In St. Petersburg, on Malaya Sadovaya, a participant in a one-man picket, Larisa Kucherova, was detained at the Strategy-18 rally against the persecution of Crimean Tatars. This was reported to the hotline by an eyewitness to the detention. The detainee is currently in a paddy wagon. 20:20 Kucherova was taken to police station No. 78. 20:29 Released from the department without a protocol. "Strategy-18" is an indefinite protest action announced in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The Meshchansky District Court found the defendant of the “Moscow case”, the 21-year-old student of the MAI Andrei Barnei, and awarded him three years in prison with a trial period of three years. This was reported by a member of the ATS-Info Nikolai Sizikov from the courtroom.

The representative of the POC in the Perm Territory, Anna Kargapoltseva, received a threatening phone call from an unknown person after publishing news about a former prisoner with HIV in a local publication. about it. writes Perm edition 59.ru On February 17, the 59.ru website posted an article about an attempt by a recently released prisoner to receive medical care in a Perm polyclinic. The ex-prisoner needed drugs to continue therapy due to his HIV status.

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced protesters Magase Adam Badiev, Akhmed Nalgiev and Zelimkhan Bapkhoev. This was reported by the Human Rights Center "Memorial". The judge ruled out a political motive from all three charges. The court ruled on the third Ingush activist. Zelimkhan Bapkhoev was given a year and six months in a colony-settlement. Taking into account the time in the pre-trial detention center, he will be released on March 2.

An elderly resident of the village of Razdolnoye in the Primorsky Territory became a suspect in a case of participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Lyudmila Shut was a witness in the case of her fellow villager Grigory Bubnov, who was convicted under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia sent for review the case of journalist and activist Badma Byurchiev, who was ordered by the city court of Elista to do compulsory work for participating in a rally for the resignation of the city's acting mayor Dmitry Trapeznikov. This is reported by the publication "Caucasian Knot". In the Supreme Court of Kalmykia, Byurchiev managed to prove that the Elista City Court did not notify him of the December 13 hearing.

On February 18, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Khabarovsk announced the verdict of Evgeny Aksenov, accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (2nd part of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The believer was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment and six months of restriction of freedom: Evgeniy Aksenov will not be allowed to leave his place of registration at night.

The Ministry of Culture of the Astrakhan region refused to agree on the pickets in memory of Boris Nemtsov, reports . the "Caucasian Knot" Local residents planned to hold an hour-long mass picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 29 in Trusov Square. The Ministry of Culture did not agree on the event in the park, citing the rejection by the fact that at that time the flash mob "Recharge by reading" would be held.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Krasnoyarsk ruled to limit until February 20 the period for familiarization with the case materials to Krasnoyarsk citizen Artem Zagrebelny, accused of assaulting an FSB officer (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by MBH Media. “Restrictions can be introduced by the court at the request of the investigator, if the accused and his defense counsel are clearly delaying the familiarization time.

The head of the Siberia Without Torture Foundation, Svyatoslav Khromenkov, went to a conference in Bulgaria in December. At this time, in Irkutsk, searches came to his apartment and the apartment of his wife, and the organization's accounts were blocked. Khromenkov decided to temporarily stay abroad. He told OVD-Info how and why he was being persecuted. It is not yet clear when you will be able to return? Yes, it's not clear yet.