this is happening, what weapons the police use and how it interacts with the demonstrators.